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| Professor Conor Gearty Professor of human rights law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Conor Gearty was born in Ireland and graduated in law from University College Dublin 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 and 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. On 1 October 2002, he took up a new appointment as Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at LSE. Conor Gearty has published widely on terrorism, civil liberties and human rights. His books include Terror (Faber, 1990) and two books with K D Ewing, Freedom under Thatcher (1989) and The Struggle for Civil Liberties (2000). One of his more recent books, Principles of Human Rights Adjudication, is a study of the place of the Human Rights Act in Britain’s constitutional order. It locates the measure in its political and historical context and analyses the case law from the perspective not only of principle but also of practical experience. His Hamlyn lectures in 2005, Can Human Rights Survive?, have been published by Cambridge University Press. His latest book, ‘Civil Liberties’ was published by Oxford University Press in September 2007. Conor Gearty is also a barrister and was a founder member of Matrix chambers from where he continues to practice. He has been a frequent adviser to judges, practitioners and public authorities on the implications of the UK Human Rights Act, and has frequently lectured at home and abroad on the topic of human rights. He has appeared in human rights cases in the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal and the High Court. Website: www.conorgearty.co.uk ^ Back to top
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