Colm O’Cinneide

Colm O’Cinneide is a Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at University College London (UCL), where he has been affiliated since 2001. A graduate of University College Cork, the University of Edinburgh, and King’s Inns in Dublin, he was called to the Irish Bar and previously served as a legal adviser in the UK House of Lords.

• Education: University College Cork, University of Edinburgh, King’s Inns in Dublin

His research expertise spans comparative constitutional law, human rights law, and anti-discrimination law, with extensive publications in these fields. He has acted as a specialist legal adviser to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights and Women & Equalities Committee, as well as international organizations like the UN, ILO, and European Commission.

• Member, European Committee on Social Rights (2006–2016)
• Member, Academic advisory board of Blackstone Chambers (since 2008)

O’Cinneide has also taught courses such as National Security and Human Rights in Transnational and Comparative Perspective (Spring 2009).