Dr Chris Monaghan

chris monaghan

Principal Lecturer in Law

Institute of Arts and Humanities

School of Law

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Details

email: c.monaghan@worc.ac.uk

Dr Chris Monaghan is a Principal Lecturer in Law and the Director of the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester’s Constitutions, Rights and Justice Research Group. Previously, Chris was the Head of the Law School at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester.

  • Co-convenor of the
  • Trustee of the Constitution Society
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
  • Editor of
  • Co-editor of the book series
  • External examiner at Lancaster ¹û¶³´«Ã½
  • External examiner at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ 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
  • (Routledge 2024) (co-editor)
  • ‘ (2024) 29(3) Judicial Review 215-229
  • (Routledge 2024) (co-editor)
  • (Routledge 2024) (co-editor)
  • (Hart Publishing 2023) (co-editor)
  • ‘The fight to achieve full decolonisation: Mauritius versus the United Kingdom’ in G. Baldacchino (ed), States (Routledge 2023).
  • (Routledge 2022) (author)
  • (Springer 2018) (co-editor)

He enjoys teaching law and has written textbooks on (Routledge 2022), (Pearson 2015), (Routledge 2015) and (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 (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?”

Teaching Interests

Chris teaches/or has taught:

  • Public Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • European Union Law
  • Legal Research Methods

Publications

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) ‘Muddling-Through Constitutionalism’: The importance of the relationship between the Monarch and the Prime Minister. In:  European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2024. European Yearbook of Constitutional Law  (6).  T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague.  ISBN Hardcover ISBN 978-94-6265-698-7 Due: 23 September 2025 Softcover ISBN 978-94-6265-701-4 Due: 23 September 2026 eBook ISBN 978-94-6265-699-4 Due: 23 September 2025 (In Press)    

Lane, Michael and Monaghan, Chris  (2025) The margin of appreciation in play: Parliamentary privilege and the ECHR European Court of Human Rights (Chamber): Judgment of 8 April 2025. European Human Rights Law Review, 2025 (4).  pp. 514-521.  ISSN 1361-1526       

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) The Act of Settlement 1701. In:  Leading Works in the History of the Constitution.   Analysing Leading Works in Law .  Routledge, London.  ISBN ISBN: 978-1-032-65861-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-65871-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-65869-8 (ebk)       

Monaghan, Chris (2025) Leading Works in the History of the Constitution. Analysing Leading Works in Law .  Routledge, London.  ISBN ISBN: 978-1-032-65861-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-65871-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-65869-8 (ebk)       

Monaghan, Chris and Thomas, R.  (2025) The depiction of the British constitution in caricature, 1784-1819.   In:  Leading Works in the History of the Constitution.   Analysing Leading Works in Law. Routledge, London.  ISBN ISBN: 978-1-032-65861-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-65871-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-65869-8 (ebk)       

Flinders, M., Dimova, G. and Monaghan, Chris  (2025) Accountability: A Concept with Adjectives.   In:  Understanding Accountability: New Perspectives on a Fractured World.   Routledge, London.  ISBN ISBN: 978-1-032-58848-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-60183-0 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-45796-1 (ebk)       

Flinders, M., Dimova, G. and Monaghan, Chris  (2025) Accountability: Always a Chameleon?  In:  Understanding Accountability: New Perspectives on a Fractured World. Routledge, London.  ISBN ISBN: 978-1-032-58848-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-60183-0 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-45796-1 (ebk)       

Flinders, M., Dimova, G. and Monaghan, Chris  (2025) Understanding Accountability: New Perspectives on a Fractured World.    Routledge, London.  ISBN ISBN: 978-1-032-58848-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-60183-0 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-45796-1 (ebk)       

