Christopher McCrudden

CHRISTOPHER McCRUDDEN studied law at Queen’s University Belfast, Yale University, and Oxford University. He holds a first law degree from Queen’s, an LL.M. degree from Yale, a doctorate from Oxford, and an honorary LL.D. from Queen’s. From 2011 to 2014, he held a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. Former professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford, he currently professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen’s University Belfast and a William W. Cook Global Law Professor at Michigan Law School. He is also a practicing barrister-at-law with Blackstone Chambers. During 2013–2014, he was a fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at New York University Law School. During 2014–2015, he served as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.
Professor McCrudden is the author of Buying Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 2007), a book about the relationship between public procurement and equality, for which he was awarded a certificate of merit by the American Society of International Law in 2008, and (with Brendan O'Leary)Courts and Consociations (Oxford University Press, 2013), about the tensions between human rights and ethnic power-sharing arrangements that are common in peace agreements. Most recently, he has edited the multi-disciplinary volume, Understanding Human Dignity(Oxford University Press, 2013). He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, and the Journal of International Economic Law, and is co-editor of the Law in Context series. He serves also on the European Commission's Expert Network on the Application of the Gender Equality Directives.
Professor Christopher McCrudden’s authority as an academic commentator isreflected in citations to his work in the judgments of courts in his country, the European Court of Justice, and the UnitedStates Supreme Court. He hasbeenawarded the Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law andis a Fellow of the British Academy.