Norman Doe
(he/him)

LLD (Cambridge)

Teams and roles for Norman Doe

Professor of Law
School of Law and Politics

KC (Hon), FBA, LLM (Wales), MTh (Oxford), PhD (Cambridge), DCL (Lambeth), LLD (Cambridge), Barrister (Middle Temple). I am the Director of the Centre for Law and Religion, which I set up at Cardiff Law School in 1998, and I was also Director of Research at the Law School (2011-2014). I am from the Rhondda and studied law at University College Cardiff, for my doctorate at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and theology at St Michael`s Theological College, Llandaff and Mansfield College Oxford University. I was an honorary member of the senior common room at Magdalen College, Oxford (1996-97), visiting fellow at Pusey House, Oxford (1997), visiting scholar at Bangor Law School (2007-8), visiting fellow at Trinity College Oxford (2011), visiting research scholar at Corpus Christi College Oxford (2015), and short term visiting fellow at Jesus College Oxford (2018).

In 1991, I set up the LLM in Canon Law at Cardiff Law School and I serve as the director of this programme, in 2002 I set up the LLB module Law and Religion, and in 2016, I had the honour of receiving a copy of: F. Cranmer, Mark Hill, Celia Kenny and Russell Sandberg (eds), The Confluence of Law and Religion: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Work of Norman Doe (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

I am author of Fundamental Authority in Late Medieval English Law (Cambridge, 1990), The Legal Framework of the Church of England (Oxford, 1996), Canon Law in the Anglican Communion (Oxford, 1998), The Law of the Church in Wales (Cardiff, 2002), An Anglican Covenant: Theological and Legal Considerations for a Global Debate (Canterbury Press, 2008), Law and Religion in Europe (Oxford, 2011), Christian Law: Contemporary Principles (Cambridge, 2013), The Legal Architecture of English Cathedrals (Routledge, 2017), and Comparative Religious Law: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Cambridge, 2018). With Mark Hill and Russell Sandberg, I am co-author of Religion and Law in the United Kingdom (Wolters Kluwer, 3rd ed., 2021).

I am editor of Essays in Canon Law (Cardiff, 1992), The Portrayal of Religion in Europe (Leuven, 2004), Christianity and Natural Law (Cambridge, 2017), A New History of the Church in Wales (Cambridge, 2020), and Church Laws and Ecumenism: A New Path for Christian Unity (Routledge, 2020). I am co-editor, with Mark Hill and Robert Ombres OP, of English Canon Law (Cardiff, 1998), with Richard Puza, Religion and Law in Dialogue (Leuven, 2006), with James Conn and Joseph Fox, Initiation, Membership and Authority in Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Law (Rome, 2005), with Matti Kotiranta, Religion and Criminal Law (Leuven, 2013) with Russell Sandberg, Law and Religion: New Horizons (Peeters, Leuven, 2010), Law and Religion (Routledge, 2017) and Law and History (Routledge, 2017), and with Mark Hill, R.H. Helmholz and J., Witte, Christianity and Criminal Law (Routledge, 2020). I am also editor of the books Church Laws and Ecumenism: A New Path for Christian Unity (Routledge, 2021) and A New History of the Church in Wales: Governance and Ministry, Theology and Society (Cambidge University Press, 2021); with Aetios Nikiforos, Legal Thought and Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (Routledge, 2024), and with Stephen Coleman, The Legal History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present (Hart, 2024).

I am on the editorial committees of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal and was appointed in 2013 as the Editor of the newly established Routledge Research Series in Law and Religion, the first series of its type in the UK, and in 2016 as the editor-in-chief of the new series Brill Research Perspectives in Law and Religion (published by Brill-Nijhoff, Netherlands).

