IJS events to date (most recent first)
Note: Please refer to the section News and Events for workshops after Spring 2016.
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21 April 2016 – workshop – Ioanna Tourkochoriti, NUI Galway, ‘Human dignity: a legal value? Transatlantic disagreement in its definition and protection’
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7 April 2016 – workshop – Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov, Swansea University, ‘A Philosophy of Omissions’
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24 March 2016 – workshop – Robert Noonan, Ussher Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Judicial Review, Declarations of Unconstitutionality and the Existence of Law in Time: Some Tensions in Hartian Legal Positivism’
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10 March 2016 – workshop – Catherine Dupré, University of Exeter, ‘The Inviolability of Human Dignity’
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25 Feb 2016 – workshop – Tim Murphy, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ‘Legal Violence and Legal Authority’
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29 Oct 2015 – workshop – Barry Sullivan, Loyola University Chicago, ‘Interruptions in Search of A Purpose: Oral Argument in the US Supreme Court, October Terms 1958-60 and
October Terms 2010-12’
15 Oct 2015 – workshop – Max Abrahamson, ‘Jurisprudence Above and Below the Surface’
7 May 2015 – workshop – Dr John Danaher, NUIG, ‘The Threat of Algocracy: Reality, Resistance and Accommodation’
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30 April 2015 – workshop – Dr Eoin Daly, NUIG, ‘Freedom as non-domination in the jurisprudence of constitutional rights’
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16 April 2015 – workshop – Dr Cathal Curran, UCC, ‘The literal rule and common sense adjudication – applying Lonergan studies to legal interpretation’
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2 April 2015 – workshop – Prof Garrett Barden, ‘Morality, law, legislation’
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1 April 2015 – public lecture – Prof David Dyzenhaus, ‘The Public Conscience of the Law from Hobbes to Hart’
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19 March 2015 – workshop – Mr David Langwallner, Griffith College Dublin, ‘The Rule of Law’
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13 November 2014 – workshop – Professor Desmond M Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, UCC, “Direct and Oblique Intentions”
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30 October 2014 – workshop – Dr Eoin O’Dell, Trinity College Dublin, “Freedom of Expression the Rule of Law”
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16 October 2014 – workshop – Dr Antonia Barragia, State University of Milan, “The Constitutional Courts’ hour has struck? Recent trends in the dialogue between the CJEU and Constitutional Courts”
2 October 2014 – workshop – Professor Michal Alberstein, Bar Ilan University
“From Theories of Formalism to Empirical Studies of Criminal Cases: Measuring Legal Complexity”
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3 April 2014 – Workshop – Dr Liz Heffernan, TCD ‘Theorising Hearsay’
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20 March 2014 – Workshop – Dr James Gallen, DCU ‘The Circumstances of Transition’
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6 March 2014 – Workshop – Dr Bebhinn Donnelly, ‘Intention as Intentional Action; Some Implications for Attempts’
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20 February 2014 – Workshop – Prof Garrett Barden, ‘The Great Oversight’
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5 December 2013 – workshop – Professor Desmond M Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University College Cork, ‘Legal responsibility, mens rea, and strict liability’
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21 November 2013 – Workshop – Dr Niamh Connolly, Assistant Professor, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Justifying unjust enrichment law: the liberty paradox’
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14 November 2013 – Workshop -Dr Donal Coffey, Lecturer in Law, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, ‘HLA Hart’s Rule of Recognition, Constituent Authority and the British Constitution’
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31 October 2013 – workshop – Dr David Kenny, Assistant Professor, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Something for everyone: the protean nature of the proportionality principle inIreland and Canada’
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17 October 2013 – workshop – Dr Brian Flanagan, Lecturer, Dept of Law, NUI Maynooth, ‘Why Count Votes?’