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) Rishi Sunak and the Constitution. In: Statecraft and the Leaderships of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak: An Academic Workshop, 10 July 2025, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Liverpool. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) The Not So Swinging 60s: When Britain Exiled Islanders from their Homeland.  In: Rights & Justice Festival 2025, 8 July 2025, The Hive, Worcester. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) King George III, Warren Hastings and the Fall of the Fox-North Coalition.  In: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India, 3-4 July 2025, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris and Juss, Satvinder  (2025) The rule of law under stress: the East India Company, the metropole, and the impeachment of Warren Hastings.  In: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India, 3-4 July 2025, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  In: The 2024 I·CONnect Global Review of Constitutional Law.   Constitutional Studies Program at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA. (In Press)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) Extreme Times and Constitutional Imagination: The Proposed Franco-British Union of 1940.   In:  From the Entente Cordiale to New Ententes.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 73-97.  ISBN ISBN: 1-0364-4717-0 ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4717-5       

Monaghan, Chris and Lane, Michael  (2025) The Margin of Appreciation in Play: Parliamentary Privilege and the ECHR: Green v The United Kingdom (Application no. 22077/19).  European Human Rights Law Review.   ISSN 1361-1526  (In Press)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) Lord Hewart: The Man, the Decision, and the Legacy.  Judicial Review.  pp. 1-12.  ISSN Print: 1085-4681 Online: 1757-8434       

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) 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).  pp. 221-229.  ISSN 1361-1526       

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) The Rule of Law and the Protection of Constitutional Rights: Magna Carta, Begum, Unison and beyond.   In:  Citizens and the States. Routledge, Abingdon.  (In Press)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2025) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.   In:  The 2024 International Review of Constitutional Reform. ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Texas, Texas, USA. (In Press)    

Hurley, S. and Monaghan, Chris  (2025) Teaching of Rights and Justice in the Law School: Challenges and Opportunities for Research Led Teaching. Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice . Routledge, London.  ISBN Hardback: 9781032592121; EBook: 9781003457985       

Monaghan, Chris (2025) Judges in the 17th Century.  World Turned Upside Down Podcast.       

Monaghan, Chris, Lane, Michael, Smith, Courtney and Jarvis, Sue (2025) Response to Inquiry: Rehabilitation and resettlement: ending the cycle of reoffending.  Other. Justice Committee, UK Parliament.       

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) 'United Kingdom'. In:  The 2023 Global Review of Constitutional Law.   ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Texas, Texas, USA, pp. 398-403.  ISBN 978-1-7374527-7-5       

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) Lord Hewart, the man, the decision, and the legacy.  In: Seeing Justice Done: An Online Symposium, 6 December 2024, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris and Juss, S.  (2024) The British Courts and the Chagos Story: An exercise in Colonial Justice.  In:  Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032486833       

Monaghan, Chris, Jeffery, L. and O'Gorman, M.  (2024) Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.  Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032486833       

Monaghan, Chris, Jeffery, L. and O'Gorman, M.  (2024) Introduction.   In:  Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032486833       

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) How to Weaken Executive Accountability: Trump v United States.  Judicial Review.  pp. 1-12.  ISSN Print: 1085-4681; Electronic: 1757-8434       

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) “As British… as Fish and Chips”? Just how committed is the United Kingdom to the rule of law when it comes to international law.  In: International Law in the UK: A Troubled Relationship, 8 November 2024, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester, Worcester, UK. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) The Role of the Judiciary in the 17th Century.  In: Battle of Worcester Society, 29 October 2024, The Glass Room, The Hive, Worcester. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) Impeachment: An Online Discussion of its use in the United States and its British Origins.  In: ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester’s Constitution, Rights and Justice Research Group, 6pm (UK Time), 2 October 2024, Online. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.   In:  The 2023 International Review of Constitutional Reform. Constitutional Studies Program at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Texas at Austin in collaboration with the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, Austin, Texas, pp. 380-383.  ISBN 978-1-7374527-6-8       

