Katie Morris

Assistant Professor

Social and Economic Rights; International Human Rights Law; Care Ethics; Local Implementation of Human Rights

School of Law
, Social Sciences Building
天美传媒
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Katie.Morris.1@warwick.ac.uk

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Term 1: Monday 9:30 鈥� 10:30

Tuesday 9:00 鈥� 10:00

Bio

Katie is an Assistant Professor at Warwick Law School. Before joining Warwick, Katie was a Lecturer at Lancaster University. Katie was awarded her PhD from Durham University in 2024, where she previously obtained her LLB. In between these degrees, Katie studied at Warwick, completing an LLM in International Development and Human Rights Law. She has also acted as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Nottingham.

Katie is a member of the Advisory Board.

Scholarship

Katie's research interests lie in social and economic rights, most prominently the right to food, the right to housing and the right to education. Adopting a socio-legal approach, Katie has explored a variety of issues spanning across this field including, but not limited to, the localisation of human rights, university students' experiences of housing (in)security and food systems transformation via emerging technologies. At the centre of Katie's work is a critique of inequalities produced through the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, (dis)ability and socio-economic status.

Katie is currently drafting her monograph entitled Reimagining Socio-Economic Rights: Care Ethics International Human Rights Law, which is set to be published by Bristol University Press in September 2027. This work expands upon Katie's doctoral thesis, in which she championed the adoption of a human rights-based approach grounded in Joan Tronto鈥檚 political theory of care to transform policy governing access to food within the UK. Her monograph develops these ideas by illuminating the value of the political theory of care as a way of reimagining socio-economic rights more broadly, offering greater precision regarding the state action required for universal need fulfilment both within states and on the international level.

Publications

A full list of Katie's publications can be found on her and profiles.

Selected Publications

Morris, Katie and Swain, Scarlett (2026). Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 44(2): 132-155.
Morris, Katie (2025). Human Rights Law Review 25(3): 1-19.
Morris, Katie (2025). Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 43(1): 12-30.
Morris, Katie (2024). Journal of Human Rights Practice 16(2): 572-588.
Morris, Katie (2023). Human Rights Law Review 23(4): 1-18.
Morris, Katie (2022). Journal of Law and Society 49(4): 726-752.

Teaching Research Supervision