Professor Richard (Rick) Rawlings
UCL Faculty Member
Bio:
Rick is the Professor of Public Law at UCL. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, Honorary Bencher at Middle Temple, and a former Leverhulme Major Research Fellow. Rick has served as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Constitution Committee and on the (Thomas) Commission on Justice in Wales. He has held visiting posts at leading universities in the common law world such as University of California, Berkeley; National University of Singapore; University of Auckland; and, as Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Professor, Melbourne University.
Rick's many works include leading monographs and edited collections such as Law and Administration (4th edn 2022) (with Carol Harlow); Delineating Wales: Constitutional, Legal and Administrative Aspects of National Devolution (2005); The Regulatory State: Constitutional Implications (2010); Sovereignty and the Law (2013); and Process and Procedure in EU Administration (2014) (with Carol Harlow).
Representative publications:
‘Proceduralism and Automation. Challenges to the Values of Administrative Law’ in Liz Fisher, Jeff King and Alison Young (eds), The Foundations and Future of Public Law (Oxford University Press, 2019)
‘Populism and Administrative Law’ in Eoin Carolan, JNE Varuhas and Sarah Fulham-McQuillan (eds), The Making and Re-Making of Public Law (Hart Publishing, 2024)