Conor Gearty is Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Bencher of the ancient Inn of Court of the Middle Temple, and a founding member of Matrix Chambers. His research focuses on civil liberties, terrorism and human rights. He is the author of a number of books including Freedom Under Thatcher, Terror, Principles of Human Rights Adjudication and Can Human Rights Survive? He also writes a regular column for The Tablet and has also written for The London Review of Books, Prospect, and Renewal.