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Teaching & Research Interests

Teaching 

• Public Law (LLBL1002)
• European Union Law in Context (LLBL2003)
• Human Rights (LLBL2012)
• Legal Research Methods (LLML4002)
• Dissertation (LLML4001)
• Applied Legal Assessment (LLML4015)

Research 

• Judicial power
• The judiciary
• Political science
• Institutions
• Constitutional theory
• Media law 

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the Society of Legal Scholars

Publications and Research Activity

Publications

• Welsh, J., ‘”[No audible response]” – is not how the Lady Chief Justice leads her judiciary’, U.K. Const. L. Blog (1st April 2025) (available at: )
• Welsh, J., Judicial Power in Theory and Practice: a Legal and Political Analysis (Routledge, forthcoming 2025)
• Hewitt, L & Welsh, J. (eds.), Rights and Justice in Public and Private Law (Routledge, forthcoming 2025)
• Monaghan, C. & Welsh, J., ‘UK Politics and Human Rights: From New Labour’s Human Rights Act 1998 to the Conservative’s Bill of Rights Bill’ a chapter in Hurley, S. and Monaghan, C., Teaching of Rights and Justice in the Law School: Challenges and Opportunities for Research Led Teaching (Routledge, 2025)
• Welsh, J., ‘Looking Beyond the Traditional: A Multi-dimensional Account of the Modern Judicial Role’ (2024) Judicial Review, 29(1), 22-33 https://doi.org/10.1080/10854681.2024.2353484 
• Monaghan, C. & Welsh, JK., ‘Questions of Control: Accountability in the Shadow of Prorogation’ a chapter in Flinders, M. & Monaghan, C. (eds.), Questions of Accountability (Routledge, 2023)
• Welsh, J., ‘The Power of a (Lord) Chief Justice’, U.K. Const. L. Blog (3rd July 2023) (available at )
• Kemeys, J., Law Express, Question and Answer: Criminal Law (5th edn, Pearson Education, 2019)

 Papers presented

• Dr Chris Monaghan and Dr Josie Welsh, ‘UK politics and Human Rights: From New Labour’s Human Rights Act 1998 to the Conservative’s Bill of Rights Bill’, Teaching Rights and Justice conference, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ, June 2023
• Dr Chris Monaghan and Josie Welsh, ‘Questions of Control: Accountability in the Shadow of Prorogation’, Questions of Accountability International conference, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ and the University of Sheffield (online), November 2021
• Josie Welsh, ‘The power of judges – is codification necessary?’, School of Law Summer Research Workshop, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ, July 2021
• Josie Kemeys and Nicola Monaghan, ‘Facilitating Inclusion and Engagement in Legal Education Through the Use of Interactive Whiteboards’, Learning and Teaching Conference, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ, June 2021
• Josie Kemeys, ‘We need to talk about judges’, School of Humanities Research Seminar Series, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ, January 2021
• Josie Kemeys, ‘Exploring the limits of constitutional theory when debating the nature and extent of judicial power in the UK’, Annual Doctoral Workshop in Constitutional Theory, December 2020
• Josie Kemeys, ‘Let’s Collaborate: creating an engaging, shared space for online learning’, Learning & Teaching Conference, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ, June 2020
• Josie Kemeys, ‘Judicial Power under the Human Rights Act’, Webinar, University of Cambridge, May 2020
• HH Toby Hooper QC, Chris Monaghan and Josie Kemeys, ‘The prorogation of Parliament: Miller, Cherry and the Supreme Court’, Panel Discussion, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ, December 2019
• Josie Kemeys, ‘Judicial Power in the United Kingdom – a different approach to analysis’ (Postgraduate), University of Sheffield, May 2019
• Josie Kemeys, ‘Judicial Power and the Changing Constitutional Environment in the United Kingdom’ Research Seminar Series, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ, November 2017

External Roles

• External examiner – University of Winchester
• Advisory Board member for Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice