Staff profile

Nick Kilford is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Durham Law School, working on an Open Research Area funded study on Unwritten Constitutional Norms and Principles led by Dr Se-shauna Wheatle. His research focusses on sub-state government, and particularly the interaction between sub-state and central legislatures. His current research considers the relationship, in the UK, between devolution and parliamentary sovereignty, and he has wider interests in comparative regional government, federalism and public law.

Nick is a graduate of Durham Law School (LLB, MJur), and his PhD, due for imminent submission, was undertaken at St Edmund's College, Cambridge with the support of the Cambridge Law Journal PhD Studentship.

Conference Paper

• Deb, A., & Kilford, N. (2022). UKIMA 2020, Devolution and the Nature of Competence.

Journal Article

• Kilford, N. The Market Access Principles and the Subordination of Devolved Competence. Manuscript submitted for publication
• Elliott, M., & Kilford, N. (2024). Nothing to See Here? Allister in the Supreme Court. Edinburgh Law Review, 28(1), 95-102. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2024.0875
• Kilford, N. (2023). The Northern Ireland Protocol in the Supreme Court. Cambridge Law Journal, 82(2), 200-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197323000247
• Elliott, M., & Kilford, N. (2022). The Supreme Court's Defence of Unqualified Lawmaking Power: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Devolution and the Scotland Act 1998. Cambridge Law Journal, 81(1), 4-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197322000058
• Kilford, N. (2021). Limitation, Empowerment and the Value of Legal Certainty in the Treaty Incorporation References Case. Judicial Review, 26(4), 321-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/10854681.2021.2016295
• Kilford, N. (2019). The Separation of Powers: A Theory for the New Order

Masters Thesis

• Kilford, N. (2019). Divided We Stand: Decentralisation, Federalism and a Union-State. (Dissertation). [Awarding Organisation: Unknown]. Retrieved from https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1681005

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Kilford, N. (in press). The Supremacy of Retained EU Law: “We’re Lost, but We’re Making Good Time!”. [UKCLA]
• Kilford, N. (2022). The Lord Advocate's Reference: The Written Cases. [Lexis PSL]
• Kilford, N. (2022). UK Supreme Court Decided that Proposed Scottish Independence Referendum Bill is Outwith Devolved Competence. [LexisNexis Legal News]
• Kilford, N. (2022). The UK Internal Market Act and the Power to Make Effective Laws. [The Institute of Welsh Affairs]
• Deb, A., & Kilford, N. (2022). The UK Internal Market Act: Devolution Minimalism and the Competence Smoke Screen. [UKCLA]
• Kilford, N. (2021). Holyrood, Westminster and Constitutional Balance. [Constitutional Law Matters]
• Kilford, N. (2021). The UK Internal Market Act’s Interaction with Senedd Competences: The Welsh Government’s Challenge. [UKCLA]
• Elliott, M., & Kilford, N. (2021). Devolution in the Supreme Court: Legislative Supremacy, Parliament’s “Unqualified” Power, and “Modifying” the Scotland Act. [UKCLA]
• Kilford, N. (2021). The UNCRC Reference: What Did We Learn?. [Constitutional Law Matters]

Report

• Kilford, N. (2022). Government Consultation to Reform the Human Rights Act 1998 Call for Submissions – Response. Cambridge Centre for Public Law