Kathryn McNeilly

Professor Kathryn McNeilly is a legal academic with expertise in the areas of international human rights law and international legal theory. Her work undertakes engagements with the theory and operation of human rights. Kathryn's recent research has explored how ideas of time and temporality can be used as tools to better understand the operation of human rights law internationally.

Kathryn is the author of a monograph titled Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation: Futurity, Alterity, Power which was shortlisted for the 2018 Hart-SLSA Early Career Prize. In 2019-20 Kathryn was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to investigate issues of time and materiality in international human rights law monitoring. In 2018 Kathryn was awarded the QUB Vice Chancellor's Early Career Research Prize. This University-wide Prize recognises a scholar whose research demonstrates outstanding significance and excellence in the first 5 years of their career.