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Prof Colm O'Cinneide
Professor of Human Rights Law
Faculty of Laws
UCL SLASH
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2001
Research summary
Current research interests include equality and anti-discrimination law, comparative constitutional law, and human rights law.
Teaching summary
Undergraduate:
Public Law
Civil Liberties and Human Rights
Tort
Discrimination Law
Graduate:
Education
- University of Edinburgh
- Other higher degree, Master of Laws | 1998
- University College Cork
- Other higher degree, Master of Laws | 1995
- University College Cork
- First Degree, Bachelor of Civil Law | 1994
Biography
Colm O’Cinneide is Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at University College London (UCL). A graduate of University College Cork, he has published extensively in the field of comparative constitutional, human rights and anti-discrimination law. He has also acted as specialist legal adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Women & Equalities Committee of the UK Parliament, and advised a range of international organisations including the UN, ILO and the European Commission. He also was from 2006-16 a member of the European Committee on Social Rights of the Council of Europe (serving as Vice-President of the Committee from 2010-4), and since 2008 has been a member of the academic advisory board of Blackstone Chambers in London.