I was a member of the Legal Advisory Commission of the Church of England, and deputy chancellor, Diocese of Manchester. A member of the European Consortium for Church and State Research (President in 2010), and a founding member of the Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers (established in 1999), I was a consultant on canon law to the Primates of the Anglican Communion and member of the Lambeth Commission (2003-2004, Windsor Report (2004)). I also served on the Anglican Communion Covenant Design Group (and suggested and drafted the original Anglican Covenant appended to the Windsor Report (2004)), and was consultant to the Anglican Communion Network of Legal Advisers and prepared candidate principles for inclusion in its The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion (Anglican Communion Office, 2008). In 2021-22, I worked with the Network revising the 2008 principles for a new iteration of the document published in and launched at the Lambeth Conference in August 2022. Since 1999 I have been an associate professor at the University of Paris, and 2013-16 visiting professor at KU Leuven, and was docente invitato Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum), Rome, in 2009. With Centre colleagues, I established the Interfaith Legal Advisers Network (2007) and the Law and Religion Scholars Network (2008).

I made five presentations on canon law and covenant at the Lambeth Conference 2008. In 2012 I was appointed as Chancellor of the Diocese of Bangor - in this capacity I function as president of the Diocesan Consistory Court. My book Law and Religion in Europe was included in the top 20 publications by the International Consortium of Law and Religion Scholars (ICLARS). In 2013 I was the Oxford University Court Sermon Preacher. My book Christian Law has been the focus of study by a panel of experts at meetings in Rome 2013-2016 involving participants from the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed, Presbyterian and Baptist traditions seeking to use systems of church law and church order as an instrument of global ecumenism on the basis that whilst doctrines may divide Christians, laws link them in common action. I drafted the principles for consideration by the panel and for inclusion in its Statement of Principles of Christian Law (Rome, 2016). A final Statement of Principles of Christian Law was launched at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in September 2022. In 2008 The Telegraph listed me among the 50 most influential Anglicans in the world - at number 49! In the Research Handbook on Law and Religion, edited by Rex Adhar (Elgar, 2018), I was listed in the 'top ten' law and religion scholars worldwide - at number 10. In 2020 I was elected as a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, as a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2021 I was elected as an Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple, London. In 2023 I was elected to the Council of the Selden Society. In 2024 I was appointed as honorary King's Counsel. Also in 2024 I was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. My canon law play (2023), Thrice to Rome, about the three appearances of Gerald of Wales before the Papal Court of Innocent III 1200--3, has been performed twice at St Davids Cathedral, Wales, and at the Temple Church London, and is due to be performed in 2024 at Canterbury, and at the papal court in Rome.

Date
Type

2026

Doe, N. 2026. Move over Lyndwood: the York Provinciale. Ecclesiastical Law Journal: An international journal for the comparative study of law and religion 28 (2), pp.157-177. (10.1017/S0956618X25101063)
Doe, N. and Bush, G. 2026. VIII: Thomas Sherlock (1678–1761). Ecclesiastical Law Journal: An international journal for the comparative study of law and religion 28 (2), pp.258-275. (10.1017/s0956618x25101087)
Doe, N. 2026. Juridical ecumenism and the Canons of Nicaea: comparing the Nicene Canons (325) and the Statement of Principles of Christian Law (2016). Ecclesiastical Law Journal 28 , pp.14-32. (10.1017/S0956618X25101099)

2025

Doe, N. 2025. The Chancery Court of York: a forgotten jurisdiction ‘particularly circumstanced’?. Ecclesiastical Law Journal: An international journal for the comparative study of law and religion 27 (3), pp.298-316. (10.1017/s0956618x25100872)
Doe, N. 2025. Canon law, ecumenism, and synodality. Ecclesiastical Law Journal: An international journal for the comparative study of law and religion 27 (2), pp.152-169. (10.1017/S0956618X25000183)
Doe, N. 2025. Papal law in the English church: Post-Reformation Anglican jurisprudence. In: Rollo-Koster, J. et al., The Cambridge History of the Papacy. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press. , pp.442-465. (10.1017/9781108663410.021)

