UK Human Rights Law People
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@shoaibmkhan.bsky.social
@bernardryan.bsky.social
Professor of migration law, based in Leicester. For social equality, multiculturalism and anti-colonialism. Now more than ever.
@gus-silverman.bsky.social
Civil liberties solicitor. Heads the Bristol Actions Against Public Authorities team at @dpg_law. Views my own. https://dpglaw.co.uk/lawyers/gus-silverman/
@tomroyston.bsky.social
Social security law and its neighbours. Barrister at Garden Court North Chambers https://gcnchambers.co.uk/barrister/tom-royston/
@tprobert.bsky.social
Researcher on human rights and development. Formerly @UNHumanRights. Writes slowly on the politics of human rights. Posts slower. London • Cambridge • Pretoria • Geneva
@ekd.bsky.social
Academic lawyer at the University of Bristol, interested in lots, including inquests & death, social welfare, housing/homelessness, planning, administrative and constitutional law. Firm believer in nuance and context.
@profmarkelliott.bsky.social
Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Blog: www.publiclawforeveryone.com. Website: www.markelliott.org
@jamesahand.bsky.social
Legal academic (Assoc Prof, and an Assoc Head (R&I), at University of Portsmouth School of Law) https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/james-hand; Co-Editor of the Int Jrnl of Discrimination and the Law (Sage) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/JDI
@jonfeatonby.bsky.social
I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that.
@loucalvey.bsky.social
Asylum Rights Campaigning. Migrant & Human Rights advocacy. She/Her 🏳🌈 🧡
@drellac.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UCL. Lead a research group on human trafficking, smuggling and exploitation. Tired and jaded. Send snacks.
@cjmckinney.bsky.social
Parliamentary adviser on immigration and asylum. Child of the Common Travel Area. Views, if any, are my own. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/authors/cj-mckinney/
@zubhaque.bsky.social
Former Deputy Director and Head of Research at Women’s Budget Group. Former CEO The Equality Trust; Deputy Director of The Runnymede Trust. Member of Independent SAGE. Worked in government and think tanks. Views my own
@antoniabenfield.bsky.social
Barrister. Immigration, human rights and public law @DoughtyStImm.bsky.social. Trustee @wlondonwelcome. Advisor @CounterArts.
@simonfrcox.bsky.social
migration & equality, law & politics | lawyer | cis | he/him | @DoughtyStImm.bsky.social | trustee Right To Remain | ex-OSF | my views obvs, not doughty st | large photo Paul Trevor, 1978, Brick Lane
@ozkaterji.bsky.social
Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement. https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
@jasonbraier.bsky.social
Barrister specialising in employment law. Trustee of Kisharon Noe school. Mainly talk employment law (do you see a theme?) with the occasional foray into politics and bad puns.
@gemabbott.bsky.social
Legal Director @thehowardleague.bsky.social. Trustee @dignityindying.org.uk. Views my own. She/her 🏴
@dstephensondsc.bsky.social
Employment & discrimination barrister, connoisseur of football and a love for boxing and cycling. All views are my own. Retweets not necessarily an endorsement.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social
UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
@richardmoorhead.bsky.social
Law prof in UK, I do empirical and conceptual work on lawyers regulation and ethics. Although that seems to mainly mean I do work on the Post Office and all who billed her. Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. Plastic Geordie. Novice cello player
@chrisptopping.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, Grandad, Lawyer,Preacher, Runner. Passionate about access to justice. Human Rights Lawyer of the Year 2016. President of Liverpool Law Society 2018. Fed up of the other antisocial media sites.
@jleytong.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law, PhD Candidate, University of Bristol School of Law. Labour Law, Human Rights. 🇨🇱 en 🇬🇧 Papá, marido.
@emilyannabaker.bsky.social
Lord Mansfield & Lord Bowen Scholar | Oxford Biochemist in another life | Proudly hail from the Calder Valley
@zandergoss.bsky.social
Barrister at @5EssexChambers.bsky.social specialising in police and public law | originally from Chicagoland | interests: legal history, constitutional theory, philosophy, & whisky.
@mpollard.bsky.social
Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC.org). Updating Geneva Convention commentaries & thematic legal adviser on food security, private military & security companies, cultural property, journalists, torture & ill-treatment.
@charlierad.bsky.social
Advocates for those injured in military + disabled folk, helping lay people engage with the law, founder http://veteranlawproject.org.uk, Living Options Devon trustee, war pensions + AFCS, spinal cord injury, not a lawyer, manage land & forestry, Dartmoor
@mattmatravers.bsky.social
Legal/political philosopher: punishment, criminal law theory, responsibility. Professor of Law & Director of the Morrell Centre, University of York.
