Kay Lalor

Kay Lalor is a Reader in Human Rights Law at Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, specializing in LGBTQI+ rights activism within international legal frameworks. Her research examines how legally informed activism translates into non-legal projects and impacts human rights theory and practice. She serves as Production Editor for Feminist Legal Studies and Trustee of the Socio-Legal Studies Association.

Her research explores spatio-temporal dimensions of human rights through feminist legal geography and Deleuzian approaches, with recent fieldwork employing 'legal walks' to investigate asylum seekers' experiences. Major projects include the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2015-2018) on international LGBTI rights advocacy and the 'Outsourcing Asylum' project analyzing UK-Rwanda immigration policy impacts.

Publications demonstrate consistent focus on:

• Queer jurisprudence and feminist legal theory development
• Transnational LGBTI rights diplomacy and conditionality
• Legal geography methodologies and spatial justice
• Critical analyses of asylum systems and vulnerability frameworks

Her work has informed parliamentary scrutiny, including citations in:

• Joint Committee on Human Rights reports (2024)
• House of Lords International Agreements Committee analyses (2022-2024)

Supervised doctoral research includes projects on: trans legal recognition, polyamorous families, Caribbean LGBTQI advocacy, honor-based violence, queer spatial theory, and gendered parenting roles.