People

Malcolm was Clerk of the House of Commons from 2006-2011. During his career in the House he served in all the offices of the Clerk’s Department, specialising in procedure and parliamentary privilege. He has advised many  Commonwealth parliaments and LEGCO, Hong Kong where he was brought up. He edited the 24th edition of Erskine May. He is also an academic historian and author of a number of books and numerous essays and reviews. He has lectured and taught in various universities, most recently in Singapore on social and political philosophy. He was appointed KCB  in 2011, elected FSA in 2012 and FRAS in 2019.

Andrew has written extensively on constitutional issues and worked in academic, political and public policy environments. He is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History and Head of the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of Electrified Democracy: the Internet and the United Kingdom Parliament in history (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and is currently writing for Oxford University Press Democracy in the United Kingdom. 

Andrew is Director of The Constitution Society.

After gaining her undergraduate degree in history from the University of Cambridge, Emily spent several years as a parliamentary assistant to an MP before training as a history teacher. She was Head of History in an 11-18 comprehensive in Surrey and, more recently, Programme Leader for Politics in a state sixth form college in Sussex. She is currently completing an MA (politics and contemporary history) at King’s College, London. 

Kate is a Graduate Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. Her research focuses on emergency legislation, specifically the legislative scrutiny of emergency laws. She obtained her LLB from the University of Liverpool in 2017 and her LLM from the University of Cambridge in 2018. Kate is a non-practising barrister, having been called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Inner Temple in 2019. Prior to beginning her PhD she worked in legal practice for two years.

Dexter joined the Constitution Society in 2022 after completing his doctorate at the University of Edinburgh. He is a historian of unionism in Britain and Ireland and has published extensively on the topic. Dexter worked as a Press Officer for the Scottish Labour Party at Holyrood and retains an interest in contemporary Scottish politics. He is Director of Research for the Constitution Society.

Nat le Roux co-founded The Constitution Society in 2009 and remains Senior Advisor to the Society. He spent most of his career in finance and was Chief Executive of IG Group plc before retiring in 2006. He has subsequently held various non-executive positions, including serving as an independent director of the London Metal Exchange between 2008 and 2016. His current business interests include renewable energy, organic farming and mining.

Şefki is a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Sussex and was called to the Bar in 2023. His research interests span international and constitutional law, and he recently co-authored a report on Traveller rights with the University of Glasgow. He was previously a Senior Fellow and Rapporteur at JUSTICE, where he led research and drafting on reports concerning the Afghan Resettlement and EU Settlement Schemes. He has also published on extradition, climate litigation and surveillance law.

Dr Joseph Quinn is 2026 Haldane Research Fellow. A historian of modern British and Irish political development, his research examines war and society, governance, and constitutional reform. He previously worked across archives, universities, and national heritage institutions, contributing to significant public history initiatives and major national commemorative projects in both Ireland and
the UK. His fellowship focuses on Richard Haldane’s constitutional legacy and will coordinate and lead the development of a centenary programme to mark his death in 2028.

Sarah is Reader in Law at Bangor University. Her research focuses on constitutional and administrative law, judicial review, and administrative justice, with particular expertise in the constitutional development of Wales and questions of access to justice. She serves on the Wales Advisory Committee to the Law Commission, is Co-Chair of the Great Britain and Ireland Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), and is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Public Law and co-author of its Current Survey.

David Jeffery is a political researcher and commentator. He is the author of Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool and has published widely on a range of topics relevant to British politics, both in an academic and journalistic context. David is also a convenor of the Political Studies Association’s Conservatism Studies Group and Politics and History specialist group. 

Gareth is a Lecturer in Law at Swansea University where he teaches constitutional law, legal systems, and the law of devolution in Wales. His research focusses on the devolution settlement in Wales and he has been published in several academic journals on elements of public law and territorial governance. Alongside his work at Swansea, Gareth holds positions on research and legal education committees at the Society of Legal Scholars and the Learned Society of Wales.

Ananya is a Lincoln’s Inn Lord Denning Scholar and current BVS student. Before earning her GDL from City, University of London, she studied at Yale (BA) and Oxford (MSt English). She has written for the UK Admin Court Blog, the UK Constitutional Law Association, Strasbourg Observers and for the University of Oxford’s Border Criminologies Blog. Previously, Ananya performed litigation research at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and at Detention Action.

Kate is a Graduate Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. Her research focuses on emergency legislation, specifically the legislative scrutiny of emergency laws. She obtained her LLB from the University of Liverpool in 2017 and her LLM from the University of Cambridge in 2018. Kate is a non-practising barrister, having been called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Inner Temple in 2019. Prior to beginning her PhD she worked in legal practice for two years.

Darryn is a constitutional law scholar whose research focuses on executive power, devolution, and constitutional change in the United Kingdom. He holds a PhD from the University of Liverpool.

Stuart is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds where he teaches constitutional law and international human rights law. Prior to joining the faculty in Leeds, he worked as a Lecturer and Director of Studies at Homerton College, Cambridge and as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge lecturing on civil liberties and human rights. Dr Wallace has also held posts at the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court prior to entering academia.  

Colin is Emeritus Professor of Government, University of Manchester. He also has relationships with Cooperative News and the Federal Trust. Colin has worked extensively with all levels of British government and public services, including being an advisor to two House of Commons Select Committees and appearing as an expert witness over two dozen times in both Houses of Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, and the Welsh Assembly. He has also advised more than a dozen other governments, from the USA to Japan.

Peter served as an MP for two terms from 2015, standing down in 2019. He was parliamentary private secretary to the lord chancellor and the secretary of state at the Department for Work & Pensions. He has international experience, including as policy adviser in the Parliament of NSW, Australia, and marketing executive at the ABC. Peter graduated with a BA in Sociology from London University followed by a post-graduate qualification in journalism, after which he had a 20-year career as a broadcaster, editor and media adviser in the public and private sectors.

Tasneem is a PhD student at the UCL Faculty of Laws. Tasneem previously completed the Barrister Training Course while working part-time as a research assistant at the Constitution Unit. In 2021, she interned at the Institute for Government and at the UK in a Changing Europe. Tasneem holds an MA in History from King’s College London, and an LLB in Politics, Philosophy and Law. 

Mark is an experienced academic researching comparative political leadership, prime ministerial power, governance, public policy, and accountability in parliament. He is a Visiting Reader at Queen Mary, University of London, an Affiliate Research Fellow at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Lincoln.