Biography
Meghan Campbell is the Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She is also a Lecturer in Law and the Birmingham University Law School. She was previously the Weston Junior Research Fellow, New College, Oxford University.
She holds a DPhil from Oxford University. Her forthcoming monograph, Using Equality to Address Women's Poverty: The Role of CEDAW offers an interpretation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to demonstrate how equality and non-discrimination can address the harms of gender-based poverty. Her current work investigates how the international human rights framework can address entrenched and emerging issues of gender equality and the nature and scope of the legal obligation to co-operate realize human rights. She has lectured at Oxford University on human rights, labour, administrative and constitutional law. She runs the graduate programme on Oxford Legal Assistance.
Publications
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M Campbell, 'OxHRH Blog: Let’s Talk About Sex Education and Human Rights' (2016) -
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M Campbell, 'Evaluating States’ Failure to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women Using Substantive Equality' (2015) Optional Protocol to CEDAW -
M Campbell, 'OxHRH Blog: Access to Justice a Facet of Gender Equality' (2015) -
M Campbell, 'OxHRH Blog: CEDAW Inquiry into Grave Violence Against Aboriginal Women in Canada' (2015) -
M Campbell, 'OxHRH Blog: The Future of Human Rights in the UK ' (2015) -
M Campbell, 'The Future of Human Rights Act' (2015) Open Democracy UK -
M Campbell, 'OxHRH Blog: Safety of Sex-Workers Again at the Centre in Canada (Attorney General) v Bedford' (2014) -
M Campbell, 'Book Review: Basic Equality and Discrimination: Reconciling Theory and Law by Nicholas Mark Smith' (2013) Public Law 195 -
M Campbell, 'OxHRH Blog: Clarifying the Law on Consent in The Verma Report' (2013) -
M Campbell, 'OxHRH Blog: Commission on Status of Women, MDGs and Gendered Poverty' (2013) -
M Campbell, 'OxHRH Blog: Legal Aid Cuts: A Student Perspective ' (2013) -
M Campbell, 'OxHRH Blog: The CEDAW Committee Holds an Uncomfortable Mirror to the UK ' (2013)
Research programmes
Research Interests
Gender, International Law, Equality and Non-Discrimination
Options taught
Administrative Law, Constitutional Law (Senior Status), Human Rights Law, Public International LawNews articles for Meghan Campbell

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