Biography
Dr. Masuma Shahid is an Assistant Professor in the field of LGBTQ+ rights (AI, queer data, equal marriage rights/same-sex marriage) and lecturer in European Union law and international law (human rights, specialised in LGBTQ+ rights). She has extensive experience in teaching, research, and organisational responsibilities in various areas of law (besides European Union law and international law). She is currently acting as a member of the Diversity Platform within the Erasmus School of Law. She is also a co-coordinator of the LGBTQI+ Working Group of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law (BCCE). Interested in writing on the intersection of LGBTQ+ rights & AI and queer data, LGBTQ+ rights in general, European internal market and competition law, international law and privacy law.
For more information about her background, most recent projects, and publications she is working on, please visit her LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/masumashahid
Erasmus School of Law
Assistant professor | International and European Union Law (IEUR)
- shahid@law.eur.nl
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Work
- Masuma Shahid (2025) - Queering courts: Analysing equal marriage rights cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the United States Supreme Court
- Masuma Shahid & Lana Said (2024) - Cases and Materials European Union Law - [link]
- Masuma Shahid (2023) - Artificial Intelligence and LGBTQ+ Rights - [link]
- Masuma Shahid (2023) - Equal marriage rights and the European Courts - ERA Forum, 23 (3), 397-411 - doi: 10.1007/s12027-023-00729-w - [link]
- Masuma Shahid & Lana Said (2022) - Cases and Materials European Union Law - [link]
- Masuma Shahid & Lana Said (2022) - Cases and Materials International and European Union Law - [link]
- Masuma Shahid (2021) - Europees recht begrepen - [link]
- Masuma Shahid & Lana Said (2021) - Cases and Materials European Union Law - [link]
- Masuma Shahid & Lana Said (2021) - Cases and Materials International and European Union Law - [link]
- Masuma Shahid & Lana Said (2021) - Cases and Materials Public International Law - [link]
- Masuma Shahid (3 August 2025) - Hoe kan de acceptatie vergroot worden? En andere vragen over Pride en lhbti+-rechten beantwoord
- Masuma Shahid (25 June 2025) - Queering courts
- Masuma Shahid (3 December 2024) - AI & Identity: Challenges for Marginalised Communities (Focus on the effects of AI on LGBTQ+ Rights)
- Masuma Shahid (3 July 2023) - De weg naar inclusie: waar staat Nederland in de emancipatie van LHBTQIA+ personen?
- Masuma Shahid (25 January 2023) - Grondwetswijziging voor LHBTIQ’ers en personen met beperking: waardevol of waardeloos?
- Masuma Shahid (2025) - Internationale Transgender Gedenkdag. Van Herdenken naar Handelen. Sociale Veiligheid voor Transpersonen (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Popular - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Erasmus University Rotterdam (Organisational unit) (Chair)
Activity: Membership of committee › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Queering Rewrites (Queer Legal Theory) (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Queer Rights: The Case of the Netherlands in its European Context (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - AI & LGBTQ+ Rights: A European Governance Comparison (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - The Rise of Pride and LGBTQ+ rights in Europe (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Popular - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Activated Allyship: The DNA of Impactful Inclusion (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Artificial intelligence and LGBTQ+ rights (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - LGBTQI+ Seminars (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Queer Legal Theory: Queering AI and EU Digital Governance (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
- Masuma Shahid (2010) - Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award for Best Master Thesis 2010
European Union Law
- Level
- bachelor 2
- Year Level
- bachelor 2
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RR218
European Union Law
- Level
- bachelor 2
- Year Level
- bachelor 2
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RD218
Executive Course LGBTQ+ Rights
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- LL30
Legal Academic Skills III
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RD317
Globalization and Multidimensional Legal
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RB52
Law Clinic International and European Un
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RB57
Human Rights in International Law
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RM66
Thesis Master Int. and Eur. Union Law
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RS20
Legal Academic Skills III
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RR317
European Law Moot Court Competition
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RMC22
Research Lab – the application
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- RC319
Member of the Advisory Council of the Global LGBTI+ Rights Commission
- Start date approval
- November 2025
Co-Coordinator LGBTIQ+ Working Group
- Start date approval
- September 2020
