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Dr John Stanton

Senior Lecturer

The City Law School Academic law programmes

Contact details

Address

Dr John Stanton T146, Law School Building
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Dr John Stanton studied LLB Law at the University of Surrey and has a PhD in Law from Kingston University London. John was appointed Lecturer in Law at Kingston University in 2010, before moving to City, University of London in 2012. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015.

John's expertise is within the field of Constitutional Law. He teaches "Constitutional Law" to first year LLB students and "Comparative Constitutional Law" to final years. John is co-author of "Public Law", a textbook with Oxford University Press written with Dr Craig Prescott (Bangor University). The third edition of the book was published in June 2022. John has been nominated on numerous occasions for teaching awards administered by the City Students' Union, winning the Learning Enhancement Award for Teaching in the City Law School in 2017. John is also co-director of the LLB programme.

John's primary research interests concern local government, democracy and devolution. His first book, entitled "Democratic Sustainability in a New Era of Localism" was published by Routledge in 2014 and he has contributed to a range of academic journals including Legal Studies, Public Law, the Environmental Law Review and the Journal of Environment and Planning Law. John's latest project, a book entitled "Law, Localism and the Constitution", examines central-local relations across the UK. It will be published by Routledge in 2023. John also has a keen interest in Comparative Constitutional Law, with a particular emphasis on the Republic of Malta. He has worked as a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the University of Malta since 2018 and, in 2019, published a paper in the Journal of International and Comparative Law exploring the Maltese system.

John frequently presents at conferences and seminars across the world. In June 2019, he was invited to speak on the "Constitutional Position of English Cities" at a workshop on "Cities in Federalist Theory" at the University of Melbourne, Australia. In December 2020 he will be speaking (virtually) on "Democratic Decay in Malta" at a workshop on Constitutional Decay, Breakdown and Renewal at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

John's expertise is often in demand outside the realms of academia. He has contributed to various online fora, including The Conversation, TheMJ, the UK Constitutional Law Association and the International Association of Constitutional Law. He has also been cited in The Independent. In March 2020, John was called to give oral evidence in Parliament to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee on the "Progress of Devolution in England", his contributions being cited in the subsequent report.

John is an active member of the Society of Legal Scholars, the UK Constitutional Law Association, and the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

Qualifications

  • PG Cert HE, Kingston University, United Kingdom, 2011
  • PhD, Kingston University London, United Kingdom, Sep 2007 – Jul 2010
  • LLB, University of Surrey, UK, Sep 2004 – Jun 2007

Employment

  • Senior Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, Aug 2015 – present
  • Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, Sep 2012 – Jul 2015
  • Lecturer in Law, Kingston University London, Sep 2010 – Aug 2012

Memberships of professional organisations

  • Deputy Convenor of Public Law, Society of Legal Scholars, 2012 – present
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA)
  • Member, UK Constitutional Law Association
  • Member, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Publications

Publications by category

Books (6)

  • STANTON, J. and John (Senior Lecturer in Law at The City Law School Stanton, C.U.O.L.S.L.I.L.A.T.C.L.S.C.U.O.L.C.U. (2022). Blackstone's Statutes on Public Law and Human Rights. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-285863-4.
  • Stanton, J. (2021). Blackstone's Statutes on Public Law and Human Rights 2021-2022. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-289844-9.
  • Stanton, J. and Prescott, C. (2020). Public Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-885227-8.
  • Stanton, J. and Prescott, C. (2018). Public Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-872293-9.
  • Stanton, J. (2014). Democratic Sustainability in a New Era of Localism. Abingdon, UK: Routledge-Earthscan.
  • Stanton, J. Law, Localism, and the Constitution: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge.

Internet publications (3)

  • Stanton, J. (2013). The General Power of Competence and Reshaping Local Public Service Provision.
  • STANTON, J. (2013). Localism in action? UK Constitutional Law Group.
  • Stanton, J. The road from Gettysburg. Are we nearly there yet?

Journal articles (13)

Thesis/dissertation

  • STANTON, J. Democracy in sustainable development: Accountability and participation in Britain's local communities. (PhD Thesis)

Working papers (2)