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.

She was Judicial Assistant to Lord Stephens at the UK Supreme Court for the 2024/25 legal year. 

During her DPhil, Amy has worked as a Research Assistant for the Oxford Human Rights Hub, and was a co-convener of the Bonavero Graduate Research Forum. 

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.