Lewis Graham
Law Society Fellow in Law
Lewis completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge and holds Law degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Bristol.
He joined Wadham as a Fellow in January 2022 and teaches Jurisprudence, EU Law and Administrative Law for the college. His general research interests include judicial decision-making, the work of apex courts, public law and human rights (especially the Human Rights Act and European Convention on Human Rights). He is particularly interested in empirical legal work.
He has recently published articles in Public Law, Human Rights Law Review and International and Comparative Law Quarterly. A co-authored volume on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, penned with Steven Greer and Lindsey Bell, is due to be published soon by Cambridge University Press.
Selected publications
Books:
Judicial Individuality on the UK Supreme Court (forthcoming, Hart, 2024)
Articles:
Strong Courts and Stare Decisis in Co-ordinate Courts (2023) King's Law Journal (forthcoming)
Liberty and its Exceptions (2023) 72(2) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 277
Taking Strasbourg Jurisprudence Into Account (2022) 2 European Human Rights Law Review 163
The Modern Mirror Principle [2021] Public Law 523
Extradition, Life Sentences and the European Convention (2020) 25(3) Judicial Review 228
Strategic Admissibility Decisions in the European Court of Human Rights (2020) 69(1) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 79
Statutory Secret Trials: the Judicial Approach to Closed Material procedures under the Justice and Security Act 2013 (2019) 38(2) Civil Justice Quarterly 189
Out with a whimper? The final word on the closed material procedure at the European Court of Human Rights (2019) 25(1) European Public Law 43
From Vinter to Hutchinson and Back Again: Life Imprisonment Cases in the European Court of Human Rights (2018) 3 European Human Rights Law Review 258
Book Chapters:
The UK Supreme Court: radical outcomes from gradualist premises (with Chris Hanretty) in Kalman, Constitutional Review in Western Europe (Routledge, 2023)
Law and Politics in UK Courts in Reid, Howard and Randazzo, Handbook of Law and Political Systems (Edward Elgar, 2023)
Europe (with Steven Greer) in Moeckli, Shah and Sivakumaran, International Human Rights Law (OUP, 4th edn, 2022)
Commentary:
Life Sentences and Article 3 in the Extradition Context: Sanchez-Sanchez v United Kingdom (2023) 1 European Human Rights Law Review 40
Jeanty v Belgium: saving lives provides (another) exception to Article 3 ECHR (2021) 21(1) Human Rights Law Review 221
Comment: Unuane v United Kingdom (2021) 35(2) Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law 184
Comment: R v Abdurahman (Ismail) (2020) Criminal Law Review 453
FJM v United Kingdom: the Taming of Article 8? (with Jennifer Boddy) (2019) 2 Conveyancer 166
Comment: Beuze v Belgium (2019) 3 Criminal Law Review 230
Recent Blogs:
Challenging State Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic Before the ECtHR, Strasbourg Observers, 18 October 2022
YP v Russia: Sterilisation without consent, Article 3 and reproductive rights at the ECtHR (with Zoe Tongue), Strasbourg Observers, 30 September 2022
Empirical Work in Judicial Review, UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 5 April 2022
Interim Relief under the ECHR - Getting the Facts Right, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, 2 July 2022
The Reed Court by Numbers: How Shallow is the Shallow End?, UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 5 April 2022
Going Beyond, and Going Against, the Strasbourg Court, UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 11 January 2022
Suspended and Prospective Quashing Orders: The Current Picture, UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 7 June 2021
Changes to court procedures that limit appeal rights should be resisted,Legal Action Group, March 2021
Does judicial review of delegated legislation under the Human Rights Act unduly interfere with executive law-making? (with Joe Tomlinson and Alexandra Sinclair), UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 22 February 2021
How do you solve a problem like judicial review reform?(with Joe Tomlinson) The Constitution Unit Blog, 29 January 2021