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Professor Gerard Whyte

Professor (Law)
HOUSE 39, COLLEGE

 gwhyte@tcd.ie

 3531896 1939


Biography

Gerard F Whyte BCL (NUI), LLM (NUI), LL.D. (NUI), BL, MA FTCD (1990), Barrister-at-Law. Gerry Whyte is a Professor in Trinity Law School and a Fellow of Trinity College. The author and co-author of books on public interest law, constitutional law and trade union law, he has also edited books on aspects of law and religion and Irish social welfare law and has published extensively in the areas of public interest law, constitutional law, social welfare law and labour law. He is also active in a number of social justice and legal aid organisations and is a former member of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction and of the Steering Group of Irish Council of People with Disabilities. His research interests are public interest law, constitutional law, labour law, social welfare law, law and religion.

Research Tags

  Constitutional Law   Labour law   Law and religion   Public Interest Law   Social Welfare Law

Representations

Details Date
Ministerial appointee to Steering Group for Irish Council of People with Disabilities 1998-2001
Ministerial appointee to Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction 2002 to 2005
Member of EU Group of Experts on Convergence of Social Protection Policies 1992-1993
Ministerial appointee to selection panel for Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission designate 2012-13
Mel Cousins and Gerry Whyte, Social Security Law in Ireland, Fifth edition, Alphen aan den Rijn, NL, Kluwer Law International, 2024, 1 - 398pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Gerry Whyte, Deportation and the Marital Family: Gorry v Minister for Justice and Equality, Irish Supreme Court Review, 4, 2022, p203 - 221, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Mel Cousins and Gerry Whyte, Social Security Law Ireland , Fourth edition, Alphen Aan den Rijn, Wolters Kluwer, 2021, 1 - 432pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Gerry Whyte, Begging and Irish law, The Irish Jurist, 64, (2), 2020, p153 - 166, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Litigating the Right to Inclusive Education under Irish Law in, editor(s)Gauthier de Beco, Shivaun Quinlivan, Janet Lord , The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp497 - 513, [Gerry Whyte], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
GW Hogan, GF Whyte, D Kenny, R Walsh, Kelly: The Irish Constitution, Fifth edition, Dublin, Bloomsbury Professional, 2018, 1 - 2765pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Judicial decisions as catalysts for social change in, editor(s)Eoin Carolan , Judicial Power in Ireland, Dublin, IPA, 2018, pp147 - 157, [Gerry Whyte], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Gerry Whyte, Lord Ellenborough's Law of Humanity and the Legal Duty to Relieve Destiitution, The Irish Jurist, Vol.60, 2018, p1 - 32, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Gerry Whyte, Social Inclusion and the Legal System: Public Interest Law in Ireland , Second edition, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2015, 554 + liiipp, Book, PUBLISHED
Public Interest Litigation in Ireland and the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003 in, editor(s)Suzanne Egan, Liam Thornton and Judy Walsh , Ireland and the ECHR: 60 Years and Beyond, Dublin, Bloomsbury, 2014, pp257 - 279, [Gerry Whyte], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Social Welfare Law in, editor(s)William Binchy and Raymond Byrne , Annual Review of Irish Law, Dublin, Thomson Reuters Professional (Ireland) Ltd, 2023, pp509 - 521, [Gerry Whyte and Mel Cousins], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Social Welfare Law in, editor(s)William Binchy and Raymond Byrne , Annual Review of Irish Law 2021, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson Reuters, 2022, pp467 - 479, [Gerry Whyte, Mel Cousins], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Social Welfare Law in, editor(s)Ray Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2020, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson Reuters, 2021, pp707 - 720, [Gerry Whyte and Mel Cousins], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Social Welfare Law in, editor(s)R. Byrne and W. Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2019, Dublin, Round Hall, 2020, pp628-651 , [Mel Cousins, Gerry Whyte], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Social Welfare Law 2017-18 in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2018, Dublin, Round Hall, 2019, pp542 - 565, [Mel Cousins and Gerry Whyte], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Social Welfare Law in, editor(s)R. Byrne and W. Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2016, Dublin, Round Hall, 2017, pp579-605 , [Mel Cousins, Gerry Whyte], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Public Interest Litigation - an evaulation in, editor(s)Ivana Bacik and Mary Rogan , Legal Cases that Changed Ireland, Dublin, Clarus Press, 2016, pp109 - 116, [Gerry Whyte ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Social Welfare Law in, editor(s)R Byrne and W Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2015, Dublin, Round Hall, 2016, pp676 - 685, [Gerry Whyte and Mel Cousins], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Gerry Whyte , Guaranteeing Freedom of Religion in Contemporary Ireland, Doctrine and Life, 66, (8), 2016, p10 - 25, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Social Welfare Law in, editor(s)R Byrne and W Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2014, Dublin, Round Hall, 2015, pp619 - 638, [Gerry Whyte and Mel Cousins], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Fellow of Trinity College

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Public interest law, constitutional law, labour law, social welfare law, law and religion.