Professor Jeff King

Bio:

Jeff King is a Professor of Law at UCL Laws, specialising in UK and comparative public law and constitutional theory.  His works include Judging Social Rights (CUP 2012), which won the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, and co-edited works such as The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism (CUP 2018), Foundations and Future of Public Law (OUP 2020), The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (CUP 2025) and the forthcoming Comparing Covid Laws: A Critical Global Survey (OUP 2025).  As Co-Principal Investigator of the Lex-Atlas: Covid-19 project, he was general Co-Editor of The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19, an encyclopaedic comparative study of over 50 national legal responses to Covid-19.  King was the recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2018, and served as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Constitution Committee and Research Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law before becoming Deputy Director of the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.  His key area of interest at the moment is the theory and practice of the rule of law, with a special interest in emergencies in comparative public law.

Representative publications: 

The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (CUP 2025) (see ‘introduction’ and ‘rule of law’)

The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19 (OUP 2021)

‘Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination and Human Rights’ (2022) 399 The Lancet 220 <https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)02873-7/fulltext>