2024

Hill, M. and Doe, N. 2024. Criminal Canon Law. In: Caero, P. et al., Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing. , pp.557-572. (10.4337/9781789902990.criminal.canon.law)
Coleman, S. and Doe, N. 2024. Natural law and human law: The reformation legacy—an ecumenical approach. In: Duddington, J. ed. The Legal Legacy of the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law. London: Routledge. , pp.143-153. (10.4324/9780429264115-10)
Doe, N. 2024. A comparative account of Protestant and Catholic approaches to church law: Law in the life of the visible church. In: Duddington, J. ed. The Legal Legacy of the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law. London: Routledge. , pp.3-22. (10.4324/9780429264115-2)
Riedel, R. and Doe, N. 2024. Non-belief: legal and social profiles in the United Kingdom. Presented at: The Complex World of Philosophical And, Non-religious Belies : Legal and Social Profiles: XXXIIth Annual Conference Venice, Italy 12-15 May 2022. Published in: Mazzola, R. , Angelucci, A. and Baldassarre, S. eds. The Complex World of Philosophical And, Non-religious Belies : Legal and Social Profiles: Proceedings of the XXXIIth Annual Conference, Venice, 12-15 May 2022. Granada: Comares. , pp.249-270. (10.55323/edc.2024.68)
Doe, N. 2024. The ecclesiastical law and religious pluralism: 1760-1837. In: Doe, N. and Coleman, S. eds. The Legal History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present. Oxford: Hart Publishing. , pp.135-151. (10.5040/9781509973156.ch-007)
Doe, N. 2024. Rediscovering Anglican priest-jurists: VI - Francis Mason (1566/7-1621). Ecclesiastical Law Journal 26 (1), pp.66-81. (10.1017/S0956618X23000492)

2023

Doe, N. 2023. Protestant Church Laws. In: Witte Jr., J. and Domingo, R. eds. The Oxford Handbook on Christianity and Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.569–580. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197606759.013.41)
Doe, N. 2023. The principles of Christian law. In: Doe, N. and Nikiforos, D. eds. Legal Thought and Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. London: Routledge. , pp.20-28.
Doe, N. 2023. ‘Legalists and moralists’ in the historic portrayal of the constitution of the Church of England. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 25 (3), pp.330-354. (10.1017/S0956618X23000285)
Doe, N. 2023. Gerald of Wales (c. 1146–1223): A canonist rediscovered. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 25 (2), pp.192-210. (10.1017/S0956618X23000078)
Doe, N. 2023. Ralph Lever (c. 1530-1585). Ecclesiastical Law Journal 25 (1), pp.66-80. (10.1017/S0956618X22000655)
Doe, N. and Nikiforos, D. 2023. Rediscovering Anglican priest-jurists III: William Beveridge (1637–1708). Ecclesiastical Law Journal 23 (1), pp.82-99. (10.1017/S0956618X20000654)

2022

Doe, N. 2022. Pre-reformation Roman canon law in post-reformation English ecclesiastical law. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 24 (3), pp.273-294. (10.1017/S0956618X2200031X)
Doe, N. 2022. Faith, freedom, and family: An introduction to the work of John Witte Jr.. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 24 (2), pp.175-191. (10.1017/S0956618X22000035)
Doe, N. 2022. Rediscovering Anglican priest jurists IV: Robert Sanderson (1587-1663). Ecclesiastical Law Journal 24 (1), pp.68-86. (10.1017/S0956618X21000752)
Doe, N. and Cranmer, F. 2022. Religion and law in the European Union. In: Davie, G. and Leustean, L. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe. Oxford University Press. , pp.307-322.

