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	text:  larger  smaller		Jeff King CUF Lecturer  Jeff King is a Fellow and Tutor in law at Balliol College, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Previously, he was a Research Fellow and Tutor in public law at Keble College (2007-08), and Legal Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (2002-07). He studied philosophy at the University of Ottawa (1996) and law at McGill University (2002), before working as an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York City (2003-04). His doctoral dissertation addressed the role of English courts in welfare rights adjudication. He has worked on human rights issues in Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Iraq and Zimbabwe, as well as in Canada and the United States. He was also a Legal Officer at the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions. His research interests include social rights, judicial competence, administrative and constitutional law, socio-legal studies, legal and political theory, administrative justice, comparative and international human rights law, public international law, and sovereign debt. Subject groups : Human Rights Law : Comparative Public Law : Constitutional and Administrative Law : Socio-Legal Studies All Publications | Recent    sorted by year | sort by title J King, 'Institutional Approaches to Judicial Restraint ' (2008) 28 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 409-441. URL: http://ojls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/3/409 J King, 'Poverty and Fundamental Rights, by D. Bilchitz (OUP 2007)' (2008) Public Law 820-824.   [Review] J King, 'The Pervasiveness of Polycentricity' (2008) Public Law 101-124. J King and M Langford, 'The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' in M Langford (ed), Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in Comparative and International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008) J King, 'United Kingdom: Asserting Social Rights in a Multilayered System' in M Langford (ed), Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in Comparative and International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008) J King, 'The Justiciability of Resource Allocation' (2007) 70(2) Modern Law Review 197-224. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2007.00634.x ISBN: 1468-2230 J King, 'Odious Debt: The Terms of the Debate' (2007) 32 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 605-667. URL: http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=214447056&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine J King, 'Constitutional Rights and Social Welfare: A Comment on the Canadian Chaoulli Health Care Decision' (2006) 69 Modern Law Review 631-643. URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118733496/abstract J King and AJ Hobbins, 'Hammarskjöld and Human Rights: the Deflation of the U.N. Human Rights Programme from 1953-1961' (2003) Journal of the History of International Law 337-386. URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/jhil/2003/00000005/00000002/art00005 Correspondence address: Balliol College, Oxford OX1 3BJ Link to Balliol College Link to University email/phone directory in new window