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) Controversial Judicial Decisions and Security of Tenure: Reflections on Trump v United States, the Miller litigation, and the attempt to remove Sir John Donaldson in the 1970s.  Judicial Review, 29 (3).  pp. 1-15.  ISSN Print: 1085-4681 Online: 1757-8434       

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) Extreme Times and Constitutional Imagination: The Franco-British Union of 1940 and what might have been.  In: From the Entente Cordiale to new Ententes: 1904-2024, 23-24 May 2024, l'Université Panthéon-Assas et l'Université de Poitiers, avec le soutien de l'Association des Juristes Franco-Britanniques. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) Muddling-Through: How the UK responds to periods of political turmoil.  In: Pint of Science Festival 2024: Who makes the rules? Brief Lessons on the UK constitution, 14 May 2024, Francini Cafe de Colombia, 14 Angel Place, Worcester WR1 3QN. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) Book Launch: Impeachment in a Global Context.  In: Book Launch: Impeachment in a Global Context, 8 February 2024, Harvard ¹û¶³´«Ã½ [Online via Zoom].        

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) Impeachment in a Global Context: Law, Politics, and Comparative Practice.    Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies. Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032187402       

Monaghan, Chris, Flinders, M. and Huq, A.Z.  (2024) Understanding Impeachment: An Exercise in Comparative Cartography.  In:  Impeachment in a Global Context: Law, Politics, and Comparative Practice.   Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies. Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032187402       

Monaghan, Chris  (2024) The United Kingdom and Impeachment: Justification, Renewal, and the House of Commons as a Guardian of the Constitution. In:  Impeachment in a Global Context: Law, Politics, and Comparative Practice.   Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies.  Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032187402       

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment. Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies. Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032187259       

Monaghan, Chris and Flinders, M.  (2023) Impeachment Matters. In:  British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment. Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies.  Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032187259    

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) Impeachment during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and its abeyance in the Sixteenth Century.  In:  British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment. Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies .  Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032187259       

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) The Nineteenth Century and Beyond: The Existence of the Threat of Impeachment.   In:  British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment. Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies .  Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032187259       

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) Review of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  In:  2022 International Review of Constitutional Reform 3rd ed. ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Texas at Austin, USA.  ISBN 978-1-7374527-4-4       

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) Review of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.   In:  2022 Global Review of Constitutional Law.   Global Review of Constitutional Law  (7).  EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, USA/Italy, pp. 365-370.  ISBN 978-1-7374527-5-1 or 978-88-5511-460-8       

Monaghan, Chris and Flinders, M.  (2023) Accountability Matters.   In:  Questions of Accountability Prerogatives, Power and Politics.  Hart Publishing, Oxford.  ISBN 9781509964222       

Monaghan, Chris and Flinders, M.  (2023) Questions Still to be Answered.   In:  Questions of Accountability Prerogatives, Power and Politics.  Hart Publishing, Oxford.  ISBN 9781509964222       

Monaghan, Chris and Flinders, M.  (2023) Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, Power and Politics.    Hart Publishing, Oxford.  ISBN 9781509964222       

Monaghan, Chris and Welsh, Josie  (2023) Questions of Control: Accountability in the Shadow of Prorogation.   In:  Questions of Accountability Prerogatives, Power and Politics.  Hart Publishing, Oxford.  ISBN 9781509964222       

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) ‘So, you want to safeguard the constitution? Rethinking accountability and the role of academics’.  In: UKCLA Constitutional Accountability conference, 11-12 September 2023, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Liverpool. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris and Welsh, Josie  (2023) ‘Justice in a Changing Constitutional Landscape’.  In: Rights and Justice: In Theory and Practice conference, 5th September 2023, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) ‘The Rule of Law and the Protection of Constitutional Rights: Magna Carta, Begum, Unison and beyond’.  In: Rights and Justice: In Theory and Practice conference, 5th September 2023, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent (Book Review).  ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Wisconsin-Whitewater and American Political Science Association.       

