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Volume X 

Published in November 2021

Edited by Cian Henry and Ursula Quill

Foreword by The Hon. Justice Gerard Hogan

Articles:

1. What is the Meaning of ‘Ombudsman’? A Biological Analysis of the Irish Administrative State – Ruairí McIntyre
2. Regulating Life, Death and Choice – Rachel Gaffney
3. The Legislature’s Attempts to Tame a Recalcitrant Education System – Mia Treacy
4. Schüler*innen im Homeoffice: Der Datenschutz von Kindern in der Ära der digitalisierten Bildung – Michael–John Gillen
5. Intersex framings within international human rights law – Stephanie Lum
6. A comparative assessment of the law relating to hostile takeovers in the U.S. and EU. – James Redmond
7. Case Note: Student Transport Scheme v. Bus Éireann [2021] IESC 22 – Shane Finn

Volume IX 

Published in February 2020

Edited by Christopher Bowes and Finn Keyes

Foreword by The Hon. Justice Mary Faherty

Articles:

1. Collective Bargaining Rights in the Gig Economy in Ireland: Appraising the Competition (Amendment) Act 2017 – Sean Hurley
2. Reconstructing the Cornerstone of Employment Law: From the Contract of Employment to Relational Contract Theory – Celia Reynolds
3. The Politics and Dialogue of Transnational Courts in Europe: A Critical Legal Analysis – Liam O’Driscoll
4. Organisation of Working Time in the Digital Era – Paul Maier
5. “The Best Lack All Conviction, While the Worst are Full of Passionate Intensity Reconsidering Stanley Cohen’s Theory of Moral Panics – Michael Nutley
6. Rewinding the Clock: Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy – Hilary Hogan
7. The Protection of ‘Beatha’ in Article 40.3.2’.: Does the Irish Wording of the Constitution Create a Stronger Right of Autonomy in End of Life Decision–Making? – Eimear Gallagher

Volume VIII 

Published in February 2019

Edited by Cillian Bracken and Ciara Ní Ghabhann

Articles:

1. Penalty Clauses and Liquidated Damages: The Divergence in English and Irish Jurisprudence – Conor McEneaney
2. Case C–378–17 Minister for Justice & Ors v Work Relations Commission & Ors, A Triumph for the Workplace Relations Commission? – Siobhán Lafferty
3. Dealing with the Market Abuse Regulation: A Case for Modernisation – Deirdre Ryan
4. No Country for Young Girls: Adolescent Abortion under the Eighth Amendment and the Post–Repeal Landscape – Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair
5. The Utilization of Foreign Law in Domestic Constitutional Interpretation – Evan Kearney
6. Balancing Harm and Culpability in Assessing the Gravity of an Offence – Rebecca McKittrick
7. Unloosing the Gordian Knot: The Scope of the Exclusionary Rule for Bad Character Evidence in Irish Law – Finn Keyes
8. Kerins v McGuinness & Ors – Oireachtas Inquiries and the Protection of Constitutional Rights: Striking the Right Balance – Liam O’Driscoll

Volume VII 

Published in January 2018

Edited by Aisling Hannon and Sophie Pigot

Foreward by The Hon. Justice Frank Clarke, Chief Justice

Articles:

1. “Non–Catholics Need Not Apply”: The Legal Status of Discrimination in Irish School Admissions Policies – April Duff
2. To Ignore or to Exclude? A History of Unlawfully Obtained Evidence from the Jacobites To JC – Stephen Brittain
3. Revenge Pornography in Ireland: Discussion of the proposed law and the direction it may take in the near future – Emer Shannon
4. The Legal Impact of Marriage Equality – Hilary Hogan
5. The Children of Lir and the Disappearing Lake – Margaret Heavey
6. A Comparative Analysis of the Moral Right of Integrity in the UK, Ireland and France – Denis Flynn
7. Pre–implantation Genetic Diagnosis under the General Scheme of the Assisted Human
8. Reproduction Bill 2017: How Should Irish Law Regulate Prospective Parents “Designing” Their Future Children? – Laura Croke
9. When Fantasy Becomes Reality: the prospect of repealing the Human Rights Act in the UK – Danielle Gallagher
10. Brexit and Beyond: The Future of UK Human Rights Protection – Ruth Cormican
11. Case C–308/14 Commission v UK: The Market, Gender and the Retreat of the EU in the Field of Social Security – Charles Edward O’Sullivan and Muireen O’Dwyer
12. Battered Woman Syndrome in Irish Criminal Law: Justification or Excuse? – Aoife McPartland

Volume VI 

Published in October 2016

Edited by Benedict Blunnie and Sarah Jane O’Brien

Foreward by The Hon. Justice Frank Clarke, Chief Justice

Articles:

1. How do the World Trade Organisation Agreements Impact upon the Laws and Legal Systems of the WTO Member States? – Darya Maynes
2. The Never–Ending Story: A Comparative Analysis of the Problems with Entrenched Emergency Theory in Legislative and Administrative Action in Israel and Northern Ireland – Anna Brennan
3. Should we keep running up that Hill? LM v Commissioner of An Garda Síochána – Paul Carey
4. Swimming Against the Tide – Sarah Healy
5. Deferred Prosecution Agreements: A Practical Proposal – Daniel McCarron
6. EU Consumer Rights Directive – Peter O’Sullivan

