Shreya Atrey
Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law
Biography
Shreya Atrey is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law based at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is an Editor for the Human Rights Law Review and an Official Fellow of Kellogg College. Her research is on discrimination law, feminist theory, poverty and disability law. Her monograph, Intersectional Discrimination (OUP 2019), which won the runners-up Peter Birks Book Prize in 2020, presents an account of intersectionality theory in comparative discrimination law. Her work has been cited by the South African Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of India. Shreya is currently working on project on 'Equality Law in Times in Crisis' funded by the British Academy. Previously, Shreya was based at the University of Bristol Law School as a Lecturer in Law. She was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence and a Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow at the NYU School of Law, New York. She completed BCL with distinction and DPhil in Law on the Rhodes Scholarship from Magdalen College, University of Oxford.
Publications
ATREY S, “Understanding Xenophobia As Intersectional Discrimination” [2022] Washington and Lee Law Review
Atrey S, Briddick C and Foster M, “Guest Editor Introduction: Contesting and Undoing Discriminatory Borders” (2022) 22 International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 210
Atrey S, Briddick C and Foster M, “Guest Editor Introduction: Contesting and Undoing Discriminatory Borders” [2022] INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISCRIMINATION AND THE LAW
Atrey S, “Feminist Constitutionalism: Mapping a Discourse in Contestation” (2022) 20 International Journal of Constitutional Law 611
Atrey S, “Structural Racism and Race Discrimination” (2021) 74 Current Legal Problems 1
Atrey S and Pillai G, “A Feminist Rewriting of Air India V Nergesh Meerza AIR 1981 SC 1829: Proposal for a Test of Discrimination under Article 15(1)” (2021) 5 Indian Law Review 338
Atrey S, “Beyond Discrimination: Mahlangu and the Use of Intersectionality As a General Theory of Constitutional Interpretation” (2021) 21 International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 168
Atrey S, “On the Central Case Methodology in Discrimination Law” (2021) 41 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 776
Atrey S and Bhatia G, “New Beginnings: Indian Rights Jurisprudence After Puttaswamy” (2020) 3 University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal
Atrey S, “Intersectionality and Comparative Antidiscrimination Law: The Tale of Two Citadels” [2020] Brill
Atrey S, “Intersectionality in the Human Rights Legal Framework on Violence Against Women: At the Centre or the Margins?” (2019) 41 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 535
Atrey S, “Women’s Human Rights: From Progress to Transformation, An Intersectional Response to Martha Nussbaum” (2018) 40 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 859
Atrey S, “Comparison in Intersectional Discrimination” (2018) 38 LEGAL STUDIES 379
Atrey S, “The Intersectional Case of Poverty in Discrimination Law” (2018) 18 HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 411
Atrey S, “Illuminating the CJEU’s Blindspot of Intersectional Discrimination” (2018) 47 Industrial Law Journal 278
Atrey S, “Illuminating the CJEU’s Blind Spot of Intersectional Discrimination in Parris V Trinity College Dublin” (2018) 47 INDUSTRIAL LAW JOURNAL 278
Atrey S, “Race Discrimination in EU Law After Jyske Finans” (2018) 55 COMMON MARKET LAW REVIEW 625
Atrey S, “Through the Looking Glass of Intersectionality: Making Sense of Indian Discrimination Jurisprudence under Article 15” (2017) 16 Equal Rights Review 160
Atrey S, “Redefining Frontiers of EU Discrimination Law” [2017] Public Law 185
Atrey S, “Fifty Years On: The Curious Case of Intersectional Discrimination in the ICCPR” (2017) 35 NORDIC JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS 220
Atrey S, “Lifting As We Climb: Recognising Intersectional Gender Violence in Law” (2015) 5 Oñati Socio-Legal Series 1512
Atrey S, Intersectional Discrimination (Oxford University Press, USA 2019)
Atrey S and Fredman S, “Exponential Inequalities: What Can Equality Law?” in S Atrey and S Fredman (eds.), Exponential Inequalities: Equality Law in Times of Crisis (Oxford University Press 2022)
Atrey S and Bhatia G, “Gender and Transformative Constitutionalism in India” in W Chang, K Loper, M Malagodi and R Rubio-Marín (eds.), Gender, Sexuality and Constitutionalism in Asia (Hart 2022)
Atrey S, “Intersectionality, from Equality to Human Rights” in S Atrey and P Dunne (eds.), Intersectionality and Human Rights Law (Hart 2020)
Atrey S, “From Me to We: Locating Dalit Women in #MeToo” in A Noel and D Oppenheimer (eds.), Globalization of the #MeToo Movement (Fastcase 2020)
Atrey S, “Beyond Universality: An Intersectional Justification of Human Rights’” in S Atrey and P Dunne (eds.), Intersectionality and Human Rights Law (Hart 2020)
Atrey S, “India”, The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Courts (2018)
Atrey S, “Indian Supreme Court Jurisprudence and the Implementation of the UNCRPD” in A Lawson and L Waddington (eds.), The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Court (Oxford University Press 2018)
Atrey S, “The Danger of a Single Story: Introducing Intersectionality in Fact Finding” in P Alston and S Knuckey (eds.), The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding (Oxford University Press 2015)
Atrey S and Fredman S, Exponential Inequalities: Equality Law in Times of Crisis (2023) 1