Natalie Hodgson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Global and Public Law at UNSW Law & Justice. She holds a BA (Criminology) (Hons I, University Medal) / LLB (Hons I) from UNSW and completed her PhD at UNSW where she was a Scientia PhD Scholar. She previously worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, where she was also Head of the Forced Migration Unit in the University's Human Rights Law Centre.

Natalie researches in the areas of criminology, criminal justice, and international criminal law. She has a particular focus on 'state crime', studying the harmful policies adopted by states and how civil society actors use law to challenge and resist those harms. Her research explores the expressive dimensions of law, particularly international criminal law, and the strategic use of "Article 15 communications", whereby an individual or organisation writes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to provide the Prosecutor with information on alleged crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court. In 2021, her article 'International Criminal Law and Civil Society Resistance to Offshore Detention' was awarded the Australian Human Rights Journal's Andrea Durbach Prize.

More recently, Natalie has also been involved in conducting international comparative research on judge-alone trials in common law countries.