Articles and transcripts

2008

'Rights and Responsibilities: an international perspective', paper presented at Chatham House, responding to Justice Kate O'Regan, 25 June 2008.

Francesca Klug

EHRC Open to Question panel debate on Religion, Belief and the Rule of Law, with David Cameron and Trevor Phillips, RSA, 26 February 2008

Francesca Klug

'Bridging the divide' (on local action following the death of migrant men in the Bay of Cadiz) The Tablet, 19 January 2008

Tom Gaisford (MSc Human Rights student)

'Rio Tinto's tainted track record' (Aliran Monthly) 2007, vol. 27. No.10

Josef Roy Benedict (MSc Human Rights student)

2007

The Great Lakes Process: new opportunities for protection (Forced Migration Review, December 2007)

Jesse Bernstein (MSc Human Rights student)

Iraq and the Law: what went wrong? (lecture at LSE on 14 November 2007)

Rabinder Singh QC

Dilemmas of Terror (Prospect Magazine October 2007) link to Prospect Magazine

Professor Conor Gearty

International Economic Governance and Human Rights Accountability (LSE Law Department's Law, Society and Economy  Working Paper Series September 2007)

Dr Margot E. Salomon

Animal Rights and Animal Experiments: an interest-based approach (Res Publica, 2007)

Dr Alasdair Cochrane

The Future: a constitutional settlement for modern Britain? (presented at a Smith Institute/Hansard Society seminar on 11 July 2007)

Professor Francesca Klug

The Blair Report (article on freedom of expression over the past 10 years, published in Index on Censorship 2, 2007)

Professor Conor Gearty

Freedom of Expression must include the license to offend (article published in 'Religion and Human Rights: An International Journal', Volume 1, Issue 3, 2007)

Professor Francesca Klug

A Bill of Rights: what for? (PDF), (essay published in ‘Towards a New Constitutional Settlement’, The Smith Institute, 2007)

Professor Francesca Klug

Do war crime trials do more harm than good? (lecture at LSE on 3 May 2007)

Professor Richard Goldstone, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri

Why Human Rights? (PDF) (article in the May-June 2007 issue of Catalyst)

Professor Francesca Klug

A Bill of Rights: Do We Need One or Do we Already Have One? (PDF), Irvine Human Rights Lecture 2007, University of Durham, 2 March 2007

Professor Francesca Klug

2006

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Arresting New Labour: Lord Levy and the police (PDF) (article for The Tablet, July 2006)

Professor Conor Gearty

Enshrine these rights (comment in the Guardian, 27 June 2006)

Professor Francesca Klug

Start the week (human rights and free expression), BBC Radio 4, 5 June 2006

Professor Francesca Klug

Joint letter to Lord Falconer, concerning the Human Rights Act (PDF), 31 May 2006

Professor Francesca Klug

Human Rights, Human Security: Protecting Rights in the National Interest (PDF) (Australian Human Rights Centre Annual Public Lecture, 16 May 2006)

Professor Conor Gearty

Report on sensory deprivation installation at the Centre (2-11 May 2006)

Catherine Meredith

Unreliable evidence (the current state of human rights), BBC Radio 4, 2 May 2006

Professor Francesca Klug

Parliament: a danger to freedom (letter in the Observer, 9 April 2006)

Professor Francesca Klug

Language of fear is difficult to beat (PDF) (interview in the Socialist Lawyer, April 2006)

Professor Conor Gearty

Two Sides of the Coin: Human Rights Pragmatism and Idolatry (PDF), (Keynote Address: Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Rights, 24 March 2006)

Professor David Kennedy, Harvard Law School

The view from the disciplines (PDF) (contribution to panel discussion: Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Rights, 24 March 2006)

Professor Lydia Morris, University of Essex

Crossing the Boundaries: the place of human rights in contemporary scholarship: abstracts and texts from afternoon panel sessions (24 March 2006)

Various contributors

Human Rights and Equality: the human rights vision of equality (PDF) (as originally published in Runnymede's Quarterly Bulletin (March 2006, pp. 12-14) and reproduced here with permission)