@andylane07.bsky.social
Social Housing barrister at Cornerstone Barristers, Manchester United fanatic and author of ‘Cornerstone on Social Housing Fraud’.
@jamessflee.bsky.social
Law Professor. I research and teach in the areas of judges, law reform & private law. Views, and any errors, are my own, not those of my employer.
@jaspergold.bsky.social
Barrister @1CrownOfficeRow – medical, inquests, inquiries, data/information and public law. Co-Editor of the UK Human Rights Blog. Drinking myself to oblivion but with coffee.
@kirstybrimelow.bsky.social
Human rights, criminal & international law barrister Doughty Street Chambers. Vice Chair Bar Council. Chair Criminal Bar Association 2022-2023. Chair Bar Human Rights Committee 2012-2018. Bencher Gray’s Inn. Trustee of WWF-UK.
@davidpievsky.bsky.social
Barrister and violinist. KC in public law, human rights, regulatory, employment.
@aoifenolan.bsky.social
Human Rights Professor; Director @uon-hrlc.bsky.social; President, @coe.int European Committee of Social Rights; Academic Expert @doughtystreet.bsky.social. All opinions my own. More on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/aoifeanolan/
@wcpcqc.bsky.social
After a lifetime practising and judging the law as it is, now looking at where it all came from.
@catbriddick.bsky.social
Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law @refugeestudies.bsky.social, University of Oxford. Trustee @4refugeewomen.bsky.social. Feminist.
@jdkc.bsky.social
Family law barrister at 4PB London, Emeritus Professor of Law Gresham College.Views my own(warts & all) RT=worth a read,not necessarily endorsements:I read & learn. Known for being outspoken about things that matter to me & my profession.
@akuareindorfkc.bsky.social
Employment, discrimination & human rights barrister at Cloisters Chambers | EHRC Commissioner | LSE Law Visiting Senior Fellow | Legal Business UK Barrister of the Year 2023 | Chambers & Partners Employment Junior of the Year 2022
@andrew-allen.bsky.social
Employment and discrimination lawyer. Mediator. Expert on Middle Eastern Law.
@alicedonald.bsky.social
Professor, School of Law and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, London
@fdelond.bsky.social
Law prof; tennis lover; food fanatic; LGBTQAI+. @fdelond in the other place
@stephenstroud.bsky.social
Ex EU Antitrust Lawyer Chair: Laura Kinsella Foundation, Law For Change, Clean Up The Internet and Press Justice Project; Board member: Hacked Off and Reprieve; Director, Stroud Book Festival Member, UK Trade and Business Commission
@nicholasrl.bsky.social
Writer on law, constitutions, and human rights | Editor of LSE Public Policy Review | ReConstitution Fellow 2021/22
@carlgardner.bsky.social
Backroom legal obsessive. Former law lecturer and government lawyer. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlgardner/ Also books, beer, films, and a bit of politics. London and Warrington.
@stevebroach.bsky.social
Public law silk @ 39 Essex Chambers Youth coach @ Seaford Town FC
@johnhyde.bsky.social
Deputy News Editor of the Law Society Gazette. After-dinner speaker and event host. Cricket lover, Colchester United fan, Britpop nostalgic.
@echrhawk.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Leeds, Human Rights and Constitutional Law. Dad, 🎮 gamer, recovering running addict
@bollins.bsky.social
Old Square Chambers silk practising in employment, clinical, injury, public, human rights and regulatory law. Proudly from both Coventry (then) and Brighton (now).
@justinbates.bsky.social
Housing lawyer, editor of the Encyclopedia of Housing Law, co-author Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act and Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act.
@ukcla.bsky.social
The United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association.
@deshpalpanesarkc.bsky.social
Barrister, Old Square Chambers, King's Counsel, Bar Council, PastChair Employment Law Bar Association. Views, my own. This is a schadenfreude free zone.
@vmantouvalou.bsky.social
Professor of Human Rights& Labour Law at UCL; Articles Editor, Modern Law Review; Co-Editor, UK Labour Law Blog; Chair of Kalayaan https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/22589
@templebrief.bsky.social
Peacemaking, mindfulness, listening; the human condition: International Mediator & Arbitrator: Writer & author: African charity projects 🇪🇺: 🇬🇧: 🇿🇦: 🇰🇾: ex-Navy: Dartmouth: Baggie: TRF VMCC Biker: Somerset CCC: 🎸: Hegelian surfer and teacher. Happy grandpa.
@thebarcouncil.bsky.social
Representing and supporting the 18,000 practising barristers in England and Wales. www.barcouncil.org.uk
@joanneclementkc.bsky.social
KC at 11KBW, specialising in all kinds of public law and human rights law
@cjr1968.bsky.social
Barrister, Cornerstone Barristers, housing, care, public law Travel, cats and reading are my other passions. Likes or re-posts do not indicate endorsement. All opinions are mine, and not those of Chambers, although everyone in Chambers also likes cats.
