Workshop Series 2025-26

The Irish Jurisprudence Society is an inter-University Group dedicated to the discussion of legal theory and philosophy.

Except where otherwise indicated, workshops will take place on Wednesday afternoon, 3:00-4:30pm. Participants are expected to have read the paper,  which will be circulated in advance. Registration on Eventbrite for each event.

If you would like to be kept up to date about upcoming workshops, please subscribe to the mailing list by sending a request to irishjurisprudencesociety@gmail.com. All are welcome to attend!

Autumn 2025

22 October – Free Will as A Fundamentally Contested Concept

Author: Jiani Zhong (TCD)
Discussant: Kenneth Silver (TCD)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room

5 November- Aquinas on Evil Law

Author: Anna Lukina (LSE)
Discussant: David Prendergast (TCD)
Venue: Trinity College Dublin, South Leinster Street, Room 3.03

19 November – Republicanism and Unamendability

Author: Seán Rainford (DCU)
Discussant: Oisin Suttle (Maynooth)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room

3 December: A House Built on Sand: A Thomistic Critique of Common Good Constitutionalism

Author: Joshua Jowitt (Newcastle)
Discussant: Conor Crummey (Maynooth)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room

Spring 2026

18 February – Victims’ Duties and Victim-Blaming: accountability as a deliberative exercise

Author: Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queen’s Law School, Ontario)
Discussant: Adina Preda (TCD)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room

4 March –Why the Rule of Recognition is Not About Validity

Author: Paolo Sandro (Leeds)
Discussant: John O’Dowd (TCD)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room

18 March – The Shape of Private Law

Author: Steve Hedley (UCC)
Discussant: Sarah Hamill (TCD)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room

1 April – Extra Hungry Judges: Why AI Exacerbates some Problems it Purports to Solve

Author: Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi (UCLA)
Discussant: Brian Flanagan (Maynooth)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room

Date TBA – Book Symposium : Status in Law and Morality (OUP 2026)

Author: George Letsas (UCL)

The convenors would like to gratefully acknowledge the funding support of Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology.

If you have any inquiries about the above events, please contact us at
irishjurisprudencesociety@gmail.com.