Is the Human Rights Era coming to a close?
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Room 2.05 Sandra Burslem Building
Manchester Law School All Saints, Oxford Road Manchester M15 6BH United KingdomDescription
Conor A. Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE and founder member of Matrix Chambers – from where he continues to practice - will be giving a Guest Lecture entitled “Is the Human Rights Era coming to a close?” This is an unmissable opportunity to hear one of the UK’s foremost human rights law thinkers and practitioners.
Professor Gearty has published widely on terrorism, civil liberties and human rights; and is also a barrister. 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 also appeared in human rights cases in the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal and the High Court.
Conor is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2012 he became Director of LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs and in this capacity was responsible for a crowd-sourced UK Constitution, drafted in 2015 and available at https://constitutionuk.com. His latest book On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe and Human Rights was published by OUP in September 2016: see www.onfantasyisland.co.uk for video and written extracts from it.
Enquiries to Dr Annapurna Waughray a.waughray@mmu.ac.uk or Katherine Roycroft k.roycroft@mmu.ac.uk
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