Dr Kirsty Hughes
kh391@cam.ac.uk
Clare College
Associate Professor; Fellow (Clare College); Director of Studies.
Ph.D. LL.M. (Distinction); BVC; LL.B. (First Class Honours)
CV / Biography
Kirsty Hughes is an Associate Professor specialising in Human Rights Law. She is joint General Editor of the European Human Rights Law Review, Director of the Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge, a member of Blackstone Chambers Academic Panel and Deputy Editor of Public Law.
She is convenor of Human Rights Law and supervises human rights undergraduate and graduate dissertations and theses.
Her research interests are in the fields of UK and European human rights law. She is particularly interested in the relationship between theory and human rights reasoning, the European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998 and the proposed Bill of Rights, privacy, the human rights of migrants, modern slavery and human trafficking and the law of protest. She welcomes applications from potential PhD students interested in pursuing projects in these areas.
Her research has been published in leading journals including the Modern Law Review, Law Quarterly Review and the Cambridge Law Journal. Her article in the Modern Law Review was awarded the Wedderburn Prize (in honour of Lord Wedderburn of Charlton) and was cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2021. Her article in the Law Quarterly Review was cited by the Court of Appeal in England and Wales, and her submissions to the Joint Select Committee on Privacy and Injunctions (co-authored with Lord Grabiner KC) were relied upon in the Joint Committee's Report Privacy and Injunctions (March 2012). Her submissions to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on EU nationals' residency post-Brexit were cited in their final report (December 2016) and she was invited to give oral evidence to the House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee inquiry 'Brexit: Citizens' Rights'. She has also contributed to national and international media coverage on legal issues, including the BBC, The New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She has been the recipient of a number of research fellowships including a CRASSH research fellowship at the University of Cambridge to work on a project concerning the right to protest, a visiting research fellowship at UNSW, a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant which funded her research at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and a Jean Monnet Fellowship at EUI (Firenze). She has also been consulted by the Australian Law Reform Commission on several projects and has lectured at universities in Gdansk, Torun, Wroclaw Lublin and Warsaw (Poland), Prague (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia) and Budapest (Hungary).
The Elusive Right to Privacy: Privacy Theory and Article 8 ECHR (Hart Publishing, 2023)
Published Sep 2023
Common Law Constitutional Rights (with Mark Elliott) (Hart, 2019)
Co-Author/s:
https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/common-law-constitutional-rights-9781509906888/
Published May 2019
"The Public Figure Doctrine and the Right to Privacy" (2019) Cambridge Law Journal 70.
(2019) Cambridge Law Journal 70.
Published: Mar 2019
"Mass Surveillance and the European Court of Human Rights" (2018) European Human Rights Law Review 589.
(2018) European Human Rights Law Review 589.
Published: Nov 2018
"If Big Brother is Watching You? Who is Watching Big Brother?" (2018) This Century's Review
(2018) This Century's Review
"Brexit and the Right to Remain of EU Nationals" (2017) Public Law 94.
(2017) Public Law 94.
"Publising Photographs Without Consent" (2014) Journal of Media Law 180
(2014) Journal of Media Law 180
"A Behavioural Understanding of Privacy and its Implications for Privacy Law" (2012) 75(5) Modern Law Review 806.
(2012) 75(5) Modern Law Review 806.
Published: Jul 2012
"Parliament Reports on Privacy and Injunctions" (2012) 4(1) Journal of Media Law 17.
(2012) 4(1) Journal of Media Law 17.
Published: Jun 2012
"Privacy Injunctions - No Obligation to Notify Pre-Publication" (2011) 3(2) Journal of Media Law 179.
(2011) 3(2) Journal of Media Law 179.
"The Use, Abuse and Implications of the Draft Judgment Procedure" (2011) 127(4) Law Quarterly Review 565.
(2011) 127(4) Law Quarterly Review 565.
"Post-adoption Photographs: Welfare, Rights and Judicial Reasoning (with Brian Sloan)" (2011) Child & Family Law Quarterly 393.
(with Brian Sloan)
(2011) Child & Family Law Quarterly 393.
Published: Sep 2011
"Balancing Rights and the Margin of Appreciation: Article 10, breach of confidence and success fees" (2011) 3(1) Journal of Media Law 29.
"No Reasonable Expectation of Anonymity?" (2010) 2(2) Journal of Media Law 169.
"Photographs in Public Places and Privacy" (2009) 1(2) Journal of Media Law 159.
