Timothy Endicott


Timothy Endicott
Timothy Endicott is Fellow in Law at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and has been Professor of Legal Philosophy since 2006. Professor Endicott writes on Jurisprudence and Constitutional and Administrative Law, with special interests in law and language and interpretation. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law from October 2007 to September 2015. He is the author of Vagueness in Law (OUP 2000), and Administrative Law, 3rd ed (OUP 2015). After graduating with the AB in Classics and English, summa cum laude, from Harvard, he completed the MPhil in Comparative Philology in Oxford, studied Law at the University of Toronto, and practised as a litigation lawyer in Toronto. He completed the DPhil in Law in Oxford in 1998.

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The Stubborn Stain Theory of Executive Power

In November 2016, days before the Supreme Court hearing in the Miller case, Professor Timothy Endicott (University of Oxford) delivered a lecture for Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project on the royal prerogative. Reflecting its weight and importance, the lecture was relied on by the Government’s lawyers. Today, the Judicial Power Project publishes a revised and updated version of Professor Endicott’s lecture, with a foreword by Professor Sir Ross Cranston, recently retired from the High Court bench and former Solicitor General.

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Uncomfortable majorities

Timothy Endicott is the Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford   With his characteristic insight and his insistence on facing facts, Lord Judge has identified some notable drawbacks in our constitution. To assess them, we should put them in the context of one great good thing about the constitution: getting rid of Prime Ministers in the 21st century is so easy. Getting rid of the Stuart Kings took […]

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