Conor Gearty

Conor Gearty is a professor of human rights law at the LSE and a barrister at Matrix chambers. Homeland Insecurity, about global anti-terrorism law, will appear in May.

Letter

On the Court

27 January 2022

Jonathan Sumption takes issue with my assessment of the recent record of the United Kingdom Supreme Court, particularly in the field of human rights (Letters, 10 February). Sumption was a judge on that court for some six years, during which time he gave a series of excellent judgments on how best to balance the power of judicial interpretation with the (rightful) demands of parliamentary sovereignty....

This book’s most startling revelation – if true – concerns the state of legal education in Britain today. We are told that from their ‘first days at law school’ our...

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