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) Embedding Human Rights as part of the Law Degree: Challenges, Opportunities and Promoting Social Responsibility.  In: ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester's Student Experience Conference, 12 June 2023, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) The fight to achieve full decolonisation: Mauritius versus the United Kingdom.   In:  The Success of Small States in International Relations Mice that Roar?   Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon.  ISBN 9781032323787       

Juss, Satvinder and Monaghan, Chris  (2023) The “British” Courts and the Chagos Story: British Justice, Colonial Mindsets, and Finding a Voice.  In: Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago Conference, 26 May 2023, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) The changing experience of teaching Public Law since 2010.  In: Reimagining Public Law: Teaching the constitution in a permacrisis, 26 May 2023, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Birmigham.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris and Welsh, Josie  (2023) UK politics and Human Rights: From New Labour’s Human Rights Act 1998 to the Conservative’s Bill of Rights Bill.  In: Teaching of Rights and Justice in the Law School: Challenges and Opportunities for Research Led Teaching workshop, 14 May 2023, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester.     (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) Returning to Bancoult: New Perspectives.  Judicial Review.  ISSN Print: 1085-4681 Online: 1757-8434       

Monaghan, Chris  (2023) Book Review: ‘Margit Cohn, A Theory of the Executive Branch: Tension and Legality (Oxford ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Press 2021) i-xi, pp 1-329’.  Sweet & Maxwell.       

Monaghan, Chris  (2022) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  In:  The 2021 Global Review of Constitutional Law.   EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, USA/Italy.  ISBN 978-88-5511-361-8 (EUT)       

Monaghan, Chris  (2022) A Question of Justiciability: Did the Prime Minister Misdirect Himself as to the Meaning of Bullying Within the Ministerial Code? R (FDA) v The Prime Minister and Minister for the Civil Service [2021] EWHC 3279 (Admin).  Judicial Review, 27 (3).  pp. 264-270.  ISSN Print ISSN: 1085-4681 Online ISSN: 1757-8434       

Monaghan, Chris  (2022) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The 2021 Global Review of Constitutional Law.  pp. 367-371.        

Monaghan, Chris  (2022) Review of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  In:  The 2021 International Review of Constitutional Reform. ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Texas at Austin, USA.  ISBN 978-1-7374527-2-0       

Monaghan, Chris  (2022) Accountability, Impeachment and the Constitution: The Case for a Modernised Process in the United Kingdom. Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies.  Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9781032215815; eBook: 9781003269052       

Monaghan, Chris and Welsh, Josie  (2022) Power in the Constitution.  In: International Society of Public Law (Great Britain and Ireland Chapter) Annual Conference: The Constitutional Architecture of these Islands, 26th-28th April 2022, Online.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2022) Partygate as a ground for impeachment?  Counsel.   ISSN 0268-3784        Monaghan, Chris  (2022) Party-gate as a Ground for Impeachment? Perhaps, But We Need to Modernise Impeachment Before It Is Fit For Purpose.  U.K. Constitutional Law Blog.         

Monaghan, Chris  (2022) What ever happened to impeachment in the United Kingdom? Accountability, history and the decline of parliamentary impeachment.  The UK Political Studies Association Specialist Group on Parliaments.         

Monaghan, Chris  (2022) Reimagining impeachment: A new blueprint for our challenging times.  U.K. Constitutional Law Blog.         

Monaghan, Chris  (2021) Public Law.  Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN Paperback: 9780367260774 • Hardback: 9781032145952 • eBook: 9780429293498       

Monaghan, Chris, Bhattacharya, C. and Meakin, A.  (2021) The Owen Paterson Scandal: Standards, Trust and Democratic Norms.  Political Studies Association Blog.         

