About Our Authors

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About Our Authors

Denise Neves Abade is a Brazilian Senior Federal Prosecutor since 1996 and also a Law Professor at Mackenzie Law University Law School, São Paulo, Brazil. She has a PhD in Constitutional and Procedural Law at Valladolid University, Spain, and a Master's degree in Procedural Law at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is the President of the Committee for Equality of Gender and Race/Southeast Region at the Federal Prosecution Service. Her entire career, she has focused on inequality and its impact on the integrity of the rule of law: her academic career on fundamental rights in proceedings and, as a Prosecutor, on gender equality, defense of the environment and international judicial cooperation. In Brazil, Prosecutors act not only in criminal proceedings, but also take action required to guarantee diffuse and collective rights.

Zuzana Andreska is a gender studies graduate and law student at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She has worked for the Department of Gender Equality of the Office of the Czech Government and currently works as a research assistant to Barbara Havelková doing research on feminist legal theory and a critique of androcentrism.

Shreya Atrey is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the Department for Continuing Education and the Faculty of Law, based at the Bonavero Human Rights Institute at the University of Oxford. Her research is on discrimination law, feminist theory, poverty and disability law. Her monograph, Intersectional Discrimination (OUP 2019), presents an account of intersectionality theory in comparative discrimination law. Previously, she was based at the University of Bristol Law School where she taught on Constitutional Rights, Public Law and International Human Rights Law courses. She has been 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. She has served as the Chairperson of the Oxford Pro Bono Publico and is currently an associate member of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. Atrey is an Official Fellow of Kellogg College.

Zulaikha Aziz is a human rights attorney and international development specialist, focusing on rule of law, legal empowerment, women's rights and gender equality. She has more than 15 years of experience working in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and the Americas on legal and economic initiatives to improve the lives and livelihoods of women and men around the world. Her work and scholarship focus specifically on the empowerment of the world's most vulnerable communities. She has worked with institutions including the UNDP, UN Women, the World Bank, and USAID as well as local NGOs and civil society organizations. Most recently, she served as the rule of law specialist for The Asia Foundation in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zulaikha has a B.A. in Economics from McGill University, a M.Sc. in International Development Studies from The London School of Economics and Political Science and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of law.

Ivana Bacik is a barrister and Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin. She is a Senator in the Irish Parliament (Oireachtas) for Dublin University (elected 2007, re-elected 2011 and again 2016). Her research interests include feminist theory of law and equality law. She co-authored a major national study on gender in the legal professions (Bacik, Costello and Drew, Gender InJustice, 2003); her other publications include Legal Cases that Changed Ireland (co-edited with Mary Rogan, Clarus Press, 2016). She chaired the Oireachtas 'Vótáil100' Committee program in 2018 to mark the centenary of women's suffrage in Ireland, and co-chairs the Trinity College Law School Athena SWAN gender equality benchmarking application process.

Kadriye Bakirci is a Professor of Employment/Labour and Social Security Law at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She completed her LLB, LLM, and PhD degrees at Istanbul University Faculty of Law. She attended the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London), the London School of Economics and Political Science (Law Department); Cambridge, Stockholm, Columbia Law Faculties; Lund University Business Law Department and the International Labour Organisation (Geneva) as a visiting scholar/fellow. She is the member of several international and national legal organizations and various non-governmental human and women's rights groups. She is the national expert for Turkey of the European Labour Law Network (ELLN); the national expert for Turkey of the European Network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination (EELN); and a member of the Violence Against Women Europe Group. She has written eleven books and various national and international articles published. Her publications have been influential for law reform.

Daphne Barak-Erez is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel since 2012. Before her appointment to the court, Justice Barak-Erez was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University and the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor in Law and Security. She also served as the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights and the Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of Law at Tel Aviv University. She holds a JSD, LL.M, and LL. B. from Tel Aviv University. Justice Barak-Erez has taught as Visiting Professor at various universities, including the University of Toronto, Columbia Law School and Stanford Law School. She also has held various public positions, including as the chairperson of the Israeli Association of Public Law, a member of the Council of Higher Education in Israel, and the President of the Israeli Law and Society Association. She was awarded several prizes, including the Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching (three times), the Zeltner Prize, the Heshin Prize, the Woman of the City Award (by the City of Tel-Aviv) and the Women in Law Award (by the Israeli Bar). She is the author and editor of several books and of many articles in Israel, England, Canada and the United States.

Estefania Vela Barba is co-founder and Executive Director of Intersecta, a policy research and advocacy organization committed to ending gender discrimination in Mexico. She has a B.A. in Law from ITAM and an LL.M. from Yale Law School, where she is also developing her J.S.D. dissertation. She has published in English and in Spanish on issues related to gender, sexuality, reproduction, and the law, including a book on employment discrimination in Mexico. She's been invited to contribute in a variety of media, including The New York Times en Español, The Washington Post, and Vice México.

Nasrina Bargzie is an Afghan American attorney specializing in complex commercial litigation, national security, international human rights, and governance. She is a 2005 graduate of University California Berkeley School of Law. Bargzie was a law clerk at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge William Fletcher, a fellow at the national American Civil Liberties Union working on post-911 torture and speech issues, directed the National Security and Civil Rights Program at the Asian Law Caucus organizing and bringing litigation on behalf of Arab Middle Eastern Muslim and South Asian communities, was counsel for Fortune 500 companies at Boies Schiller and Flexner LLP, taught Global Litigation at Stanford University School of Law, and has worked on voting rights, war crimes and gender issues in Afghanistan.

Emmanuelle Bribosia is Professor of Law and Vice-President of the Institute for European Studies (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium). Her research activities focus on international and European human rights protection as well as on the right to equality and non-discrimination, with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary approach of these research themes (more details on her webpage: http://cde.ulb.be/member/prof-emmanuelle-bribosia/). As the senior member of the European Network of Legal Experts in the Non-Discrimination Field and the governing board of the Berkeley Center on Comparative and Anti-Discrimination Law, Professor Bribosia pursues many of her research projects in an international setting. In 2014, she...