Keith Ewing


Keith D. Ewing is professor of Public Law at King's College London and co-author of two of Britain's leading textbooks in constitutional and administrative law, and labour law.

Biography

Ewing was educated at Edinburgh University and worked at Cambridge University in England, Monash University in Australia, Osgoode Hall in Canada, before joining the King's College London law school in 1992.
Ewing is recognised as a leading scholar in constitutional law, public law, labour law, human rights and the law of democracy and is considered "one of the world's leading scholars of the constitution of social democracy". To celebrate his scholarly legacy, papers in his honour were published in a book by Hart-Bloomsbury in 2020, edited by Professor Alison Young, Professor Alan Bogg, and Professor Jake Rowbottom.
Professor Ewing was perhaps the first scholar to coin the term ‘Juristocracy’, to describe "the way democratic societies can be crushed by unelected judges under cover of ostensible principles like ‘the rule of law’ and ‘the protection of human rights’".
He has written extensively on the funding of political parties and has been regarded as "the most prolific and influential scholar in political finance in the common law world beyond the US". His first book on the topic was published in 1987.
He has also important work relating to reforming labour law to strengthen trade union freedom, constitutional reform, relating to public participation in the political process and the status of social and economic rights..
In 2020, Ewing published the well received article at the King's Law Journal, where he argued that there was a failure on the part of the British Parliament to discharge its basic constitutional duties; and the book published by Oxford University Press.

Publications

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