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.
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. 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.
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."
Publications
Books
- 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
- "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.
- ^ "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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