Richard Edwin Ekins, KC (Hon) is a New Zealand legal academic working in the United Kingdom.
He is Professor of Law and Constitutional Government in the University of Oxford, a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and the head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project.
[1][2][3] Ekins was educated at the University of Auckland, where he obtained his BA, LLB (Hons) and BA (Hons), and the University of Oxford, where he graduated BCL, MPhil and DPhil.
[4] He was previously a judge's clerk at the High Court of New Zealand at Auckland, a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford, and a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland.
[4] Ekins was created an honorary King's Counsel in 2022: the Ministry of Justice credited him with making "a major contribution to public debate, and parliamentary deliberation, about the constitutional role of the courts.