Daniel Skeffington

Daniel Skeffington is a PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, where his thesis examines the exercise of the war prerogative in post-Second World War conflicts in Britain and the United States. He holds an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the University of Bath. Previously, he served as a Research Fellow at the Constitution Society in London, where he authored a report on emergency powers in the United Kingdom and began research connecting emergency governance frameworks to existential and catastrophic risk scenarios. He currently works as a Parliamentary Researcher to Lord Stirrup KG, former Chief of the Defence Staff, and is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and a Student Contributor for Lawfare. His research spans executive and prerogative power, constitutional history, the law of armed conflict, and the governance of extreme risks including AI, pandemics, and nuclear conflict. He received a grant from the Long-Term Future Fund for research and a report on the role of emergency powers in the governance of existential risk.

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