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Nicholas Bamforth, BCL. MA (Oxon) is a Fellow in Law at Queen's College. He has previously worked at UCL and Cambridge. In 2003-4, he was a Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University. Since October 2006, he has been an elected member of Oxford's University Council. He is currently serving as the University Junior Proctor.
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2007
N C Bamforth, 'Same-sex partnerships: Some Comparative Constitutional Lessons' (2007) 2007(1) European Human Rights Law Review 47
N C Bamforth, 'The benefits of marriage in all but name?\' Same-sex couples and the Civil Partnership Act 2004' (2007) 19(2) Child and Family Law Quarterly 133
2005
N C Bamforth, 'Political Accountability in Play: The Budd Inquiry and David Blunkett’s Resignation' [2005] Public Law 229 [...]
Note on ministerial responsibility and inquiry procedures.
N C Bamforth, 'The role of philosophical and constitutional arguments in the same-sex marriage debate: a response to John Murphy' (2005) 17 Child & Family Law Quarterly 165 [...]
A response to another author's critique of my earlier work. Argues that the case for legal recognition of same-sex partenrship rights requires use of philosophical and constitutional arguments, not just case law analogies.
2004
N C Bamforth, 'Conceptions of Anti-Discrimination Law' (2004) 24 OJLS 693 [...]
Review article of Sandra Fredman's monograph Discrimination Law. Tries to explore the nature of anti-discrmination law and the flaws in equality arguments.
Teaching: Constitutional and Administrative Law; European Union Law; Human Rights Law; Philosophy of Law
Research: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Jurisprudence, Human Rights, Land Law
