Professor Jessie Hohmann is recognised for her innovative and thoughtful scholarship across the fields of human rights and international law.  She is particularly known for her expertise on the human right to housing, her contributions to the relationship between international law and Indigenous Peoples, and her use of innovative methodologies in understanding and conveying international law's impact on everyday life. Her committment to international law and human rights as tools for more just futures ties together her resaerch interests and propels her work.

Her research excellence has been acknowledged by the award of a 2024 Australian Legal Research Award in the category of Non-traditional Research Output (for an exhibtion showcasing the marketing materials and souvenirs of international law's institutions, curated with colleagues from the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales and underpinned by her groundbreaking work on international law's objects and material culture).  Her 2013 monograph The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities, published by Hart, was shortlisted for the UK's Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks' Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, and remains a major refererence point in the field.  She is also the editor of a major Oxford reference work on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and has been commissioned by Edward Elgar to author a flagship title in its new Principles of Human Rights Series, Housing and Human Rights (to be published in 2026).  Her numerous journal articles, book chapters and reports are listed under research outputs.  

The impact of Jessie's work is illustrated by collaborations with Non-Governmental Organisations including in the UK and Australia, and contributions to public policy debates such as submissions to government enquiries in her research field.  For example, she authored a recent report for the Human Rights Law Centre on the right to housing for Australia, and sits on the City of Sydney's Housing Advisory Panel.  Internationally, she makes submissions to United Nations human rights treaty bodies and Special Rapporteurs to support individual and civil society engagement with and impact on international law. 

Before joining UTS Jessie was Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary, University of London (2012-2019), and held a prestigious British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2009-2012), where she also obtained her PhD. She was awarded a highly competitive Independent Social Research Foundation Early Career Fellowship, pursuing research on the materiality and objects of international law in 2017-18.  She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a LLM from the University of Sydney, a LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) and a BA from the University of Guelph.

Jessie is available to supervise PhD and Masters by Research candidates whose projects fall within her research expertise.