Joe Tomlinson

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Professor Joe Tomlinson

LLB (Hons) (Manchester) PhD (Manchester)

Professor of Public Law

Joe is Professor of Public Law at the University of York. He graduated from the University of Manchester with an LLB (Hons) (2013) and PhD in Law (2017). He was then a Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Sheffield (2016-2018) and King’s College London (2018-2019), before moving to the University of York in 2019 and being appointed to a Chair in 2022. In 2023, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law.

Joe has held a range of visiting appointments, most recently as a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School (2024-2025). He has also held visiting posts at the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University (2024), the UCL Department of Political Science (2022), Melbourne Law School (2018), and Osgoode Hall Law School (2017).

He is currently serving as Chair of the Academic Panel of the Administrative Justice Council, a non-statutory oversight body advising government and the judiciary (2022-). He is also a member of the Academic Panel at Blackstone Chambers (2021-) and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where he co-leads the Transforming Justice Programme (2023-).

Joe was previously an ESRC Parliamentary Academic Fellow in the House of Commons (2019-2020) and served for four years as Research Director of the Public Law Project, a national legal charity (2017-2021). He also spent a period as a Trainee at the EFTA Court, working in President Baudenbacher’s Chambers (2015). He was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Middle Temple (2022).

Joe’s research has been cited in major policy reviews, in both Houses of Parliament, and at all levels in the courts and tribunals, including the High Court, Court of Appeal, and UK Supreme Court. He has also led multiple research partnerships with central government departments, local authorities, and charities.