Rachel Murray is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Bristol and Director of its Human Rights Implementation Centre.  
 
Rachel undertakes regular work on the African human rights system, implementation of human rights law, OPCAT and torture prevention, among other areas. She has written widely in these areas (e.g. Commentary on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (OUP); Implementation of the Findings of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, with Debbie Long, Cambridge University Press, 2015; The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture, OUP, with Steinerte, Evans and Hallo de Wolf), and articles in leading legal human rights journals. She also advises and works with national, regional and international organisations, including the African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. She engages with governments, civil society organisations and individuals on human rights law and undertakes consultancies for regional and international organisations, including the UN and OSCE. She has held a number of grants, including a major grant from the UK Economic Social and Research Council on implementation which tracked decisions from the regional and UN treaty bodies to examine the extent to which the States have complied with them (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/hrlip/). She won the ESRC’s Outstanding International Impact Prize in 2023. 
 
She was formally the Vice Chair of the Board of the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, is currently a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the Notre Dame London Law Programme, Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and Deputy Leader of Doughty Street Chambers’ International team. She is also a magistrate sitting in Bristol.