Helen Mountfield
Helen Mountfield is a barrister at Matrix Chambers. She specialises in public law and human rights, including European and international law. She has a particular interest in medical law, the law of education and social welfare law.
She is the co-author of "Blackstone's Guide to the Human Rights Act 1998" (3rd edition, OUP), editor of the Education Law Reports and on the editorial board of the European Human Rights Law Review.
Helen also talks, broadcasts and lectures widely on legal and human rights issues. Recent lectures include "Healthcare and Human Rights" at Harvard Medical School, "Pinochet and Privacy" at the Carr Human Rights Centre, Harvard, "The Concept of Dignity" for the Anglo-Israeli Judicial Exchange at the House of Lords, and "Equality, Minority Rights and Self-Determination in International Law" at the London School of Economics.
She lives in Oxfordshire and has two small daughters.
