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Professor Francesca Klug
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Professorial Research Fellow
Director, Human Rights Futures project
phone: 020 7955 6429
email: f.m.klug@lse.ac.uk
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short biography
Professor Francesca Klug OBE is a Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE, based
at LSE Global Governance, and a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. She is the Director of the Human Rights Futures project which seeks to explore and analyse the future direction of human rights discourse in the UK and elsewhere. Francesca is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the LSE’s Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
Francesca was previously a Senior Research Fellow at King’s College Law School where she worked on developing the model for incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law reflected in the Human Rights Act. She was a member of the Government’s Task Force responsible for overseeing implementation of the HRA.
Francesca has acted as a specialist adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights carrying out a review of their working practices. Her report for the Committee has been published and is available on their website. Francesca was a member of the small Bill of Rights and Responsibilities Reference Group at the Ministry of Justice. She is a trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information and is an Academic Expert at Doughty Street Chambers.
From 2006-09 Francesca was a Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the statutory body that acts as a central point of advice, guidance and enforcement on equality and human rights issues. Francesca was formerly a member of the EHRC Steering Group and the EHRC Task Force. Francesca worked as an independent academic advisor to ministers and officials on the Equality Act 2006, which established the EHRC.
research interests
Francesca's research interests include human rights discourse, evaluating the impact of the Human Rights Act on the domestic courts, Parliament and public bodies, comparative bills of rights and models for domestic human rights promotion and enforcement and the link between human rights and equality.
‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: sixty years on’, Public Law, Spring 2009
'Solidity or Wind?' What's on the Menu in the Bill
of Rights Debate?, (2009) 80(3) The Political
Quarterly 420-426
'Human rights and speaking out', chapter published in the book A Time to Speak Out (Verso, 2008)
‘A Bill of Rights: Do we need one or do we already have one?’, Public Law, Winter 2007
‘A Bill of Rights – what for?’ in Towards a new constitutional settlement, The Smith Institute, 2007
‘Human rights: above politics or a creature of politics?’, Policy and Politics Annual Lecture, published in Policy and Politics, 32(4), October 2004.
‘The role of the victim in domestic and international human rights law’, in Reconciling Rights, Legal Action Group, 2004
‘Human Rights: A common standard for all peoples?’ in Reclaiming Britishness, Foreign Policy Centre, 2002
Values for a Godless Age, the story of the UK’s new bill of rights, Penguin, 2000
The Three Pillars of Liberty, political rights and freedoms in the UK (with Keir Starmer & Stuart Weir) Routledge, 1996.
Francesca writes regularly for legal and political journals and the national press and is a frequent broadcaster. Further publications and transcripts can be accessed from the Centre for the Study of Human Rights website
where Francesca is a Senior Research Associate.
'Human rights ... for some',
third post in a
series for Comment Is Free called 'Blogging the
bill of rights'. Francesca will write fortnightly
columns about the political debates on the future of
the Human Rights Act and a bill of rights.
'Human rights don't belong to political parties',
second post in a
series for Comment Is Free called 'Blogging the
bill of rights'. Francesca will write fortnightly
columns about the political debates on the future of
the Human Rights Act and a bill of rights.
'Bill of rights: what’s in a name?', first post in a
new series for Comment Is Free called 'Blogging the
bill of rights'. Francesca will write fortnightly
columns about the political debates on the future of
the Human Rights Act and a bill of rights.
'Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in the UK',
paper delivered at University of Westminster Law
School on International Human Rights Day, 10 December, 2009.
'Wrong-headed calls for a 'bill of rights'', article published on The Guardian's Comment Is Free,
7 October 2009.
Letter to The Guardian on the Conservatives
and the Human Rights Act, 6 October 2009.
'Human rights: can we still afford them?' by Francesca Klug. Delivered at the International Human Rights Funders Group conference, New York, July 2009.
'Protecting rights: how do we stop rights and freedoms being a political football?' by Francesca Klug and Helen Wildbore, published by Unlock Democracy, March 2009
'The rights of the Human Rights Act', article published on The Guardian's Comment Is Free, 25 March 2009.
'Protecting rights: How do we stop rights and freedoms being a political football?', speech delivered at the Convention on Modern Liberty, 28 February 2009.
“Solidity or Wind?” What’s on the menu in the bill
of rights debate?, published on Open Democracy
'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Sixty years on', Lecture delivered at Chatham House, 8 December 2008.
'Civil liberties have yet to alleviate the world's misery', article published in The Guardian, 8 December 2008, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
'Rights and Responsibilities: an international perspective', Francesca Klug, paper presented at Chatham House, responding to Justice Kate O'Regan, 25 June 2008
Francesca Klug speech at EHRC Open to Question panel debate on Religion, Belief and the Rule of Law, with David Cameron and Trevor Phillips, RSA, 26 February 2008.
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