Rory O'Connell
Professor of Human Rights & Constitutional Law, Posts on human rights, equality & constitutional law. Posting in personal capacity.
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- Immigration agents across the United States have committed serious human rights violations with impunity. These include extrajudicial killings, mass detentions, and forced deportations. Here’s what you can do to take action: amnesty.ca/urgent-actio...
- Read my full article here: open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
- Let’s make it viral folks. Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social.
- No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Public service email to everyone heading into the UK at the end of this month who isn't a UK or Irish citizen. The ETA requirement for UK entry is coming and isn't receiving enough advanced coverage. Don't get caught in the ensuing chaos: homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/electronic-t...
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- Just watched the new episode of #StarfleetAcademy & it’s the best episode yet in the series. Any Star Trek fan who is a fan of Deep Space Nine is going to be in for some treats.
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- 💡𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡, 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐊! 💡 Information on Ulster University and British Council-funded GREAT opportunities is available at www.ulster.ac.uk/global/apply....
- We invite you to attend a forthcoming online seminar on 16 February 2026 from 1pm – 3pm hosted by our Dr Sarah Craig and Dr Katie Nolan (TU Dublin) on behalf of the Doing Feminist Legal Work Network. For more details, and to register, head to: dflw.ie/event-doing-....
- 💡𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗖 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗜 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 💡 🎉Congratulations to Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick who, along with Dr Alexandra Chapman, has been awarded an EPIC Futures NI Award to undertake a collaborative project with YouthStart Consortium! For more, see: www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2026/ja...
- It was an historic day today as we welcomed Ireland's President, Catherine Connolly, to our Belfast campus. President Connolly met with some of our law students, researchers and staff in our state of the art Moot Court. She said "Clearly this is a special place designed to foster community".
- Alongside CAJ and Migrant Centre NI, I was part of this painstaking work over 3 years for WRDA. Really all of this was kicked off by Luke's reporting and would not have happened at all without it. Proud and delighted to see it come to fruition on Monday.
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- Huge, if true.
- Declaration of incompatibility in terms of s.4 HRA, for incompatibility with Art 6 ECHR @seethingmead.bsky.social @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social
- We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota Devastating Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles Mostly US citizens A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne... 🧵
- Perfection
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ... 1/7 www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- 1/2 Here’s a 1 min trailer for Advanced Issues in Public Law, a 2nd yr module I’m teaching late 2026 at @durham.ac.uk with @aileenmcharg.bsky.social and @rogermasterman.bsky.social. I just used iMovie. No AI. I&S = individual and the state; UK Con = UK constitutional law—both 1st yr modules.
- Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- I keep seeing many Christians post this phrase: "Heaven has gates, hell has open borders. Choose wisely." So here’s my response 🧵
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- I just re-read, for the first time for years, the memoir I wrote for the British Academy for Jerry Cohen, shortly after his sudden, shocking, death in 2009. Here it is a Word file for those who don't have access to the British Academy volume. www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctyjow/CPB...
- It’s always "The Bible must influence our laws!" until it comes to all those verses about welcoming the immigrant, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, bringing healthcare to the sick, forgiving debts, caring for our planet, laying down our swords, and loving all our neighbors.
- I discuss the rupturing of checks and balances with ICE defying court orders in Minnesota and across the country. Orders to release people from detention Orders to present detainee to court Orders not to transfer out of jurisdiction Plus how judges are pushing back, and role for SCOTUS.
- If folk are in London this Friday evening, LSE Law School are holding what is certain to be an emotional event paying tribute to their colleague, the much missed Professor Conor Gearty: share.google/RuVaqGkk7Zd4...
- Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.
- Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.…
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- Every academic book is a conversation with the work of other scholars. Here are some of the works I cited & one I did not and how they influence me. Alison LaCroix's Interbellum Constitution was out before mine. She generously forwarded me her page proofs so I could learn from her book. 1/
- BREAKING: Judge Cobb has barred DHS from preventing members of Congress from visiting immigration detention facilities without notice, saying the administration's policy likely violated the law requiring their unfettered access. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Have been reading Tawney again. Am struck by his acute observation that, in effect, the rare success of those from disadvantaged backgrounds is used to provide bogus justificatory cover for a system fundamentally rigged in favour of the privileged.
- Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)
- More Pooch.
- The 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...
- The EU Commission last week designated WhatsApp as a very large online platform under the Digital Services Act - so therefore subject to more obligations, as enforced by the Commission. This only applies to WhatsApp Channels, ie not private messages - digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
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- The Trump admin’s whole case regarding Haitians in Ohio is racism, xenophobia, and lies. There’s literally nothing else to it. Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community. It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more.
