Dr. Shreya Atrey

Biography

Shreya Atrey is an Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, based at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is also an associate member of the Oxford Human Rights Hub and an Official Fellow and Racial Justice Equality Fellow at Kellogg College. In addition, Shreya serves as a Senior Teaching Fellow at New College. She is the editor of the Human Rights Law Review (OUP). Previously, Shreya was associated with the University of Bristol Law School and has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, as well as a Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow at NYU School of Law in New York. Shreya completed her BCL with distinction and holds a DPhil in Law obtained through the Rhodes Scholarship at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on equality and human rights issues within comparative international law. Her monograph, "Intersectional Discrimination" (OUP 2019), was the runner-up for the Peter Birks Book Prize in 2020. This work presents a thorough examination of intersectionality theory in the context of comparative discrimination law and has been cited in significant rulings by the South African Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of India, illustrating its impact on the legal understanding of discrimination based on gender and race.

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