Kacper Kryk

Kacper is a DPhil Candidate in administrative law at Magdalen College. He read law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Paris-Panthéon-Assas (BA Law with French Law, First Class), winning a number of prizes, including the Martin Wronker Prize for Best Overall Performance in Jurisprudence and the Slaughter and May Prize for Best Overall Candidate in Law Moderations. He obtained the BCL with Distinction as the Fountain Court Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Kacper’s DPhil thesis, supervised by Dr Joanna Bell, examines appellate reasoning in judicial review of allocations of scarce resources by public bodies. Beyond English administrative law, his interests include human rights, EU and competition law. 

Prior to joining the Faculty as a DPhil Candidate, Kacper was a trainee with Judge Kowalik-Bańczyk at the European Court of Justice, focussing on EU competition, sanctions, and regulatory, as well as a Bonavero Fellow (and Caseworker) at the AIRE Centre in London, where he worked in human rights and immigration law, with a particular focus on modern slavery and the NRM. He was also Research Assistant to Dr Shreya Atrey on a monograph on anti-discrimination law and to Ms Nuala Mole on a chapter on the history of free movement of people between Europe and Britain. 

As an undergraduate, Kacper won multiple prizes for mooting, including the Best Written Pleadings Prize at the HSF Competition Law Moot Court.

Kacper's research is generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.