Richard Ekins is Professor of Law and Constitutional Government in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He leads the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government in the University of Oxford (with Nick Barber and Timothy Endicott) and Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project. His published work includes The Nature of Legislative Intent (OUP, 2012) and the jointly authored work Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation (Cambridge, 2018). In December 2022, the King approved his appointment as Honorary King’s Counsel, an award made to recognise those in the legal profession who have made a major contribution to the law of England and Wales outside the courtroom.