Conor Gearty
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Conor A. Gearty KC (Hon), FBA (born November 1957) is the Professor of Human Rights Law[1] at LSE Department of Law. From 2002 to 2009, he was Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights[2] at the London School of Economics. His academic research focuses primarily on civil liberties, terrorism and human rights.
Conor Gearty was born in Ireland and graduated in law from University College Dublin was before moving to Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1980 to study for a master's degree and then for a PhD. He became a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1983. In 1990, he moved to the school of law at King's College London, where he was first a senior lecturer, then a reader and finally (from 1995) a professor.[3]
Gearty is also a practising barrister and a founder member of
Background
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Bibliography
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Books
- On Fantasy Island. Britain, Europe, and Human Rights (2016)
- Liberty and Security (2013)
- Gearty, Conor & Virginia Mantouvalou (2011). Debating social rights. Portland, Oregon: 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
Essays and reporting
- Gearty, Conor (20 June 1986). "Lords welcome in police rules". New Statesman: 12–13.
- "When it can be right to do wrong", The Tablet (11 October 2008)
References
- ^ LSE Law School staff page
- ^ Centre for the Study of Human Rights
- ^ "Conor Gearty profile". conorgearty.co.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ "LSE - London School of Economics". lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ "Conor Gearty". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 April 2017.