2021

Doe, N. 2021. The Court of Arches: jurisdiction to jurisprudence – ‘entirely settled’?. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 23 (3), pp.322-341. (10.1017/S0956618X21000387)
Hill, M. et al. 2021. Religion and law in the United Kingdom [3rd Edition]. International Encyclopaedia of Laws Vol. 3rd edWolters Kluwer.
Doe, N. and Nikiforos, D. 2021. William Beveridge (1637-1708). Ecclesiastical Law Journal 23 (1), pp.82-99. (10.1017/S0956618X20000654)
Doe, N. and Riedel, R. 2021. Religious minorities, secular society, and British bifocalism. Presented at: 30th Annual Conference Siena, Italy 15-17 November 2018. Published in: Ventura, M. ed. The Legal Status of Old and New Religious Minorities in the European Union: Proceedings of the XXXth annual conference :. Editorial Comares: Granada. , pp.335-344.

2020

Doe, N. 2020. Religious freedom: Christian perspectives. In: Hill, M. et al., Routledge Handbook of Freedom of Religion or Belief. London: Routledge(10.4324/9780203732625-10.)
Doe, N. 2020. The evolution of the principles of Christian law. In: Doe, C. ed. Church Laws and Ecumenism: A New Path for Christian Unity. Abingdon: Routledge. , pp.6-27. (10.4324/9781003084273)
Doe, N. 2020. The nature of sin and crime: spiritual and civil jurisdictions compared. In: Doe, C. et al., Christianity and Criminal Law. London: Routledge. , pp.97-115. (10.4324/9781003015260)
Doe, N. 2020. The constitution of the church. In: Doe, N. ed. A New History of the Church in Wales: Governance and Ministry, Theology and Society. Cambridge University Press

2019

Doe, N. 2019. Rediscovering Anglican priest-jurists ii: Samuel Hallifax (1733-1790). Ecclesiastical Law Journal 22 (1), pp.49-66. (10.1017/S0956618X19001704)
Sandberg, R. et al. 2019. Research handbook on interdisciplinary approaches to law and religion. Edward Elgar.
Doe, N. 2019. Christian law: dynamics of belonging and status. In: Ferrari, S. and Bottoni, R. eds. Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws. London and New York: Routledge. , pp.168-183.
Doe, N. 2019. Christian law perspectives: the legal other. In: Ferrari, S. and Bottoni, R. eds. Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws. London and New York: Routledge. , pp.301-318.
Doe, N. 2019. Canon Law in global Anglicanism. In: Percy, M. et al., The Study of Ministry: A Comprehensive Survey of Theory and Best Practice. SPCK. , pp.599-611.
Doe, N. 2019. Ministers and employment law. In: Percy, M. et al., The Study of Ministry: A Comprehensive Survey of Theory and Best Practice. SPCK. , pp.587-598.
Doe, N. 2019. Rediscovering Anglican Priest-Jurists I: Robert Owen (1820-1902). Ecclesiastical Law Journal 21 (1), pp.54-68. (10.1017/S0956618X18000959)

2018

Doe, N. 2018. Comparative religious law: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (10.1017/9781316711569)
Doe, N. 2018. Cathedrals. In: Hill, M. ed. Ecclesiastical Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.255-286.
Doe, N. and Deadman, R. 2018. The resolutions of the Lambeth Conference and the laws of Anglican Churches. In: Avis, P. and Guyer, B. M. eds. The Lambeth Conference: Theology, History, Polity and Purpose. London: Bloomsbury. , pp.259-296.

2017

Doe, N. and Sandberg, R. eds. 2017. Law and history. Critical Concepts in Law Abingdon: Routledge.
Doe, N. 2017. The legal architecture of English cathedrals. Law and Religion Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315659268)
Doe, N. 2017. Richard Hooker: Priest and Jurist. In: Hill, M. and Helmholz, R. H. eds. Great Christian Jurists in English History. Cambridge Studies in Law and Christianity Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.115-138. (10.1017/9781108125901.008)
Hill, M. and Doe, C. 2017. Principles of Christian Law. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 19 (2), pp.138-155. (10.1017/S0956618X17000035)
Doe, N. 2017. The category 'legal theology' and the study of Christian laws. Journal of Law and Religion 32 (1), pp.1-7. (10.1017/jlr.2017.13)
Doe, N. and Sandberg, R. eds. 2017. Law and religion. Critical Concepts in Law Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Doe, C. N. 2017. Natural law in an interfaith context: the Abrahamic religions. In: Doe, C. N. ed. Christianity and Natural Law: An Introduction. Cambridge Studies in Law and Christianity Cambridge University Press. , pp.184-204. (10.1017/9781316890615.011)
Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. 2017. Religion law and religious law. In: Doe, C. and Sandberg, R. eds. Law and Religion.. Vol. 1, Critical Concepts in Law Routledge. , pp.1-21.

