Research Interests

Gender, Sexuality and Law; Family Law; European Union Law

Additional Professional Information

  • Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol Law School  
     
  • Associate Member, Garden Court Chambers (London)
     
  • UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (2022-2029)
     
  • Honorary Subject Sections Secretary, Society of Legal Scholars (2025-2028)
     
  • Senior Expert for Sexual Orientation, European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination (2019-Present)  

Publications

Books

30 Years of LGBT Case Law at the CJEU (eds.) (Hart 2026, forthcoming) (with Alina Tryfonidou).

Intersectionality and Human Rights Law (eds.) (Hart 2020) (with Shreya Atrey).  

The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (eds.) (Palgrave-MacMillan 2020) (with Sen Raj).  

Gender and Law in Modern Ireland: Critique and Reform (eds.) (Hart Publishing 2019) (with Lynsey Black) 

Journal Special Issues

Gender Diversity Across Borders in Europe, German Law Journal (2026, forthcoming) [edited with Benjamin Moron-Puech and Marjolein van den Brink].  

European Trans Family Law, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (2025, forthcoming) [edited with Alice Margaria].  

The CPA and GRA at 20: Diverging Past, Contentious Presents and Uncertain Futures, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 47(2) (2025, forthcoming) [edited with Alexander Maine and Flora Renz].  

Book Chapters

‘The Civil Status of Trans Persons in England’ in Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons (Jaramillo and Carlson, eds, Springer 2021), 257.  

‘Framing Equality: Debating Protected Grounds in The Field of Trans and Non-Binary Rights’ in Protecting Trans* Rights in the Age of Gender Self-Determination (Canoot, Brems and Moonen eds, Intersentia 2020), 121.  

‘Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in The United Kingdom’ in The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (Raj and Dunne eds, Palgrave-MacMillan 2020) (with Sen Raj), 233.  

‘Queering #MeToo? Making Room for LGBT Lives, Identities and Experiences’ in The Global #MeToo Movement (Noel and Oppenheimer eds, 2020 Fastcase), 409.  

‘Trans Case Law in the European Union and Council of Europe’ in Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law (Ashford and Maine eds, Edward Elgar 2020), 134.  

‘Brexit: The Likely Impact on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Rights in The United Kingdom’ in Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit (Dustin, Ferreira and Millns eds, Palgrave 2019), 273.   

‘Towards Trans and Intersex Equality: Conflict or Complementarity?’ in The Legal Status of Intersex Persons (Dutta, Helms and Scherpe eds, Intersentia 2018), 217.   

Journal Articles

Transgender Parenthood in the UK: The ‘Unanswered Questions’ of the McConnell Litigation, (2024) Cambridge Law Journal (forthcoming, November) [with Alan Brown].  

All marriages are equal, but some are more equal than others: Trans spouses and voidability rules in England and Wales (2024) Child and Family Law Quarterly (forthcoming, November) [with Alan Brown].  

Trans Sterilisation Requirements in Europe (2017) 24(1) Medical Law Review 554.  

(Trans)forming Single Gender Services and Communal Accommodations (2017) 26(5) Social and Legal Studies 537.  

Who Is a Parent and Who Is a Child in a Same-Sex Family? – Legislative and Judicial Issues for LGBT Families Post-Separation, Part I: The European Perspective (2017) 30(1) Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 27.  

(Trans) Marriage Equality? Challenging Europe’s Marital ‘Dissolution Requirements’ (2016) 28(4) Child and Family Law Quarterly 325.  

Civil Partnership in an Ireland of Equal Marriage Rights (2015) 53(1) Irish Jurist 77.   

Shorter Journal Articles

Equality for All? LGBTI Rights and the Future: Priorities of the Government Equalities Office (2020) European Human Rights Law Review 330.  

Transgender Children and the Law (2017) 47 (January) Family Law 123.  

The UK Transgender Equality Inquiry (2016) 46 (July) Family Law 888.  

Rethinking Legal Gender Recognition: Recent Reforms in Denmark, Argentina and the Netherlands (2015) 1 International Family Law 41.  

Ten Years of Gender Recognition in the United Kingdom: Still a “Model for Reform?” (2015) Public Law 530. 

Marriage Dissolution as a Pre-Requisite for Legal Gender Recognition (2014) 73(3) Cambridge Law Journal 506.  

The Physicians Statement Model in Ireland’s Gender Recognition Bill 2013 (2014) 1 European Human Rights Law Review 1.  

Case Notes

Childhood in Transition: Can Trans and Non-Binary Minors Provide Lawful Consent to Puberty Blockers? (2021) 80(1) Cambridge Law Journal 15.  

Travelling Beyond the Binary: No Right to Unspecified Passports under the European Convention on Human Rights (2020) July Cambridge Law Journal 240.  

Acknowledging or Erasing Intersex Experiences? Gender “Diversity” in German Law (2019) 70(1) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly.  

Coman: Vindicating the Residence Rights of Same-Sex ‘Spouses’ in the EU (2018) 4 European Human Rights Law Review 383.  

Beyond the Binary: Towards a “Third” Sex Category in Germany? (2018) 19 German Law Journal 627 (with Jule Mulder).  

In the Matter of M (Children): A Collision between Two Un-connecting Words? (2018) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 263.  

Legal Gender Recognition in Europe: Sterilisation, Diagnosis and Medical Examination Requirements (2017) 39(4) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 497.  

Enhancing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Protections in Strasbourg (2016) 75(1) Cambridge Law Journal 4-8.  

Recognising transgender parenthood on birth certificates: Re (JK) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2015) 3 International Family Law 230.  

A Right to Donate Blood? Permanent Deferrals for “Men who have Sex with Men” (MSM): Léger’ (2015) 52(6) Common Market Law Review 1661.   

YY v Turkey: Infertility as a Pre-Condition of Gender Confirmation Surgery (2015) 23(4) Medical Law Review 646.  

A, B and C v Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie: Fairer Assessment Procedures for Gay and Lesbian Asylum Applicants in the European Union (2015) 40(3) European Law Review 411.