Dr Sarah Nason has a BA Law 1st Class from the University of Cambridge and a PhD Laws from University College London. Her research interests are in public law, administrative justice, devolution, comparative public law and jurisprudence (legal philosophy). Sarah is a member of the editorial board of the journal Public Law, an executive committee member of Public Law Wales and a member of the UK Administrative Justice Council Academic Panel. Sarah has recently been appointed a National Assembly for Wales Academic Fellow for 2019. Sarah welcomes PhD supervision in any of her research areas. 

Undergraduate

SXL1110/2210 - Public Law

SXL2127/3127 - Jurisprudence (module leader)

SXL2135/3135 - Jurisprudence by Legal Research (module leader) 

SXL2120//3120 - Administrative Law & Administrative Justice (module leader)

Postgraduate

Legal Research Methods

I am willing to supervise a PhD

2021

• PublishedPlus ça Change? An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Review in Modern Administrative Law
  Nason, S., 25 Feb 2021, Executive Decision-Making and the Courts : Revisiting the Origins of Modern Judicial Review. Arvind, TT., Stirton, L., Kirkham, R. & Mac Síthigh, D. (eds.). Bloomsbury, 22 p.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2020

• PublishedAdministrative Justice and the Legacy of Executive Devolution: Establishing a Tribunals System for Wales
  Nason, S. & Pritchard, H., 24 Apr 2020, In : Australian Journal of Administrative Law . 26, 4, 35 p., 3.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedEuropean Principles of Good Administration and UK Administrative Justice
  Nason, S., Jun 2020, In : European Public Law . 26, 2, p. 391-420 24 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedJustice in Wales for the People of Wales
  Nason, S., May 2020, In : Edinburgh Law Review. 24, 2, p. 297-304 7 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedThe Impact of Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on United Kingdom Administrative Law: Shared Principles in a Strained Relationship
  Nason, S., 11 Sep 2020, Good Administration and the Council of Europe: Law, Principles and Effectiveness. Andrijauskaitė, A. & Stelkens, U. (eds.). Oxford: OUP, 56 p.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2019

• PublishedThe 'New Administrative Law' of Wales
  Nason, S., 10 Oct 2019, In : Public Law. 2019, p. 703-723
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2018

• PublishedAdministrative Justice: Wales' First Devolved Justice System
  Nason, S., Dec 2018, Prifysgol Bangor University.
  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

2017

• PublishedAdministrative Justice in Wales and Comparative Perspectives
  Nason, S. (ed.), 9 Aug 2017, Cardiff: Universiy of Wales Press. 448 p. (Public Law of Wales )
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• PublishedAdministrative justice in Wales: a new egalitarianism?
  Nason, S., 14 Feb 2017, In : Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 39, 1, p. 115-135
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2016

• PublishedReconstructing Judicial Review
  Nason, S., 1 Dec 2016, Oxford: Hart Publishing. 256 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book

2015

• PublishedAdministrative Justice in Wales: A Research Report
  Nason, S., Nov 2015, Prifysgol Bangor University.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
• PublishedUnderstanding Administrative Justice in Wales: Full report including executive summary
  Nason, S., Nov 2015, Prifysgol Bangor University. 126 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

2014

• PublishedJustice Outside London? Five Years of “Regional” Administrative Courts
  Nason, S. M., 1 Sep 2014, In : Judicial Review. 19, 3, p. 188-199
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2013

• PublishedThe Regionalisation of Judicial Review: Constitutional Authority, Access to Justice and Specialisation of Legal Services in Public Law
  Nason, S. & Sunkin, M., 1 Mar 2013, In : The Modern Law Review. 76, 2, p. 223-253
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2012

• PublishedThe Administrative Court, the Upper Tribunal and Permission To Seek Judicial Review
  Nason, S. M., 1 Jan 2012, In : Nottingham Law Journal. 12, p. 1-25
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2011

• PublishedFinality is a good thing, but justice is better: recent cases concerning the High Court's supervisory jurisdiction.
  Nason, S. M., 26 Feb 2011.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedPractical-Political Jurisprudence and the Dual Nature of Law
  Nason, S. M., 1 Sep 2011, In : Ratio Juris. 26, 3, p. 430-455
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2010

• PublishedRegionalisation of the Administrative Court and Access to Justice
  Nason, S. M., Hardy, D. & Sunkin, M., 1 Sep 2010, In : Judicial Review. 15, 3, p. 220-227
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2009

• PublishedNonsense on Stilts? A Quaker view of human rights
  Nason, S. M., 1 Jan 2009, In : Law and Justice. 163, 2, p. 156
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
• PublishedRegionalisation of the Administrative Court
  Nason, S. M., 1 Mar 2009, In : Judicial Review. 14, 1, p. 1-5
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedRegionalisation of the Administrative Court and Access to Justice
  Nason, S. M., 9 Sep 2009.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedRegionalisation of the Administrative Court and the tribunalisation of judicial review
  Nason, S. M., 1 Jul 2009, In : Public Law. 3, p. 440-452
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedSaying something interesting in Jurisprudence, a Young Scholar's story
  Nason, S. M., 1 Jan 2009, In : Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy. 34, p. 193-220
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedThe Complete Story of Jurisprudence
  Nason, S. M., 23 Jul 2009.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

2008

• PublishedMulticulturalism, Human Rights, and Proportionality.
  Nason, S. M., 1 Jan 2008, In : King's Law Journal. 19, 2, p. 391-401
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedThe Judge as a Trimmer.
  Nason, S. M., 12 Dec 2008.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedTowards a Multicultural Theory of Adjudication.
  Nason, S. M., 12 May 2008.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

• Judicial Review in Wales: Access to Justice and the Rule of Law

  31/08/2020 – 30/04/2021 (Active)

• Wales' Human Rights Law Framework

  16/01/2020 – 28/02/2021 (Finished)

• Paths to Administrative Justice in Wales: Principles, Challenges and Opportunities - School of Law costs only

  01/09/2018 – 30/11/2020 (Finished)

• Administrative Justice in Wales project Phases 1&2

  01/01/2015 – 05/08/2016 (Finished)

• Regionalisation of the Administrative Court and Access to Justice

  01/03/2010 – 30/09/2011 (Finished)

• Assessing the potential relationship between regionalisation of the Administrative Court and access to justice outside London and the South East

  01/06/2009 – 17/02/2010 (Finished)