Samantha Currie

Samantha is a socio-legal scholar with expertise in migration, modern slavery and access to justice, and with a track record of producing high-quality, empirically-informed research. Her current research focuses on engagement of survivors of trafficking and modern slavery with law and policy processes, with a particular focus on the nexus between migration and modern slavery.

Samantha held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship from 2021-22 to carry out a socio-legal investigation into the role of lawyers who represent victims of trafficking and modern slavery. She is currently writing a monograph, Lawyering in the Anti-trafficking Space, to be published by Hart in 2024. In 2020/21 she led a Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre project on access to legal advice and representation for survivors of modern slavery.

Samantha's previous work has covered aspects of EU law and migration, including: migration in the context of the EU’s eastern enlargement; Union citizenship; the cross-border posting of workers in the EU; and gender and migration.