Monaghan, Chris and Welsh, Josie  (2021) Questions of Control: Accountability in the Shadow of Prorogation.  In: International Conference: Questions of Accountability - Prerogatives, Power and Politics, 1 - 5 November 2021, Online.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2021) ‘The Court of Appeal […] appears to have overlooked the limitations to its competence, both institutional and constitutional, to decide questions of national security’: Shamima Begum, the Supreme Court and the relationship between the judiciary and the executive.  Judicial Review.   ISSN Print: 1085-4681 Online: 1757-8434       

Monaghan, Chris  (2021) Reflections on the United Kingdom’s assertion of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago in the wake of the Chagos Advisory Opinion.   In:  T Burri and J Trinidad (eds), The International Court of Justice and Decolonization: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion (Cambridge ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Press, 2020).   Cambridge ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Press, Cambridge, UK, 144 -158.  ISBN 9781108893770 (eISBN)       

Monaghan, Chris  (2021) Challenging the United Kingdom's Decision not to Support the Resettlement of the Chagos Islands: R (on the application of Hoareau and Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2020] EWCA Civ 1010.  Judicial Review, 26 (1).  pp. 62-67.  ISSN Print: 1085-4681 Online: 1757-8434       

Monaghan, Chris  (2020) The Trial of Warren Hastings: Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England (Book Review).  Wiley.       

Monaghan, Chris  (2019) The Prorogation Litigation: ‘which was as if the Commissioners had walked into Parliament with a blank piece of paper’.  Coventry Law Journal, 24 (2).  pp. 7-24.  ISSN 1758-2512       

Monaghan, Chris  (2018) A Critical Commentary on the Fraud Act 2006.   In:  Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct: A Critical Evaluation of Fraud Legislation.  The Law of Financial Crime.  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 1-13.  ISBN 1138557099, 9781138557093       

Monaghan, Chris  (2018) An Empirical Review of the Use of the Fraud Act 2006 and Other Criminal Offences Within the School Application System.  In:  Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct: A Critical Evaluation of Fraud Legislation.   The Law of Financial Crime.  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 32-47.  ISBN 1138557099, 9781138557093       

Monaghan, Chris and Monaghan, Nicola  (2018) Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct: A Critical Evaluation of Fraud Legislation. The Law of Financial Crime.  Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 1-214.  ISBN 1138557099 or 9781138557093 or 9780367498474       

Monaghan, Chris  (2018) Book Review: Andrew Blick, The Codes of the Constitution.  SAGE.       

Monaghan, Chris  (2018) Book Review: Michael Gordon, Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK Constitution: Process, Politics and Democracy.  SAGE.       

Allen, S. and Monaghan, Chris  (2018) Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory: Legal Perspectives.    The World of Small States  (4).  Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland.  ISBN Hardback: 978-3-319-78540-0 Online: 978-3-319-78541-7       

Monaghan, Chris  (2018) An Imperfect Legacy: The Significance of the Bancoult Litigation on the Development of Domestic Constitutional Jurisprudence.   In:  Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory: Legal Perspectives.   The World of Small States  (4).  Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 111-145.  ISBN Hardback: 978-3-319-78540-0 Online: 978-3-319-78541-7       

Monaghan, Chris  (2016) Book Review: Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws: Religion, Politics and Jurisprudence, 1578–1616, by David Chan Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Press, 2014, ix + 285 + ii (appendix) + xii (index) (£70.00 hardback). ISBN: 9781107069299.  Cambridge ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Press.       

