Chris Monaghan

Dr Chris Monaghan is a Principal Lecturer in Law and the Director of the University of Worcester’s Constitutions, Rights and Justice Research Group. Previously, Chris was the Head of the Law School at the University of Worcester. Co-convenor of the Society of Legal Scholars Public Law section Trustee of the Constitution Society Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Editor of Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice Co-editor of the Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies book series External examiner at Lancaster University External examiner at the University of Stirling Chris enjoys researching Constitutional Law, the role of Parliament (with an emphasis on accountability), broader notions of executive accountability, and the global use of impeachment. He also researches on the Chagos Islands. Alongside law, he has a keen interest in constitutional and political history. His recent publications include: ‘Muddling-Through Constitutionalism’: The importance of the relationship between the Monarch and the Prime Minister. In: European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2024. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague Leading Works in the History of the Constitution (Routledge 2025) (editor) ‘Tackling breaches of the House of Commons lobbying rules by a UK politician and Article 8 of the ECHR’. European Human Rights Law Review, 2025 (2). 221-229 British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment (Routledge 2024) (co-editor) ‘Controversial Judicial Decisions and Security of Tenure: Reflections on Trump v United States, the MillerLitigation, and the Attempt to Remove Sir John Donaldson in the 1970s’ (2024) 29(3) Judicial Review 215-229 Impeachment in a Global Context: Law, Politics, and Comparative Practice (Routledge 2024) (co-editor) Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago (Routledge 2024) (co-editor) Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, Power and Politics (Hart Publishing 2023) (co-editor) ‘The fight to achieve full decolonisation: Mauritius versus the United Kingdom’ in G. Baldacchino (ed), Mice that Roar: Small States ‘getting the better’ of Large(r)States (Routledge 2023). Accountability, Impeachment and the Constitution: The Case for a Modern Process in the United Kingdom (Routledge 2022) (author) Fifty Years of The British Indian Ocean Territory: Legal Perspectives (Springer 2018) (co-editor) He enjoys teaching law and has written textbooks on Public Law (Routledge 2022), Constitutional Administrative Law (Pearson 2015), Business Law (Routledge 2015) and Contract Law (Routledge 2013). Since 2012 Chris has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is passionate about research led teaching and has co-edited Teaching of Rights and Justice in the Law School: Challenges and Opportunities for Research Led Teaching (Routledge 2025). Chris is happy to supervise PhD students and welcomes expressions of interest. Current PhD Students Felicity Miles, “Surrogacy Law in the UK: Should the law put children’s rights first in gestational surrogacy agreements?”