Ewan Smith

Biography

Dr Ewan Smith is a Fixed Term Student at Christ Church and an Early Career Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. He is an Associate at the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government, and at the Oxford University China Centre. Before coming to Christ Church, Ewan was the Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College.

Ewan read law at Brasenose College, at the University of Paris and at Harvard Law School. He has previously taught at SOAS and at Tsinghua and Renmin Universities in China and has been a Visiting Researcher at Peking University and at the National University of Singapore. He is admitted to practice in New York, where he worked for Debevoise and Plimpton LLP. Before returning to Oxford, he spent ten years at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Ewan’s work looks at how rules govern powerful institutions, with a focus on foreign relations law and comparative public law. He is currently working on a monograph on the relationship between the written and unwritten constitutions and on two further research projects, Treaties, Brexit and the Constitution, and Partisanship and the Constitution.

Ewan teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, EU Law and Jurisprudence (FHS) Constitutional Theory (BCL) and Law and Public Policy (MPP)

Publications

Recent additions

E Smith, 'Is Foreign Policy Special?' (2021) 41 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1040
E Smith, 'On the Informal Rules of the Chinese Communist Party' (2021) 248 The China Quarterly 141
E Smith, 'The Conception of Legality under Xi Jinping' in Sue Trevaskes and Rogier Creemers (eds), Law and the Party in China (Cambridge University Press 2020)

Journal Article (6)

E Smith, 'Is Foreign Policy Special?' (2021) 41 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1040

E Smith, 'On the Informal Rules of the Chinese Communist Party' (2021) 248 The China Quarterly 141

E Smith, E Bjorge and A Lang, 'Treaties, Parliament and the Constitution' [2020] Public Law 508

E Smith, 'The Rule of Law in Party Documents' (2019) 4 China Law and Society Review 41

E Smith, 'Whose Socialism? Whose Legality?' (2019) 14 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 373

E Smith, 'The Rule of Law Doctrine of the Politburo' (2018) 79 China Journal 40

Chapter (2)

E Smith, 'The Conception of Legality under Xi Jinping' in Sue Trevaskes and Rogier Creemers (eds), Law and the Party in China (Cambridge University Press 2020)

E Smith and E Bjorge, 'The United Kingdom' in Fulvio Maria Palombino (ed), Duelling for Supremacy: International Law and National Fundamental Principles (Cambridge University Press 2019)

ISBN: 9781108475266

Report (1)

E Smith, The People's Republic of China (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights: A Human Rights and Rule of Law Assessment of Legislative and Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020)