Erika Miyamoto is a Rights Lab Research Fellow in Slavery and War with the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, a collaboration between the University of Nottingham and King’s College London. Her focus at the Leverhulme Centre is on Law and Justice, assessing legal and policy interventions addressing slavery in and after armed conflict, with attention to survivor perspectives, intersectional impacts, and intervention effectiveness.

Her expertise lies in international law, human rights, and transitional justice. Drawing on feminist and queer legal theory, she examines how legal frameworks address the lived experiences of survivors of slavery and gender-based violence in conflict. Her work engages with international courts and tribunals, as well as broader justice mechanisms, to explore survivor-centred approaches to accountability, reparations, and long-term recovery.

Erika holds a PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona, where she examined sexual slavery in international law through the case of Japan’s military sexual slavery. She also holds an LLM in International Law from the University of Glasgow. Prior to joining the Centre, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna on the EU-funded interdisciplinary GenDJus – Rights and Prejudice project and has experience working with international organisations and development actors.