Publication Archives
What should courts be doing in a properly functioning representative democracy?
I have a chapter coming out in a book celebrating the work of my wonderful colleague and friend Keith Ewing: The Constitution of Social Democracy
Here is a taster, but I hope you buy the book if you can afford it, or order it from your library if you can!
Ireland v United Kingdom – Forty Years on
This is a talk I gave at King’s in 2016 at a conference on the important Ireland v UK forty years on
Was Michael Collins A Terrorist Or Human Rights Worker?
This is the text of my Hugh M Fitzpatrick Lecture in Legal Bibliography, Dublin, 2013.
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Imagining A Catholic Future
This is my Tyburn Lecture from May 2013, given shortly after the election of Pope Francis after the surprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Tyburn Convent, 2013.
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Liberty and Security
This is a short summary of my Liberty and Security book, to be published with Polity in February 2013.
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Double Standards In The Vatican?
This is about the incarceration of the Pope’s Butler on serious charges but without any normal due process, The Tablet, 2012.
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