Sara Benedi Lahuerta

Assistant Professor in Law, University College Dublin
Dr Sara Benedi Lahuerta is an Assistant Professor in Law at University College Dublin (UCD), Sutherland School of Law. Previously, she was a Lecturer in Employment Law at the University of Southampton Law School (UK) (2014-19) and the founding Director of the Stefan Cross Research Centre for Women, Equality and Law (2018-19).

Sara’s research focuses on discrimination and employment law (at EU and comparative levels). She is particularly interested in avenues to improve the effectiveness of equality law through a range of regulatory tools like collective enforcement, equality bodies, positive duties, ADR and collective bargaining. Her current research projects concern the analysis of pay transparency regulation to address the gender pay gap and EU policies to address hate speech. She is co-editing the book: "Bridging the Gender Pay Gap through Transparency? Comparative Approaches and Key Regulatory Conundrums" (with Prof. Laura Carlson and Ms Katharina Miller), forthcoming with Edward Elgar.

Her prior projects include: ‘Rethinking EU Equality Law’ (2016-18) and ‘The impact of Brexit on EU nationals’ vulnerability: the case of Polish nationals’ (2018-19). She also participated in the project: ‘Future Directions in EU Labour Law’ (2015-16), coordinated by Prof. Prassl (Universityof Oxford) and funded by the British Academy.

Her research has been funded, among others, by the ESRC (Impact Acceleration Account) and the Society of Legal Scholars, and has been published in leading journals, including the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Journal, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, and the European Labour Law Journal.

She is the Editor-In-Chief of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law E-Journal. She has also acted as an expert evaluator for the European Commission’s ‘Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme’ and Marie Curie Individual Fellowships.