LGBTQI+

About the LGBTQI+ Working Group

The LGBTQI+ Working Group was initially formed in August 2020 as a LGBTQI+ Network to bring together the diverse range of scholars, lawyers, activists, practitioners within BCCE, who work on numerous different dimensions of LGBTQI+ rights and identities across a broad range of jurisdictions and regions. As of August 2021, the LGBTQI+ Network has been an official Working Group of BCCE. The Working Group aims to foster the exchange of knowledge and best practices; create opportunities to share and discuss new scholarship and research; facilitate collaboration and partnerships among Working Group members; and promote LGBTQI+ perspectives within the broader work of BCCE.

Projects

The LGBTQI+ Working Group is currently working on transforming our past research and compiled data and the written work of global LGBTQI+ scholars and activists into a BCCE publication on key international LGBTQI+ court cases since the year 2000. The Working Group also aims to organize and host a series of webinars every semester.

Upcoming Webinars:

April 9, 2024: The EU and the cross border recognition of LGBTQI+ parenting rights
May 16, 2024: The impact of AI on LGBTQI+ rights
June 11, 2024: Decade of Violence: Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crimes in Russia in the Era of “Gay Propaganda Law”

Past Webinars:

October 2021: Trans Men Giving Birth and Reflections on Fatherhood
November 2021: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Participation in Sport
December 2021: Legal LGBTQI+ Related Developments in India

Who We Are

Masuma Shahid

Masuma Shahid (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer at the Erasmus School of Law in the Netherlands. Using Queer Legal Theory, Shahid’s PhD research focuses on how various courts approach the topic of equal marriage rights. Shahid has published recently on European Union Law and LGBTQI+ law in the Erasmus Law Journal, European Yearbook on Human Rights and for Eleven International Publishing. For more information on her publications and background, see her LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/in/masumashahid
Alina Tryfonidou

Alina Tryfonidou (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in European Union (EU) law and Family law at the University of Cyprus (Cyprus). Her research interests include the protection of LGBTQI+ rights under EU law, with a particular focus on the family rights of LGBTQI+ persons. More information regarding her research and publications can be found here: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/directory/en/profile/atryfo03
Michele di Bari

Michele di Bari (he/him) is a Tenure-track Researcher in comparative public law at the University of Padova (Italy). His area of research focuses on the role of supreme, supranational (Court of Justice of the European Union, ‘CJEU’) and international (European Court of Human Rights (‘ECHR’), Inter-American Court of Human Rights (‘IACtHR’)) courts in the context of human rights protection. He has published many articles on the rights of LGBTQI+ people, particularly in relation to the legal recognition of same-sex unions in the European Union (EU).
Türkan Ertuna Lagrand

Türkan Ertuna Lagrand (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of European Union (EU) Law at the department of International and European Law of the Utrecht University Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance (The Netherlands). Her research focuses on asylum and immigration law as well as anti-discrimination law of the EU.
Sergey Katsuba

Sergey Katsuba (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin (UCD), as well as a visiting researcher at King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London (KCL). His research is in the area of authoritarian politics, legislative politics and lawmaking, human rights law, LGBTQ rights and discrimination.