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Oran Doyle

Trinity College (Dublin)

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Dublin, Leinster D2

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  • Trinity College (Dublin)

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1.

Foreword: The Constitution under the New Supreme Court

(Forthcoming, Dublin University Law Journal)
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 21 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2024
Conor Casey and Oran Doyle
University of Surrey and Trinity College (Dublin)
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Irish Constitution, constitutional interpretation, judicial review, Supreme Court, constitutional rights

2.

Legal Positivism, Natural Law and the Constitution

(2009) 31 DULJ 206
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Jan 2016
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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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
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comparative constitutional law; comparative constitutional theory; constitutional change; referendums; Irish constitutional law

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Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Response to Populist Democratic Backsliding

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Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Response to Populist Democratic Backsliding

Maria Cahill, Colm O’Cinneide, Seán Ó Conaill and Conor O’Mahony, Constitutional Change and Popular Sovereignty: Populism, Politics and the Law in Ireland, Routledge, 2020
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Mar 2020
Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh
Trinity College (Dublin) and Trinity College (Dublin)
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Deliberative Democracy, Populism, Constitutional Amendment, Comparative Constitutional Law

Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Response to Populist Democratic Backsliding

Forthcoming chapter in Maria Cahill, Colm O’Cinneide, Seán Ó Conaill and Conor O’Mahony, Constitutional Change and Popular Sovereignty: Populism, Politics and the Law in Ireland, Routledge, 2020
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Apr 2020
Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh
Trinity College (Dublin) and Trinity College (Dublin)
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constitutional law, deliberative democracy

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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 334 (225,014)
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Northern Ireland, referendums, border poll, Good Friday Agreement, united Ireland, constitutional change, constitutional design

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Family Autonomy and Children's Best Interests: Ireland, Bentham, and the Natural Law

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Family Autonomy and Children's Best Interests: Ireland, Bentham, and the Natural Law

1 Iɴᴛ’ʟ. J. Jᴜʀɪs. Fᴀᴍ. 55 (2010)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2018
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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Jeremy Bentham, Natural Law, Irish Constitution, Family Autonomy, Children's Best Interests

Family Autonomy and Children's Best Interests: Ireland, Bentham and the Natural Law

(2010) 1 International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family 55
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Jan 2016
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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Irish constitutional law, family law, authority, children's rights

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The Rule of Law, Administrative Action and Unconstitutional Vagueness

Cahillane, Gallen and Hickey (eds), Judges, Politics and the Irish Constitution (MUP, 2016)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 Jan 2016
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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Irish constitutional law, administrative law, rule of law

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Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers

Chapter 3 in: Richard Albert, Xenephon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou, The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 25 Feb 2017
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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comparative constitutional law; comparative constitutional theory

9.

Ireland: Brexit Developments and Debates

Brexit Institute Working Paper Series No 4/2022
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Apr 2022
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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Brexit, constitutional referendums, EU accession, Irish unification, Northern Ireland

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Conventional Constitutional Law

(2015) 38 Dublin University Law Journal 311
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Jan 2016
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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comparative constitutional law, Irish constitutional law, jurisprudence

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Constitutional Amendment and Public Will Formation: Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Tool for Consensus Democracy

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Jul 2020
Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh
Trinity College (Dublin) and Trinity College (Dublin)
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Constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, deliberative democracy

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Constitutional Amendment and the Democratic Mediation of Political Disagreement: Assessing the Impact of Deliberative Mini-Publics

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Jul 2020
Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh
Trinity College (Dublin) and Trinity College (Dublin)
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Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Deliberative Democracy

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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
Oran Doyle, David Kenny and Christopher McCrudden
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

14.

Constitutionalising Social Rights

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 24 May 2022
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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Housing rights; Ireland; constitutional law; constitutional amendment

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Judicial Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003: Reflections and Analysis

(2011) 33 Dublin University Law Journal 369
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Jan 2016
Oran Doyle and Desmond Ryan
Trinity College (Dublin) and Trinity College (Dublin)
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European Convention on Human Rights Act, Irish constitutional law, Irish administrative law

16.

Moral Argument and the Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships

Oran Doyle and William Binchy (eds), Committed Relationships and the Law (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Jan 2016
Oran Doyle and William Binchy
Trinity College (Dublin) and Trinity College (Dublin)
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Sexual orientation law, jurisprudence

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Rejoinder: The Potential and Limits of Constitutional Doctrine in the New Supreme Court 

(2024) 44(2) Dublin University Law Journal 41
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 13 Feb 2025
Conor Casey and Oran Doyle
University of Surrey and Trinity College (Dublin)
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Sisterly Love: The Importance of Explicitly Assumed Commitment in the Legal Recognition of Personal Relationships

Lynn Wardle, Scott Fitzgibbon, A Scott Loveless (eds), The Jurisprudence of Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships (WS Hein & Co, 2010) 329
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Jan 2016
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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Sexual orientation law, same-sex marriage, discrimination law, European Convention of Human Rights

19.

The European Communities (Natural Habitats) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

(2006) 28 DULJ 379
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2016
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)
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Environmental law

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Final report of the North-South Legal Mapping Project: Legal Convergence and Divergence on the Island of Ireland

Posted: 08 Jan 2026
David Kenny, Oran Doyle, Christopher McCrudden and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Trinity College (Dublin) - School of Law, Trinity College (Dublin), Queen's University Belfast - School of Law and Independent

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northern ireland, Ireland, legal systems, comparative law

21.

Direct Discrimination, Indirect Discrimination and Autonomy

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 27, Issue 3, pp. 537-553, 2007
Posted: 24 Jun 2008
Oran Doyle
Trinity College (Dublin)

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