Leah Hoctor is the Regional Director for Europe at the Center for Reproductive Rights where she leads the Center’s Europe Program and directs the Center’s litigation, advocacy and policy work in Europe.

Before her work with the Center, Leah was a Senior Legal Advisor with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), where she established and led the ICJ’s inaugural Women’s Human Rights Program, and previously a Legal Advisor and Program Officer with the ICJ’s International Economic Relations Program, coordinating and drafting Corporate Complicity & Legal Accountability: the Report of the ICJ’s Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes.

In the past, Leah also worked briefly with the Human Rights Unit of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. She holds a law degree from University College Dublin, Ireland and LL.M. in international human rights law from the University of Lund, Sweden.