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Bail and the use of pre-trial detention: findings from an empirical study
(2018)This paper examines the operation of bail and the use of pre-trial detention in practice. The findings presented here come from an empirical study I have recently completed along with David Perry BL on the use of pre-trial ... -
Behind 'The Last Door': Prison Managers' Experiences of Accountability and Oversight
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2022)Prison oversight is regarded by penology scholars as an essential means by which human rights and humane conditions in prison are upheld. However, despite significant growth in the number of oversight bodies in Ireland, ... -
Between Dominance and Subservience: A Comparative Study of Executive Power in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2021)This thesis undertakes a comparative constitutional analysis of the position of the political executive in Ireland, United Kingdom, and the United States. I address three central questions. First, why has the executive ... -
Beyond corporate incapacity, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ultra vires doctrine
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2009)The research contained in this thesis was conducted by employing the conventional techniques of academic legal research, drawing on a variety of primary and secondary legal materials. The law governing the principal topics ... -
Blockchain, Securities Markets and Central Banking
(https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3007402, 2017) -
Breaking with transition : the EU VAT system and the Internal Market
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2006)This thesis focuses on VAT in the context of the EU internal market. Its central objective is to prove that the current EU VAT system is incompatible with the concept of internal market, as set out in the EC Treaty and ... -
Bridging a Divide: The Relationship between the Evolving Posted Workers Directive and Posted Workers Experience of Precarity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2022)This is a sociolegal study looking at the legal framework on the posting of workers in the EU. While it may be viewed as a specialised area of EU labour law concerning barely a few million workers, it serves as a magnifying ... -
British developments in non-discrimination law: the Equality Act
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Can the State Sell the Nation
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Changed Utterly: Conceptual Stretching and the Impact of the Tax Cases on EU State Aid Law
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2023)Article 107(1) TFEU was originally designed to regulate the grant of subsidies by Member States but it has been applied increasingly in recent years to regulate tax measures. Attempts to apply the State aid rules in this ... -
Children's Constitutional Rights: Past, Present and Yet to Come
(2018)The entry into force of Article 42A of the Constitution on 28 April 2015 was a significant event. However, the nature of that significance has yet to be fully understood. Article 42A is, in constitutional terms, ... -
Children's rights in private international law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2008)This thesis will look at the dialogue that is currently taking place between children's rights and private international law to discover the extent to which the concepts of the first are and can be successfully incorporated ... -
Choice in context : a relational perspective on coercion in the Law of Contract and the Law of Marriage
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2001)The rhetoric of freedom is sometimes too readily accepted. It has infected, in particular, the discourses and doctrines of law, especially in the field of so-called ‘private ordering’. Thus it is regularly considered ... -
Collective organisation and external regulation of professional rugby league in the United Kingdom
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2010)This thesis examines the external regulation of professional rugby league in the United Kingdom. It considers specifically the employment of players in the Super League competition by British clubs. In the course of this ... -
Community-based research
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Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law - Irish Perspectives
(2017)This piece is a review article of Andrew T Kenyon (ed) Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016). In the Preamble to Bunreacht na hÉireann (the Irish Constitution), the People declare ...
