Biography
Amy Hemsworth has taught Constitutional Law at St Hilda's since 2024, and was also the Stone Fund Law Revision Mentor from 2023-25. She is also currently a lecturer in Constitutional Law at St Hugh's College, a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Medical Law and Ethics, and General Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.
Amy is in the final year of her DPhil in Administrative Law at University College. Her thesis research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, investigates the extent to which English courts can and should conduct judicial review of administrative systems. She has previously held teaching positions as a Stipendiary Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law at St Edmund Hall, a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Family Law, and a Graduate Teacher on the Opportunity Oxford bridging programme for incoming students.
List of publications:
‘Exposing complexities in judicial review of policy documents: R (CPH) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 848 (Admin)’ (forthcoming in Public Law, January 2027)
‘Book review: Executive Self-Government and the Constitution, by Terence Daintith and Alan Page’ (2026) 142(1) Law Quarterly Review 162
‘Use of Force by Immigration Escorts: The Legal Framework and Its Problems’ Border Criminologies Blog (19 July 2023)
‘The “Exceptionality” of Legal Aid: Affordable Access to Justice in Judicial Review’ (2021) 6(3) LSE Law Review 255
‘“Streamlining” Judicial Review – The Independent Review of Administrative Law’ Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal Blog (3 September 2020)
Positions
- Lecturer in Law
Subjects
- Law
