What you had was the UN saying' Get out there and do counter-terrorism and we'll let you decide what terror is.' And that was just a gift horse for authoritarian regimes.

Conor Gearty

Conor A. Gearty (born November 1957) is the Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE Department of Law. From 2002-09, he was Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. His academic research focuses primarily on civil liberties, terrorism and human rights. Conor Gearty was born in Ireland and graduated in law from University College Dublin before moving to Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1980 to study for a master's degree and then for a PhD He became a fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge in 1983. In 1990, he moved to the school of law at King’s College London, where he was first a senior lecturer, then a reader and finally (from 1995) a professor.Gearty is also a practising barrister with Matrix Chambers. He has also been a visiting professor at Boston University, the University of Richmond and the University of New South Wales. He received honorary degrees from Brunel University and Roehampton University.

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