Conor Gearty

Conor Gearty teaches human rights law at the LSE. His latest book, a serialised set of web-based essays on human rights, can be found at www.therightsfuture.com. Liberty and Security will be published by Polity in February 2013.

In the LRB Archive:

• Short Cuts: Counterterrorism · 8 September 2011

• On the Coalition · 10 June 2010

• Terms of Art: Human Rights Law · 11 March 2010

  • The Law of Human Rights by Richard Clayton and Hugh Tomlinson
  • Human Rights Law and Practice edited by Anthony Lester, David Pannick and Javan Herberg
  • Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom by Jack Beatson, Stephen Grosz, Tom Hickman, Rabinder Singh and Stephanie Palmer

• Responses to the War in Gaza · 29 January 2009

• Short Cuts: intercept evidence and terrorism trials · 17 March 2005

• A Misreading of the Law: Why didn’t Campbell sue? · 19 February 2004

  • Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr David Kelly CMG by Lord Hutton

• How did Blair get here?: The folly of the impending war · 20 February 2003

• How we declare war: Blair, the Law and the War · 3 October 2002

• Airy-Fairy: Blunkett’s Folly · 29 November 2001

  • Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention by A.W.B. Simpson

• An Escalation of Reasonableness: Northern Ireland · 6 September 2001

  • To Raise up a New Northern Ireland: Articles and Speeches 1998-2000 by David Trimble

• What are judges for?: judges · 25 January 2001

• Finding an Enemy: Sixty Years of Anti-Terrorist Legislation · 15 April 1999

  • Legislation against Terrorism: A Consultation Paper. CM 4178.

• Here come the judges: The constitution · 4 June 1998

  • This Time: Our Constitutional Revolution by Anthony Barnett
  • The Voice of the People: A Constitution for Tomorrow by Robert Alexander
  • The Making and Remaking of the British Constitution by Lord Nolan and Stephen Sedley

• Diary · 28 November 1996

• Diary · 31 October 1996

• Our Flexible Friends · 18 April 1996

  • Scott Inquiry Report by Richard Scott

• After Gibraltar · 16 November 1995

• The Party in Government · 9 March 1995

• Diary · 24 November 1994

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