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Trinity Centre for Constitutional Governance. A leading centre for constitutional law events and scholarship based at @TCDLawSchool @tcddublin
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
Congratulations to Profs Gerry Whyte @TCDLawSchool & @Caseyco231 @SurreyCentreLP on the publication of the 3rd edition of Social Inclusion and the Legal System @ClarusPress
Great to get the hard copy @ClarusPress of my new book with Gerry Whyte. We argue the Irish constitution, properly construed against its natural law/catholic social teaching philosophical/ historical backdrop, provides protection against extreme poverty and deprivation. We…
Congratulations to Dr @UrsulaQuillTCD who graduated with a doctorate on referendums and constitutional change from @TCDLawSchool supervised by Prof @rachaelawalsh. Dr @UrsulaQuillTCD co-organised the inaugural @TriCONDublin doctoral conference in 2023.
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
Congratulations to Prof @rachaelawalsh @TCDLawSchool whose book Property Rights and Social Justice @CUP_Law was cited by the Irish Supreme Court today in ESB v Good: courts.ie/view/judgments…
NB Supreme Court constitutional property judgment today (ESB v Good) critically holds that established common law and statutory compensation principles are not automatically constitutionally required, great to see citations to my @CambridgeUP ‘Property Rights and Social Justice’!
‘An important and original book’ which ‘challenges a number of fashionable scholarly positions’. Congrats to @TriCONDublin Director Prof @AileenFKavanagh @TCDLawSchool for this positive review of The Collaborative Constitution @CUP_Law in the Cambridge Law Journal.
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!
Last morning on the lovely @UNSWLaw campus, looking forward to presenting at the ALPS conference on ‘Deliberative Property - Mitigating Power Imbalances’ later today.
@TriCONDublin member Prof @rachaelawalsh is multi-tasking in Sydney! First, a paper on Irish referendums for the Constitutional Failure conference at @GTCentre @UNSWLaw and now a paper for the 2025 Association of Law, Property & Society conference @UNSWLaw
Wonderful walking tour of key property and planning sites in Sydney to kick off the 2025 Association of Law, Property and Society conference @UNSWLaw, amazing range of papers over the next couple of days!
@TriCONDublin members Profs @rachaelawalsh & Oran Doyle are presenting a paper on success and failure of constitutional referendums in Ireland as part of the Constitutional Failure workshop at @GTCentre @UNSWLaw
Constitutional Failure workshop kicks off @GTCentre @UNSWLaw with papers from @rosalinddixon15 and @ElisabethPerham, lessons from Ireland coming later from @TriCONDublin voices, myself, Prof Oran Doyle and Dr Hilary Hogan.
Great to see that @TriCONDublin member Prof @rachaelawalsh @TCDLawSchool will present a paper on ‘Judging in the Shadow of Referendums’ at the Comparative Constitutional Roundtable organised by Prof @rosalinddixon15 at the @GTCentre in @UNSWLaw.
Comparative Constitutional Roundtable kicking off @GTCentre @UNSWLaw this morning with great papers on comparative constitutional methodology and informal constitutional norms, looking forward to presenting later on ‘Judging in the Shadow of Referendums’.
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
@TriCONDublin & @TLRHub will host a panel discussion on the marriage equality referendum tomorrow May 22nd, with keynote speaker Katherine Zappone who will talk about the KAL case as a catalyst for wider reform. 1.30pm May 22nd @TLRHub @tcddublin
On the 10th Anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum, join us for a @TriCONDublin panel discussion with Katherine Zappone, @dkennytcd & @AileenFKavanagh in the @TLRHub @tcddublin at 1.30pm May 22nd.
Delighted to be @UNSWLaw @GTCentre for a couple of weeks as a visiting researcher, taking in some great events while I’m here, starting with the @ICON__S Winter School this week - a packed schedule on constitutional methods, publishing, and more, with a really interesting group.
Great to partner with the @IrishJurisSoc for the excellent @TriCONDublin/@IrishJurisSoc seminar last night with Prof Lawrence Sager @UTexasLaw on imperfect duties, with comments from Profs @dkennytcd & @AileenFKavanagh & chaired by Dr Conor Crummey.
Happening TODAY 5pm in @TCDLawSchool: Prof Larry Sager @UTexasLaw on Imperfect Duties and Constitutional Law, with comments from Prof @dkennytcd & @TriCONDublin Director @AileenFKavanagh. All welcome.
Join us on Monday May 19th for a seminar with speaker Prof Lawrence Sager, commentators Profs @dkennytcd & @TriCONDublin Director @AileenFKavanagh, chaired by Dr Conor Crummey @MaynoothLaw. This seminar at @TCDLawSchool is co-hosted by @TriCONDublin & the @IrishJurisSoc.
Fully-funded PhD studentship on forced migration law @TCDLawSchool. Come work with me and Ghaiath Hussein on this exciting project!
PhD studentship in Law - applications now open for a funded PhD Researcher in Forced Migration, with @C_Ahlborn . Closing date, 12 June 2025. Full details here. tcd.ie/law/news-event…
A @TriCONDublin double-bill next week! Looking forward to hearing from Katherine Zappone on May 22nd about the role of her case with Ann Louise Gilligan as a step on the road to marriage equality in Ireland. Hard to believe that the marriage equality referendum was 10 years ago.
On the 10th Anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum, join us for a @TriCONDublin panel discussion with Katherine Zappone, @dkennytcd & @AileenFKavanagh in the @TLRHub @tcddublin at 1.30pm May 22nd.
On the 10th Anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum, join us for a @TriCONDublin panel discussion with Katherine Zappone, @dkennytcd & @AileenFKavanagh in the @TLRHub @tcddublin at 1.30pm May 22nd.
Join us on Monday May 19th for a seminar with speaker Prof Lawrence Sager, commentators Profs @dkennytcd & @TriCONDublin Director @AileenFKavanagh, chaired by Dr Conor Crummey @MaynoothLaw. This seminar at @TCDLawSchool is co-hosted by @TriCONDublin & the @IrishJurisSoc.
Huge congrats to Daniel Gilligan who passed his doctoral viva with no corrections at @TCDLawSchool! Pictured here with two proud supervisors - @DesRyanTCD & I - and the brilliant examiners @colmocinneide & Mr Justice Gerard Hogan of the Irish Supreme Court.
Dr @IgnacioGiuffre has published an insightful review of The Collaborative Constitution @CUP_Law by @TriCONDublin Director @AileenFKavanagh in the University of Toronto Law Journal. Dr @IgnacioGiuffre presented his work on deliberative constitutionalism at @TriCONDublin in 2024
Happy to share my review on "The Collaborative Constitution", by @AileenFKavanagh! I reconstruct her collaborative conception of constitutional democracy, highlighting both its commonalities and differences with my deliberative conception. utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.313…