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.
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N. W. Barber, 'Against a Written Constitution' [2008] Public Law 11
N. W. Barber, 'Laws and Constitutional Conventions' (2009) 125 Law Quarterly Review 294
N. W. Barber, 'Self-Defence for Institutions ' (2012) Oxford Legal Studies Research paper
N. W. Barber, 'The Afterlife of Parliamentary Sovereignty' (2011) 9 International Journal of Constitutional Law 144
N. W. Barber, The Constitutional State (Oxford University Press 2010)
N. W. Barber, 'Two Meditations on the Thoughts of Many Minds ' (2010) 88 Texas Law Review 807
Interests
Teaching: Constitutional and Administrative Law; European Union Law; Philosophy of Law
Research: Public Law, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Administrative Law, EC Law
