Public Law Conference

The Making (and Re-Making) of Public Law, Dublin, 6-8 July 2022

Panellists

Gabrielle Appleby (UNSW) and Megan Davis (UNSW), 'First Nations Constitutional Recognition in Australia: Addressing foundational failures of rule of law'

Erika Arban (Melbourne Law School), 'Constitutional law, federalism and the unit question'

Janina Boughey (University of New South Wales), 'Administrative Justice in the Modern Mixed Administrative State: Moving Beyond Taxonomies'

Eoin Carolan (University College Dublin), 'Re-making the boundaries of the judicial function'

Kathryn Chan (University of Victoria Faculty of Law), 'Time for a Pluralist Approach? Judicial Review of Norm-Generating Communities in Canada'

Bruce Chen (Deakin Law School), 'COVID-19 Stay at Home Restrictions and the Interpretation of Emergency Powers: A Comparative Analysis'

Kenny Chng (SMU Yong Pung How School of Law), 'Falsehoods, Foreign Interference, and Compelled Speech in Singapore'

Donal Coffey (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), 'The Crown in the Irish Free State and Australia in the inter-War period'

Kevin Costello (University College Dublin), 'The Origins of Jurisdictional Error Demonstrated by Affidavit: the Milborne Port Case (1773)'

Robert Craig (University of Bristol), 'The Myth of Third Source Powers'

Paul Daly (University of Ottawa), 'The Ages of Administrative Law'

Oran Doyle (Trinity College Dublin), 'The Purpose and Value of Constitutional Amendment Powers'

Nick Friedman (University of Cambridge), 'Administrative Law in Contractual Settings: Legal Authority, the Separation of Powers, and the Public/Private Divide'

Sarah Fulham-McQuillan (University College Dublin), 'Identifying and Shaping Constitutional Rights in the Shadow of Private Law'

Jelena Gligorijevic (The Australian National University), 'Emergency, Acquiescence, and Accountability: Re-making the judicial role in scrutinising executive power?'

John Golden (School of Law, The University of Texas, Austin), 'Chasing the Endless Frontier: Science and Technology Policy for a Democratic Society'

Tom Hickey (Dublin City University), 'Legitimacy - not justice - and the case for judicial review'

Tom Hickman (UCL/Barrister), 'Parliamentary Sovereignty: Shifting Sands'

Cora Hoexter (University of the Witwatersrand) and Glenn Penfold (University of the Witwatersrand), 'The Remaking of South African Administrative Law'

Joshi, Yuvraj (University of British Columbia), 'Racial Equality Compromises'

Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College Dublin), 'A Collaborative Case for Constitutional Review'

Dean Knight (Victoria University of Wellington), 'Grounds of review: foundations reconstructed'

Mary Liston (Peter A Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia), 'A Long Time Ago in the Future: Methodology, Mindfulness, and Modesty in Comparative Administrative Law'

Vanessa MacDonnell (University of Ottawa), 'Accounting for a Strong Executive in Theories of Bill of Rights Interpretation'

Roger Masterman (Durham Law School, Durham University), 'From Dualism to Exceptionalism? Defining the Relationship between the UK Constitution and the International Legal Order'

Christopher McCorkindale (University of Strathclyde) and Aileen McHarg (University of Durham), 'Devolution And The Remaking Of Parliamentary Sovereignty? Challenge And Reassertion'

Sarah Moulds (University of South Australia), 'Connected Parliaments: Evaluating the impact of parliamentary public engagement on public lawmaking in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom'

Colm O'Cinneide (UCL Faculty of Laws), 'You Can’t Go Home Again’: Constitutional Fidelity and Change in Post-Brexit Britain'

John O'Dowd (University College Dublin), 'Premature Birth: Constitutional Contingency Planning for a British Disengagement from Northern Ireland in the Event of a Vote for a United Ireland'

Peter Oliver (University of Ottawa), 'Public Law and the Future: A Sustainable Jurisprudence?'

Elizabeth O'Loughlin (Durham University), 'Government's Duty of Candour: On the March?'

Michael Pal (Faculty of Common Law, University of Ottawa), 'Democracy and the Notwithstanding Clause'

Marie-Luce Paris (University College Dublin), 'Reviving the democratic machinery via deliberative democracy: A comparative exploration of the Citizens Assemblies and their legal and constitutional basis'

Gavin Phillipson (University of Bristol Law School), 'The Case of Prorogation: Process not Substance; Exception, not Rule.'

Nomfundo Ramalekana (University of Cape Town), 'On the way to justice? South African transformative constitutionalism as 'non-reformist reform''

Jennifer Raso (University of Alberta, Faculty of Law), 'Show, Explain, or Justify: Comparing Three Administrative Law Approaches to Regulating Algorithmic Systems'

Jason N E Varuhas (University of Melbourne), 'The Nature of Judicial Review as a Supervisory Jurisdiction'

Michael Wait (Solicitor-General), 'Treaty making under the Australian Constitution: federal challenges and opportunities'

Lael Weis (University of Melbourne), 'Re-Making Constitutional Theory: Theorising a Green Constitutionalism'


Doctoral Panel

Somsubhra Banerjee (University College Dublin), 'Making Public of Public Institutions; From Functional to Normative Grounding of Institutional Legitimacy'

Sam Bookman (Harvard Law School), 'Creativity and Climate Rights in Common Law Jurisdictions: A Comparative Analysis'

Anurag Deb (Queen's University Belfast), 'L’Enfant terrible: the Northern Ireland-shaped wrinkle in the fabric of UK constitutional orthodoxy'

Meghan Finn (University of Johannesburg), 'Reconstituting The Public / Private Divide In South African Anti-Discrimination Law'

Matilda Gillis (University of Cambridge), 'Re-thinking the Dialogue Model: The application of the democratic dialogue model to the interactions between domestic legislatures and international courts'

Seána Glennon (University College Dublin), 'The Impact of Deliberative Minipublics on Formal Public Law Processes: The Role of the Citizens’ Assembly in the Reform of Ireland’s Abortion Law and Lessons Learned for the Effective Integration of Novel Deliberative Structures into Traditional Legal Reform Processes'

Sam Guy (York Law School, University of York), 'Crowdfunding and the changing face of ‘public interest’ judicial review: an empirical study'

Gaurav Mukherjee (Central European University Budapest), 'Judicial Pathologies & the Legitimacy of Transformative Constitutionalism'

Joanne Murray (McGill University), 'Are we Re-making the Supervisory Jurisdiction into a Quasi-Administrative Jurisdiction in England and Canada?: A Comparative Reappraisal of Administrative Law with the Law of Trusts.'

Shreeya Smith (University of New South Wales), 'Remaking public law: common law traditions and a written Constitution - The Australian experience'


Please note the conference programme will be released in due course.


Public Law Conference Dublin 2022

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