Dominic McGoldrick

Dominic McGoldrick is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Nottingham. He teaches and researches on UK Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and international human rights. He is the Head of the Human Rights Law Centre’s Civil and Political Rights Unit. He has been a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar and a Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Law School. He has served a secondment with the legal advisers at the UK Foreign and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has also served as a legal adviser to the Holy See at the Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law, a committee of the Council of Europe. 

He has published four books: The Human Rights Committee, International Relations Law of the European Union, From 9-11 to the Iraq War 2003 and Human Rights and Religion – The Islamic Headscarf Debate in Europe. He was a major contributor to and co-editor of The Permanent International Criminal Court – Legal and Policy Issues and co-editor of Legal Visions of the New Europe. He has a particular interest in issues concerning human rights and religion, such as the use of Sharia law and Muslim veiling controversies in Europe. He has recently been working on freedom of speech and academic freedom in Universities. While at the Schell Centre Yale in 2024, he will be working on an Article-by-Article Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).