David Kenny

Trinity College Dublin School of Law

Associate Professor and Fellow

College Green

Dublin 2

Ireland

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

24

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4,432

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10

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2

Scholarly Papers (24)

1.

A One Person Supreme Court? The Attorney General, Constitutional Advice to Government, and the Case for Transparency

Dublin University Law Journal (2019) 42(1) 89-119.
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2021
David Kenny and Conor Casey
Trinity College Dublin School of Law and University of Surrey
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Constitutional law, Irish constitutional law, political constitutionalism, pre-enactment review, constitutional review, judicial review, Irish politics

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The Resilience of Executive Dominance in Westminster Systems: Ireland 2016-2019

Public Law (2021) 355-374.
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2021
David Kenny and Conor Casey
Trinity College Dublin School of Law and University of Surrey
Downloads 398 (124,719)

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separation of powers, executive dominance, executive, legislature, Westminster system, parliament, money messages, money procedures, attorney general, legal advice, constitutional advice

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The Gatekeepers: Executive Lawyers and the Executive Power in Comparative Constitutional Law

(2022) International Journal of Constitutional Law
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022
Conor Casey and David Kenny
University of Surrey and Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Executive power, comparative constitutional law, executive legal advisors, attorney general, separation of powers, political constitutionalism, policy distortion

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Remedial Innovation, Constitutional Culture, and the Supreme Court at a Crossroads

Dublin University Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2018
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
Downloads 297 (171,392)
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Constitutional law, Constitutional Remedies, Irish Constitutional Law, Suspended Declarations of Invalidity, Constitutional Culture

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Constitutional Change and Interest Group Politics: Ireland's Children's Rights Referendum

Chapter 10 in: Richard Albert, Xenephon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou, The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 May 2017
Oran Doyle and David Kenny
Trinity College (Dublin) and Trinity College Dublin School of Law
Downloads 270 (189,014)
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comparative constitutional law; comparative constitutional theory; constitutional change; referendums; Irish constitutional law

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Shadow Constitutional Review: The Dark Side of Pre-Enactment Political Review in Ireland and Japan

International Journal of Constitutional Law (2020) 18 (1) 51–77
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2020
David Kenny and Conor Casey
Trinity College Dublin School of Law and University of Surrey
Downloads 227 (224,160)
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Political Constitutionalism; Pre-enactment Review; Judicial Review; Constitutionalism; Constitutional Law; Ireland; Japan; Attorney General; Cabinet Legislation Bureau

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The Risks of Referendums: 'Referendum Culture' in Ireland as a Solution?

Maria Cahill, Seán Ó Conaill, Colm O'Cinneide, Conor O'Mahony (eds) Constitutional Change and Popular Sovereignty: Populism, Politics and the Law in Ireland, Routledge, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Dec 2020
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Referendums, Brexit, Ireland, Culture, Referendum Culture, Referendum Regulation, Social Media, Irish Politics, Irish Constitutional Law

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Models of Irish Unification Processes

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Apr 2020
Oran Doyle and David Kenny
Trinity College (Dublin) and Trinity College Dublin School of Law
Downloads 222 (228,887)
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Northern Ireland, referendums, border poll, Good Friday Agreement, united Ireland, constitutional change, constitutional design

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The Irish Constitution, a United Ireland, and the Ship of Theseus: Radical Constitutional Change as Constitutional Replacement

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Jun 2019
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Northern Ireland, Constitutional Law, Constitution Making, Constitutional Change, Ireland, Brexit, UK, Consociationalism, Constitutional Design

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How Liberty Dies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars, Democratic Decay, and Weak Executives

(Forthcoming 2022) Law & Literature
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2021
Conor Casey and David Kenny
University of Surrey and Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Executive power, separation of powers, democratic decay, Star Wars, Galactic Republic, Galactic Empire.

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Proportionality and the Inevitability of the Local: A Comparative Localist Analysis of Canada and Ireland

American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Nov 2017
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Proportionality, constitutional law, rights limitation, rhetoric, Ireland, Canada, Oakes Test, standards of review, comparative law, legal transplants, migration of constitutional concepts, legal theory

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Mapping the Role of Culture in Comparative Constitutional Law

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Jun 2023
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
Downloads 178 (279,635)

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constitutional culture; constitutional law; comparative constitutional law

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The Virtues of Unprincipled Constitutional Compromises: Church and State in the Irish Constitution

European Constitutional Law Review (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Nov 2020
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
Downloads 151 (321,551)

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Constitution making, Disagreement, Principled Constitutionalism versus unprincipled bargaining, Pragmatism, Church and State, Maintaining religious peace, Drafting of the Irish Constitution of 1937

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Are the People the Masters? Constitutional Referendums in Ireland

Richard Albert and Richard Stacey (eds), The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums (OUP 2022)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2022
David Kenny and Aileen Kavanagh
Trinity College Dublin School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 136 (349,448)

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The Human Pared Away: Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell as an Archetype of Legal Pragmatism

Forthcoming in Law and Literature
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Jul 2020
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Law and literature, Thomas Cromwell, Hilary Mantel, Pragmatism, Legal Pragmatism, William James, Stanley Fish, Wolf Hall

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'Words, Words, Just Words': Law, Language, and Magic in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Wolf Hall, law and language, law and literature, law as rhetoric, Thomas Cromwell, Hilary Mantel

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Examining Constitutional Culture: Assisted Suicide In Ireland And Canada

(2022) 17(1) Journal of Comparative Law 85
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 May 2022
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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constitutional culture, assisted suicide, Ireland, Canada, proportionality, right to life, comparative law methodology

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The Constitutional Politics of a United Ireland

Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg, and Jo Murkens (eds.), The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions under Pressure (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Oct 2020
Trinity College (Dublin), Trinity College Dublin School of Law and Queen's University Belfast - School of Law
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Irish constitutional law; Northern Ireland; devolution; unification

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Directive Principles, Political Constitutionalism, and Constitutional Culture: the case of Ireland’s failed Directive Principles of Social Policy

European Constitutional Law Review (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 May 2022
David Kenny and Lauryn Musgrove McCann
Trinity College Dublin School of Law and Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Economic Social and Cultural Rights, directive principles, constitutional design, constitutional culture, Ireland, India, ESC rights

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‘Love Mounts to the Throne with Law’: Citizenship in Northern Ireland and Seamus Heaney’s Antigone

(2022) Law and Humanities (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Jun 2021
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Citizenship; multi-level citizenship; Antigone; law and theatre; law and literature; Greek tragedy; Northern Ireland; Good Friday Agreement; Seamus Heaney

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The Risk and Rewards Of Ireland’s Leviathan: Rule Of Law Values and the Irish Executive’s Crisis Response To COVID-19

Irish Jurist, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Apr 2023
Conor Casey and David Kenny
University of Surrey and Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Embracing Difference, Divergence, and Diversity: The Case for Pragmatic Constitutionalism in the 21st Century

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 11 Oct 2021
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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Legal Education: A Reflective, Collaborative Approach to Peer Observation of Teaching

(2017) 40(1) Dublin University Law Journal 207
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 May 2022
David Kenny
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
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