Dr Meghan Campbell

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Birmingham Law School
Reader in International Human Rights Law

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6315
Fax
+44 (0)121 414 3585
Email
m.campbell.1@bham.ac.uk
Address
Birmingham Law School
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Meghan Campbell is Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University 麻豆精选. Her research explores how the international human rights system can best respond to gender inequality and poverty. Her monograph Women, Poverty, Equality (Hart Publishing, 2018) explores how the concept of equality in the UN Convention on the Discrimination on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women can be interpreted to address gender-based poverty. She has published peer-reviewed articles on gender equality, human rights, international legal system and public law and provided written evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and Women and Equalities Committee on Brexit and human rights. 

Qualifications

  • LLB, University of Manitoba (2008)
  • Call to the Bar, Province of Manitoba, Canada (2009)
  • LLM (International Law), University of Edinburgh (2011)
  • DPhil, University of Oxford (2016)

Biography

Meghan Campbell is Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University 麻豆精选. Her research focuses on women鈥檚 inequality in international human rights law and public law, focusing on women鈥檚 socioeconomic disadvantage. Her monograph Women, Poverty, Equality: The Role of CEDAW聽(Hart , 2018) explores how the concept of equality in the UN Convention on the Discrimination on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women can be interpreted to address gender-based poverty. Her monograph was shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Scholars Association Early Career Research Prize. She is the co-editor of two collections: Human Rights and Equality in Education (Bristol 2018) and Feminist Frontiers in Climate Change (Edward Elgar 2023). She is the founder and Managing Editor of the University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal which has been cited by the Indian and Canadian Supreme Courts. She is the Executive Producer of podcast and of the World Health Organization documentary . .聽

Teaching

  • Canadian Constitutional Law - Module Leader
  • Public Law - Co-Module Leader
  • Foundations of International Law and Globalisation 

Postgraduate supervision

Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights

Find out more - our PhD Law  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Research

Meghan Campbell pursues several harmonious strands of research. Her research investigates how the international and national legal systems can respond to women鈥檚 poverty, focusing on the potential of equality and anti-discrimination law. Her research has touched upon the right to education, sexual and reproductive health rights, rural inequality and the procedural aspects of international accountability mechanisms. Her future projects offer a comparative critique of how apex courts adjudicate whether the State is constitutionally permitted to limit women鈥檚 equality. 聽

Other activities

  • Co-Director of the 
  • Managing Editor of the 

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Albertyn, C, Campbell, M, Alvair Grarcia, H, Fredman, S & Machado, M (eds) 2023, . Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Article

Campbell, M 2024, '', European Human Rights Law Review, vol. 2024, no. 1, pp. 13-22. <>

Campbell, M & Warwick, B 2024, '', Constitutional Court Review, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 115-135.

Campbell, M 2021, '', Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.

Campbell, M 2021, '', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Campbell, M 2024, . in P O'Brien & B Yong (eds), Leading Works in Public Law. 1 edn, Analysing Leading Works in Law, Routledge. <>

Campbell, M 2024, . in M Dembour, C Klocker & D Casalin (eds), Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication. Cambridge University Press.

Campbell, M 2023, . in C Albertyn, M Campbell, H Alviar Garc铆a, S Fredman & M Rodriguez de Assis Machado (eds), Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Gender Equality, Climate Change and Rights. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 90鈥�115.

Campbell, M 2023, . in RJ Cook (ed.), Frontiers of Gender Equality : Transnational Legal Perspectives. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 153-174. <>

Campbell, M & Connors, J 2023, . in P Schulz, R Halperin-Kaddari, B Rudolf & M Freeman (eds), The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its Optional Protocol: A Commentary. 2 edn, Oxford Commentaries on International Law. <>

Campbell, M 2023, . in S Atrey & S Fredman (eds), Exponential Inequalities . Oxford University Press, pp. 79-96.

Campbell, M & Byrnes, A 2022, . in P Schulz, R Halperin-Kaddari, B Rudolf & M Freeman (eds), The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its Optional Protocol: A Commentary. 2 edn, Oxford Commentaries on International Law, Oxford University Press. <>

Campbell, M & Byrnes, A 2022, . in P Schulz, R Halperin-Kaddari, B Rudolf & M Freeman (eds), The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its Optional Protocol : A Commentary. 2 edn, Oxford Commentaries on International Law, Oxford University Press. <>

Campbell, M 2021, . in J Hohmann & B Goldblatt (eds), The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions: Responding to Complex Global Challenges. 1st edn, O帽ati International Series in Law and Society, Bloomsbury Publishing. <>

Commissioned report

Campbell, M, O'Sullivan, C & Daly, A 2025, .

Expertise

Meghan Campbell has media experience in education rights, gender equality, international human rights law and human rights in the UK

Media experience

  • Executive Producer,  Rights (OxHRH 2020)
  • Executive Producer,  (in Partnership with the World Health Organization, Human Reproduction Programme and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
  • M. Campbell, ’ (OxHRH RightsUp #RightNow Podcast,  2018)
  • M. Campbell  (Executive Producer)   (OxHRH, October 2017)
  • M. Campbell, ’ (OxHRH, Feb 2017)
  • Appeared on BCB Radio Bradford to discuss the future of the Human Rights Act (August 2016)
  • M. Campbell (Executive Producer) (OxHRH, July 2015)
  • Appeared on BBC Radio Oxford to discuss the future of the Human Rights Act (June 2015)

Expertise

 

  • Human rights in the UK 
  • Education rights
  • Gender equality 
  • International human rights law
  • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Duty of Cooperation