Staff Profile

Conall is a Senior Lecturer in Law and the Degree Programme Director for Postgraduate Taught Programmes at Newcastle Law School. Originally from Belfast, he has lived in the north-east of England since 2005. Prior to joining Newcastle, Conall was a Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University.  

His teaching and research interests lie broadly within the fields of international law and constitutional law, with a focus on human rights and judicial studies, often analysing the intersection between the two. He is the Convenor of the Newcastle Forum for Human Rights and Social Justice and co-convenor the Society of Legal Scholars human rights stream. He has written for The Conversation, Prospect Magazine, the UK Constitutional Law Blog and UK human rights blog.

Conall’s research relates to the way in which rights are communicated, debated, and interpreted. This work has predominantly focused on where rights apply with Conall publishing on the extraterritorial application of human rights law; the application of human rights during conflict and the extension of obligations to nationals in distress abroad. His work has also engaged with state representations, arguments and diplomacy concerning human rights.

More recently, his work has focused on issues relating to judicial interpretation and communication. In this respect he has written on both judicial discretion and the impulses at play in judicial decision-making. Alongside Dr Hélène Tyrrell, he is currently working on a project focusing on extra-judicial engagement.

In his work, Conall has submitted evidence to consultations launched by the Ministry of Defence, the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. His monograph,  ‘Human Rights Imperialists: The Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention on Human Rights’ (Hart, 2020) was shortlisted for the Peter Birks Prize for outstanding legal scholarship.

·  Constitutional Law (undergraduate)

·  Human Rights (undergraduate)

·  Judges and Judging (undergraduate)

·  Public International Law (undergraduate)

·  International Human Rights Law (postgraduate)

·  Global Security Law (postgraduate)

• Tyrrell H, Mallory C. Alison L Young, Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act (Hart 2009). In: O'Brien P; Yong B, ed. Leading Works in Public Law. Taylor & Francis, 2022. In Press.
• Mallory C. Rights-Restricting Rhetoric: The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 2021. The Modern Law Review 2022, 85(2), 461-487.
• Mallory C. A second coming of extraterritorial jurisdiction at the European Court of Human Rights?. Questions of International Law 2021, 82, 31-51.
• Mallory C. Confronting Human Rights Violations in Ukraine: Some Legal and Practical Challenges. In: Rogers, D, ed. Human Rights in War. Singapore: Springer, 2021, pp.1-16.
• Mallory C, Tyrrell H. Discretionary Space and Declarations of Incompatibility. Kings Law Journal 2021, 32(3), 466-496.
• Mallory C. A Traffic-Light System of State Arguments before the European Court of Human Rights. European Convention on Human Rights Law Review 2020, 1(2), 181–217.
• Smith R, Mallory C, Molloy S. Brexiting human rights diplomacy at the United Nations Human Rights Council: opportunity or cause for concern?. The International Journal of Human Rights 2020, 24(4), 414-438.
• Mallory C. Human Rights Imperialists: The Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention on Human Rights. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020.
• Mallory C, Molloy S, Murray CRG. Tort, Truth Recovery and the Northern Ireland Conflict. European Human Rights Law Review 2020, 2020(3), 244-262.
• Wallace S, Mallory C. Applying the European Convention on Human Rights to the Conflict in Ukraine. Russian Law Journal 2018, 6(3), 8-78.
• Mallory C, Musa S, Shiner B. Response to MoD Consultation on Better Combat Compensation. 2017.
• Mallory C. Written Evidence Submitted to JCHR on the Government's Proposed Derogation from ECHR Inquiry . 2017.
• Mallory C. Abolitionists at Home and Abroad: A Right to Consular Assistance and the Death Penalty’. Melbourne Journal of International Law 2016, 17(1), 1-32.
• Mallory C. John Hagan, Joshua Kaiser and Anna Hanson, Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War: The Legal Cynicism of Criminal Militarism (Book Review). Human Rights Law Review 2016, 16(2), 401-405.
• Mallory C, Wallace S. The ‘deterrent argument’ and the responsibility to protect. The International Journal of Human Rights 2015, 19(8), 1213-1226.
• Mallory C. Membership and the UN Human Rights Council. Canadian Journal of Human Rights 2013, 2(1), 1-38.
• Smith R, Mallory C. The European Human Rights System. In: Gentian Zyberi, ed. An Institutional Approach to the Responsibility to Protect. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Mallory C. European Court of Human Rights Al-Skeini and Others v United Kingdom (Application No 55721/07) judgment of 7 July 2011. International & Comparative Law Quarterly 2012, 61(1), 301-312.