I started out interested in public law, then I got absorbed in jurisprudence for quite a while. Now I research at the intersection of the two areas. Often that means using ideas from philosophy to solve legal problems. Sometimes it means going in the opposite direction and drawing on legal doctrine to shed light on philosophical issues. I co-author with Farrah Ahmed, Richard Albert, James Edwards, and Adam Tucker.

Works in Progress

‘Rational Reconstruction’

‘Plainly Wrong’

‘Precedent and Fairness’ (draft)

‘According to Law’ (draft)

‘The Power to Forgive’ (with J. Edwards) (SSRN)

‘Plan B: A Theory of Judicial Review’ (SSRN)

Forthcoming

‘Consistency in Administrative Law’ in H. Kristjansson, S. Lewis, and T. Endicott (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (OUP) (draft)

‘Interpretive Theory in Public Law’ in P. Daly and J. Tomlinson (eds), Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems (Edward Elgar) (with F. Ahmed)

Published

‘Pardons’, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, 2021, vol 8, pp. 215-244 (draft | published)

‘Law’s Boundaries’, Legal Theory, 2020, vol 26, pp. 103-123 (SSRN | published)

Enforcing Constitutional Conventions’, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2019, vol. 17, pp. 1146-1165 (with F. Ahmed and R. Albert) (SSRN | published )

‘Judging Constitutional Conventions’, International Journal of Constitutional, 2019, vol. 17, pp. 787-806 (with F. Ahmed and R. Albert) (SSRN | published)

‘Strained Interpretations’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2019, vol. 39, pp. 316-343 (SSRN | published)

‘Mercy’, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2018, vol. 46, pp. 60-89 (SSRN | published)

‘Top-Down Constitutional Conventions’, Modern Law Review, 2018, vol. 81, pp. 765-789 (with A. Tucker) (SSRN | published)

‘Standing and Civic Virtue’, Law Quarterly Review, 2018, vol. 134, pp. 239-256 (with F. Ahmed) (SSRN)

‘Mercy and Caprice Under the Indian Constitution’, Indian Law Review, 2017, vol. 1, pp. 1-13 (SSRN | published)

‘The Flexibility Rule in Administrative Law’, Cambridge Law Journal, 2017, vol. 76, pp. 375-398 (SSRN | published)

‘Constitutional Statutes’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2017, vol. 37, pp. 461-481 (with F. Ahmed) (SSRN | published)

‘Mercy and the Roles of Judges’ in J. Jacobs and J. Jackson (eds), Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics (Routledge 2016) 255-266

‘The Crown’s Administrative Powers’, Law Quarterly Review, 2015, vol. 131, pp. 652-672 (SSRN)

‘The Internal Aspect of Social Rules’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2015, vol. 35, pp. 283-300 (SSRN | published)

‘The Quasi-Entrenchment of Constitutional Statutes’, Cambridge Law Journal, 2014, vol. 73, pp. 514-535 (with F. Ahmed) (SSRN | published)

‘The Coherence of the Doctrine of Legitimate Expectations’, Cambridge Law Journal, 2014, vol. 73, pp. 61-85 (with F. Ahmed) (SSRN | published)

‘Constitutional Conventions and the Prince of Wales’, Modern Law Review, 2013, vol. 76(6), pp. 1119-1128 (draft | published)

‘Expertise, Deference, and Giving Reasons’, Public Law, 2012, vol. 2, pp. 221-230 (with F. Ahmed) (SSRN)

‘Review: Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis’, University of British Columbia Law Review, 2010, vol. 43, pp. 269-279

‘Unlucky Section 13: Sexual Activity Between Children and the Sexual Offences Act 2003’, King’s Law Journal, 2009, vol. 21, pp. 327-339