2016

Sandberg, R. and Doe, N. 2016. Textual and contextual legal history. In: Doe, N. and Sandberg, R. eds. Law and History. Vol. 1, Critical Concepts in Law Abingdon and New York: Routledge. , pp.1-27.

2015

Doe, C. N. 2015. Canon Law. In: Chapman, M. D. , Clarke, S. and Percy, M. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology Oxford University Press. , pp.527-541.
Doe, N. 2015. The ecumenical value of comparative church law: towards the category of Christian law. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 17 (02), pp.135-169. (10.1017/S0956618X15000034)
Doe, N. and Pulleyn, S. 2015. The durability of maxims of canon law: from regulae iuris to canonical principles. In: Harris, T. L. ed. Studies in Canon Law and Common Law in Honor of R. H. Helmholz. Studies in Comparative Legal History Berkeley, CA: The Robbins Collection. , pp.303-336.
Doe, C. N. 2015. The still small voice of Magna Carta in Christian law today. In: Griffith-Jones, R. and Hill, M. eds. Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.229-247. (10.1017/CBO9781316178164.014)
Doe, C. N. 2015. The training of ministers of religion in the United Kingdom. In: Messner, F. ed. Public Authorities and the Training of Religious Personnel in Europe. Granada: Editorial Comares. , pp.217-240.

2014

Douglas, G. et al. 2014. Religious divorce in England and Wales: religious tribunals in action. In: Shah, P. , Foblets, M. and Rohe, M. eds. Family, Religion and Law: Cultural encounters in Europe. Farnham: Ashgate. , pp.195-208.
Doe, C. 2014. The State from the perspective of religious laws: a global approach with particular reference to Christianity. In: Balzs, S. ed. Religious Understandings of the State in Europe, Proceedings of the European Consortium for Church and State Research. Trier : Institute for European Constitutional Law, University of Trier on behalf of the European Consortium for Church and State Research. , pp.261-300.
Doe, C. N. 2014. Religion and public schools in the States of Europe: a juridical overview. In: Cano Ruiz, I. ed. La Enseñanza de la Religión en la Escuela Pública. Granada. , pp.375-380.
Hill, M. , Sandberg, R. and Doe, C. N. 2014. Religion and law in the United Kingdom. In: Torfs, R. ed. International Encyclopaedia of Laws, 2nd edition. International Encyclopaedia of Laws Series Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International

2013

Douglas, G. et al. 2013. Accommodating religious divorce in the secular state: A case study analysis. In: Maclean, M. and Eekelaar, J. eds. Managing Family Justice in Diverse Societies. Onati International Series in Law and Society Vol. 1.Oxford: Hart Publishing. , pp.185-201.
Doe, C. N. 2013. Christian law: contemporary principles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Doe, C. N. 2013. The Instruments of unity and communion in global Anglicanism. In: Markham, I. S. et al., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion. The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion Chichester: Wiley. , pp.45-66. (10.1002/9781118320815.ch4)
Doe, C. N. , Sandberg, R. and Cranmer, F. 2013. Religion and criminal law in the United Kingdom. In: Kotiranta, M. and Doe, C. N. eds. Religion and Criminal Law - Religion et Droit Pénal. Leuven: Peeters. , pp.261-288.

