Joe is Professor of Administrative Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London (UK). He is also Distinguished Global Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, University of Notre Dame (US).

He leads (with Dr Jed Meers) the Administrative Fairness Lab—a research group focused on advancing understanding of the intersection of law, administration, and society. He is also part of the leadership of the justice programme at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where he is a Research Fellow.

In 2023, Joe was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law, for his research on administrative justice and socio-legal studies. In 2025, he received a Discovery Award from the Wellcome Trust, as Principal Investigator.

He has held visiting positions around the world, including as Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, as Visiting Scholar at Melbourne Law School, and as Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Durham University.

Joe's research has been widely used in public administration, policy, and law reform. His work has also been cited at every level of the courts and tribunals in England and Wales, including the UK Supreme Court.

Outside of King's, he is a Member of the Academic Panel at Blackstone Chambers and a Trustee of the Public Law Project. His previous external roles include serving as Chair of the Administrative Justice Council's Academic Panel, as an ESRC Parliamentary Academic Fellow in the House of Commons, and as Research Director of the Public Law Project.

Joe currently serves on the Editorial Committee for 'Public Law', the International Advisory Board for 'Legal Studies', and the Advisory Board for 'Current Legal Problems'.

Joe currently has capacity to take on PhD supervisions. 

Research grants 

Joe is currently working across a range of grants. This includes a four-year programme grant from the Nuffield Foundation to develop research on the economics of justice and several grants on the social dynamics of fair administrative process, including from the Leverhulme Trust, Nuffield Foundation, and National Institute for Health and Care Research.

Research interests 

Joe’s research focuses on the intersection of law, administration, and society. His current work mostly focuses on producing empirical studies that seek to advance theory in this context.

Through his research, he has worked across a diverse range of sectors, services, and issues, including welfare benefits, adult social care, mental health, primary care, immigration and asylum, and the use of artificial intelligence in administration. He has also written widely on different institutions of administrative justice, from initial decision-making and administrative review through to tribunals, ombudsmen, and judicial review.

Joe’s research uses a wide range of empirical methods, including qualitative interviews, surveys, experiments, longitudinal research, and administrative data analysis. Much of his research is conducted in collaboration with public bodies, redress institutions, charities, and public service users, as well as with researchers from other disciplines, including psychology, economics, public administration, social policy, social work, and political science.

Membership of professional bodies

• Society of Legal Scholars
• Socio-Legal Studies Association
• Royal Economic Society
• Administrative Law Bar Association
• The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple

Teaching interests 

Joe teaches administrative law, and public law more broadly.