Monaghan, Chris  (2015) Peacham’s Case and the Case of Commendams: Sir Edward Coke CJ’s defence of judicial independence and ultimate dismissal.  In: 22nd British Legal History Conference - Law: Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights, 8-11 July 2015, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Reading.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2015) Revisiting Lord Mance’s dissent in R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No.2) in the 800th year of Magna Carta.  In: Chagos Litigation: A Socio-Legal Dialogue Conference, 29 June 2015, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Greenwich.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2015) Public Law beyond the classroom: exploring opportunities for engagement and interaction – how can we prepare for the next fifty years of legal education?  In: Association of Law Teachers Conference, March 2015, Cardiff.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2015) Beginning Business Law.    Beginning the Law  (9).  Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN Paperback: 9781138779877 • Hardback: 9781138779860 • eBook: 9781315770994       

Monaghan, Chris  (2015) Hounga v. Allen at the Supreme Court: The Defence of Illegality in Race Discrimination Cases and the Competing Public Interest in Preventing the Exploitation of Illegal Immigrants.  International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 15 (3).  pp. 178-188.  ISSN Print: 1358-2291 Online: 2047-9468       

Monaghan, Chris  (2015) Public Law in Context – practical approaches to teaching and engaging students in the classroom.  In: Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, January 2015, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Greenwich.     (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris and Swan, Z.  (2015) Twitter and Higher Education – How to engage with fellow academics and students?  In: Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, January 2015, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Greenwich.     (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2015) School Application Forms and the Criminal Law.  Criminal Law Review, 4.  pp. 270-277.  ISSN 0011-135X       

Monaghan, Chris  (2014) Blueprints: Constitutional and Administrative Law.  Blueprints . Pearson, Harlow, England.  ISBN 9781447904984 • 1447904982       

Monaghan, Chris  (2014) Book Review: Accountability in the Contemporary Constitution. Sage.       

Monaghan, Chris  (2014) Review: Horne A, Drewry G & Oliver D (eds.) Parliament and the Law.  Legal Studies, 34 (2).  pp. 361-368.  ISSN 0261-3875 (Print) • 1748-121X (Online)       

Monaghan, Chris  (2014) The socio-legal legacy of the Chagos litigation.  In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, April 2014, Robert Gordon ¹û¶³´«Ã½, Aberdeen.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2014) The Marine Protected Area and WikiLeaks: R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No. 3).  Judicial Review, 19 (3).  pp. 151-159.  ISSN Print: 1085-4681 Online: 1757-8434       

Monaghan, Chris  (2013) Judicial Discretion, Parliament and Executive Accountability in the Twenty-first Century.  Judicial Review, 18 (4).  pp. 388-402.  ISSN Print: 1085-4681 • Online: 1757-8434       

Monaghan, Chris  (2013) The Beecroft Report, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, the employee share scheme and beyond: are recent proposals a controversial panacea or an erosion of employees' rights?  The Company Lawyer, 34 (10).  pp. 305-312.  ISSN 0144-1027 • Online: 2754-2262       

Monaghan, Chris  (2013) The Chagossians go to Strasbourg.  European Human Rights Law Review, 3.  pp. 314-325.  ISSN 1361-1526       

Monaghan, Chris and Monaghan, Nicola  (2013) Beginning Contract Law.    Beginning the Law.  Routledge, Abingdon.  ISBN 9780415523769 or 9780415523776 or 9780203569214       

Monaghan, Chris  (2013) Where to bury Richard III? Judicial Review and the ‘ownership’ of a king’s remains.  Coventry Law Journal, 18 (2).  pp. 33-42.  ISSN 1758-2512       

Monaghan, Chris  (2012) Illegal contracts and discrimination: Why an illegal immigrant cannot bring a claim for race discrimination.  International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 12 (2).  pp. 109-116.  ISSN 1358-2291 • eISSN: 2047-9468       

Monaghan, Chris  (2012) Salvaging impeachment - is there any merit in reviving impeachment for the United Kingdom's Constitution?  In: Society of Legal Scholars Conference, September 2012, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Bristol.     (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2012) The recovery of losses for a lawful withdrawal of a vessel under a time charterparty: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A v E.N.E. Kos 1 Limited [2012] UKSC 17.  BPP ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Research Paper.         