2012

Sandberg, R. et al. 2012. Britain's religious tribunals: 'joint governance' in practice. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 33 (2), pp.263-291. (10.1093/ojls/gqs031)
Douglas, G. et al. 2012. The role of religious tribunals in regulating marriage and divorce. Child and Family Law Quarterly 24 (2), pp.139-157.
Doe, C. N. 2012. Juridical ecumenism. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 14 (2), pp.195-234. (10.1017/S0956618X12000038)

2011

Douglas, G. et al., 2011. Marriage and Divorce in Religious Courts: A Case Study. Family Law 41 , pp.956-961.
Douglas, G. et al., 2011. Social cohesion and religious law: marriage, divorce and religious courts. Project Report.Cardiff: Cardiff Law School.
Doe, C. N. 2011. Law and religion in Europe: a comparative introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Douglas, G. et al. 2011. Social cohesion and civil law: marriage, divorce and religious courts. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.law.cf.ac.uk/clr/Social%20Cohesion%20and%20Civil%20Law%20Full%20Report.pdf.

2010

Hill, M. , Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. 2010. Ecclesiastical law entries. In: Greenberg, D. ed. Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law. 3rd ed.. London: Sweet & Maxwell
Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. 2010. Conclusion: new horizons. In: Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. eds. Law and Religion: New Horizons. Law and Religion Studies Vol. 7.Leuven: Peeters. , pp.315.
Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. 2010. Introduction. In: Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. eds. Law and Religion: New Horizons. Law and Religion Studies Vol. 7.Leuven: Peeters. , pp.9-12.
Hill, M. , Sandberg, R. and Doe, C. N. 2010. Religion law: United Kingdom. In: Torfs, R. ed. International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Religion. International Encyclopaedia of Laws Series London: Kluwer Law
Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. eds. 2010. Law and religion: New horizons. Law and Religion Studies Vol. 7Leuven: Peeters.
Doe, C. N. 2010. The Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus: An Anglican juridical perspective. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 12 (03), pp.304-323. (10.1017/S0956618X10000426)
Doe, C. N. 2010. The Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus: an Anglican juridical perspective. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Doe, C. N. 2010. The concept of Christian law – a case study: concepts of 'a Church' in a comparative and ecumenical context. In: Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. eds. Law and Religion: New Horizons. Law and Religion Studies Vol. 7.Leuven: Peeters. , pp.243-274.
Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. 2010. Diritto e ordinamento delle Chiesa d'Inghilterra e della comunione Anglicana. In: Melloni, A. ed. Dizionario del sapere storico-religioso del Novecento. Vol. 1, Bologna: Societa Editrice Il Mulino. , pp.740-749.
Sandberg, R. et al. 2010. Religion-government relations. In: Melton, J. G. and Baumann, M. eds. Religions of the World: a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. 2nd ed.. Vol. 5, California: ABC-CLIO. , pp.2397-2401.

2009

Doe, N. ed. 2009. Marriage in Anglican and Roman Catholic canon law: acts of the Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers, Malta 2008. Cardiff: Centre for Law and Religion.
Doe, N. ed. 2009. The formation and ordination of clergy in Anglican and Roman Catholic canon law: acts of the Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers, Rome 2005, Johannesburg 2006, Rome 2007. Cardiff: Centre for Law and Religion.
Doe, C. N. 2009. Inter-church and inter-faith marriages in Anglican canon law. In: Doe, C. N. ed. Marriage in Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Law. Cardiff: Centre for Law and Religion. , pp.95-115.
Doe, C. N. 2009. Theological education in Anglicanism: global policy and its canonical dimensions. In: Doe, C. N. ed. The formation and ordination of clergy in Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Law. Cardiff: Centre for Law and Religion. , pp.91-102.
Doe, C. N. et al. 2009. A decade of ecumenical dialogue on canon law. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 11 (3), pp.284-328. (10.1017/S0956618X09990068)
Ombres, R. and Doe, C. N. 2009. The ministry of clergy in Anglican and Roman Catholic canon law. In: Doe, C. N. ed. The Formation and Ordination of Clergy in Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Law. Cardiff: Centre for Law and Religion. , pp.5-24.

