Richard Edwin Ekins, KC (Hon) is a New Zealand legal academic working in the United Kingdom. He is Professor of Law and Constitutional Government in the University of Oxford, a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and the head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project.[1][2][3]
Ekins was educated at the University of Auckland, where he obtained his BA, LLB (Hons) and BA (Hons), and the University of Oxford, where he graduated BCL, MPhil and DPhil.[4] He was previously a judge's clerk at the High Court of New Zealand at Auckland, a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford, and a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland.[4]
Ekins was created an honorary King's Counsel in 2022: the Ministry of Justice credited him with making "a major contribution to public debate, and parliamentary deliberation, about the constitutional role of the courts."[5]
Publications
editBooks
edit- The Nature of Legislative Intent (Oxford University Press, 2012)
- (with NW Barber and Paul Yowell, eds.), Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law (Hart, 2016)
- (with Grégoire Webber, Paul Yowell, Maris Köpcke, Bradley W. Miller, Francisco J. Urbina, eds.) Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
References
edit- ^ "Richard Ekins | Faculty of Law". University of Oxford. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "Professor Richard Ekins". St John's College. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "Richard Ekins, Author at Policy Exchange". Policy Exchange. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ a b "The Nature of Legislative Intent". Oxford University Press.
- ^ "New King's Counsel welcomed by Lord Chancellor". Ministry of Justice. 23 December 2022.
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