Richard Ekins
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Richard Edwin Ekins, KC (Hon) is a New Zealand legal academic working in the United Kingdom. He is Professor of Law and Constitutional Government in the University of Oxford, a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and the head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project.[1][2][3]
Ekins was educated at the University of Auckland, where he obtained his B.A., LL.B. (Hons) and B.A. (Hons), and the University of Oxford, where he graduated with a B.C.L., M.Phil. and D.Phil.[4] He was previously a judge's clerk at the High Court of New Zealand at Auckland, a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford, and a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland.[4]
Ekins was created an honorary King's Counsel in 2022: the Ministry of Justice credited him with making "a major contribution to public debate, and parliamentary deliberation, about the constitutional role of the courts."[5]