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9 May 2013 – Workshop – Mr Julien Sterk, Trinity College Dublin, ‘The Primacy of European Union Law in Ireland: A Question of
Constitutional Identity’ Chair: Dr Eoin Daly
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25 April 2013 – Workshop – Professor Alessio Lo Giudice, University of Catania, ‘The Concept of Law in Postnational Perspective’ Chair: Dr James Gallen
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18 April 2013 – Workshop – Professor Barry Sullivan, Loyola University Chicago, ‘FOIA and the First Amendment: Representative Democracy and the People’s Elusive “Right to Know”’ Chair: John O’Dowd
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11 April 2013 – Workshop – Ms Andrea Mulligan, Trinity College Dublin, ‘The Non-Identity Problem and the Best Interests of Future Children in Assisted Reproduction’ Chair: Professor Des Clarke
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28 March 2013 – Workshop – Dr Eoin Daly, UCD, ‘A republican defence of the constitutional referendum’ Chair: Julien Sterck
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14 March 2013 – Workshop – Dr Declan O’Keeffe, “The Common Good in Irish Law” Chair: Dr Diarmuid Rossa Phelan
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6 December 2012 – Workshop – Dr Tom Hickey, NUIG, “Responsible Government and the Distribution of Political
Power: Lessons from Ireland”
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22 November 2012 – Workshop – Dr John Danaher, Keele University, “The Normativity of Semantic Originalism: A Speech Act Analysis” Chair: David Kenny
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8 November 2012 – Workshop – Mr Gerard Downey, Trinity College Dublin, “The Legal Theory Surrounding Definition; Religion and Religious Expression”
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25 October 2012 – Workshop – Dr Oran Doyle, Trinity College Dublin, “Constitutions” Chair: Dr Diarmuid Rossa Phelan
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27 June 2012 – Public Lecture – Professor Philip Pettit, Princeton University: ‘The Rights and Responsibilities of Organisations.’ Chair: Dr Iseult Honohan
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10 May 2012 – Workshop – Dr Padraig McAuliffe, Law School, University of Dundee:
‘Parallel Conversations: Why Peace-Builders and Transitional Justice Practitioners Mean Different Things When they Talk about the Rule of Law.’ Chair: Dr James Gallen
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26 April 2012 – Workshop – Brian O’Beirne, PhD Candidate, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin: ‘On the vanity of normative legal positivism’ Chair: Brian Flanagan
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12 April 2012 – Workshop – Dr Alan DP Brady, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin: ‘Honesty is the Best Policy: Human Rights Norms, Epistemological Uncertainty and Political Choices in Adjudication’ Chair: David Kenny
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29 March 2012 – Workshop – Dr Shane Glackin, School of Social
Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin: ‘Back to Bundles: Deflating Property Rights, Again’ Chair: Garrett Barden
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15 December 2011 – Workshop – Mr Ronan Sheehan, writer and lawyer:
‘Downloading the Book of Kells: a view of Irish Copyright’ Chair: David Prendergast
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1 December 2011 – Workshop – Mr David Prendergast, Lecturer and PhD candidate, Trinity College Dublin:
‘The Judicial Role in Constitutional Change’ Chair: Dr Maria Cahill
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17 November 2011 – Workshop – Dr Eoin Daly, Lecturer in Law, DCU:
‘Austerity as a source of stability in republican theory: autarky and affective
constitutionalism in Rousseau’s Constitutional Project for Corsica’ Chair: David Prendergast
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3 November 2011 – Workshop – Mr David Kenny, Lecturer and PhD candidate, Trinity College Dublin: ‘The Theoretical Foundations of Standards of Review for Rights Limitations’ Chair: Dr Alan Brady
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26 May 2011 – Workshop – Mr Cathal Curran, PhD Candidate, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin: “Does Dworkin’s ‘Rights Conception’ of The Rule of Law Amount to a Persuasive Substantive Reading of the Ideal?” Chair: John Kenny
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19 May 2011 – Workshop – Ms Maria Oleinik, PhD Candidate, Trinity College Dublin: ‘Integrity as coherence and why it is not a coherent method of adjudication’ Chair: David Kenny
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14 April 2011 – Workshop – Dr Eoin Daly, Lecturer in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, “The ambiguous reach of constitutional secularism in republican thought: revisiting the idea of laïcité and political liberalism as alternatives” Chair: Professor Gerry Whyte
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31 March 2011 – Workshop – Professor Desmond M Clarke: ‘Judicial Reasoning: Logic, Authority, and the Rule of Law’ Chair: Professor Garrett Barden
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3 March 2011 – Workshop – Dr Roslyn Fuller: “Democracy: Straightening the Circular Logic of an Undefined Legal Term” Chair: Dr Tom Hickey
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5 February 2011 – Symposium – Symposium in Trinity College Dublin on Law and Justice in Community: Garrett Barden and Tim Murphy, Law and Justice in Community (Oxford University Press 2010). Chair: Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan. The full schedule for the symposium is available here.
