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2018 WG Hart Legal Workshop Academic Directors

Ms Merris Amos (Queen Mary, University of London)

Merris Amos is a Professor of Human Rights Law in the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London. She has previously held posts at the University of Westminster, the University of Essex and the Australian Human Rights Commission. From 2006 until 2013 she was the General Editor of the Human Rights Law Reports UK Cases. Her teaching and research concern the protection of human rights at the national level, in particular the Human Rights Act 1998, and the relationship between national institutions and the European Court of Human Rights. She has published widely on these subjects and her book Human Rights Law (Oxford: Hart, 2014) is an important reference point for students, scholars and legal practitioners. Her most recent work concerns the value of the European Court of Human Rights to the United Kingdom and is published in the European Journal of International Law Vol. 28 No.3. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Constitutional Law Association, the Founder and Editor of The Human Rights Essay, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. With Roger Masterman and Hélène Tyrrell she is currently organising the Hart Workshop 2018 Building a 21^st Century Bill of Rights.

Email: Merris Amos

Professor Roger Masterman (Durham University) 

Roger Masterman joined Durham Law School in 2002 as Senior Research Associate, and until 2005 worked on the AHRC-funded project, ‘Judicial Reasoning and the Human Rights Act 1998.’ He was appointed Lecturer in Law in 2005, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2008, to Reader in 2011 and to Professor in 2013. He served as Head of Durham Law School between 2013 and 2016. Roger is a graduate of King’s College London (LLB and AKC (1998), LLM (Public Law) (1999)), and has worked previously at the Constitution Unit, University College London. His teaching and research interests lie in constitutional law and reform, particularly in the Human Rights Act 1998 and in the relevance of the separation of powers doctrine to the United Kingdom’s constitution. He has a particular interest in the relationship between the European Court of Human Rights and domestic courts, and is well-known for his work on the mechanics and application of s.2(1) of the Human Rights Act.

Email: Professor Roger Masterman

Dr Hélène Tyrrell (Newcastle University)

Hélène joined Newcastle Law School in June 2016. Prior to her appointment, Hélène worked at Queen Mary University of London but began her legal education in the North East by studying for her LLB and Master of Jurisprudence degrees at the University of Durham. Hélène completed her PhD at Queen Mary in 2014 (‘The Use of Foreign Jurisprudence in Human Rights Cases before the UK Supreme Court’) which will be published as a book in 2018. In previous years, Hélène worked in the Essex Human Rights Centre as a Senior Research Officer on a Nuffield Foundation funded project and as a Parliamentary Researcher in the House of Commons. She has taught at the University of Durham, Queen Mary University of London and at the Catholic University of Lille, in Paris. Her teaching areas cover constitutional law, administrative law, human rights, and tort law. At Newcastle she teaches Public Law, Legal Institutions & Methods, and the Wider Academic Skills Programme. Her research focuses on human rights and judicial reasoning.

Email: Dr Helene Tyrrell

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Ms Belinda Crothers (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

Belinda Crothers is the Academic Programmes Manager at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London.

Email: Ms Belinda.Crothers