Jacco Bomhoff
Jacco’s main research interest is the study of legal technique (doctrines, reasoning tools, methods, and so on), from a range of perspectives that could broadly be called ‘cultural’. Much of this work is comparative in approach, and it builds on insights from, for example, anthropology or literary studies. He has explored these themes, in particular, for the context of German public law and legal education, and of the post-war German constitutional experience more generally. Recent examples include an ethnographic study of the way German law students learn to work with the principle and the doctrine of ‘proportionality’; and a literary analysis of the textual format, writing style, and problem-solving technique of the so-called ‘Gutachten’.
Conor Gearty
Conor works in the fields of terrorism, human rights and civil liberties. His latest book engages with the relationship between terrorism law and colonialism, and will be published by Polity in May 2024 (Homeland Insecurity. The Rise and Rise of Global Anti-terrorism law). He has an interest in British civil liberties, and is currently working on a paper on the suffragettes.
Tarun Khaitan
Tarun works on constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law, jurisprudence, and discrimination law and theory. In recent year, he has written about political parties, guarantor institutions, plutocracy, and religion. He is currently working on a project on ‘fraternity’ as a constitutional ideal.
Martin Loughlin
Over the course of his career Martin has written extensively on local government, public law, public law theory, and the rule of law. His current research interests include Constitutional theory, the British constitution, the Rule of law, Public law method, and the History of British public law thought.
Richard Martin
Richard is the author of Policing Human Rights (OUP: 2021), which explores how officers encounter and experience human rights law in their everyday work. Empirically, he is in the middle of a mixed-methods study of how legislative reforms to pre-charge bail have affected the exercise and understanding of this power over a six-year period. Doctrinally, he is writing about recent public order powers and protest-related case law.
Kai Moller
Kai’s work in human and constitutional rights law and theory attempts to specify the moral, legal, constitutional, and institutional implications of a commitment to human dignity, freedom, and equality. He is the author of The Global Model of Constitutional Rights (OUP 2012, paperback 2015) and numerous articles about rights, proportionality, the culture of justification, and the role of human dignity in rights adjudication. He is currently working on a new project on the idea of freedom in human and constitutional rights law.
Jo Murkens
Jo teaching and research lies in the fields of public law and comparative constitutional law. He published on the topics of the written constitution, democracy, withdrawal from the EU, constitutionalism, the UK Supreme Court, judicial review, parliamentary reform in the 19th century, and Scottish independence. He is the author of From Empire to Union: Conceptions of German Constitutional Law since 1871 (OUP 2013), and co-author of Public Law: Text, Cases and Materials (5th edition, OUP 2023), one of the leading textbooks in public law.
Tom Poole
Tom works at the intersection between law and politics. He is writing a book on Enlightenment debates on the federative (foreign relations power) from Harrington to Hamilton. He has written a book on law and empire and plans to explore that subject further. He also writes on executive power. Tom convenes the Legal & Political Theory Forum , is General Editor of the Modern Law Review, and co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law.
Sarah Trotter
Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the Law School. Her research is mostly about how the human condition is imagined in European human rights law and about the assumptions that are made in law about how we relate to one another and ourselves.
Mike Wilkinson
Mike works in the areas of constitutional theory, European integration, and legal, political, and social theory. His monograph with OUP on Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe (2021) was selected as one of the ‘key books of the year on the future of Europe’ by the Review of Democracy. He recently co-edited a collection with CUP on a new approach to the study of constitutional law, The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution (2023), which was the feature of a podcast discussion on the IACL-AIDC blog.