Committee

Kimberley Brayson (Queen Mary, University of London):

Kimberley is a PhD candidate in the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research concentrates on the adequacy of human rights discourse to protect the rights of those who are not explicitly included under the European Convention of Human Rights and the UK Human Rights Act 1998. She specifically looks at Muslim women situating this in a theoretical context which argues for the retention of a universal human rights framework which can support the redefinition of the substance of human rights through an ongoing process of communication. She holds an LLB (Hons) degree in English Law and German Law from the University of Kent and a LLM/DEA Masters in Legal Theory from the European Academy of Legal Theory

Katie Cruz (University of Nottingham):

Katie is a PhD student in law at the University of Nottingham and teaches public law at Birkbeck, University of London. Katie also participates in feminist and sex work organising in London. Her research seeks to interrogate recent accounts of depolitisation in feminist legal and political theory, as well as in radical feminist and sex work theory and activism. She is concerned with whether, and how, these narratives play out in contemporary sex work activism, and with what consequences for the present and future of feminist activism within/out the state and law. She has an LLB from Kings College, University of London and MA in Socio-Legal & Criminological Research from the University of Nottingham. Email llxkc4@nottingham.ac.uk

Stacy Douglas (University of Kent):

Stacy is researching the relationship between the cultural practices of embodied memorializing at the British Museum and the law. Her doctoral thesis, titled "Memory, Ritual, and Colonial Mythos: Sustaining Legal Imperialism at the British Museum," is an interdisciplinary analysis drawing on the fields of socio-legal studies, cultural anthropology, and postcolonial theory. This project is supervised by Dr. Stewart Motha and Dr. Donatella Alessandrini. Stacy holds a BA Honours degree in Women's Studies and Environmental Studies from York University (Canada), and an MA in Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies from Trent University (Canada). Email: s.m.douglas@kent.ac.uk

Mujde Erdinc:

Mujde has recently received her PhD degree from the University of Limerick, Ireland, Department of Political Science and Public Administration. Her thesis critically examines immigration governance in Denmark by generating a feminist approach on the basis of a Foucaldian governmentality framework. Apart from the fields of gender and sexuality, she is interested in the intersection of law and politics, and especially immigration politics, social justice and the broader context of identity politics in connection to the ideas of governmentality and biopolitics. Mujde holds an MA degree in International Studies from Uppsala University, Sweden, and a BA degree in Politics and International Relations from Bosphorus University, Istanbul. Email: mujdeerdinc@yahoo.com

Nikki Godden (Newcastle University):   

Nikki is a lecturer at Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, and is completing her PhD at Durham University. Her research evaluates different legal conceptions of and routes to justice for rape victims, primarly in relation to criminal law, restorative justice and tort law. She teaches criminal law, tort law and medical law, and is co-founder and editor of the blog Inherently Human: Critical Perspectives on Law, Gender & Sexuality. Prior to this, she completed her MJur at Durham University and LLB at the University of Leicester. Email: nikki.godden@newcastle.ac.uk

Emily Jones:   

Emily recently completed her MA in Gender, Society and Representation at University College London, where she primarily focused on gender within law. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science where she undertook her LLB Law degree. She is interested in gender perspectives on international law with a particular focus on international jurisprudence, international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law and sexual violence. She is currently working in social and government research whilst undertaking training at Eaves Housing for Women and is soon to be interning in research at Equality Now. She is currently applying to start her PhD in September.

Kay Lalor (University of Westminster):

Kay obtained her PhD in the Department for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Westminster, where she has also taught modules on human rights and sexuality.  Her doctoral thesis explores conceptualisations of sexual identity and sexual rights in international law and activism, drawing on socio-legal analysis, post-colonial and critical theory.  Kay holds a B.A. in Social and Political Science from Cambridge University and an MSc in Human Rights from the LSE. Email: lalork@westminster.ac.uk.

Yvette Russell (Queen's University Belfast):  

Yvette is Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, School of Law, and a PhD candidate at Kent Law School. She teaches feminist jurisprudence and criminal law.  Her doctoral thesis uses a poststructuralist feminist theoretical framework to analyse the western rape trial. Yvette holds BA and LLB degrees from the University of Auckland and an LLM from New York University. Email: y.russell@qub.ac.uk  

Arturo Sánchez García (University of Kent):

Arturo became involved in the human rights field working in feminist and youth organizations promoting the defence of sexual and reproductive rights. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis "Sexual Rights: Lessons of Empowerment and Resistance from Latin America" supervised by Dr. Kate Bedford and Prof Didi Herman; the project is focused on the study of the judicialization of sexual rights in Mexico. His areas of interest are sexuality and Latin America, queer studies, social movements, and postcolonial feminism. Arturo holds an MA in Human Rights from the Institute "Bartolomé de las Casas", University Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) where he co-founded the Grupo de Estudios Feministas and contributed to programmes on participative education in human rights. He is currently an Hourly Paid Lecturer at Kent Law School, University of Kent. Email: A.Sanchez-Garcia@kent.ac.uk 

Donatella Alessandrini (University of Kent)

Donatella Alessandrini is a Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent. She is the author of Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime: The Failure and Promise of the WTO’s Development Mission (Hart, 2010). Her research interests are in the areas of critical development studies, trade theory and practice, feminist and critical political economy, and neo-liberalism. Her current research explores the challenges financial innovations bring to the regulation of the ‘real’ economy.  Email: d.alessandrini@kent.ac.uk

Rosie Harding (Birmingham Law School) 

Rosie is a lecturer in law at Birmingham Law School. She obtained her PhD at the University of Kent. Rosie's research explores the place of law in everyday life with a particular focus on legal consciousness studies, resistance and lesbian and gay equality struggles. Her book, Regulating Sexuality explores lesbian and gay experiences of recent changes to the regulation of family life. Her primary interests are in discrimination law and family law, particularly the regulation and recognition of caring and intimate relationships. Her broader research interests are in the gender, sexuality and law field, and also include human rights, labour law and the intersection of law and psychology. Her current research project is a critical evaluation of care, particularly the challenges of caring for people with dementia. Email: r.j.harding@bham.ac.uk.

Sarah Keenan (School of Oriental and African Studies):

Sarah is lecturer at SOAS, and completed her PhD at the University of Kent. Before coming to study in Britain Sarah completed a BA/LLB at the Australian National University in Canberra and worked as a Judge's associate in the Supreme Court of Queensland and a casework solicitor for the Prisoners' Legal Service in Brisbane. Her research is on spaces of belonging, uses methodologies from legal geography and critical theory to re-think socio-legal issues usually framed in terms of identity politics. She also teaches property law. Email: s.j.keenan@kent.ac.uk.