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

2023

• Accepted/In pressPublic Law and Empirical Legal Research
  Nason, S., 12 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems. Daly, P. & Tomlinson, J. (eds.). Edward Elgar, p. 1-16 15 p.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2022

• Accepted/In pressCodification of Administrative Law in the United Kingdom: Beyond the Common Law
  Nason, S., 29 Jun 2023, Codification of Administrative Law. Bloomsbury
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedExplanatory Journeys: Visualising to Understand and Explain Administrative Justice Paths of Redress
  Roberts, J. C., Butcher, P., Sherlock, A. & Nason, S., Jan 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics. 28, 1, p. 518-528 11 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedHolistic Legal Support for Litigants in Person: The North and Mid Wales Virtual Law Clinic Partnership
  Nason, S., 31 Oct 2022, In: International Journal of Clinical Legal Education . 29, 2
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Accepted/In pressJudicial Review Scholarship: Expanding Legal Scholarly Imagination
  Nason, S. & Bell, J., 22 Feb 2022, (Accepted/In press) Research Handbook on Administrative Law. Edward Elgar
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedMaking justice and rights work in Wales: the case for ground up constitutional change
  Nason, S. & Edwards, L., 1 Apr 2022, In: Public Law. 2022, 4, p. 224-244
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedMethodological Pluralism and Modern Administrative Law
  Nason, S., Feb 2022, The Methodology of Constitutional Theory . Kyritsis, D. & Lakin, S. (eds.). Bloomsbury, 29 p.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2021

• PublishedAdministrative Procedure and Judicial Review in the United Kingdom
  Nason, S., 18 Oct 2021, Judicial Review of Administration in Europe . Della Cananea, G. & Andenas, M. (eds.). Oxford: OUP, 24 p. (The Common Core of European Administrative Laws).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedJustice in Wales
  Nason, S., Mar 2021, Senedd Cymru. 40 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
• PublishedOversight of Administrative Justice Systems
  Nason, S., Sep 2021, Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice . Hertogh, M., Kirkham, R., Thomas, R. & Tomlinson, J. (eds.). Oxford: OUP, 35 p.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 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 › peer-review
• PublishedReviewing Judicial Review in Wales
  Nason, S. & Edwards, L., Apr 2021, Prifysgol Bangor University. 42 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Other report › peer-review
• PublishedStrengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
  Nason, S., Hoffman, S., Beacock, R. & Hicks, E., 26 Aug 2021, Welsh Government. 165 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review

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 › peer-review
• PublishedAdministrative Justice in Wales
  Nason, S. & Pritchard, H., Nov 2020, In: Journal of Law and Society. 47, S2, p. 262-281
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 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 › peer-review
• PublishedHousing and Justice in Wales
  Nason, S. & Taylor, H., 31 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Housing Law. 23, 5, p. 97-103
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 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 › peer-review
• PublishedPublic Administration and Justice in Wales: Social Housing and Homelessness
  Nason, S., Sherlock, A., Taylor, H. & Pritchard, H., Mar 2020, Prifysgol Bangor University. 74 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Other report › peer-review
• PublishedPublic Administration and a Just Wales
  Nason, S., Sherlock, A., Pritchard, H. & Taylor, H., Mar 2020, Prifysgol Bangor University. 118 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Other report › peer-review
• PublishedPublic Administration and a Just Wales: Education
  Nason, S., Sherlock, A., Taylor, H. & Pritchard, H., Mar 2020, Prifysgol Bangor University. 99 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Other report
• 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 › peer-review

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 › peer-review

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 › peer-review
• 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 › peer-review

2016

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

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 › peer-review

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 › peer-review

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 › peer-review

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 › peer-review

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 › peer-review

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 › peer-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 › peer-review
• 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 › peer-review
• 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 › peer-review
• 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 › peer-review
• 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

• Social Welfare Law Advice and Communities

  01/05/2022 – 31/05/2024 (Active)

• Access to justice in North Wales and the impact of our Law Clinic Project

  01/06/2021 – 31/03/2023 (Active)

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

  31/08/2020 – 30/09/2021 (Finished)

• 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)