Monaghan, Chris  (2012) Coalition Government, The Spending Cuts and Executive Accountability under the UK Constitution.  In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, April 2012, Leicester De Montfort Law School, De Montfort ¹û¶³´«Ã½, Leicester.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2012) Letters of credit and disputes about jurisdiction and choice of law: Petrologic Capital SA v Banque de Genève & another [2012] EWHC 454 (Comm).  BPP ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Research Paper.  pp. 1-8.        

Monaghan, Chris  (2012) A Defence of Commercial Certainty in the Wake of Judicial Pragmatism.   In:  Dissenting Judgments in the Law.   Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, London, pp. 105-124.  ISBN Hardback: 978-0854900848 • Paperback: 9780854902545       

Monaghan, Chris and Geach, N.  (2012) Dissenting Judgments in the Law.  Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, London, pp. 105-124.  ISBN Hardback: 978-0854900848 • Paperback: 9780854902545       

Monaghan, Chris (2012) Restricting the Meaning of ‘Appropriation’ under the Theft Act 1968 – A Cool, Calm and Rational Approach to the Issue of ‘Stealing’ A Perfectly Valid Gift.  In:  Dissenting Judgments in the Law.   Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, London, pp. 289-316.  ISBN Hardback: 978-0854900848 • Paperback: 9780854902545       

Monaghan, Chris  (2012) Show me the Precedent! – Prerogative Powers and the Protection of the Fundamental Right not to be Exiled.   In:  Dissenting Judgments in the Law.   Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, London, pp. 239-262.  ISBN Hardback: 978-0854900848 • Paperback: 9780854902545       

Monaghan, Chris  (2012) Justifying direct age discrimination: when will a mandatory retirement age not amount to direct age discrimination? Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes.  Journal of Business Law, 6.  p. 479.  ISSN 0021-9460       

Monaghan, Chris  (2012) Voluntary Harmonisation of European Sales Law? The Common European Sales Law and the effect it will have on cross-border transactions.  The Company Lawyer, 33.  pp. 111-114.  ISSN 0144-1027 • Online: 2754-2262       

Monaghan, Chris  (2011) Review: Hayton and Mitchell: Commentary and Cases on the Law of Trusts and Equitable Remedies.  Trust Law International, 25 (4).  pp. 231-233.  ISSN 0962-2624       

Monaghan, Chris  (2011) ‘In Defence of Intrinsic Human Rights: Edmund Burke’s controversial prosecution of Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal.  Law, Crime and History, 1 (2).  pp. 58-107.  ISSN 2045-9238       

Monaghan, Chris  (2011) The status of the seller in the age of eBay.  Information & Communications Technology Law, 20 (2).  pp. 103-114.  ISSN Print: 1360-0834 • Online: 1469-8404       

Monaghan, Chris  (2011) Fraud and the Juror.  Dictum, Apr'11 (3).  pp. 32-33.        

Monaghan, Chris  (2010) Fraudsters? Putting parents in the dock.  Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 174 (38).  pp. 581-583.  ISSN 1759-7943 • Formerly: 1741-4555       

Monaghan, Chris  (2010) The seven year long Impeachment Trial of Warren Hasting, Governor-General of Bengal and complicit facilitator-in-chief.  In: Society of Legal Scholars Conference, September 2010, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Southampton. (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Chris  (2010) To Prosecute or Not to Prosecute? A Reconsideration of the Over-Zealous Prosecution of Parents under the Fraud Act 2006.  Journal of Criminal Law, 74 (3).  pp. 259-278.  ISSN Print: 0022-0183 • Electronic: 1740-5580       

Monaghan, Chris and O’Leary, J.  (2010) 'Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More': the Continuing Saga of Anti-Doping and Strict Liability.  In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, April 2010, Bristol Law School, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of the West of England, Bristol.  (Unpublished)    

Monaghan, Nicola and Monaghan, Chris  (2010) Twelve empty seats: reflections on judge only trials after jury tampering.  Criminal Bar Quarterly, Mar'10 (1).  pp. 10-11.        

