Manon Beury

Manon Beury is a PhD candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research applies feminist and queer approaches to international law, focusing on women’s rights and the rights of trans and gender-diverse persons from an intersectional perspective.

She previously worked as a Human Rights Officer at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), where she supported the Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, the Independent Expert on the rights of older persons, and the Special Rapporteur on minority issues. She has also held research roles with NGOs, completed traineeships at the ICTY and the European External Action Service, and worked as a Teaching Assistant in public international law at the University of Geneva and Leiden University.

Manon holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Bordeaux, an MA in International Relations and an MA in European Studies from the Université Catholique de Louvain, as well as an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University. In 2024, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne with a Doc.Mobility scholarship.

Publications:

• M. Beury, L. Holzer, and E. Zacharias, 'The UK Supreme Court’s Unworkable Sex Definitions in For Women Scotland', Völkerrechtsblog, 14 May 2025.
• M. Beury, 'La protection contre la violence et la discrimination fondées sur l’identité de genre en droit international' in C. Greset et al. (eds.), De quel droit? Genre et sexualités au croisement des sciences sociales et juridiques, Schulthess, 2025, pp. 159-175.
• M. Beury, 'The European Court of Human Rights and the Prohibition of Discrimination Against Trans Persons' in T. Paige & C. O’Hara (eds.), Queer Encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities, Routledge, 2024, pp. 39-59.
• L. Holzer, B.K. Schramm, J. Santos de Carvalho, & M. Beury, 'An Introduction to International Law Dis/oriented: Sparking Queer Futures in International Law' (2023) 49(1) Australian Feminist Law Journal 1.
• B.K. Schramm, J. 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', 2022/4 EUI Department of Law Research Paper, 2022.
• 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, 24 July 2018.