Kathryn McNeilly

Kathryn McNeilly is a Lecturer in Law at Queen's University Belfast, affiliated with the School of Law and the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. She supervises PhD students in Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, Legal Theory, and International Legal History.

• Education includes a monograph Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation: Futurity, Alterity, Power (Routledge, 2017) and edited collection The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law (Hart, 2022).
• Her research explores the intersection of international human rights law with time, gender, and feminist judgments projects across jurisdictions like Canada, India, and the UK.

Recent publications focus on temporal dynamics in international legal adjudication, UPR mechanisms, and historical analysis. She has held visiting roles at the University of British Columbia, Osgoode Hall Law School, and the University of Birmingham.

• Scientific Awards
  • Hart-SLSA Early Career Prize Shortlist (2018)
  • Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2019-20)
  • Queen's University Vice Chancellor's Early Career Research Prize (2018)
  • SLSA Seminar Competition Award (2018)
  • Staff Excellence Award for Outstanding Leadership (2019)
• She serves on the editorial board of Human Rights Law Review and participates in UKRI peer review panels.