Professor Rory O’Connell
Co-Investigator, Transformation and Empowerment
Ulster University
Rory is Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law and Research Director (Law) at Ulster University, Northern Ireland. From 2014-2020 he was the Director of the Transitional Justice Institute. He is a member of the Transformation and Empowerment stream, and sits on the Executive of the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ). His latest book is Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights (forthcoming Cambridge 2020). He was a member of the ESRC funded BrexitLawNI project on the constitutional, legal and human rights implications of Brexit for Northern Ireland.
Areas of interest
Economic and social rights; equality law; political participationPublications
- Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights (Cambridge UP 2020)
- Applying an International Human Rights Framework to State Budget Allocations: Rights and Resources (Routledge 2014)
- Human Rights and Public Finance (Hart 2013)
- “Cinderella comes to the Ball: Article 14 and the right to non-discrimination in the ECHR” 29 Legal Studies (2009): 211-229
- Human rights and fiscal oversight: A case study of the Northern Ireland 2011–15 budget’ (2017) 65 (3) Administration 83