Position:       Professor of Public Law

• Public Law
• EC Law

• Parliamentary Sovereignty

• Interrelationship between Law and Politics

• Human Rights Act

• European Community Liability and Remedies

• Constitutional Protection of Capitalism.

Professor Danny Nicol was appointed Professor of Public Law in 2006 having previously been Reader in Law at London Metropolitan University. He holds a BA in Jurisprudence from Wadham College, Oxford and an LLM in European Law from University College London.  He was awarded a City Solicitors’ Educational Fund studentship in order to pursue his doctoral studies at Brunel University, and in 2000 obtained his PhD for a thesis investigating the understandings of British MPs of the constitutional law implications of membership of the European Economic Community.  He serves on the Editorial Board of the journal “Public Law”.

• "Democracy, supremacy and the 'intergovernmental' pillars of the European Union" [2009] Public Law 218.

• "Britain's Transnational Constitution" (2008) 61 Current Legal Problems 125.

• “Law and Politics after the Human Rights Act” [2006] Public Law 722.

• “Professor Tomkins’ House of Mavericks” [2006] Public Law 467.

• “Original Intent and the European Convention on Human Rights” [2005] Public Law 152.

• “The Human Rights Act and the politicians” (2004) 24 Legal Studies 451.

• “Statutory Interpretation and Human Rights after Anderson” [2004] Public Law 273.

• “Gender Reassignment and the Transformation of the Human Rights Act” (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 194.

• “Right of Judicial Protection before the EC Courts” (2002) 7 Journal of Civil Liberties 147.

• “Are Convention rights a no-go zone for Parliament?” [2002] Public Law 438.

• “Citizen Access to the European Community Courts” (2002) 7 Journal of Civil Liberties 108.

• EC Membership and the Judicialization of British Politics Oxford University Press, 2001.

• “Lessons from Luxembourg: Federalisation and the European Court of Human Rights”  (2001) 26 European Law Review (Human Rights Survey) 3.