Amy Kerr

Amy is a DPhil Candidate at the Faculty of Law, supervised by Dr Shreya Atrey. Her research focuses on International Human Rights Law's binary understanding of gender and sexuality, and is generously funded by a Crankstart graduate scholarship.

Amy is a Research Assistant to Professor Başak Çalı and a Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Lady Margaret Hall. During her DPhil, she has also worked as a Research Assistant at the Oxford Human Rights Hub and co-convened the Bonavero Graduate Research Forum. She was Judicial Assistant to Lord Stephens at the UK Supreme Court for the 2024/25 legal year. 

Before starting the DPhil, Amy studied BA Jurisprudence (First Class) (spending a year at Leiden University through the ERASMUS scheme) and the BCL (Distinction) at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. Between the BA and BCL, she interned at JUSTICE and REDRESS, and worked as a research assistant to several barristers practicing in the field of human rights, SEND, housing and asylum law.