Connections and appointments

Conor Gearty

• Conor was in the Court of Appeal in November 2022, arguing (ultimately unsuccessfully) that the right to marry in the European Convention on Human Rights meant that the holders of widows’ pensions should not lose their pension in the event of remarriage (as is the case in a number of public sector pension schemes): Green and others v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [2022] EWCA Civ 1686 [watch live stream]
• With his colleague Giulia Gentile, Conor gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights in relation to its work on the (now withdrawn) British Bill of Rights Bill
• Conor is Professor of Democracy at Paris 2 during the Academic Year 2023-24. He will visit and deliver his lectures there during April ‘24.

Tarun Khaitan

• Gave expert evidence upon invitation by the Indian Law Commission to comment on the discriminatory aspects entailed in a proposal to replace India’s religion-specific system of family laws with a single, uniform, civil code applicable to all persons (August 2023).

Richard Martin

• Qualified barrister (non-practicing), Member of Lincoln’s Inn.
• Consultant/Independent Reviewer, Home Office Evidential Review of Pre-Charge Bail (2021).
• Member of the College of Policing’s Code of Ethics Review Committee (2021-23). The Committee has assisted the College of Policing with reviewing and updating the Code of Ethics that governs police officers and staff across England and Wales.
• Member of the College of Policing’s Code of Ethics Review Committee (2021-23). The Committee has assisted the College of Policing with reviewing and updating the Code of Ethics that governs police officers and staff across England and Wales.

Jo Murkens

• A member of the Editorial Committee of Public Law.
• Has held visiting positions at Koç University Law School, Turkey, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, University of Trento, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Université Paris II Panthéon – Assas, Paris, and at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Law, Heidelberg.
• Has given expert evidence, written and oral, to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin (on Scottish Independence), to the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee (on the role of courts under a written constitution), and to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee (on withdrawal from the European Union).
• Is part of a network of international researchers mainly from India, the EU, and the UK who have been working collaboratively on democracy and diversity in India and the EU for the past decade.