Helen Wildbore

Refusing to serve in Iraq: the human rights dimension (PDF) (article for The Tablet, March 2006)

Professor Conor Gearty

The human rights of persons with disabilities: extending freedom to all (roundtable at LSE on 9 March 2006)

Anna Lawson, Professor Helen Meenan, Dr Nick O'Brien

Human rights in an age of counter-terrorism (PDF) (lecture delivered as part of the 2006 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, which took as their topic the 'War on Terror'), 23 February 2006

Professor Conor Gearty

Thoughts on the cartoon controversy, (article for The Tablet, February 2006)

Professor Conor Gearty

Enlightened values (article for the Guardian, 18 February 2006)

Professor Francesca Klug

Protecting human rights in an age of uncertainty (lecture at LSE on 16 February 2006)

Louise Arbour

Trying Saddam and other dictators: the limits of the law (seminar at LSE on 2 February 2006)

Kirsten Sellars

Why the human rights and environmental movements should be allies not adversaries (roundtable discussion at LSE on 19 January 2006)

Michael Meacher MP, David Wolfe, Professor Conor Gearty

The Changing Basis of Human Rights Law (PDF). Paper delivered at a seminar of the Thomas More Institute, London, in its series ‘Conscience, Values and Belief in Public Life’ (11 January 2006)

Professor Conor Gearty

2005

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Human rights balloon debate: who is the greatest of the 20th century?, 8 December 2005

Various

British Institute of Human Rights Brief' (PDF). Report on Values into Action conference, in the British Institute of Human Rights newsletter 'BIHR Brief' (PDF) December 2005

Helen Wildbore

Human rights and non-judicial remedies - The European Ombudsman's perspective, lecture at LSE on 30 November 2005

Nikiforos Diamandouros

It's 1867 all over again (comment in the Guardian, 29 November 2005)

Professor Conor Gearty

Submission to the UN High-Level Task Force on the Right to Development (PDF): MDG 8 and Human Rights  (Geneva, 14-18 November 2005)

Dr Margot E Salomon

Joint submission to the Equalities Review call for evidence (PDF)

Professor Francesca Klug, Helen Wildbore and the British Institute of Human Rights

To work its moral magic, human rights need certainty (article for the Independent, 15 November 2005)

Professor Conor Gearty

11 September 2001, Counter-terrorism, and the Human Rights Act (PDF) Journal of Law and Society Volume 32, Number 1, March 2005

Professor Conor Gearty

Can Human Rights Survive? The crisis of authority (Hamlyn lecture at LSE)

Professor Conor Gearty

The role of civil society in the national security state: the proper role of the legal profession (PDF) (report on ESRC-sponsored seminar at the Centre, 1 March 2005)

Various

Doing the rights thing, Law Gazette (20 October 2005)

Professor Francesca Klug (quoted)

Is this the death of freedom? (article for the Observer, 2 October 2005)

Professor Francesca Klug

Keynote speech at 'Time to Act for the human rights of people with learning difficulties' (PDF), Values Into Action annual conference 2005, 7 October 2005

Professor Francesca Klug

Celebrating 5 Years of Human Rights across the UK (PDF) (address at the Human Rights Lawyers Association, 30 September 2005)

Professor Francesca Klug

‘Children’s rights’ (PDF), speech at Liberty fringe event at Labour Party Conference, 27 September 2005

Professor Francesca Klug

Towards a just institutional order: a commentary on the first session of the UN task force on the right to development (PDF) (the NQHR can be ordered from Intersentia)

Dr Margot E Salomon

Reflections on the attacks in London on 7 July 2005 (PDF) (article for The Tablet, July 2005)

Professor Conor Gearty

The role of civil society in the national security state: the role of the media (PDF) (report on ESRC-sponsored seminar at the Centre, 5 July 2005)

Various

Protecting Political Speech at a Time of Perpetual War (PDF), Austin Lecture, the Association of Legal and Social Philosophy, 24 June 2005

Professor Conor Gearty

Equality, Dignity and Discrimination under Human Rights Law; selected cases (PDF) (an unpublished paper produced at the request of the DCA for the Steering Group for the Commission for Equality and Human Rights) 23 June 2005

Professor Francesca Klug and Helen Wildbore

Torture: the ultimate abuse of human rights?, panel discussion at LSE on 11 May 2005

Alain Aeschlimann, Victoria Brittain, Professor Chris Brown, Sir Nigel Rodley

Britain in 2005 – is there any access to justice for asylum seekers and migrants? (Report released at Centre-hosted seminar), April 2005

Bail for Immigration Detainees and Asylum Aid

Save the act - you might need it soon (article for the Guardian, 23 March 2005)

Professor Francesca Klug

Human Rights and Victims (PDF) (article in 'Reconcilable Rights? Analysing the tension between victims and defendants', Edited by Ed Cape, LAG, 2004)

Professor Francesca Klug

Short cuts: intercept evidence and terrorism trials (article for the London Review of Books)

Professor Conor Gearty

Human rights under attack, 24 February 2005

David Lammy MP

Internment and house arrest: recent developments (PDF) (article for The Tablet, February 2005)

Professor Conor Gearty

The British Institute of Human Rights Brief Interview with Francesca Klug (PDF), the 'BIHR Brief' (PDF), January 2005

Professor Francesca Klug

Reducing poverty: how human rights can help, 20 January 2005

Pierre Sané

2004

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'Fairness for all?' An analysis of human rights powers in the White Paper on the proposed Commission for Equality and Human Rights (PDF), Public Law, December 2004

Professor Francesca Klug

Understanding equality: the need for discrimination (PDF) (lecture at the Discrimination Law Association, 13 December 2004)

Professor Conor Gearty

Rights behind bars: the conditions and treatment of those in detention, 9 December 2004

Anne Owers

Establishment of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights: implications for the public sector (PDF), speech at Westminster Explained 36: An assessment of the impact of the HRA, 7 December 2004

Professor Francesca Klug

Human Rights, America's lost ideal (PDF) (article for The Tablet, November 2004)

Professor Conor Gearty

Doing justice to the dead: reparation and reparations for slavery, 25 November 2004

Lincoln Crawford, David Ould, Dr John Torpey

The African Union, NEPAD, and Human Rights: the missing agenda (PDF)

Bronwen Manby

Is the idea of human rights now doing more harm than good? October 2004

Professor Conor Gearty

International Law in 2005 (PDF) (article for The Tablet, September 2004)

Professor Conor Gearty

The Holism of Human Rights: linking religion, ethics and public life (PDF) (lecture at Heythrop College, September 2004

Professor Conor Gearty

Getting terrorism in proportion is the way to defeat it: reflections on terrorism on the
third anniversary of the attacks of 11 September 2001 (PDF) (article for The Tablet, September 2004)

Professor Conor Gearty

The politics of abortion (PDF) (article for The Tablet, August 2004)

Professor Conor Gearty

Evidence to Joint Committee on Human Rights third inquiry on Commission for Equality and Human Rights (PDF), August 2004

Professor Francesca Klug and Claire O'Brien

A blow for freedom (article for the Guardian, 6 July 2004)

Professor Conor Gearty

Human Rights for Women: liberation or mere rhetoric

Helena Kennedy QC

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Occupied Iraq: current problems and future prospects

Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Christopher Greenwood, Professor Françoise Hampson and Professor Philippe Sands

Answering for torture (PDF) (article for The Tablet, 15 May 2004)

Professor Conor Gearty

Human Rights: above politics or a creature of politics (PDF) (Policy and Politics Annual Lecture,11 March 2004)

Professor Francesca Klug

White Paper: Fairness for All : A New Commission for Equality and Human Rights (PDF) (download the paper)

Comment from Professor Francesca Klug

Evidence to Joint Committee on Human Rights second inquiry on Commission for Equality and Human Rights (PDF), May 2004

Professor Francesca Klug and Claire O'Brien

Secrets must be defended in open Danger in Politics of the Last Atrocity, (article for the Observer, 29 February 2004)

