Nicholas Barber

CUF Lecturer
Nick Barber joined the Oxford Law Faculty in 1998 as a Fixed Term Fellow at Brasenose, moving to a tenured Fellowship at Trinity College in 2000. He holds an MA from Oxford and the BCL, and is a non-practicing barrister and member of Middle Temple. In 2013 he was appointed University Lecturer in Constitutional Law. In 2012 and 2013 he was a visiting Professor at Renmin University, China. He has lectured extensively on constitutional law and theory in many countries. He has published many papers in these areas, and his book - The Constitutional State – was published in 2011, and has been widely reviewed. He is also editor of the United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog.
Publications
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2013
N. W. Barber, 'Legal Realism, Pluralism, and Their Challengers' in Ulla Neergaard and Ruth Nielsen (eds), European Legal Method – towards a New European Legal Realism? (DJOEF Publishing 2013) (forthcoming)
N. W. Barber, 'The Constitution of China: A Contextual Analysis' (2013) 129 Law Quarterly Review 132 [Review]
2012
N. W. Barber, 'Does China Enjoy Greater Legitimacy Than Any Western State?' (2012) United Kingdom Constitutional Law Group
N. W. Barber, 'House of Lords Reform: A Look in the Long Grass.' (2012) United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog
N. W. Barber, 'Legal Realism, Pluralism, and their Challengers' (2012) 76/2012 Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper
Interests
Teaching: Constitutional and Administrative Law; European Union Law; Philosophy of Law
Research: Public Law, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Administrative Law, EC Law

