Professor Graham Gee

Judicial Power Project

Graham Gee is a Professor of Public Law at the University of Sheffield. He writes on public law in the UK, and recently completed (with colleagues at UCL and Queen Mary) a three-year AHRC-funded project on “The Politics of Judicial Independence in the UK’s Changing Constitution”. His research has been cited by the Lord Chief Justice, the Ministry of Justice, the Judicial Appointments Commission, the House of Commons Library and the House of Lords Constitution Committee.

Reforming the Lord Chancellor’s Role in Senior Judicial Appointments

by Professor Graham Gee | Feb 9, 2021

Related Content The system for appointing senior judges needs to be reformed. In this paper, we explain what has gone wrong and what should now be done to put it right. We take senior appointments to include the High Court, the Court of Appeal, leadership roles such...

Will the UK’s new senior judge change the Supreme Court?

by Professor Graham Gee | Oct 8, 2017

This article appeared in The Spectator The Supreme Court is changing. Three new Justices are taking office, including Lady Black, who is only the second woman to serve on the UK’s highest court. The first, Lady Hale, was this week officially sworn in as President of...

A Tale of Two Constitutional Duties: Liz Truss, Lady Hale, and Miller

by Professor Graham Gee | Nov 28, 2016

A great deal has been written about the High Court’s judgment in Miller, some of it on the Judicial Power Project website. The importance of Miller, and the intensity of the reactions that the judgment has provoked, can be seen in the separate controversies over Liz...

Judicial Power Project: Dame Elisabeth Laing’s ‘Two Cheers for Judicial Activism’

by Professor Graham Gee | Nov 24, 2016

Read Paper One of the principal aims of this website, launched just over a year ago now, has been to encourage debate about the proper bounds of judicial power. Our aim has not been simply to contribute to the academic discourse about the separation of powers, but...