Dr Ewan Smith

Bio:

Dr Ewan Smith joined UCL Laws as Associate Professor of Public Law in 2022. Prior to that he was a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, the Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and an Early Career Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Ewan read law at Oxford, at the University of Paris and at Harvard Law School. He has previously worked at Peking, Tsinghua and Renmin Universities in China and at the National University of Singapore. In 2023 Ewan was a Hauser Fellow at New York University Law School and in 2024 he was a Visiting Professor at Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna. Ewan is admitted to practice in New York, where he worked for Debevoise and Plimpton LLP. Between 2005 and 2015, he worked for the UK Foreign Office. Ewan’s work considers how political rules govern powerful institutions, how law shapes foreign relations, and compares the constitutional orders of China, the UK and the United States. This April he will co-convene a British Academy funded conference on Parity of Esteem.

Representative publications: 

The New Chinese Doctrine of Intervention (ICLQ Forthcoming)

Is Foreign Policy Special? (2021) 41 (4) OJLS 1040

On the Informal Rules of the Chinese Communist Party (2021) 248 China Quarterly 141