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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis explores the regulation of minority interests (both cross and common) under Irish and EU competition law. It examines the economic theories of harm regarding cross and common minority shareholdings which, in ...

The first principal task of this research undertaking is to identify the constitutional boundaries of fiscal federalism that are integral to the stability of the European Union legal order as a whole. The second principal ...

The ideal of equality has become increasingly prominent in Irish political discourse. Article 40.1 of the Constitution of Ireland, 1937 guarantees the equality of all citizens, as human persons, before the law, but has ...

This thesis is a comparative, critical analysis of standards of review for legislative limitations of constitutional rights, its primary focus is on Ireland, though Canada is also discussed in detail. It compares Irish and ...