Volume V 

Published in November 2015

Edited by Ciara Johnson and Ciaran O’Rourke

Foreward by The Hon. Justice Carmel Stewart, High Court 

Articles:

1. From Sfumato to Chiaroscuro: Highlighting the Legal and Practical Hurdles to Art Investment Funds – Róisín Áine Costello
2. Irish Divorce Law: Where art thou certainty? – Laura Michelle Croke
3. Corporate Criminal Liability and the Companies Act 2014: A Covert Step towards Re–conceptualisation and Reform? – Nicola Cavey and Clare Elizabeth Kelly
4. Mother, where art thou? – Case Comment: M.R. v An tÁrd–Chláraitheoir – Emma Fitzsimons
5. “Back To The Future?” – EU Merger Control 30 Years after the Commission’s White Paper on the Completion of the Single Market: Case Study Of The Automobile Industry – Conor Talbot
6. Dying With Dignity: Addressing The Needs Of Terminally Ill Persons In Ireland – Annie Nevala
7. Judicial Dialogue: Method In The Madness? – Megan Lee
8. ‘Warren and Brandeis and The Right to Privacy’s Hollow Core’ – Róisín Áine Costello

Volume IV 

Published in October 2014

Edited by Karen McLaughlin and Sarah Sheppard

Foreward by Máire R. Whelan SC, Attorney General 

Articles:

1. The Court of Justice of the European Union and Ireland’s Pringle Case: The Path to a Division of the EU into Two Parts? – Patricia McKenna
2. Financial Regulation in Ireland: An Analysis of the Legislative Changes Introduced in the Wake of the Financial Crisis – Audrey Lynch
3. A Comparative Approach to Transgender Legislation in the UK and Ireland – Alison Fynes
4. Empty DNA: An Exploration of Developments in mtDNA and Assisted Reproduction Technology – Rebecca Keating
5. Automatic Disqualification on Grounds of Objective Bias: A Case for Retention – Anita Finucane
6. Climate Change and Forced Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Issues – Benedict Blunnie
7. The Poor Have No Lawyers: Scotland’s Non–Compliance with the Access to Environmental Justice “Pillar” of the Aarhus Convention – Benjamin Christman
8. Public Interest Litigation in the United Kingdom: Enemy of the State? – Conor McCormick

Volume III 

Published in November 2013

Edited by Nóra Ní Loinsigh and Niall Mulligan

Foreward by The Hon. Justice Nial Fennelly, Judge of the Supreme Court 

Articles:

1. Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Ostensible Authority After Kelly v Fraser – Colm Kelly
2. Charges Over Book Debts – James Kane
3. Local Government and Public Procurement: Legal and Policy Issues Related to Social Procurement and Community Benefit Clauses in Contracts in Ireland – Deirdre Halloran
4. Victim Participation Within the International Criminal Court – Rupert Holden
5. The Legality of Renting Wombs: An Analysis of the Enforceability of Surrogacy Contracts Under Irish Law – Síne Creamer
6. Whistling in the Wind: The Protected Disclosure Bill 2013 – Rebecca Keating and Ruth Keating
7. Threat to Democracy or Integral to Transparency? The Legality and Desirability of WikiLeaks – Donal Scott

Volume II 

Published in September 2012

Edited by James Nerney and Eoin Sreenan

Foreward by The Hon. Justice Susan Denham, Chief Justice

Articles:

1. Education Without Borders: The Freedom of Movement for Students in EU Law – Peter Dunne
2. Characters in Intellectual Property: Protecting Creativity, Property Rights or a Monopoly? – Stephen Richard Donnelly
3. The End of Forum non Conveniens: Has the European Court of Justice Gone Beyond its Boundaries? – Sarah Wall
4. The Rising Tide of Intermediary Activism in the Face of Digital Piracy: Irish Case Law Demands a Legislative Response – Hugh McCarthy
5. Aboriginal Land Rights: Two Centuries of Denial – Christopher Kierans
6. Wrongful Remuneration: Short Term Reward for Long Term Failure – Barry Connolly
7. New Terrorism, Social Control and the Pre–Emptive Drift: Towards the Utilisation of Foucauldian Space in Modern Socio–Legal Theory? – Stephen Kirwan

Volume I 

Published in October 2011

Edited by Amy Cahillane and Brendon Guildea

Foreward by Mary Faulkner, Dean of King’s Inns

Articles:

1. The Article 15.2 Non–Delegation Doctrine – A Crumbling Bastion of Bunreacht na hÉireann? – Ferenc Jari
2. Routine Piracy: Digital Piracy and Routine Activity Theory – Alex Towers
3. “When the chips are down, who has a stake in your kidney?” A New Approach to Organ Procurement in Ireland – Sarah Fulham McQuillan
4. Gaddafi and the International Criminal Court: An Analysis of Transitional Justice in Libya – Ben Christopher Loin Mitchell
5. Utopian Ideology in International Law – Rom Bhandari
6. LSDSI Auditor’s 2011 Inaugural Speech: The Possibility of a Motivational Theory of Law – William McLoughlin