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Professor Oran Doyle

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Professor Oran Doyle

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 Oran.Doyle@tcd.ie

 3531896 1125/1125


Oran Doyle is professor of constitutional law at Trinity College Dublin. Prof Doyle is an expert in comparative constitutional law, with a particular focus on the issues of constitutional amendment, territory and Irish unification. He is the author of 'The Irish Constitution: A Contextual Analysis' (Clarus, 2018) and (with Tom Hickey) 'Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials' (Hart, 2019). He co-edited with Aileen McHarg and Jo Murkens 'The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions under Pressure' (2021). He has recently published in Global Constitutionalism, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the European Constitutional Law Review, and the German Law Journal. He is currently writing a monograph on constitutional amendment, co-editing (with Mariana Velasco Rivera) the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Comparative Constitutional Change, and co-editing (with Richard Albert) a collection on Constitutional Conventions in the Civil Law Tradition (OUP). Prof Doyle was the PI for NSLMap (2022), a New Foundations research project funded by the Irish Research Council and the Shared Island Initiative that maps the convergence and divergence of laws on either side of the Irish border. Prof Doyle welcomes applications for supervision from students broadly in the area of constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law. Prof Doyle is the co-chair of the British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and co-convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law research group on public law responses to public health emergencies. He was director of the COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory. The recipient of a Provost's Teaching Award, Prof Doyle has lectured constitutional law and jurisprudence to undergraduate students, and comparative constitutional law and theory to postgraduate students. He has also led final year research project groups on democratic decay, emergencies, and constitutional change. Prof Doyle is a regular contributor to public debates on issues of constitutional law in Ireland. He has published articles in the Irish Times on both the Children's Rights Referendum and the Marriage Equality Referendum. In 2016-17, he was a constitutional law advisor to the Citizens' Assembly considering the pro-life provision in the Irish Constitution. He was a member of the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland and in February 2020, he convened a blog symposium on the IACL/IADC blog addressing the constitutional dimensions of Irish unification. http://ssrn.com/author=867538
  Comparative Constitutional Law   Constitutional Law   Jurisprudence
Project Title
 Measures on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
From
01/01/2007
To
12/07/2007
Summary
Dr Doyle prepared the Irish report for a European Union project on the extent to which the laws of each Member State complied with Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention.
Funding Agency
European Commission

Details Date
Director, COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory 2020-2022
Co-convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law research group on public law responses to public health emergencies
Constitutional Law Advisor to Ireland's Citizens' Assembly 2016-2018
Co-convenor, International Association of Constitutional Law Research Group on Public Law Responses to Public Health Emergencies 2020-2023
Peer reviewer, Springer 2021
Editor, Irish Supreme Court Review 2022
Co-Chair of the British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law 2017-2023
External reader, Taiwan Constitutional Court Annual Report 2023-2024
Guest Editor, Comparative Constitutional Studies 2024-2025
Co-Chair of the International Society of Public Law Vetting Committee for new Chapters 2021-2024
Editor, Dublin University Law Journal 2004-2012, 2023-present
Member of the International Society of Public Law Working Group on New Chapters 2018-present
Guest Editor special volume of the German Law Journal on Populism and Constitutionalism 2019
Member of the editorial board of the Dublin University Law Journal. 2009-present
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Constitutional Studies. 2017-present
External Examiner, NUI Galway 2015-2019
External Examiner, Honorable Society of King's Inns 2007-2012
External Examiner, Griffith College Dublin 2008-2012
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Basic Basic
Details Date From Date To
International Society of Public Law 2015 Present
Irish Jurisprudence Society 2007 Present
Irish Association of Law Teachers 2022 Present
International Association of Constitutional Law 2020 2023
Law and Society Association 2016 2017
Constitutional Identity and Unamendability in, editor(s)Ran Hirschl and Yaniv Roznai , Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp259 - 271, [Oran Doyle], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Partly Laws Common to all Judge-Kind: The Commonality and Divergence of Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation in, editor(s)Matthias Klatt , Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation: Comparative Perspectives Volume II , Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2024, [Oran Doyle], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
Religion and Law in Ireland and Northern Ireland in, editor(s)Andrew Holmes and Gladys Ganiel , Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp369 - 414, [Christopher McCrudden, Oran Doyle, and David Kenny], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Oran Doyle and Conor Casey, Charter or Higher Law? The Constitution under the New Supreme Court, Dublin University Law Journal, 44, (1), 2024, Journal Article, IN_PRESS
Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh, Assessing the Influence and Legitimacy of Citizen Deliberation on Abortion: A Reply to Eoin Carolan and Seana Glennon, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 22, (1), 2024, p204 - 208, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden, Law and Religion: Convergence and Divergence on the Island of Ireland, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 2024, p198 - 240, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Identity, Legal Autonomy, and Sovereignty: Costello v Government of Ireland, European Constitutional Law Review, 19, (4), 2023, p715 - 737, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Oran Doyle, Executive Power and its Limits: Burke v Minister for Education, Irish Supreme Court Review, 5, 2023, p125 - 144, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Oran Doyle, Mapping the Jural Border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 6, (2), 2023, p101 - 109, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Oran Doyle, Executive Power and Judicial Appointments: Re Article 26 and the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022, Dublin University Law Journal, 43, (2), 2023, p173 - 180, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Oran Doyle, Review of David S. Law (ed.). Constitutionalism in Context, Review of Constitutionalism in Context., by David S. Law (ed.) , International Journal of Constitutional Law, 21, (3), 2023, p1244-1248 , Review, PUBLISHED
Ideological Commitments and Constitutional Projects of Cross-Border Parties in the Irish Context, Alessandro Torre, Springer Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism , Springer, 2022, [Oran Doyle], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden, Fionnula Ní Aoláin, Legal Convergence and Divergence on the Island of Ireland: Report of the North-South Legal Mapping Projectto the Shared Island Unit, Oxford, Irish Research Council/Shared Island Unite, September, 2022, p1 - 19, Report, PUBLISHED
Conor Casey, Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Donna Lyons, Ireland's Emergency Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, February, 2021, p1 - 104, Report, PUBLISHED
Oran Doyle and Tom Hickey, Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials, 2nd, Dublin, Clarus Press, 2019, 1 - 650pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Oran Doyle, アイルランドの憲法変動, 法学セミナー, 467, 2018, p46 - 54, Notes: [Translated by Satoshi Yokodaido and Kodai Zukeyama], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2015, Dublin, Round Hall, 2017, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Oran Doyle, The Supreme Court, Review of The Supreme Court of Ireland, by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic , Studies: An Irish Quarterly, 2017, Review, PUBLISHED
Ireland in, editor(s)Detlef Merten and Hans-Jurgen Papier , Handbuch der Grundrechte in Deutschland und Europa, Heidelberg, CF Muller GmbH, 2016, [Oran Doyle], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2014, Dublin, Round Hall, 2015, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Elected to Fellowship of the College 2010
Provost's Teaching Award 2008
Brookes Scholar, the Honourable Society of King's Inns 2002
Awarded Gold Medal in LLB Degree 1999
Scholar of Trinity College Dublin 1997