Aileen Kavanagh
@AileenFKavanagh
Professor of Constitutional Governance @TCDLawSchool; Director @TriCONDublin; Advisory Board @icon_journal; prev Prof @OxfordLawFac; Dubliner.
The Collaborative Constitution has landed! After years of hard work, deep thinking and slow scholarship, it’s amazing to see it out there in the world at last. Thanks to everyone who helped, supported, commented and critiqued. But for now, take a look at this fine thing!
Richard Fallon, In Memoriam, buff.ly/6WxLugJ - A tribute to the great scholar and dear friend.
New issue of @CompConStudies is out! Available open access for a few weeks elgaronline.com/view/journals/…
Rule of Law Index 2024 Fundamental Rights 1. Denmark🇩🇰 2. Norway🇳🇴 3. Finland🇫🇮 4. Sweden🇸🇪 5. Germany🇩🇪 6. Luxembourg🇱🇺 7. Ireland🇮🇪 8. Belgium🇧🇪 9. New Zealand🇳🇿 10. Netherlands🇳🇱 13. Canada🇨🇦 14. UK🇬🇧 18. Australia🇦🇺 19. Spain🇪🇸 20. Japan🇯🇵 24. Korea🇰🇷 26. France🇫🇷 30.…
Great opportunity for ECRs & doctoral candidates working in constitutional law across the island of Ireland to present their work and get focused feedback at @TriCONDublin @TCDLawSchool. Kudos to @aahmedsaleh & @ReidinDoyle for organising! Abstracts due July 31st!
Submissions are open for the 'TriCON New Voices in Constitutional Law Workshop'. An excellent opportunity for PhD candidates & ECRs in Ireland working on public/constitutional law to get expert feedback on their research. @TriCONDublin @TCDLawSchool
Mara Malagodi: The State of the Comparative Constitutional Law Field and the Re-Launch of Constitutional Studies ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/03/ukc…
Nice delivery from @CUP_Law today: a box full of The Collaborative Constitution which has just gone into paperback! Good to know that it’s now available at a more realistic price point - and you can save 20% with code TCC2025. cup.org/4jQt1Ko
LATEST article: "Between the ‘politics of immediacy’ and the return of the imperative mandate. The Italian case in a comparative perspective". Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…. @ScuolaSantAnna @StalsPisa
Great interview here on @TodaywithClaire with @caoilfhionnanna
Thanks @TodaywithClaire @RTERadio1 for inviting me on today. A wide-ranging discussion (with some curveballs - quite a few unexpected issues!) on law, life and more. rte.ie/radio/radio1/c… @LawSocIreland @rte
Congrats on the publication of your beautiful book, Mariana! A milestone
Happy publication day to me! ✨ Here’s a little celebratory 🧵 to explain in a nutshell what the book is about: One of the everlasting questions in constituional theory and practice is what makes a constitution difficult to amend?
A word hard/play hard situation this week with Gabrielle Appleby @UNSWLaw in town to work on our co-authored article on the idea of the ‘fourth branch’. Very early days, but great to talk to @mikepalcanada, Liz Fisher & @edwardmwillis about the topic.
Congrats Dr @UrsulaQuillTCD!
A wonderful day being awarded my PhD on Friday! Very grateful to everyone who encouraged and supported me along the way, particularly my supervisor @rachaelawalsh @TCDLawSchool
"Democracy and the Notwithstanding Clause" now out in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Atiq, Marmor, & Sarch on the Nature of Law, buff.ly/hOCJ2Uc - Emad H. Atiq, Andrei Marmor, & Alex F. Sarch have posted The Nature of Law, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on SSRN.
Thanks to Maris Köpcke for reviewing my article "Strong Constitutionalism and Deliberative Democracy" at @IReadJotwell! juris.jotwell.com/justice-democr…
Highly interesting reflections on writing by legal scholars in Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/nilq…
Human Rights Index 2024 1. Estonia🇪🇪 2. Sweden🇸🇪 3. Denmark🇩🇰 4. Ireland🇮🇪 5. New Zealand🇳🇿 6. Belgium🇧🇪 7. Czechia🇨🇿 8. Switzerland🇨🇭 9. Iceland🇮🇸 10. Spain🇪🇸 11. Finland🇫🇮 12. Luxembourg🇱🇺 13. Germany🇩🇪 14. Norway🇳🇴 15. Latvia🇱🇻 16. Chile🇨🇱 17. Taiwan🇹🇼 18. Costa Rica🇨🇷 19.…
Huge thanks to Prof Jonathan Morgan @cambridgelaw for his insightful engagement with The Collaborative Constitution @CUP_Law in a book review for the Cambridge Law Journal. Nice to see the words ‘this excellent book’ first thing this morning!
New Issue of The Cambridge Law Journal now available 📚 cup.org/4kz2L8o
Great seminar yesterday at @TriCONDublin @TLRHub to mark the 10th anniversary of the Marriage Equality Referendum in Ireland. Special thanks to Katherine Zappone for coming and engaging in reflective conversation with Profs @AileenFKavanagh & @dkennytcd