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9 December 2010 – Workshop – Mr David Langwallner, Dean of Law, GCD,
“Jerome Frank: The Elephant in the Room that Conventional Jurisprudence Ignores” Chair: Brian Flanagan
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25 November 2010 – Workshop – Dr Seán Patrick Donlan, University of Limerick, “Edmund Burke: Law and Legal Theory” Chair: John Kenny
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11 November 2010 – Workshop – Professor Garrett Barden, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, UCC:
“Aristotle’s Discussion of Particular Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics” Chair: Professor Gerard Casey
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28 October 2010 – Workshop – Thomas Finegan, PhD Candidate, TCD: “Neither Dualism nor Monism: Holism and the Relationship Between Municipal and International Human Rights Law” Chair: Diarmuid Rossa Phelan
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14 October 2010 – Public Lecture – Professor William Twining, Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, UCL: ‘Globalisation and Legal Scholarship’ Chair: David Langwallner
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6 May 2010 – Workshop – Rachael Walsh, Trinity College, Dublin: ‘A Thomistic Reading of Article 43 of the Irish Constitution‘ Chair: Professor Garrett Barden
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17 April 2010 – Symposium – Symposium on Jurisprudence and Legal Theory at University College Cork. Venue: Rm 22-23 Cavanagh Pharmacy Building, UCC
Panel 1 10.00-11.50 “Rights, Democracy and the Role of the Judge”
Chair: Mr. David Prendergast; Discussant: Prof. Garrett Barden
Dr. Shane Kilcommins: “The Security State and Constitutional Justice: the dangers of
ignoring a ‘rights-based conception of the Rule of Law’ that ensures
that ‘the majority cannot travel as fast or as far as it would like’”
Dr. Darren O’Donovan: “The Role of Rights in Furthering Democratic Decision-Making: The Fruitful Conflict between Deliberative Democrats and Critical Race Theorists”
Panel 2 13.30-15.10 “New Departures in Analytical Legal Philosophy”
Chair: Dr. Darren O’Donovan; Discussant: Dr. Maria Cahill
Dr. Seán Patrick Donlan: ‘“The drunkenness of things being various”: legal theory in historical
and comparative perspective’
Dr. Oran Doyle: “True Morality and the No Necessary Connection Thesis.”
Panel 3 15.20-17.20 “Political Questions”
Chair: Mr. Donal Coffey; Discussants: Ms. Laura Cahillane & Prof Desmond Clarke
Mr. Thomas Patrick Murray: “The Politics of Property and Principle: Economic Rights in the
Drafting of the Irish Free State Constitution.”
Mr. Eoin Daly: “Non-domination as a primary good: re-thinking the frontiers of the ‘political’ in
Rawls’s political liberalism”
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1 April 2000 – Workshop – Mr Patrick O’Brien, St. John’s College, Oxford: “The Democratic Objection to Judicial Review: Problems with Waldron’s Account.” Chair: Professor Desmond M Clarke
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10 December 2009 – Workshop – Donal Coffey, UCD: “Distributive Justice and the Separation of Powers” Chair: John Kenny
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26 November 2009 – Workshop – Dr William Phelan, TCD: “The Practical Irrelevance of National Constitutional Law Fundamental Rights to the application of European Community law in the National Legal Orders” Chair: Diarmuid Rossa Phelan
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12 November 2009 – Workshop – Eoin Daly, UCC: “Religious liberty and the Rawlsian idea of legitimacy: the French laïcité project between comprehensive and political liberalisms” Chair: Tom Hickey
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29 October 2009 – Workshop – Brian Flanagan, UCD: “Abstract Legislative Intentions: A Positivist Cure for the Semantic Sting?” Chair: James Gallen
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25 May 2009 – Lecture – Professor Robert Moffat, Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at University of Florida’s Fredric G. Levin College of Law: “Hitler, Hart, and Fuller: The Challenges of Doing Evil Lawfully” Chair: Oran Doyle
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30 April 2009 – Workshop – Professor Gerard Casey, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University College Dublin: “Constitutions of No Authority: Spoonerian Reflections” Chair: Des Clarke