@squeakinglyjen.bsky.social
Feminist lawyer, Classicist, barrister at No5 Chambers. She/her or They/them pronouns
@jimrobottom.bsky.social
Rights, wrongs & Talking Heads songs. Barrister @matrixchambers, phd @KCL_Law Views mine, not a burning building’s.
@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him. "Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
@adamcreme.bsky.social
Director of Legal at UNISON. Native Mancunian, now Londoner. Tries to be lighthearted on social media. Often fails. Dad of twins. Hates antisemitism. Hates islamaphobia. Hates racism. Not a member of 10cc but related to someone who was.
@paulbernal.bsky.social
Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Politics. Wolves. Irish and British.
@paolosandro.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory @lawatleeds.bsky.social, author of 'The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law' (Hart 2022), Open Access at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562656#
@tomrhickman.bsky.social
Professor of Public Law and a barrister, who posts on public law, the constitution and national security. Reposts are not endorsements.
@taravanho.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor, University of Essex. Will mostly be posting about human rights, business & human rights / #BizHumanRights, international economic law & transitional justice. And Taylor Swift.
@profpech.bsky.social
Professor of Law, Dean of @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest, and co-director of @goodlobbyprofs.bsky.social. Usual disclaimers.
@article19law.bsky.social
Defending freedom of expression and information through legal & policy reforms. Everywhere
@nataliesedacca.bsky.social
Legal academic at Durham University, researching labour law and human rights with a focus on domestic workers, other marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. Trustee for migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan. She / her
@jmpsimor.bsky.social
Barrister, environment, energy, public law, human rights. Visiting Prof LSE & Goldsmiths.
@adamwagner1.bsky.social
Barrister specialising in human rights, public law and public inquiries. Views my own https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/adam-wagner
@goodlawproject.org
Founder and Director, Good Law Project. King's Counsel. Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts. He/him. goodlawproject.org
@paulfscott.bsky.social
Constitutional law and national security law etc at the University of Glasgow
@cbarnard.bsky.social
Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things.
@davidgauke.bsky.social
Recovering politician, writes columns, editor of The Case For The Centre Right.
@legalmusings.bsky.social
Barrister. Commentator. Visiting Prof @ Durham University. Former parliamentary lawyer & special adviser UK Parliament (JCHR, EU, Women & Equalities; International Agreements). Musings on law, politics & restaurants . Personal views. 🇬🇧🇧🇪🇮🇱 📍LDN/BX
@danielsohege.bsky.social
Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in refugee and migrants' law, rights policy, comms and advocacy. NOT A LAWYER. Also talking about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). Purely my views, no-one else would want them.
@sirjjkc.bsky.social
Senior Consultant, Linklaters. Senior Fellow, Institute for Government. Hon Senior Fellow, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. Visiting Prof, Durham Law School. Hon KC. Lay canon, Ely Cathedral Law, constitution, government, policy. Cocktails. Music
@bricksilk.bsky.social
Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC: Barrister, Cross-bench Peer, Interim Prevent Commissioner (2025); HL Constitution Cttee; Chair Inter Mediate, @uclei.bsky.social; Vis Prof KCL; ex-indept reviewer terrorism legn; history, nature, sea kayaking, Suffolk
@colinyeo.bsky.social
Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
@dinahrose.bsky.social
President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
@womaninhavana.bsky.social
All sorts of reluctance. From there to here. Barrister. Writer. Flâneuse. Law. Human rights. International affairs. Opinions mine.
@nearlylegal.co.uk
Solicitor. Done housing law since 2006. The Guardian says top 5 for squalor. Legal Aid Housing Lawyer of 2018. Co-author of Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. ‘Not an academic authority’ - Judge Carr. https://nearlylegal.co.uk
@georgeperetzkc.bsky.social
KC (E&W) BL (Irl): public/constitutional law, competition, subsidies, tax, trade. Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers. Views mine and not those of Monckton Chambers.
@ldfreedman.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
@barristersecret.bsky.social
Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman. Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth• Also writes thrillers as S.J. Fleet. The Cut Throat Trial coming 28 Aug 2025.
@davidallengreen.bsky.social
Commentator on law and policy. Own blog/substack, but also Prospect, FT, elsewhere. Liberal constitutionalist; Villa supporter; sometimes ironic. Birmingham/London, England. (Account deactivated when not used.)
@stevepeers.bsky.social
Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Next book: UK Trade Law after Brexit (OUP, forthcoming). Usual disclaimers.