PhD Thesis
Title: Breaking Grounds: From Gender Identity to a Queer Definition of Gender Discrimination
PhD Supervisor & Co-Supervisor: Vincent Chetail & Fuad Zarbiyev
Expected Completion Date: 2025
Profile
Manon is a PhD candidate in International Law at the Graduate Institute and Teaching Assistant in Public International Law at the University of Geneva. Her research is rooted in feminist and queer approaches to international law. She holds a LLB from the University of Bordeaux (Summa Cum Laude), a LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University and two Masters in International Relations and in European Studies from the Catholic University of Louvain (both Cum Laude). Before joining the Graduate Institute, Manon worked as a Teaching Assistant at the LLM Program in Public International Law at Leiden University and as Prof. Waaldijk's Research Assistant in Comparative Sexual Orientation Law. Although she specialised on gender and LGBTQI rights, she conducted research on a much wider range of international legal issues for diverse actors.
Research Interests
- Feminist and Queer Approaches to International Law
- Sexual Orientation
- Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics
- Women's Rights
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS
- Guest Editor: Special Issue: International Law Dis/oriented: Sparking Queer Futures in International Law, Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol. 49, Issue 1, June 2023.
- L. Holzer, B.K. Schramm, J. Santos de Carvalho & M. Beury, « An Introduction to International Law Dis/oriented: Sparking Queer Futures in International Law », 49(1) Australian Feminist Law Journal, June 2023.
- B.K. Schramm, . Santos de Carvalho, L. Holzer & M. Beury, « Doing Queer in the Everyday of Academia: Reflections on Queering a Conference in International Law », AJIL Unbound, January 2022.
- M. Beury & L. Holzer, « Orientations as a 3-dimensional tool for practising positionality in international law », EUI LAW Working Paper 2022/04, Practising reflexivity in international law working paper series, 2022.
- M. Beury, & Y. Yurski, « Europe: Increased Visibility, Populist Backlash & Multiple Divisions », ILGA State Sponsored Homophobia Report 2018 (2019), pp. 41-55.
- M. Beury, « The CJEU’s judgment in Coman: a small step for the recognition of same-sex couples underlying European divides over LGBT rights », Strasbourg Observers Blog, 24 July 2018.
Academic Work Experience
Teaching Experience
- (2019 - 2022) Teaching Assistant in Public International Law, Assistant of Prof. Makane Moïse Mbengue, University of Geneva.
- (2019) Teaching Assistant in Public International Law, Leiden University.
Research Experience
- (2018 - 2019) Research Assistant in Comparative Sexual Orientation Law, Assistant of Prof. Kees Waaldijk, Leiden University.
- (2015 - 2016) Research Intern in Public International Law, Asser Institute, The Hague.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCES
- (2021 - present) Human Rights Officer, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
- (2016 - 2017) Research Assistant, Human Rights in Practice.
- (2016) Intern, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
- (2014) Blue Book Trainee, Legal Affairs Division, European External Action Service (EEAS).
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
- Doc.Mobility Scholarship of the University of Geneva and the Geneva Graduate Institute
- Merit Scholarship of the Geneva Graduate Institute
- Merit Scholarship of the French Minister for Research and Higher Education