Professor Conor Gearty

Hutton missed the mark, (article for the Guardian, 24 February 2004)

Professor Conor Gearty

Freedom in Blair's Britain, 17 February 2004

Shami Chakrabarti

'A misreading of the Law', 19 February 2004 London Review of Books (26, no 4 (2004), pp. 3-7)

Professor Conor Gearty

Human Rights, Civil Liberties And Democracy: ideas in conflict or in partnership?, 27 January 2004

Professor Conor Gearty; Professor Francesca Klug; Andrew Puddephatt

2003

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International Human Rights day lecture, 10 December 2003

Irene Khan

Human Rights - the need to stand strong (PDF), Winter 2003, LSE Magazine

Professor Conor Gearty

Equality the Neglected Virtue (PDF), 26 November 2003 (lecture hosted by the LSE Law Department)

Rabinder Singh QC

That the Cause of Human Rights is Best Served by a Commitment to Democracy and International Law, 17 November 2003

Professor Conor Gearty

Humans Without Rights: asylum seekers in the 21st century

Zrinka Bralo, Professor Stephen Castles, Dr Liza Schuster, Dr Satvinder Juss

Free speech, human rights and western values, 28 October 2003

Dr Matthew Engelke, Ursula Owen, Andrew Puddephatt

Reclaiming Our Tradition: Rights, Diversity and Catholic Social Teaching (PDF), 18 October 2003

Professor Conor Gearty

The European Convention Fifty Years On, 16 October 2003

Professor Brian Simpson

Human Rights and Civil Liberties, The Commission, BBC Radio 4, 17 September 2003

Francesca Klug

The weakness of Al Qaeda Dawn, (article for the Observer, 28 July 2003)

Professor Conor Gearty

Judicial deference under the Human Rights Act 1998 (PDF) (article for the European Human Rights Law Review, March 2003)

Professor Francesca Klug

Reflections on Civil Liberties in an age of counter-terrorism (PDF)

Professor Conor Gearty

Enforcement of Economic and Social Rights, 27 February 2003

Justice Albie Sachs

How did Blair get here? (article for the London Review of Books, 20 February 2003)

Professor Conor Gearty

Human rights and security – The Two Towers? (PDF), 11 February 2003

Dr Gerd Oberleitner

Terrorism, Morality and Human Rights, 20 January 2003 (lecture hosted by the Centre for the Study of Human Rights)

Professor Conor Gearty and Rabinder Singh QC

2002

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The United Kingdom Experience (PDF) (Comparative Perspectives on Bills of Rights, National Museum of Australia, 18 December 2002)

Francesca Klug

Human rights in an age of globalisation: the challenge of growing up (PDF), 10 December 2002

Professor Conor Gearty

Cry Freedom The Guardian, 3 December 2002

Professor Conor Gearty

Parliament and the Human Rights Act: two years on

Jean Corston, Professor David Feldman, Francesca Klug

War and Peace, Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4, 30 October 2002

Professor Conor Gearty

From Rhetoric to Reality: making human rights work, 23 October 2002

Mary Robinson

How we declare war (article for the London Review of Books, 2 October 2002

Professor Conor Gearty

A law fit for a prince (article for the Guardian, 3 October 2002)

Francesca Klug

The Law of War in an Age of Terror, 16 May 2002 (lecture hosted by the Centre for the Study of Human Rights)

Panel of speakers

Sex Equality, Entitlements, and the Capabilities Approach, March 2002

Professor Martha Nussbaum

2001

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Asylum and Refugee Rights: 50 years on (Word), June 2001

Rachael Reilly

Human Rights: Cause of, or cure for, the 'moral crisis' in liberal democracies? (PDF), May 2001

Francesca Klug

Preventing deadly conflict: The role and responsibility of governments and NGOs (PDF), February 2001

Hon Gareth Evans AO QC

2000

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International criminal justice: Is it really so needed in the present world community? (Word), November 2000

Antonio Cassese

1999

Human rights, the prevention of conflict and the international protection of minorities: a contemporary paradigm for contemporary challenges (PDF), October 1999

Max van der Stoel