The first edition of J.M. Kelly's 'Fundamental Rights in the Irish Law and Constitution' is now available in ebook format via heinonline (I can't seem to link directly to it, but it's in the Civil Rights and Social Justice database).

Statue of Iustitia outside the Canadian Supreme Court.

Three Assistant Prof and 1 temporary Assistant Lecturer jobs going with us in MU School of Law & Criminology at the moment: universityvacancies.com/search/job?sea… Send me an email if you are interested in an informal chat.

My Inaugural Lecture at QUB School of Law is on Sept 17th It's called: 'I am Lonely For them’ (Re)Imagining this island as a Feminist Society' Details (include remote) below eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-le…

Got proofs of another collection that I co-edited just now. Will share a picture when we get the cover, where an inexcusable and totally avoidable bottleneck has materialised, sorted.* * I am the bottleneck.

Downtown Frankfurt am Main.

Neuschwanstein.

Legoschwanstein.

Great morning for athletics...

'There are, however, special cases in which the direct intervention of the people in legislation appears to me on the whole advantageous.' (Sidgwick) Discuss the case for the adoption of the Referendum in the British Constitution. Oxford Uni, Representative Gov paper, 1920.

'The Centenary of the Irish Free State Constitution'—edited by Dr Laura Cahillane and Donal Coffey— deals with the role, development, and legacy of the first Constitution of independent Ireland within the wider context of the establishment of the State. bit.ly/4fEBqzG

Public law panel will feature Conor O'Mahony and Prof Mark Bell Constitutional law panel will include papers by Dr Laura Cahillane Donal Coffey and Dr Saoirse Enright Criminal law panel will include papers by Prof Liz Heffernan, Dr Roisin Costello, Dr Niamh Maguire and Dr Edward Matthews

Got my wife a dinner reservation for her birthday...

Wonderful collection edited by Dr Laura Cahillane and Donal Coffey - it’s a veritable who’s who of excellent Irish constitutional law scholarship. So much food for thought here for audiences both inside and far beyond Ireland on constitutional design and experimentation

The Courts Service have released an updated 2nd edition of "The Supreme Court of Ireland: A History" to commemorate 100 years of the 1924 Act.

Now THIS is the sort of merch I’m interested in: commemorative stamps marking the 100th anniversary of the Courts of Justice Act 1924 which set up the Irish courts system, entitled ‘Creating the Branches of Government’. Thanks Donal Coffey for the constitutional memorabilia!

New article, forthcoming in Public Law sometime next year. Judges in the UK, New Zealand, and Canada frequently defer to administrative decisions that limit rights. I suggest that this is because they regard rights as political commitments rather than legal constraints. 1/5

I'll be talking as part of the Irish Legal History event on the centenary of the Courts of Justice Act for the Dublin Festival of History: dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/centenar…

Check out the exciting programme of TriCON events this term, with Ignacio Giuffré Rachael Walsh Tom Hickey David Kenny Aileen Kavanagh andrea pin Oran Doyle Seán Rainford Donal Coffey Mike Becker Profs Surya Roy, Eoin Carolan, D Amann & Mr Justice Gerard Hogan

J.A.G. Griffith got his first lecturing position in Aberystwyth when someone rang his father, asked if JAG had survived the war and, if so, would he like the job.