Dr. Lorena Sosa

Biography

Lorena Sosa is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University specializing in intersectional discrimination and gender-based violence. She is a member of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and part of the research programme Family & Law (UCERF). Lorena’s work utilizes intersectionality to investigate the limitations and potential of international human rights law in addressing inequality, discrimination, and violence. Employing comparative socio-legal methods, she engages with issues of personal autonomy, access to justice, and the judicial protection of individuals experiencing violence. In 2018, Lorena received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission, focusing on gender-based violence against trans and intersex persons, which she carried out at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She also received a VENI grant from the Dutch Scientific Organization. As a co-founder of the research platform EQUALS within the law school and a core team member of the UU IOS (In)Equality Platform, her research has been published by Cambridge University Press, among other scholarly journals. Additionally, Lorena actively participates in various international projects related to violence against women, children, and LGBTQ+ rights, engaging with organizations such as the EU, Council of Europe, and the United Nations. Committed to education, she teaches human rights law-related courses at the university. From 2022 until 2024, she served on the management board of the Center for Global Challenges as Director of Education, acting as a community-engaged learning ambassador in her faculty.

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