"A Dynamic Conception of the Ambit of the Right to Private Life and an Evolving Role for the European Court of Human Rights " in Peter Coe and Paul Wragg (ed(s)), Landmark Cases in Privacy Law (Hart, 2022)
"A Common Law Constitutional Right to Privacy - Waiting for Godot?" in Mark Elliott and Kirsty Hughes (ed(s)), Common Law Constitutional Rights, 2019)
Published Dec 2019
"Coughlan and the Development of Public Law" in Kirsty Hughes (ed(s)), Landmark Cases in Public Law (Hart, 2017)
Published Jun 2017
"Rewriting AAA v Associated Newspapers" in Kirsty Hughes (ed(s)), Rewriting Children's Rights Judgments: From Academic Vision to New Practice (Hart, 2017)
Published Apr 2017
"The Transatlantic Divide on Free Speech and Privacy (with Neil Richards)" (with Andrew Kenyon (ed.)), Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law (Hart, 2015)
Andrew Kenyon (ed.)
Published Jan 2015
"The Social Value of Privacy and Article 8 ECHR" (with Beate Rossler and Dorota Mokrosinska), Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Beate Rossler and Dorota Mokrosinska
Published Nov 2014
"Privacy: Theoretical and Legal Issues" (with Rosann Greenspan and Kay Levine), International Encyclopedia Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2014)
Rosann Greenspan and Kay Levine
"The Child's Right to Privacy and Article 8 European Convention on Human Rights" (with Michael Freeman), Current Legal Issues: Law and Childhood Studies (Volume 14) (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 456-486
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199652501.do
Published Mar 2012
"Common Law Constitutional Rights" (with Mark Elliott) in Mark Elliott and Kirsty Hughes (ed(s)), Common Law Constitutional Rights (Hart, 1970)
The Law of Privacy and the Media [2013] Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal
Reflections on Who Believes in Human Rights (2008) 12(1) International Journal of Human Rights 135.
Human Trafficking and the Conceptual Evolution of Article 4 ECHR [2022] Modern Law Review (forthcoming)
The Limits of Freedom of Information and Human Rights, and the Possibilities of the Common Law (2014) 73(3) Cambridge Law Journal 471
Judicial Review and Closed Material Procedure in the Supreme Court (2013) 72(3) Cambridge Law Journal 491
SKA v CRH, Variation of a Privacy Injunction (2012) Inforrm (The International Forum for Responsible Media)
http://inforrm.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/case-law-ska-v-crh-variation-of-a-privacy-injunction-kirsty-hughes/#more-15270
The Right to Know the Case Against You in Civil Claims (2012) 71(1) Cambridge Law Journal 21.
The Abolition of Expert Witness Immunity (2011) 70(3) Cambridge Law Journal 516.
Defamation and the Human Rights Act 1998 (2011) 70(2) Cambridge Law Journal 296.
Accountants are Not Lawyers: Legal Professional Privilege, Accountants and the Tax Man (2011) 70(1) Cambridge Law Journal 19.
Causation: Is it Fair? (2010) 69(2) Cambridge Law Journal 228.
Proportionality not Presumption (2010) 69(1) Cambridge Law Journal 4.
Horizontal Privacy (2009) 125(2) Law Quarterly Review 244.
Published: Apr 2009
"Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Role of the European Court of Human Rights? " (Assessing Surveillance Powers in Europe, EUI, Florence, Italy )
Conference:
Assessing Surveillance Powers in Europe, EUI, Florence, Italy
"The Absence of Privacy" (Amsterdam Privacy Conference)
Amsterdam Privacy Conference
Published: Oct 2018
"Migrants and the Obfuscation of Rights" (Birmingham Law School, Global Legal Studies Seminar)
Birmingham Law School, Global Legal Studies Seminar
"Human Rights, Brexit, Windrush and the Hostile Environment" (Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge)
Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge
"Brexit and the Right to Remain, the Prospects and Limits of Human Rights Law" (Human Rights Laws at a Crossroads: What Directions after Brexit? University of Leicester)
Human Rights Laws at a Crossroads: What Directions after Brexit? University of Leicester
"EU Nationals Right to Remain in the UK Post-Brexit" (ICON International Society of Public Law Conference, Copenhagen)
ICON International Society of Public Law Conference, Copenhagen
"The Absence of Privacy in the Right to Privacy" (Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley)
Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley
"Locating the Normative Content of Human Rights" (University of Cambridge - Centre for Public Law)
University of Cambridge - Centre for Public Law
"Exploring the Content of Human Rights" (Travers Smith)
Travers Smith
"Research-Led Teaching or Teaching-led Research?" (Conference on Teaching of Public Law, City University)
Conference on Teaching of Public Law, City University
"The Atlantic Divide on Free Speech and Privacy" (Defamation and Privacy Conference, University of Melbourne)
Professor Neil Richards
Defamation and Privacy Conference, University of Melbourne
"The Social Dimension of Privacy" (Staff Seminar Series, UNSW, Sydney)
Staff Seminar Series, UNSW, Sydney
"Exploring the Right to Protest" (UNSW Human Rights Centre)
UNSW Human Rights Centre
"The Role of the Social Value in Human Rights Discourse" (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences)
