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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Journal Articles
2012
N. W. Barber, 'The Separation of Powers in the British Constitution ' (2012) Law: The Journal of the Higher School of Economics 3
2011
N. W. Barber, 'The Afterlife of Parliamentary Sovereignty' (2011) 9 International Journal of Constitutional Law 144
2010
N. W. Barber, 'Two Meditations on the Thoughts of Many Minds ' (2010) 88 Texas Law Review 807
2009
N. W. Barber, 'Laws and Constitutional Conventions' (2009) 125 Law Quarterly Review 294
2008
N. W. Barber, 'Against a Written Constitution' [2008] Public Law 11
N. W. Barber, 'Review of The Paradox of Constitutionalism ' (2008) 124 Law Quarterly Review 160
N. W. Barber, 'Review of The Sovereignty of Law' (2008) 68 Cambridge Law Journal 426
2006
N. W. Barber, 'Legal Pluralism and the European Union' (2006) 12(3) European Law Journal 306
2005
N. W. Barber, 'Professor Loughlin’s Idea of Public Law' (2005) 25 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 157
N. W. Barber, 'Subsidiarity in the Draft Constitution' (2005) 11 European Public Law/ Kluwer 197
N. W. Barber, 'The Limited Modesty of Subsidiarity' (2005) 11(3) European Law Journal 308
2004
N. W. Barber, 'Must Legalistic Conceptions of the Rule of Law Have a Social Dimension?' (2004) 17(4) Ratio Juris 474
2003
N. W. Barber, 'A Right to Privacy?' [2003] Public Law 602
N. W. Barber, 'The Rechtsstaat and the Rule of Law' (2003) University of Toronto Law Journal
N. W. Barber and Alison Young, 'The Rise of Prospective Henry VIII Clauses and their Implications for Sovereignty' [2003] Public Law 113
2002
N. W. Barber, 'Citizenship, Nationalism and the European Union' (2002) 27 European Law Review 241
2001
N. W. Barber, 'Prelude to the Separation of Powers' (2001) 60 Cambridge Law Journal 59
N. W. Barber, 'The Academic Mythologians' (2001) 21 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 369
2000
N. W. Barber, 'Sovereignty Re-examined' (2000) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies [...]
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ISBN: 0143-6503
Books
2010
N. W. Barber, The Constitutional State (Oxford University Press 2010)
Chapters
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)
2009
N. W. Barber and K. Dobrzeniecki (translator), 'Suwerennosc Panstw a Relacje : Prawo Europejskie - Narodowe Konstytucje ' in D. Bunikowskiego and K. Dobrzenieckiego (eds), Pluralizm Pranwny: Tradycja, Transformacje, Wyzwania (Torun Press 2009)
2006
N. W. Barber, 'A Right to Privacy' in K. Ziegler (ed), Human Rights, Private Law and Privacy (Hart Publishing 2006)
N. W. Barber, 'The Constitution, The State and the European Union' in Cambridge Yearbook of European Law (CUP 2006)
2003
N. W. Barber, 'Citizenship, Nationalism and the European Union' in M. Inglesias (ed), Globalisation, Democracy and Citizenship (Humbolt 2003)
Internet Publications
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
N. W. Barber, 'Scottish Independence and the Role of the United Kingdom ' (2012) United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog
N. W. Barber, 'Self-Defence for Institutions ' (2012) Oxford Legal Studies Research paper
N. W. Barber, 'The Argument from Counter-Example' (2012) Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper
N. W. Barber, 'The Separation of Powers and the British Constitution' (2012) Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper
N. W. Barber, 'The Sophick Constitution ' (2012) United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog
N. W. Barber, 'The Virtues of Advisory Referendums' (2012) United Kingdom Constitutional Law Group Blog
2011
N. W. Barber, 'A Good Word for the Bill of Rights Commission ' (2011) United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog
N. W. Barber, 'The Decline of Mercy ' (2011) United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog
N. W. Barber, 'The Special Advisor Who Wasn't' (2011) United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog
Case Notes
2004
N. W. Barber and Helen Scott, 'State Liability Under Francovich for Decisions of National Courts' (2004) 121 Law Quarterly Review 403
2003
N. W. Barber, 'A Question of Taste' (2003) 118 Law Quarterly Review 230
N. W. Barber, 'Parliamentary Immunity and Human Rights' (2003) 119 Law Quarterly Review 557
2001
N. W. Barber and Alison Young, 'Political Libels in New Zealand' (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 175
N. W. Barber, 'The Doctrine of State Necessity and Revolutionary Legality in Fiji' (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 370
2000
N. W. Barber, 'The Doctrine of State Necessity in Pakistan' (2000) 116 Law Quarterly Review 332 [...]
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ISBN: 0023-933X
Reviews
2013
N. W. Barber, 'The Constitution of China: A Contextual Analysis' (2013) 129 Law Quarterly Review 132
2011
N. W. Barber, 'Review of The New Separation of Powers' [2011] Public Law 428
2004
N. W. Barber, 'European Constitutionalism Beyond the State' [2004] Public Law 195
2000
N. W. Barber, 'Recrafting the Rule of Law' (2000) 116 Law Quarterly Review 332 [...]
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ISBN: 0023-933X
Reports
2009
N. W. Barber, 'Forms of Public Participation in the United Kingdom's Legislative Processes' (Chinese Academy of The Social Sciences 2009)
Interests
Teaching: Constitutional and Administrative Law; European Union Law; Philosophy of Law
Research: Public Law, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Administrative Law, EC Law