2008

Doe, C. N. 2008. Common principles of canon law in Anglicanism. In: Stevenson, K. ed. A Fallible Church: Lambeth Essays. London: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd. , pp.86-121.
Doe, C. N. and Sandberg, R. 2008. The Changing Criminal Law on Religion. Law and Justice 161 , pp.88-97.
Sandberg, R. and Doe, C. N. 2008. The strange death of blasphemy. Modern Law Review 71 (6), pp.971-986. (10.1111/j.1468-2230.2008.00723.x)
Doe, C. N. 2008. An Anglican Covenant: Theological and legal considerations for a global debate. Norwich: Canterbury Press.
Doe, C. N. 2008. Modern church law. In: Witte, J. J. and Alexander, F. S. eds. Christianity and Law: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.271-291.
Doe, C. N. 2008. Protestantism in Europe: juridical perspectives. Derecho y Religion 3 , pp.91-107.
Doe, C. N. 2008. Setting the Law on Anglicans. Church Times 7583 , pp.19-21.
Doe, C. N. 2008. The contribution of common principles of canon law to ecclesial communion in Anglicanism. International journal for the Study of the Christian Church 8 (2), pp.93-111. (10.1080/14742250801930806)
Doe, C. N. 2008. The first ten years of the Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 10 (02), pp.222-233. (10.1017/S0956618X08001245)
Doe, N. 2008. The contribution of common principles of canon law to ecclesial communion in Anglicanism. In: Doe, N. ed. The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion. London: Anglican Communion Office. , pp.97-112.
Harlow, A. , Cranmer, F. and Doe, C. N. 2008. Bishops in the House of Lords: a critical analysis. Public Law (Autumn), pp.490-509.

2003

Doe, C. N. 2003. Canon law and communion. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 3 (1), pp.85-117. (10.1080/14742250308574026)
Doe, C. N. 2003. The common Law of the Anglican communion. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 7 (32), pp.4-16. (10.1017/S0956618X00004907)
Doe, C. N. and Ombres, R. 2003. Il ministero sacro nel diritto della Comunione Anglicana e della Chiesa di Roma. Daimon: Annuario di Diritto Comprato delle Religioni (3), pp.67-95.

2002

Doe, C. N. 2002. The law of the Church in Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Doe, C. N. 2002. Canon law and communion. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 6 (30), pp.241-263. (10.1017/S0956618X0000449X)
Doe, C. N. 2002. Canonical approaches to human rights in Anglican churches. In: Hill, M. ed. Religious Liberty and Human Rights. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. , pp.185-206.
Doe, C. N. 2002. The notion of national church: a juridical framework. Law and Justice 149 , pp.77-91.
Doe, C. N. and Oliva, J. G. 2002. The idea of national church in the United Kingdom and Spain: a comparative study. Sri Lanka Journal of International Law 14 , pp.1-22.
Doe, N. and Nicholson, J. 2002. The relationship between society, state and church in the UK. In: Kämper, B. and Schlagheck, M. eds. Zwischen Nationaler Identität und Europäischer Harmonisierung: Zur Grundspannung des Zukünftigen Verhältnisses von Gesellschaft, Staat und Kirche in Europa. Staatskirchenrechtliche Abhandlungen Vol. 36.Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. , pp.59-84.

