Ms Merris Amos, BEc (Sydney) LLB (Sydney) BCL (Oxon.) Solicitor, Supreme Court of NSW and Supreme Court of England and WalesProfessor of Human Rights LawEmail: m.e.amos@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 3938Room Number: Mile EndProfileTeachingPublicationsSupervisionPublic EngagementProfileMerris Amos is Professor of Human Rights Law in the Department of Law and Director of the Human Rights Law Centre. She has previously held posts at the University of Essex and the University of Westminster and worked as a researcher for a member of the House of Lords and a policy officer at the Australian Human Rights Commission. Professor Amos is an expert on the UK’s Human Rights Act 1998 and the relationship between national institutions and the European Court of Human Rights. She has published numerous articles and chapters in this field and her book Human Rights Law Third Edition (Oxford: Hart, 2021) is the leading work on the Human Rights Act. Professor Amos is a long standing member of the Executive Committee of the UK Constitutional Law Association and the UK representative on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law. She recently convened the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar: The Human Rights Act After 22 Years and will shortly be co-convening the Workshop on Constitutionalism, Covid-19 and Recovery at the IACL World Congress in Johannesburg.Undergraduate Teaching LAW6019 UK Human Rights Law LAW6020 Advanced UK Human Rights Law LAW4001 Public Law ResearchPublicationsSince 2015 Books Human Rights Law Third Edition (Oxford: Hart, 2021) Articles ‘Human rights law and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom’ (Derechos Humanos Y La Pandemia Del Covid-19 En El Reino Unido) (2021) 48 Teoría y Realidad Constitucional (Constitutional Theory and Practice) 125-152. Part 1 and Part 2 (in English). ‘A UK Bill of Rights Fit for Purpose’ (2019) 3 Howard Human and Civil Rights Law Review 41-78. ‘The future of human rights protection in the United Kingdom’ (2019) 6 Journal of International and Comparative Law 87-115. ‘From Dynamic to Static: The United Kingdom and the European Court of Human Rights’ (2018) 42 Teoría y Realidad Constitucional 161-186 (Constitutional Theory and Practice). ‘The Value of the European Court of Human Rights to the United Kingdom’ (2017) 28 European Journal of International Law 763-785. (European Journal of International Law Talk podcast interview, December 2017) ‘The Second Division in Human Rights Adjudication: Social Rights Claims under the Human Rights Act 1998’ (2015) 15 Human Rights Law Review 549-568. Chapters ‘Law making in the rights hostile environment of the United Kingdom’ in J. Dbeljak and L. Grenfell (Eds.) Law Making and Human Rights (Sydney: Thomson Reuters, 2020). ‘The Positive Right to Freedom of Expression and Party Anonymity in Legal Proceedings’ in A. Kenyon and A. Scott Positive Free Speech: Rationales, Methods and Implications (Oxford: Hart, 2020). With M. Canto-Lopez and N. Jansen-Reventlow ‘Ruusunen v Finland’ in L. Hodson (Ed.) Feminist Judgments in International Law (Oxford: Hart, 2019). (Book awarded American Society of International Law 2020 Certificate of Merit) ‘Can European consensus encourage acceptance of the European Convention on Human Rights in the United Kingdom?’ in P. Kapotas and V. Tzevelekos (Eds.) Building Consensus on European Consensus (Cambridge: CUP, 2019). ‘The influence of British courts on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights’ in R. McCorquodale and J. Gauci (Eds.) British Influences on International Law 1915-2015 (London: BRILL, 2016). ‘An unprincipled mess: party anonymity in legal proceedings in the United Kingdom’ in A. Koltay (Ed.) Comparative Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (Budapest: Wolters Kluwer, 2016). ‘Damages for violations of human rights law in the United Kingdom’ in E. BagiĆska (Ed.) Damages for Violations of Human Rights – A Comparative Study of Domestic Legal Systems (Warsaw: Springer, 2016) (available on SSRN). SupervisionProfessor Amos welcomes supervision enquiries in the areas of national and European human rights law. Her current PhD students are: Jingxi Liu – Artificial intelligence and sex discrimination in employment Tamara Katamine – Reducing breed-related welfare challenges for dogs Stefania Rainaldi Redon – International human rights courts and structural discrimination Public EngagementConferences convened Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar 2020, 3 and 4 November 2022, The Human Rights Act After Twenty-Two Years: Evolution, Impact, Future Directions (funded by the Society of Legal Scholars and the UK Constitutional Law Association). WG Hart Legal Workshop 2018, Building a 21st Century Bill of Rights, Co-Convener with Professor Roger Masterman (Durham) and Dr Helene Tyrrell (Newcastle) (funded by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies). Selected invited papers (since 2018) 20 October 2022: ‘Climate litigation in the European Court of Human Rights: possibilities and problems’ Environment, Climate Change and Constitutionalism, IACL Roundtable, Ankara, Turkey. 3 March 2022: ‘Fact or fiction? Positive duties and human rights reform’ Reforming the Human Rights Act, Human Rights and Public Law Centre, University of Durham. 4 February 2022: ‘The Human Rights Act and social rights’ Feminist Review of the Human Rights Act, University of Liverpool and Feminist Legal Studies. 26 January 2022: ‘Performance and Reform: The Consultation on a Bill of Rights’ The Future of Human Rights Protection in the UK, Centre for European Law and Internationalisation, University of Leicester. 18 November 2021: ‘Human rights and artificial intelligence’ Exploring the future of biometrics in a post-Covid world, Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies, St Mary’s University, London. 24 February 2021: ‘Lessons for human rights law from the COVID-19 Pandemic?’ Human Rights in a Pandemic, McGill University, Lawyers Without Borders. 23 January 2021: ‘COVID-19 and human rights in the UK’ Human Rights Research Group, Meiji University, Tokyo. 11 November 2020: ‘Why the UK still needs the ECHR’ The UK, European Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Seventy Years of the ECHR and Twenty Years of the HRA – A Time for Celebration? University of Leicester, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. 3 September 2020: ‘Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for the UK human rights law framework’, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section, 2020 Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference. 22 April 2020: ‘Clashing human rights law duties during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, The State’s Obligation to Protect Webinar, University of Liverpool, University of Leeds, Strasbourg Observers. 17 June 2019: ‘The evolving jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights’, Scottish Public Law Group Annual Conference, Edinburgh. 27 November 2018: ‘The impact of Article 2 ECHR in the UK’, Knowing Our Rights Symposium, British Academy, London. 1 October 2018: ‘What are the human rights and fundamental rights challenges after Brexit?’, Civil Society in a Post Brexit Democracy, Public Law Project, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Liberty, Oxford. 5 September 2018: ‘The future of human rights law in the United Kingdom’, Public Law Section, 2018 Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, London. 4 September 2018: ‘Brexit and human rights protection’ Annual Seminar of the British Association of Comparative Law, London. 19 June 2018: ‘The United Kingdom’s proposed derogation from the European Convention on Human Rights’, IACL World Congress, Seoul. 22 May 2018: ‘What should a UK bill of rights look like?’ Human Rights Law at a crossroads: what directions after Brexit? Centre for European Law and Internationalisation, University of Leicester.Related newsWhy UK approach to replacing the Human Rights Act is just as worrying as the replacement itself 29 June 2022 Professor Amos and Dr Chowdhury provide written evidence into the Overseas Operations Bill 24 September 2020 Professor Merris Amos presents her research on COVID-19 and human rights law 8 September 2020 Professor Merris Amos interviewed for BBC 5 Live Drive on victims of serious crime 22 February 2018 Merris Amos interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live 'UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights' 2 May 2014 Merris Amos interviewed on relationship between UK and ECHR 1 August 2013 'Imran Khan and Panel: Does Britain Need Europe's Human Rights Laws?' Merris Amos on the discussion panel 30 January 2012