Nicholas Bamforth BCL, MA (Oxon) is an English legal scholar, who is a Fellow in Law at Queen's College, Oxford, and a lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford since 1999.
In 2003–04, he was a Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University.
In October 2006, he became an elected member of the Council of Oxford University.
He edited a set of essays called Sex Rights in 2005, seeking to explore the role and limitations of ideas of human rights in the area of gender and sexuality, a particular topic of interest.
He was editor of Sex Rights, the 2002 series of Oxford Amnesty Lectures concerning human rights, gender and sexuality (Oxford University Press, 2004).