2/7/2020 Programme for the Foundations of Law & Constitutional Government | Oxford Law Faculty

Programme for the Foundations of Law & Constitutional

Government

The Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government supports
leading scholarly work on the nature of law and its social, political and moral foundations,
the shape of sound constitutional order and constitutional principle, and the challenges to
realising the rule of law and constitutional government. Based in the Faculty of Law, the
Programme convenes seminars, workshops and conferences examining foundational
questions in constitutional law and theory, and in legal and political thought more broadly.
The Programme also hosts outstanding doctoral students and visiting scholars, aiming to
contribute to our understanding of the nature and value of human flourishing and the rule
of law.

Past events
27 Jan 2020
Book launch: Köpcke, Legal Validity - The Fabric of Justice (Hart, 2019)
Maris Köpcke, Raquel Barradas, Timothy Endicott, Mikolaj Barczentewicz
Massey Room - Balliol College

20 Jan 2020
Popular Sovereignty in the Scottish Constitutional Tradition
Aileen McHarg (Durham)
Massey Room - Balliol College

21 Nov 2019
The Legal Implications of Brexit
Paul Craig (Oxford) and Martin Loughlin (LSE)
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Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre

News
05 Apr 2020
Parliament creates an International Agreements Committee

30 Jul 2019
LARC and Bonavero: Citizenship and Accountability Conference Recordings - now live!
video

06 Feb 2019
Legal Validity: The Fabric of Justice by Maris Köpcke

Publications
N. W. Barber, The Constitutional State (Oxford University Press 2010)

N. W. Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell (eds), Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law
(Hart Publishing 2016)

R Ekins, The Nature of Legislative Intent (Oxford: OUP 2012)

M Köpcke, Legal Validity: The Fabric of Justice (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2019)

N. W. Barber and Richard Ekins , 'Situating Subsidiarity ' (2016) 61 American Journal of
Jurisprudence 5

D Burbidge, 'Security and Devolution in Kenya: Struggles in Applying Constitutional

Provisions to Local Politics' (2017) 3 Strathmore Law Journal 131

D Burbidge, 'The Inherently Political Nature of Subsidiarity' (2017) The American Journal
of Jurisprudence

N. W. Barber, The Principles of Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press 2018)

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