What is the Principle of Legality For?

Dr Hooper holds an LLB from the University of Glasgow, and Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), MPhil in Law, and DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford. Her teaching interests include European Union Law, Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law. In this talk, Dr Hooper will draw upon her research expertise in administrative law, asking the question, ‘what is the principle of legality for?’

Dr Hooper is an Associate Professor of Law, University of Oxford, and academic affiliate of the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights. She holds an LLB from the University of Glasgow, and Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), MPhil in Law, and DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford. Her teaching interests include European Union Law, Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law.

Dr Hooper’s research interests are broadly within the fields of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. She is co-author of Parliament’s Secret War (Hart: Bloomsbury, 2018), a book concerning war powers in the British Constitution, and offering a critical inquiry into Westminster Parliament’s role in relation to the war prerogative since the beginning of the twentieth century. Dr Hooper is also working on a monograph on the closed material procedure, a process that facilitates the use of national security evidence in civil litigation. In this talk, Dr Hooper will draw upon her research expertise in administrative law, asking the question, ‘what is the principle of legality for?’

Dr Lizzy O’Loughlin (Durham Law School) will act as a discussant.