Isabella Da Re

Isabella is a final year PhD Candidate in Law at Royal Holloway, University of London, specialising in International Human Rights Law. Isabella’s thesis is entitled 'Delimiting Understandings of Suffering: Article 3 ECHR and Forced Pregnancy'. In light of the limited applicability of the prohibition of torture enshrined in Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to cases concerned with suffering from restrictive abortion laws, this research seeks to explore what the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) perceives suffering to entail for the purposes of Article 3 ECHR. It achieves this through, firstly, unpacking the concept of suffering- probing what suffering broadly entails, as well as exploring the manifestations of reproductive suffering. Subsequently, through the examination of case law of the ECtHR, this thesis proceeds to delimit what the court seemingly perceives as 'archetypal suffering' versus 'non-archetypal suffering' for the purposes of Article 3 ECHR.

International Human Rights Law

The Prohibition of Torture 

The European Convention on Human Rights 

Philosophies of suffering

Feminist Scholarship

Reproductive rights

Violence Against Women

Isabella is a member of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and the LEX Research Network (Law, Gender and Sexuality). 

Isabella is completing the inSTIL Course at Royal Holloway for HEA Associate Fellowship.