2001

Doe, N. and Jeremy, A. 2001. Justifications for religious autonomy. In: O'Dair, R. and Lewis, A. eds. Law and Religion. Current Legal Issues Vol. 4.Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.421-442.
Doe, C. N. 2001. Church-state relations in the United Kingdom: mutual expectations and existing pre-conditions. Presented at: The Unification of Europe and the Relationship of Society, State and Church Mulheim, Germany 2001.
Doe, C. N. 2001. Faithful discipleship: comparative canon law and clergy discipline. Presented at: Second Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic canon lawyers Windsor Castle, UK 31 May 2001.
Doe, C. N. 2001. Pour une première analyse de la notion d’Église nationale. L'Année Canonique 43 , pp.65-74.
Doe, C. N. 2001. Un cadre analytique rudimentaire pour l'etude de la notion d'eEglise nationale: Royaume Uni. In: La Notion D'Eglises Nationales En Europe. Paris: Colloque sur les Eglises Nationales

2000

Doe, C. N. 2000. Canon law and church property in the Anglican communion: An overview. In: Fox, J. ed. Render Unto Caesar: Church Property in Roman Catholic and Anglican Canon Law. Rome: Pontifican University of St Thomas Aquinas. , pp.38-56.
Doe, C. N. , Oliva, J. G. and Acuna, S. 2000. La situación especial de la Iglesia en Gales: consideraciones jurídicas. Derecho y Opinión 8 , pp.319-328.
Doe, C. N. and Ombres, R. 2000. Faithful discipleship: Comparative canon law and clergy discipline. In: Hill, M. ed. Faithful Discipleship: Clergy Discipline in Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Law. Cardiff: Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University. , pp.271-297.

1999

Doe, C. N. 1999. The principles of canon law: a focus of legal unity in Anglican - Roman Catholic relations. Ecclesiastical Law Journal 5 (25), pp.221-240. (10.1017/S0956618X00003586)

1998

Doe, C. N. 1998. Canon law in the Anglican communion: a worldwide perspective. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
Doe, N. , Hill, M. and Ombres, R. eds. 1998. English canon law: Essays in honour of Bishop Eric Kemp, Bishop of Chichester. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Doe, C. N. 1998. The citizen, the believer and the law in the United Kingdom: England and Wales. Presented at: Citizens and Believers in the Countries of the European Union Reggio Calabria, Italy 12-15 November 1998. , pp.159-183.

1996

Doe, C. N. 1996. The legal framework of the Church of England: a critical study in a comparative context. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1992

Doe, N. 1992. Essays in canon law: A study of the law of the Church in Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

1990

Doe, C. N. 1990. Fundamental authority in late medieval English law. Cambridge Studies in English Legal History Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

My principal research interests are Anglican canon law, comparative church law, law and religion, and the history of ecclesiastical law. I have authored nine books, co-authored one, and edited over twenty. My book Canon Law in the Anglican Communion (Oxford, 1998) was the basis of the document The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion (2008), agreed by the Anglican Communion Legal Advisers Network and launched at the Lambeth Conference of 2008. My book Christian Law: Contemporary Principles (Cambridge, 2013) was the basis of a Statement of Principles of Christian Law (2016), issued by an ecumenical panel, and currently being fed into the work of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. My current research is for a book on the history of English ecclesiastical law since the Reformation, a series of articles on the work of clergy jurists also since the Reformation which is published in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal. I am also involved in various netwroks of the Cardiff Centre for Law and Religion, including the Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Cathoilic Canon Lawyers and the newly formed Church Law History Network.

I am the course director of the LLM in Canon Law at Cardiff School of Law and Politics.

I am a professor of law at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, where I also direct the LLM in Canon Law and the Centre for Law and Religion. At Cardiff I have served as Director of Research for the REF 2014. I have been a visiting fellow/schalar at several Oxford colleges, and since 1999 I have been a visiting professor at the University of Paris, teaching Anglican canon law on the doctoral Gratianus Programme. Since 2012 I have been the Chancellor of the Diocese of Bangor, in the Church in Wales in which capacity I serve as judge of the diocesan consistory court. I was President of the European Consortium for Church and State Research in 2010. I have also been a consultant in canon law to the Legal Advisers Network of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Lambeth Conference 2008, and in 2003-2004 on the Lambeth Commission which produced the Windsor Report in 2004. I am also a Master of the Bench at Inner Temple. In 2023 I was elected to the Council of the Selden Society. In 2024 I was appointed honorary King's Counsel and elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.