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Shahd Hammouri is a Lecturer in International Law and Legal Theory from the Levant region at the University of Kent, and a Senior Legal Consultant at Law for Palestine. Her work examines the intersection of public and international economic law from a critical and decolonial perspective.
Hammouri holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Manchester, an LLM in Economic Law from Sciences Po Paris, and a BA in Law from the University of Jordan. In 2023, she served as an International Legal Consultant, drafting submissions for the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Hammouri has also made submissions to United Nations Independent Procedures and the International Criminal Court. She has also worked as a researcher and consultant in international law for several civil society organizations, including Chatham House, the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Transparency International, Syrian Legal Development, and HEC Paris.
Beyond her legal scholarship, Hammouri writes on the political economy of Southwest Asia and North Africa, as well as critical theory. Her work has been featured in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, TRT World, Opinio Juris, The New Arab, Humanity, Rehla, Al-Jumhuriya, 7iber, Jadaliyya, Critical Legal Thinking, TWAILR Reflections, EJIL: Talk!, among others. She is also author of the upcoming book Corporate War Profiteering and International Law (to be released December 2026).
Shahd Hammouri is a Lecturer in International Law and Legal Theory from the Levant region at the University of Kent, and a Senior Legal Consultant at Law for Palestine. Her work examines the intersection of public and international economic law from a critical and decolonial perspective.
Hammouri holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Manchester, an LLM in Economic Law from Sciences Po Paris, and a BA in Law from the University of Jordan. In 2023, she served as an International Legal Consultant, drafting submissions for the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Hammouri has also made submissions to United Nations Independent Procedures and the International Criminal Court. She has also worked as a researcher and consultant in international law for several civil society organizations, including Chatham House, the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Transparency International, Syrian Legal Development, and HEC Paris.
Beyond her legal scholarship, Hammouri writes on the political economy of Southwest Asia and North Africa, as well as critical theory. Her work has been featured in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, TRT World, Opinio Juris, The New Arab, Humanity, Rehla, Al-Jumhuriya, 7iber, Jadaliyya, Critical Legal Thinking, TWAILR Reflections, EJIL: Talk!, among others. She is also author of the upcoming book Corporate War Profiteering and International Law (to be released December 2026).
Recent Publications:
- Shahd Hammouri, Adil Khan, Julia Dehm, Harris Jamil, Ntina Tzouvala, Sophie Rigney, Elliot Dolan-Evans, "Case Note: The keys to the door and the tools we inherit: Palestine, international law and the International Court of Justice," Melbourne Journal of International Law, 2026.
- Shahd Hammouri, "The Death and Birth of Peace and Security," London Review of International Law, Oxford University Press, 2026.
- Shahd Hammouri, "Reckoning with the paradox of regulating the arms industry: The context of Palestine," Business and Human Rights Journal. Cambridge University Press, 11 (1). pp. 95-102 pp. 95-102, 2026.
- Shahd Hammouri, "The Palestinian Right of Self-determination as Decolonisation," Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence, 2025.
- Jeremy Corbyn, Neve Gordon, Shahd Hammouri, The Gaza Tribunal: Britain’s complicity in genocide, Pluto Press, July 2026.
- Shahd Hammouri, "Corporate war profiteering and international law," Cambridge University Press, 2026.