# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helena-kennedy-baroness-kennedy-of-the-shaws
# Generated: 2026-08-17T10:31:21.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helena-kennedy-baroness-kennedy-of-the-shaws"
name: "Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws"
slug: "helena-kennedy-baroness-kennedy-of-the-shaws"
description: "Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, from 2011 to 2018. A bencher of Gray's Inn, she is an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 honorary degrees from many universities including those of Glasgow and Edinburgh in recognition of work on women and the law and on widening participation in higher education. She is president of Justice, the law reform think tank, and director of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI). In 2024, Kennedy succeeded Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury as chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom."
tagline: "Politician, lawyer, activist, author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Kennedy_of_The_Shaws_crop_2%2C_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1950-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "HelenaKennedyQC"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump