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Kathryn McNeilly

QUB

Kathryn McNeilly is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast. Her research interests and expertise fall in the areas of international human rights law and legal theory. Kathryn is co-editor of The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2022), and the author of Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation (Routledge, 2017), which was shortlisted for the 2018 Hart-SLSA Early Career Award. In 2019-20, she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Kathryn is an Editorial Board member of leading international journals Human Rights Law Review and Feminist Legal Studies. She is also a member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College and the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College.

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