Joanna Bell

Joanna is an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty, and Jeffrey Hackney Tutorial Fellow in Law at St Edmund Hall. 

Her main research area is administrative law, with particular focus on judicial review. She also has special interests in related fields including planning and environmental law, immigration and asylum law and tribunals. She has published widely in these fields in leading journals including Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Modern Law Review and Public Law. Her monograph - The Anatomy of Administrative Law - published in 2020 won the Inner Temple New Authors Prize and was runner up for the SLS Peter Birks Prize. She is a co-author of one of the leading practitioner textbooks, De Smith's Judicial Review. Her research has been cited in the UK Supreme Court on a number of occasions. (See Dover DC v  CPRE Kent [2017] UKSC 79; Finucane's Application for Judicial Review  [2019] UKSC 7; Privacy International v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22). 

Joanna teaches on a range of public law topics. On the undergraduate programme, she teaches Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Environmental Law. On the BCL/MJur programme, she teaches on, and convenes, the Advanced Administrative Law module. She supervises research students working on a wide range of topics in the field of administrative law. 

In addition, Joanna serves as an Articles Editor for the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. Prior to this, she was an Analysis Editor for the Journal of Environmental Law.