Prof. Stephen Tierney

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Stephen Tierney is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Constitution Committee since 2015 and a Board Member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. His teaching and research interests lie in the constitutional law of the United Kingdom, comparative constitutional law and the constitutional theory of the state, direct democracy and federalism. He recently published 'The Federal Contract: A Constitutional Theory of Federalism' (2022).