Gavin Drewry is a political scientist specialising in public administration and public sector reform, with special reference to the UK civil service. He has a particular interest in the relationships between law, politics and administration and has written extensively on the functions and management of legal institutions, on the legislative process and on mechanisms of legal and parliamentary accountability, including judicial review and ombudsman systems. He recently completed a study (published in 2007 by Hart Publishing) of the Court of Appeal in England and Wales, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, and is co-editor of a major edited volume on the Jusicial House of Lords, published by Oxford University Press in 2009. He is currently completing a book on the politics of capital punishment. He is an active member of the Administrative History Study Group of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, and is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the IIAS.