Conor A. Gearty is the Rausling Professor of Human Rights Law[1] and Director, Centre for the Study of Human Rights[2] at the London School of Economics.
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Originally from Abbeylara, County Longford, in Ireland he was educated at Castleknock College before going to University College Dublin as an undergraduate and Cambridge University as a post-graduate. He had significant debating success in University, twice winning the Irish Times debating competition and serving as Auditor of the University College Dublin Law Society. He worked at King's College London from 1991 to 2003 before joining the LSE. Gearty is also a practising barrister with Matrix Chambers.
Gearty's work has moved from tort law to a focus on civil liberties and human rights. In 2008 he launched the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford with a major lecture on human rights in a post-socialist age. Conor Gearty is distantly related to Kitty Kiernan who was played by Julia Roberts in the film, 'Michael Collins'.