Dr. Alex Williams
Dr Alex Williams is a practising barrister specialising in public law and human rights, with a particular focus on licensing, planning and social housing matters. He has been involved in litigation at all judicial levels.
Formerly Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre at Durham University, Alex is a distinguished academic writer with internationally recognised expertise in public law and human rights, particularly on the intersection between public and private law, the meaning of 'public authority' and 'public functions', and the scope of ECHR and judicial review obligations. He has advised on these matters both as an academic and a barrister. He has also acted as a consultant to the Law Commission on its misconduct in public office project.
Alex has published in top-tier academic and practitioner journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Public Law and Judicial Review, and lectured to expert audiences across the world. He is also co-author of Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights (4th edn, Routledge, 2016), which is core reading on many English undergraduate law courses.
Alex studied at Cambridge and Durham universities, receiving a number of awards for academic and mooting achievement during his time as a student. In addition to his tenured academic post at Durham University, he has also held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University, University College London and UNSW, Sydney.
Formerly Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre at Durham University, Alex is a distinguished academic writer with internationally recognised expertise in public law and human rights, particularly on the intersection between public and private law, the meaning of 'public authority' and 'public functions', and the scope of ECHR and judicial review obligations. He has advised on these matters both as an academic and a barrister. He has also acted as a consultant to the Law Commission on its misconduct in public office project.
Alex has published in top-tier academic and practitioner journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Public Law and Judicial Review, and lectured to expert audiences across the world. He is also co-author of Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights (4th edn, Routledge, 2016), which is core reading on many English undergraduate law courses.
Alex studied at Cambridge and Durham universities, receiving a number of awards for academic and mooting achievement during his time as a student. In addition to his tenured academic post at Durham University, he has also held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University, University College London and UNSW, Sydney.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2017
Membership
- Planning and Environment Bar Association
- Social Housing Law Association
- Administrative Law Bar Association
Education
- MA (Cantab), MJur, PhD
1 Contributions by Alex Williams
PRACTICE NOTES
Human Rights Act 1998: UK incorporation of the ECHR—Convention rights, public authority duties, interpretative obligation and horizontal effect, statements of compatibility, declarations of incompatibility, remedies, and reform
Convention rights
The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) took effect in October 2000 and is intended to give effect to the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (the Convention rights). The ECHR is a binding international treaty reflecting the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. The UK ratified the ECHR in 1951, but it became binding in UK law only with the introduction of the HRA 1998...
Public Law
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