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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 Matrix Chambers. He has also been a visiting professor at Boston University, the University of Richmond and the University of New South Wales. He received honorary degrees from Brunel University and Roehampton University.[4]
^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 A. Gearty KC (Hon), FBA (born November 1957) is the Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE Department of Law. From 2002 to 2009, he was Director of...
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Ross Cranston, Paul Davies, A. V. Dicey, Neil Duxbury, Judith Freedman, ConorGearty, Laurence Gower, Christopher Greenwood, Rosalyn Higgins, Lady Higgins...
Independent. Retrieved 30 January 2021. Gearty, Conor. "The Case of Dinah Rose, Magdalen and the Bar". ConorGearty. Retrieved 14 March 2022. Rozenberg,...
editorial board for the Index on Censorship, where human rights advocate ConorGearty said Ignatieff fell into a category of "hand-wringing, apologetic apologists...
of Human Rights (CUP, 2014), with ConorGearty Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law (CUP, 2013), with ConorGearty Philosophy and Resistance in the...
Rights Seriously (Harvard University Press, 2005, originally 1977). ConorGearty, Principles of Human Rights Adjudication (Oxford University Press, 2005)...
had all been headhunted." Members include: Lord Brennan KC, Professor ConorGearty, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven KC, Clare Montgomery KC, Tim Owen KC...
Convention." The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law, edited by ConorGearty and Costas Douzinas, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012, pp...
Irish Times twice, as well as the Irish Mace, both times with auditor ConorGearty.[citation needed] During the 1980s and 1990s, the society won the Irish...
Skeptical Essays on Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2002) (with ConorGearty) The Struggle for Civil Liberties (Oxford University Press 2000) Money...
Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave, the Supreme Court Justice Anthony J. Hederman, ConorGearty and Oisín Quinn. The college debaters participate in many competitions...
August 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2004. Singh QC, Rabinder; Professor ConorGearty (22 September 2004). "IN THE MATTER OF AN IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRIME MINISTER"...
time, which will eventually lead to the demise of resources. Professor ConorGearty, of the London School of Economics, has suggested that global freedom...
Human Rights Survive? Archived 8 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine, ConorGearty, p.99 The Making of Ireland: A History, James Lydon, p. 308 Whelehan...
Counsel at Doughty Street Chambers, Caoilfhionn Gallagher, professors ConorGearty, Kieran Healy and Charles Lysaght, and Circuit Court judges Esmond Smyth...
Stephen Sedley (2015) Professor Christopher McCrudden (2013) Professor ConorGearty (2009). The Ruth Adler prize is awarded annually to the best student...
Dublin Law Society Donal O'Donnell & ConorGearty 1978 University College Dublin Law Society Donal O'Donnell & ConorGearty 1977 No tournament 1976 Inner Temple...
Hepple Rights at Work: Global, European and British Perspectives 2005 ConorGearty Can Human Rights Survive? 2006 Sir Francis Jacobs The Sovereignty of...
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"a reinvention of the dominant role of the trans-Atlantic alliance." ConorGearty found behind its "beguiling cosmopolitanism" traces of American exceptionalism:...
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