Conor Gearty

Conor Gearty is the professor at the <a href=http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/humanRights/>Centre for the Study of Human Rights</a> at the London School of Economics. Among his books are <a href="http

Israel, Gaza and international law

The Israeli attack on the Gaza strip in has exposed the relative impotence of international law in the face of determined sovereign action. On 8 January 2009, the United Nations

By Conor Gearty

/ 21 Jan 2009

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the next sixty years

There is much natural jubilation over the fact that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is celebrating its sixtieth birthday in 10 December 2008. At one level, it is

By Conor Gearty

/ 10 Dec 2008