
Other affiliations
- Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
- Faculty of Law
- Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government
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
Journal Article (5)
Chapter (2)
Report (1)
Case Note (1)
Research programmes
- Early Career Fellowship Programme
- Jurisprudence in Oxford
- Programme for the Foundations of Law & Constitutional Government
- The Intersection between Democracy and Human Rights
Research projects
Research Interests
Foreign Affairs
Comparative Public Law
Constitutional Theory
Chinese Politics
Options taught
Administrative Law, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Theory, Constitutional Law (Mods)News articles for Ewan Smith

Parliament creates an International Agreements Committee

Book Launch - Rethinking Party Reform by Fabio Wolkenstein

Law library to be established at the Common Law Centre in Beijing

Evidence from 'Treaties, Brexit and the Constitution' research project cited in House of Lords report

Partisanship and the Constitution - Early Career Workshop

Joint research project examines the role treaties will play in a post-Brexit constitution.

Call for Papers: Political Parties, Partisanship, and the Constitution - a workshop for early career researchers

Treaties, Brexit, and the Constitution