Alistair Mills
BA (Cantab), BCL (Oxon), BPTC (Northumbria)
College roles
Special Supervisor in Law
University roles
Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Law
Biography
Mr Alistair Mills is a specialist in public law, particularly administrative law and planning law.
Alistair is a Special Supervisor at Newnham College, for which he supervises Constitutional Law. He is a Fellow and the Dias College Assistant Professor in Law at Magdalene College, where he also supervises Administrative Law and the Law of Contract. He is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, where in 2024-25 he will lecture the Law of Contract to undergraduates, and teach on the Legislation course on the LLM.
Prior to being a full-time academic, Alistair was in practice as a barrister, specialising in planning law. He was a member of Landmark Chambers in London, where he remains an Associate Member.
Research Interests
Mr Alistair Mills has research interests in public law, primarily in planning law and administrative law. He has a particular focus on administrative and planning policy, having published on policy in the Journal of Environmental Law, Legal Studies, and Climate Law. His book, Interpreting the NPPF: The New National Planning Policy Framework was published by Bath Publishing in 2018.
Much of his research draws on lessons from planning law, and/or the relationship between planning law and other areas of law. In this vein, he has research on committees giving reasons for their decisions forthcoming in Public Law, and on the court’s role in assessing proportionality in human rights challenges forthcoming in the European Human Rights Law Review.