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Keighley Jupp

Biography

Keighley Jupp is a full-time MJur candidate at Duhram Law school. Her research focuses on gender identity rights within international human rights.

Keighley received an LLB (with first-class honours) from Durham University in 2025. Her undergraduate dissertation focused on the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) binary perception of gender and the consequences that this has had on gender non-conforming persons in light of the recent Y v France judgement.

Her MJur research is a continuation of her undergraduate dissertation, this time comparing the ECtHR's protection of gender identity to the Inter American Court of Human Rights' (IACtHR) approach, in light of an ongoing regression in the protection of gender identity at the national level.

Alongside this research, Keighley is a UK Constitutional Law and an Individual and the State tutor. She is also one of the PGR representatives for the 2025-26 academic year.

Keighley is a member of the Human Rights and Public Law Centre.

MJur Research

Supervised by Dr Dimitrios Kagiaros and Dr Dafni Lima, Keighley's MJur project is a comparative study of the ways in which the ECtHR and Inter American Court of Human Rights' protect gender identity rights for gender non-conforming persons.

Her research aims to consider the extent to which each regional human rights convention provides protections for gender identity rights, who benefits from these rights, and the reasonings behind these rights. It will then assess the extent to which the rights created by regional courts are complied with by Member States, and the reasons for a lack of compliance. It will then discuss the potential consequences for gender non-conforming persons if the trending regression in the protection of their rights is not corrected.

With this project, Keighley aims to draw attention to the ongoing crisis, and discuss potential steps towards a solution.

Research Groups

Human Rights and Public Law Centre

Research Interests
  • Human Rights
  • Gender identity rights
  • Disability rights - particulalry in relation to education