Monaghan, Chris  (2010) When does imitation become passing off?  The Company Lawyer, 31.  p. 188.  ISSN 0144-1027 • Online: 2754-2262       

Monaghan, Chris (2009) Fraudulent Education. Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 173 (51/52).  pp. 810-812.  ISSN 1759-7943 • Formerly: 1741-4555       

Monaghan, Chris  (2009) Wide of the mark.  Solicitors Journal, 153 (40).  p. 12.  ISSN 0038-1047       

Monaghan, Chris  (2009) Consumer Rights & Wrongs.  New Law Journal, 159 (7388).  ISSN Print: 0306-6479 Electronic: 2046-2239       

Monaghan, Chris  Constitutional Actors in the United Kingdom Constitution.  Hart Publishing (Bloomsbury), London. (In Press)    

Monaghan, Chris and Eagles, R.  The Impeachment Of The First Governor General Of India: Warren Hastings, Parliament And Justice.  Bloomsbury, London.  (In Press)  

Internal Roles

His current roles include:

  • Director of Constitutions, Rights and Justice Research Group at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester.
  • Chair – Education, Culture and Society Proportionate Review Panel.
  • Deputy Chair – Education, Culture and Society Research Ethics Panel.
  • Member of the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Worcester’s Research, Integrity & Governance Committee.

Previous responsibilities

  • Head of the School of Law
  • School of Law’s Research Lead.
  • Co-convenor (with Dr Lucy Arnold and Dr Wendy Toon) of the School of Humanities Research Seminar Series.
  • Co-led (with Professor Sarah Greer) the from 2017-2020 which trained and supported students in carrying out research and publishing it in the form of high-profile blog posts (with the ). I have also worked on a project in 2017/2018 which saw collaboration between law and paramedic student and was praised by the university as the ‘first truly interdisciplinary project”.

External Roles

His current roles include:

  • Co-convenor of the
  • Trustee of the Constitution Society.
  • External examiner at Lancaster ¹û¶³´«Ã½.
  • External examiner at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Stirling.
  • Editor of the Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice book series.
  • Co-editor of the book series , the other co-editors being Professor Matthew Flinders, Dr Ellen Rock and Professor Thomas Schillemans.

Previous responsibilities

  • Communications Officer (2021-23) for the PSA Parliaments Specialist Group, which won the award for the in 2022.
  • External examiner at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Wolverhampton.
  • External examiner at Birmingham City ¹û¶³´«Ã½.
  • Critical reviewer for the Open ¹û¶³´«Ã½.
  • External consultant work for King’s College London as part of the creation of a new postgraduate master’s programme.
  • External for the validation of degree programmes for Birmingham City ¹û¶³´«Ã½.
  • External for the validation of degree programmes for ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Greenwich.
  • External consultant for the British Library’s National Life Stories: Legal Lives Project and awarded £3,000.
  • Reviewer for Hart Publishing, Oxford ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Press, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Kansas Press, International Relations, Journal of Legislative Studies, Anthropology Today, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Press of Kansas, Edinburgh ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Press, Routledge, and Heliyon.

Media Appearances

  • BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester (4 July 2025)
  • BBC Radio Scotland (14 June 2025)
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio (1 June 2025)
  • Times Radio, ‘Baroness Ayesha Hazarika Show’ (23 May 2025)
  • BBC Radio Five Live (23 May 2025)
  • Radio Student Slovenia (23 May 2025)
  • BBC Radio Five Live (22 May 2025)
  • BBC Radio Five Live (26 February 2025)
  • BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester (10 February 2025)
  • BBC Radio Five Live ‘ Adrian Chiles’ Show’, (6 February 2025)
  • BBC Radio Scotland ‘Good Morning Scotland’ (6 February 2025)
  • BBC Verify (February 2025)
  • Free Radio Worcestershire and Herefordshire (December 2019)
  • Free Radio Worcestershire and Herefordshire (January 2017)