Richard Ekins

Richard Edwin Ekins, KC (Hon) is a New Zealand legal academic working in the United Kingdom. He is Professor of Law and Constitutional Government in the University of Oxford, a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and the head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project.{{Cite web |title=Richard Ekins {{!}} Faculty of Law |url=https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/richard-ekins |access-date=2022-11-27 |website= |publisher=University of Oxford |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Professor Richard Ekins |url=https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-richard-ekins/ |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=St John's College |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Richard Ekins, Author at Policy Exchange |url=https://policyexchange.org.uk/author/richard-ekins/ |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=Policy Exchange |language=en}}

Ekins was educated at the University of Auckland, where he obtained his BA, LLB (Hons) and BA (Hons), and the University of Oxford, where he graduated BCL, MPhil and DPhil.{{Cite web |title=The Nature of Legislative Intent |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-nature-of-legislative-intent-9780199646999?cc=us&lang=en&# |publisher=Oxford University Press}} He was previously a judge's clerk at the High Court of New Zealand at Auckland, a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford, and a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland.

Ekins was created an honorary King's Counsel in 2022: the Ministry of Justice credited him with making "a major contribution to public debate, and parliamentary deliberation, about the constitutional role of the courts."{{Cite web |date=23 December 2022 |title=New King's Counsel welcomed by Lord Chancellor |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-kings-counsel-welcomed-by-lord-chancellor |publisher=Ministry of Justice}}