

Dr Michael Connolly
Summary
I teach and supervise UG and PG students, and welcome PhD proposals in the areas of equality and discrimination law, or contract, consumer and commercial law.
I also serve on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Society of Legal Scholars, and the London Management Committee of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association.
Research interests
My principal research interest is in Discrimination and Equality law, especially the employment discrimination laws of the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United States, South Africa, Canada, and Australasia. I speak regularly on this subject in Britain and the United States. I have published many papers on the comparative discrimination law and written several books on the subject. (For some recent publications, see the 'Outputs' section.) My latest book, Equality, Discrimination, and the Law (2022, Routledge) is out now. This follows The English Judiciary, Discrimination Law and Statutory Interpretation: Easy Cases making Bad Law’ (2018, Routledge). I hope to produce a third edition of my textbook Discrimination Law (2011, Sweet & Maxwell) in due course.
Research outputs
2024
The law of unemployment: has equality law been captured by Friedman’s ideologues?
Connolly, M.
26 Jun 2024,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Is it discriminatory to mistreat a migrant domestic worker? The cases of Taiwo and Onu
Connolly, M.
22 Apr 2024, In: Industrial Law Journal
Research output: Article
2023
Perceived disability discrimination and the deficient Equality Act: interpretative and legislative remedies
Connolly, M.
5 Sep 2023, In: Industrial Law Journal. 52, 3, p. 635-664
Research output: Article
2022
Equality, Discrimination and the Law
Connolly, M.
6 Jan 2022,
Research output: Book
2021
The myth of associative discrimination and the Court of Justice’s great vanishing act: part 2
Connolly, M.
17 Dec 2021, In: Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. 72, 3, p. 510-541, 32p.
Research output: Article
The ‘associative’ discrimination fiction: Part 1
Connolly, M.
1 Jul 2021, In: Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. 72, 1, p. 29-60
Research output: Article