Ms Merris Amos, BEc (Sydney) LLB (Sydney) BCL (Oxon.) Solicitor, Supreme Court of NSW and Supreme Court of England and Wales

Senior Lecturer

Location: Mile End
email: m.e.amos@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 3938
Fax: +44 (0)207 882 7042

Merris Amos joined the Department of Law in January 2007. She has previously held posts at the University of Westminster and the University of Essex where she was the Deputy Director of the Human Rights Centre. Prior to this she was an adviser to Lord Lester QC and an adviser to the Australian Commissioner for Racial Discrimination. Her main area of research is the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act 1998 and she has published a major book on this subject, Human Rights Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006). She has also published a number of articles and chapters concerning the protection of human rights at the national level and she is the editor of Human Rights Law Reports – UK Cases. In addition to her teaching and research, she has designed a number of human rights training courses and presently conducts human rights training for central and local government, as well as the private and charitable sectors.

Publications:

  • Human Rights Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006).
  • “The Impact of the Human Rights Act on the United Kingdom’s Performance Before the European Court of Human Rights” [2007] Public Law 655-676.
  • “Huang v. Secretary of State for the Home Department and Kashmiri v. Secretary of State for the Home Department – Separating Human Rights Adjudication from Judicial Review” [2007] European Human Rights Law Review 679-697.
  • “R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex p. Anderson – Ending the Home Secretary’s Sentencing Role” (2004) Modern Law Review 108-123.
  • “Can we speak freely now? Freedom of expression under the Human Rights Act” [2002] 6 European Human Rights Law Review 750-763.

Supervision:

Merris Amos welcomes proposals for postgraduate supervision in the following areas:

  • Human Rights Act 1998
  • The legal protection of human rights at the national level
  • European human rights law

Undergraduate teaching:

  • LAW4001 Public Law