Megan Manion is a visiting clinical lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and the research director of the Global Gender Equality Project. Manion previously served as Senior Legal Advisor to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, where she led the engagement of the Special Rapporteur with the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, engagement with the United Nations Security Council and the provision of technical assistance to U.N. Member States and U.N. entities on promoting and protecting human rights in counter-terrorism. Her work focused on mainstreaming human rights, gender, and rule of law in counter-terrorism and national security measures. She also worked for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (U.N. Women) in New York and Afghanistan, where she specialized in justice and security issues, including security sector reform, transitional justice, and counterterrorism. She has contributed book chapters to "Research Handbook on Transitional Justice" (Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett eds., 2023) and the "Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Assembly" (Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Probert, Sharath Srinivasan (eds., 2024).
Megan received a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in political science. She has been a senior research fellow at the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School where she designed, developed, and directed the U.N. Women Externship Program at the Law School and a visiting fellow under the Rule of Law Responses to Terrorism Programme at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in the Hague, Netherlands.
