Conor Gearty

Conor A. Gearty is the Rausling Professor of Human Rights Law^[1] and Director, Centre for the Study of Human Rights^[2] at the London School of Economics.

Background

Originally from Abbeylara, County Longford, in Ireland he was educated at Castleknock College before going to University College Dublin as an undergraduate and Cambridge University as a post-graduate. He had significant debating success in University, twice winning the Irish Times debating competition and serving as Auditor of the University College Dublin Law Society. He worked at King's College London from 1991 to 2003 before joining the LSE. Gearty is also a practising barrister with Matrix Chambers.

Gearty's work has moved from tort law to a focus on civil liberties and human rights. In 2008 he launched the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford with a major lecture on human rights in a post-socialist age.^{[citation needed]} Conor Gearty is distantly related to Kitty Kiernan who was played by Julia Roberts in the film, 'Michael Collins'.

Publications

Books

• (with Virginia Mantouvalou) Debating Social Rights (2010) Hart Publishing
• Essays on Human Rights and Terrorism (2008) Cameron May
• Civil Liberties (2007) Clarendon Publishing
• Can Human Rights Survive? (2006) Hamlyn Lectures
• Principles of Human Rights Adjudication (2004) Oxford University Press
• (with Keith Ewing)The Struggle for Civil Liberties
• (with Keith Ewing) Freedom under Thatcher: Civil Liberties in Modern Britain (1990) Oxford University Press

Newspaper Articles

• "When it can be right to do wrong", The Tablet (11 October 2008)

Online Collaborative Publishing Project

• In October 2010, Gearty started working on an online web-publishing project, called "The Rights' Future" (http://therightsfuture.com)

References

1. ^ LSE Law School staff page
2. ^ Centre for the Study of Human Rights

External links

• Bio at LSE
• Conor Gearty's homepage

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