Loveday is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Leicester. Her primary research interest lies in the intersection of international human rights law, gender, and sexuality. She has published widely in the area of women’s rights, as well as on conceptions of LGBT family rights in international law. Most recently, she was co-organiser of a large, high-profile project in which a number of key international judgments were re-written from a feminist perspective, the output of which was published in September 2019 as Feminist Judgments in International Law (Hart). This book was the winner of the American Society of International Law’s 2020 Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship. In 2019, she additionally published an edited collected, Research Methods for International Human Rights Law: Beyond the Traditional Paradigm (Routledge). Additionally, she has an interest in social movements and has worked with a number of NGOs on the rights of LGBT families. In 2010, she published a monograph entitled NGOs and the Struggle for Rights in Europe with Hart Publishing. From 2011 to 2018, she was co-convenor of the European Society of International Law’s interest group on Feminism and International Law, in which role she organised a number of conferences, seminars and panels. She sits on the editorial board of Feminist Legal Studies.
Kseniya Kirichenko (she/her) is an intersectional feminist activist, international human rights lawyer and researcher. She received her law degree from Novosibirsk State University (Siberia, Russia) where she taught legal courses for ten years before shifting to full-time human rights practice focusing on gender and sexuality. Since 2007, she has been leading programmes on strategic litigation, national and international advocacy, human rights research and education, monitoring and documentation. Kseniya also served as a Board Member of the EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community (EL*C), was an International Fellow with the Global Network for Public Interest Law (PILNet) and a Visiting Scholar with Columbia Law School. In 2016, she joined ILGA World in Geneva, Switzerland, where she is currently a UN Programme Manager. Since January 2021, Kseniya is pursuing her PhD research at the University of Leicester, UK.
