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
- 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 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) - Queer Legal Theory: Queering AI and EU Digital Governance (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - The Impact of AI, Digitalisation and the AI Act on LGBTQ+ Rights (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Queering AI: how to make artificial intelligence more diverse, inclusive, fair and ethical for LGBTQIA+ individuals (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Lecture AI & LGBTQ+ Rights (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Lecture Equal Marriage Rights in Europe: a Multidimensional 'Problem'? (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Lecture AI and LGBTQ+ Rights (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2025) - Privacy, Gender and Sensitive Populations (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2024) - AI & Identity: Challenges for Marginalised Communities: the impact of AI on LGBTQ+ Rights (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Popular - Masuma Shahid (2024) - Digicon Annual Conference (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic - Masuma Shahid (2024) - Reclaiming Power: Using Ethical AI for More Equitable Futures (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Popular
Human Rights in International Law
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RM66
Law Clinic International and European Un
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RB57
Thesis Master Int. and Eur. Union Law
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RS20
Globalization and Multidimensional Legal
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RB52
Research Lab – the application
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RC319
Legal Academic Skills III
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RR317
Legal Academic Skills III
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RD317
Co-Coordinator LGBTIQ+ Working Group
- Start date approval
- September 2020
