Browsing by Subject "Comparative Constitutional Law"
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Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law - Irish Perspectives
(2017)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 ... -
Compensation for Breach of the General Data Protection Regulation
(2017)Article 82(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides that any ‘person who has suffered material or non-material damage as a result of an infringement of this Regulation shall have the right to receive ... -
Constitutional Change and Interest Group Politics: Ireland's Children's Rights Amendment
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Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers
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Conventional Constitutional Law
(2015)Judges share conventional understandings about what the Constitution requires, both of themselves and of other constitutional actors. These informal conventions lead to formal decisions, which are then centrally enforced ... -
Foreign Law, Constitutional Cases and Theoretical Authority
(2016)The judicial use of foreign law in constitutional cases is often unsatisfactorily explained in terms of persuasive authority, judicial learning or judicial dialogue. In this article, I argue that the central case of the ... -
Leaving the Union: Constitutionalising Secession Rights in the United Kingdom
(2022)Among the many consequences of Brexit has been increased territorial tension within the United Kingdom (UK). This article assesses whether the four constituent units of the UK have a right to secede. Exploring the legislative ... -
Minority Rights and Democratic Consensus: The Irish Same-Sex Marriage Referendum
(2020)In 2015, Ireland became the first country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage by popular referendum. In just 22 years, the country had gone from criminalising sexual activity between men to endorsing ... -
Property and Proportionality: Evaluating Ireland's Tobacco Packaging Legislation
(2017)This article evaluates the constitutionality of the restrictions upon tobacco packaging in Ireland in the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act 2015 and Part 5 of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act ...