Rory O'Connell
Professor of Human Rights & Constitutional Law, Posts on human rights, equality & constitutional law. Posting in personal capacity.
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- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellThe International Journal of Law in Context is looking for a co-editor-in-chief. Terrific opportunity for socio-legal scholars out there: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellRead SCHILTZ’s full order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Rory O'Connell📢 The latest figures from #UKPoverty2026 reveal a picture of poverty hardening, not easing. The average person in poverty in 2021-24 was 29% below the poverty line. This is up from 23% in 1994-97. As people fall further into poverty, the impact on their lives worsens.
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellShootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good are two of at least nine deaths related to immigration enforcement in US.
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellThe hallowed legal principle of FAFO.
- 👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellPoverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellAbout 6.8 million people – half of all those in poverty – were in very deep poverty, the highest number and proportion since records began three decades ago - @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellMany friends asking what it is like in Minnesota right now. This video-clip tells. Masked men w/ guns in ordinary places (gas stations, grocery stores, cruising streets) intimidating ordinary people & instilling fear. As a terrorism expert, I think about the logic of government instilling fear.
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- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellReminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
- NEW The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellNEW An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found: In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.” 🧵
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellNEW Death in Minnesota The significance of the reaction to the killing of Renee Nicole Good By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellA gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellThe future of the film industry is being made in Belfast - the single most impressive place I visited anywhere in 2025….https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/12/27/belfasts-field-of-dreams-by-the-lagan/
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- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellNew post that I hope anyone who cares about human rights/the rule of law reads. If the UK Govt can use a 30 year old threat of terrorism to conceal the release of *outline* information about its agents' connection to murder, it really can act with impunity: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellIt is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/
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- UN experts alarmed by United States escalating pressure on Venezuela www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellThe US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
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- Wonderful to welcome back Dr Nisan Alıcı, for the launch of her new book “Transitional Justice and the Kurdish Conflict: A Grassroots Approach" Join us for this event hosted by Incore and the Transitional Justice Institute on 12 Dec, 14.00 Belfast. RSVP www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-tra...
- Honoured to welcome Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC to speak on 'Lawyers in the Firing Line: Attacking the Advocates' on 8 Dec at 18.30 in the Belfast campus Ulster University, hosted by the John and Pat Hume Foundation and INCORE, Ulster University. RSVP at www.tickettailor.com/events/humef...
- Join Int'l Human Rights Desk and Transitional Justice Institute on 8 Dec at 15.30 in the Belfast campus of Ulster University for Human Rights Across Contexts and Shared Understandings, Pakistan, Northern Ireland and Beyond. RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/human-righ... @ulsterunischlaw.bsky.social
- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellA former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged. A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death. And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
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- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellNEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellWe covered plenty of ground here. (I also enjoyed venting a little about some of the more bad faith/badly reasoned criticisms of the Strasbourg case-law.)
- Last week Robert Spano, Jens Elo Peters Rytter, @colmocinneide.bsky.social, @alicedonald.bsky.social and @profveronika.bsky.social discussed the future of the European Convention on Human Rights, including what Denmark has done. Watch a recording of the event at @laws.ucl.ac.uk 👇
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- Reposted by Rory O'ConnellQuick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
