Anthony Carty

John Anthony "Tony" Carty is a legal scholar in Hong Kong, where he holds the Sir Y K Pao Chair Professorship of Public Law in the University of Hong Kong; he also serves as Professor of Public Law in the University of Aberdeen.

Education

He received a LLB (Queen's University Belfast in 1968, a LLM (University College, London, 1969), and a PhD (Cambridge, 1973)

Career

Carty was Eversheds Professor, University of Derby, 1994-2003, Professor of Law, University of Westminster 2003-2005, and then Professor of Public Law, University of Aberdeen from January 2006- on. He is also the holder of the Sir Y K Pao Chair of Public Law, University of Hong Kong, from April 2009 to the present.

From 2010 on, he is the 'Editor in Chief of the Online Oxford Bibliography of International Law

Carty's research interests focus on international law, including e the theory of international law, human rights, the theory of autonomous regions within states, such as Scotland, the Basque Country etc., law and development, law and literature and legal philosophy, especially the history of legal thought.^[1]

Books

• Carty, A. Philosophy of International Law, Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 808 libraries^[2]
• Carty, A and R. A. and Smith, Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice and the World Crisis: A Legal Adviser in the Foreign Office 1932-1945, Kluwer (2000)
• Carty, A., (ed.) Post-modern law : enlightenment, revolution, and the death of man Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1990.
• Carty, A. and G M Danilenko, eds. Perestroika and international law : current Anglo-Soviet approaches to international law New York : St. Martin's Press, 1990.

References

External links

• Oxford Bibliography Website: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/international-law
• University of Aberdeen Website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/law/people/profiles/a.carty
• HKU Webpage: https://web.archive.org/web/20130316123116/http://www.law.hku.hk:80/faculty/staff/tony_carty.html