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16 April 2009 – Workshop – Dr Maria Cahill, Lecturer in Law, University College Cork:“Searching for the Meaning of Constitutional Endeavour” Chair: John Kenny
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2 April 2009 – Workshop – Frank Dunlop, PhD Candidate, Trinity College Dublin: “Moral Considerations and the Content of Irish Law: A Razian Perspective” Chair: Maria Cahill
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19 March 2009 – Workshop – James Gallen, PhD Candidate, Trinity College Dublin: “Outreach: Justice seen to be done” Chair: Des Ryan
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25 February 2009 – Public Lecture – Joseph Raz, Research Professor and an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and Professor of Law, Columbia University: ‘Innovative Interpretation’ Chair: Des Clarke
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4 December 2008 – Workshop – Mr Paul Brady, DPhil candidate, Balliol, Oxford ‘Evaluation and Legal Theory: Can jurisprudence insulate itself from questions of moral philosophy?‘ Chair: Diarmuid Rossa Phelan
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27 November 2008 – Workshop – Professor Garrett Barden, ‘The Nature and Function of Civil Law (ius civile)‘ Chair: Paul Brady
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13 November 2008 – Workshop – Mr Brian Flanagan, ‘The Rule as Point of Reference: Defeasibility and Intention‘ Chair: Oran Doyle
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25 October 2008 – The Irish Jurisprudence Society/NUI Galway Law School ‘Symposium on Constitutionalism and Legal Theory’ Convenor: Tom Hickey, Chair: Conor Hanly
Session 1: Mr Tom Hickey,‘Freedom as Non-Domination; making space for the cultural outsider?’ Dr Maria Cahill, Lecturer in Law, UCC ‘The Connection between Freedom and Constitutionalism’; Session 1 Discussant: David Prendergast
Session 2: Mr John Danaher, PhD Candidate, UCC ‘Reconstructing Leviathan: Hobbes’s Political and Legal Philosophy from a Modern Perspective’; Session 2 Discussant: Benarji Chakka
Session 3: Mr Peter Malone, Competition Lawyer, Brussels ‘Critical Legal Studies and Article 45 of the Irish Constitution’; Dr Oran Doyle, Lecturer in Law, TCD: ‘Natural Law, the Constitution and Legal Positivism: The Unenumerated Rights Doctrine’; Session 3 Discussant: Donal Coffey
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16 October 2008 – Workshop – Professor Desmond Clarke, ‘Causality, Common Sense and the Law‘ Chair: William Binchy
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1 May 2008 – Workshop – Dr Oran Doyle, Lecturer in Law, TCD “Dworkin: Adjudication, Value, Indeterminacy” Chair: Diarmuid Rossa Phelan
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24 April 2008 – Workshop – Prof Gerard Quinn, Lecturer, NUI Galway “Nazi Legality Revisited” Chair: Oran Doyle
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10 April 2008 – Workshop – Dr Bebhinn Donnelly, Lecturer, Swansea University
“The ‘Special’ Nature of Morality in Judicial Reasoning” Chair: Cliona Kelly
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6 March 2008 – Workshop – Mr Tom Hickey, PhD Candidate, NUI Galway
“Natural Law and the Accommodation of Diversity in a Pluralist Society” Chair: Donal Coffey
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21 February 2008 – Workshop – Dr William Phelan, Lecturer in Political Science, TCD
“Can Ireland Legislate Contrary to European Community Law?” Chair: David Prendergast
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6 December 2007 – Workshop – Mr David Langwallner “The Absurdity of Historicism and Originalism in Irish Constitutional Interpretation” Chair: Oran Doyle
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22 November 2007 – Workshop – Mr David Prendergast “Normative Positivism” Chair: David Langwallner
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9 November 2007 – Workshop – Dr Brian Foley “Jurisprudence and Constitutional Interpretation” Chair: Paul O’Connell
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25 October 2007 – Workshop – Mr Donal Coffey “Hart’s Rule of Recognition: The Vagaries of Constitutional Foundation” Chair: Des Ryan
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11 October 2007 – Workshop – Dr Diarmuid Rossa Phelan “The hypocrisy of complexity in substantive law and practice” Chair: Oran Doyle