Clare College

Ph.D. LL.M. (Distinction); BVC; LL.B. (First Class Honours).

Turpin-Lipstein Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Clare College, Director of Studies, Admissions Tutor.

Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Media Law, Public Law, Tort Law, Procedure.

Dr Kirsty Hughes is a Fellow and Turpin-Lipstein Lecturer in Law at Clare College, Cambridge. She is also Director of Studies for Part 1A, Part 1B and LLM students, and Admissions Tutor for Arts and Humanities at Clare College.

She currently lectures and supervises students in Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Constitutional Law, and the Law of Tort. Prior to taking up her appointment, she completed her doctoral thesis A Behavioural Understanding of Privacy: Article 8 European Convention on Human Rights and a Right to Respect for Barriers in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (supervised by Professor David Feldman QC). She also worked at the Australian Law Reform Commission on the project For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice.

Prior to completing her doctorate she held an academic position at the University of Warsaw (Poland), and lectured at universities in Gdansk, Torun, Wroclaw and Lublin (Poland), Prague (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia) and Budapest (Hungary). During this time she provided lectures in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Contract, European Union Law, Substantive European Union Law, International Trade Law, English Legal System, Tort, and Company Law.   

Her research interests are in the fields of public law, human rights, media, tort law, and procedure, and her research employs a range of interdisciplinary, theoretical, comparative and doctrinal approaches. She is particularly interested in the law of privacy, protest, and the constitutional and human rights issues raised by procedure.

Recent publications include full-length articles in the Law Quarterly Review and Modern Law Review. Her 2011 article in the Law Quarterly Review was cited with approval in the Court of Appeal in Independent Trustee Services Ltd v GP Noble Trustees Ltd & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 195. Her submissions to the Joint Select Committee on Privacy and Injunctions (co-authored with Lord Grabiner QC) were relied upon in the Joint Committee's Report Privacy and Injunctions (March 2012).

Her forthcoming book Dimensions of Privacy: Privacy Theory and Article 8 European Convention on Human Rights (Hart Publishing, 2013) uses privacy theory to critically analyse Article 8 ECHR and vice versa. It provides a comprehensive and thematic account of the privacy protection afforded by Article 8 ECHR, and brings together for the first time privacy theory and Article 8 ECHR jurisprudence.