Dr. Shahd Hammouri is a Palestinian/Jordanian Lecturer in International Law and Legal Theory at the University of Kent. She is the author of the forthcoming book Corporate War Profiteering and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Dr. Hammouri is also a Non-Resident Fellow at Al-Haq for Applied International Law 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.Dr. 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.  Dr. 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, and HEC Paris.

Beyond her legal scholarship, Dr. 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.