Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women's Equality

Dr Meghan Campbell is Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University of Birmingham. She is also the deputy director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. Her research explores how the international human rights system can best respond to gender inequality and poverty. Her monograph Women, Poverty, Equality (Hart Publishing, 2018) explores how the concept of equality in the UN Convention on the Discrimination on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women can be interpreted to address gender-based poverty. She has published peer-reviewed articles on gender equality, human rights, international legal system and public law and provided written evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and Women and Equalities Committee on Brexit and human rights. 

She is currently a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow examining the relationship between women's equality and justification. Her talk 'Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women's Equality' will explore some of the findings of her research.