Hayley J Hooper
Associate Professor of Law
Other affiliations
Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
Faculty officer role(s):
Director of the 'Oxford Introduction to Law in the UK' Summer Programme
Biography
Hayley J. Hooper is an Associate Professor in Law. She is also an academic affiliate of the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights.
She holds an LLB from the University of Glasgow, and a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), MPhil in Law, and a DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford. Her teaching interests include European Union Law, Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law.
Her interests are broadly within the fields of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law.
Hayley is the co-author of Parliament's Secret War (Hart: Bloomsbury, 2018). This book concerns war powers in the British Constitution and offers a critical inquiry into the Westminster Parliament's role in relation to the war prerogative since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Hayley is also working on a monograph on the closed material procedure, a process that facilitates the use of national security evidence in civil litigation.
Publications
HOOPER H, ‘No Superior Form of Law? R. (Oceana) V Upper Tribunal’ [2024] Public Law: The Constitutional and Administrative Law of the Commonwealth
HOOPER H, ‘Legality, Trust, and Fair Procedures’ [2024] European Review of Public Law
HOOPER H, ‘No Superior Form of Law? R. (Oceana) V Upper Tribunal’ [2024] Public Law: The Constitutional and Administrative Law of the Commonwealth
HOOPER H, ‘Review of Against Constitutionalism, by Martin Loughlin, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022)’ [2023] The Law Quarterly Review
Hooper H, ‘Trust As a Core Principle of the Constitution’ (2022) 81(2) Cambridge Law Journal 228
Hooper H, ‘The Ultimate Arbiter of the Code’ (2022) 26(2) EDINBURGH LAW REVIEW 239
HOOPER H, ‘Justice for One Side Alone? R. (On the Application of Begum) (Respondent) V Secretary of State for the Home Department (Appellant) [2021] UKSC 7’ [2022] Public Law
Hooper H, ‘Justice for One Side Alone? ’R. (on the Application of Begum) V Special Immigration Appeals Commission’’ (2022) 2022(1) Public Law 1
Hooper H, ‘Special Advocates in the Adversarial System’ [2021] (Jan) Public Law 17
HOOPER H, ‘Legality, Legitimacy, and Legislation: The Role of Exceptional Circumstances Review in Common Law Judicial Review’ [2020] Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1
Hooper H, ‘Between Power and Process: Legal and Political Control over (Inter)national Security’ [2018] Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Hooper H, ‘Democratic Dialogue and the Constitution’ (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 688
Hooper H, ‘Parliaments and the European Court of Human Rights’ [2017] Law Quarterly Review 343
Hooper H, ‘The Future Is a Foreign Country: R (Lord Carlile and Others) V Home Secretary’ (2015) 74(1) Cambridge Law Journal 23
Hooper H, ‘The Curious Tale of the Black Spider Memos: Evans V Attorney General and Information Commissioner’ (2015) 19(1) Edinburgh Law Review 101
Hooper H, ‘Constitutional Courts and Deliberative Democracy’ [2014] Law Quarterly Review 685
Hooper H, ‘Crossing the Rubicon: Comment on Bank Mellat V Her Majesty’s Treasury (No. 1)’ [2014] (Spring) Public Law 171
Hooper H, ‘An Unsteady Middle Ground: Commission and United Kingdom V Kadi (No. 2)’ (2013) 20(3) European Public Law 409
Hooper H, ‘Shining Light on the Darkness?’ [2013] (April) Public Law 213
Hooper H, ‘The Right to Have Rights: Citizenship, Humanity, and International Law’ [2013] European Human Rights Law Review 110
Hooper H, ‘The Lesser of Two Evils’ (2012) 3(October) Law Quarterly Review 511
Hooper H, ‘The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic’ [2012] (July) Public Law 588
Hooper H, ‘The Legal Protection of Human Rights: Sceptical Essays’ (2011) 6 European Human Rights Law Review 750
HOOPER H, ‘A Melancholy Truth’ Edinburgh Law Review: An International Forum for the Discussion of Law
Fikfak V and Hooper H, Parliament’s Secret War (Hart Publishing 2018)
HOOPER H, Parliaments and Human Rights: Redressing the Democratic Deficit (H HOOPER, P YOWELL and M Hunt eds., Hart 2015)
Hooper H, ‘Delegated Legislation in an Unprincipled Constitution’ in R Johnson and Y Yi Zhu (eds.), Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom (Hart: Bloomsbury 2023)
Hooper H, ‘A Core Irreducible Minimum? The Operation of the AF (no. 3): Duty in the Closed Material Procedure’, The Civil Procedure Rules at 20 (2020)
Hooper H, ‘A Core Irreducible Minimum? The Operation of the AF (No. 3)’, The Civil Procedure Rules at 20 (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2020)
HOOPER H, ‘The Use of Parliamentary Materials by Courts in Proportionality Judgments’ in M Hunt, H HOOPER and P YOWELL (eds.), Parliaments and Human Rights: Redressing the Democratic Deficit (Hart 2015)
Hooper H, ‘Clause Seven of the Bill of Rights Bill: Diluting Rights Protection and Undermining Parliamentary Democracy’ (2022) Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog
Hooper H, ‘The Principle of Legality and Prerogative Power After the Third Direction Case’ (2021) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog
Hooper H, ‘Keeping the Lights On: Contrasting Miller V Prime Minister and Cherry V The Advocate General’ (2019) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog
Hooper H and Fikfak V, ‘Whither the War Powers Convention? What Next for Parliamentary Control of Armed Conflict After Syria?’ (2018) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog
Hooper H, ‘Balancing Access to Justice and the Public Interest: Privacy International and Ouster Clauses in the Broader Constitutional Context’ (2018) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog
Elliott M and Hooper H, ‘Critical Reflections on the High Courts Judgment in R (Miller) V Secretary of State for Exiting the EU’ (2016) UK Constitutional Law Group Blog
Hooper H, ‘Voting on Military Action in Syria: Part II’ (2015) UK Constitutional Law Group Blog
Hooper H, ‘The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill: A Potential Further Erosion of Citizenship Rights in the United Kingdom’ (2015) ConstitutionNet
Hooper H, ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’ (2012) UK Constitutional Law Group Blog
Hooper H, ‘The Justice and Security Bill: Some Serious Concerns’ (2012) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog
Hooper H, ‘A Case Without Precedent: City of London V Samede and Others’ (2012) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog
Craig P, Fredman S, Bamforth N, and others, ‘OXFORD PUBLIC LAWYERS RESPONSE TO THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE CONSULTATION TO REFORM THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998’ (Ministry of Justice Consultation, March 2022 2022)
Bamforth N, Bell J, Bradley A, and others, ‘The Independent Review of Administrative Law - Call for Evidence: Submissions from a Group of Oxford University Public Lawyers’ (Independent Review of Administrative Law - Call for Evidence 2020)
Hooper H, Hunt M and Yowell P, ‘Parliaments and Human Rights: Redressing the Democratic Deficit’ (Arts and Humanities Research Council 2012)