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences
"Invited participant, Australian Law Reform Commission Roundtable on a Statutory Cause of Action for Serious Invasions of Privacy" (London)
"Locating the Neglected Right to Protest" (CRASSH, Cambridge)
CRASSH, Cambridge
"Reclaiming the Normative Content of the Right to Privacy" (International Privacy Law Conference, Cambridge 2013)
International Privacy Law Conference, Cambridge 2013
"A Principled Approach to Article 8 ECHR" (Human Rights Centre, Durham University)
Human Rights Centre, Durham University
"Reflecting on Perspectives of Privacy" (Guest speaker, NYU, New York)
Guest speaker, NYU, New York
"Feminist Critiques and Article 8 ECHR" (Guest speaker, Washington University)
Guest speaker, Washington University
"Invited participant Fordham University Centre for Information Law and Society Workshop" (Fordham University, New York)
Fordham University, New York
"Dimensions of Privacy" (Amsterdam Privacy Conference, Amsterdam)
Amsterdam Privacy Conference, Amsterdam
"A Behavioural Understanding of Privacy and its Implications for Privacy Law" (Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2012, George Washington University, Washington DC)
Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2012, George Washington University, Washington DC
"Privacy and Social Interaction" (International Privacy Conference, University of Cambridge)
International Privacy Conference, University of Cambridge
"Theorising the Right to Privacy" (Goodhart Seminar, University of Cambridge)
Goodhart Seminar, University of Cambridge
Published: Feb 2012
"Invited Participant" ('Threats to the University, Humanities and Science' Cambridge, July 2011. Supported by British Academy, Arizona State University and Centre for Public Law, Cambridge. An invitation only workshop on libel reform)
'Threats to the University, Humanities and Science' Cambridge, July 2011. Supported by British Academy, Arizona State University and Centre for Public Law, Cambridge. An invitation only workshop on libel reform
"Invited Participant" ('Media Ethics Seminar' Centre for Ethics and Law, UCL, London, April 2011. An invitation only seminar for editors and journalists, media law practitioners, and academics - chaired by the Chair of the Press Complaints Committee)
'Media Ethics Seminar' Centre for Ethics and Law, UCL, London, April 2011. An invitation only seminar for editors and journalists, media law practitioners, and academics - chaired by the Chair of the Press Complaints Committee
"A Theory of the Right to Privacy" (Society for Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2010, University of Southampton, Media Law)
Society for Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2010, University of Southampton, Media Law
"Dear Judge, Please Reconsider...Binyam Mohamed and the Use, Abuse and Implications of the Draft Judgment Procedure" (Society for Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2010, University of Southampton, Public Law)
Society for Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2010, University of Southampton, Public Law
"Children, Privacy and the ECHR" (Law and Childhood Studies, Current Legal Issues Colloquium 2010, University College London)
Law and Childhood Studies, Current Legal Issues Colloquium 2010, University College London
"A Behavioural Understanding of Privacy as a Right to Respect for Barriers: Introducing Modified Barrier Theory" (Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2010, George Washington University, Washington DC)
"The Uses and Implications of the Draft Judgment Procedure" (Contractual Relations and Dispute Resolution Colloquium in memory of Professor Kurt Lipstein, University of Cambridge)
Contractual Relations and Dispute Resolution Colloquium in memory of Professor Kurt Lipstein, University of Cambridge
"21st Century Legal Issues: The Right to Privacy" (UCL Laws Graduate Conference: 21st Century Legal Issues, University College London)
UCL Laws Graduate Conference: 21st Century Legal Issues, University College London
"How Should Psychology Influence Legal Developments in the Sphere of Privacy?" (The Student I/Revealed I - A Conference on Privacy and Identity, part of the On the Identity Trail Project, University of Ottawa, Canada)
The Student I/Revealed I - A Conference on Privacy and Identity, part of the On the Identity Trail Project, University of Ottawa, Canada
"Recent Developments in UK Privacy Law" (Society for Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of Durham)
Society for Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of Durham
"Privacy in Public Places - A Response to Moreham" (Society for Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Keele University)
Society for Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Keele University
Written evidence on migrants' residence rights
Link to report
http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/human-rights-committee/what-are-the-human-rights-implications-of-brexit/written/38477.pdf
Written evidence on privacy and injunctions
Lord Grabiner QC
Body / Institution:
Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions