Richard Ekins

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

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)