Three arguments concerning Irish law are advanced in this dissertation. Firstly, it is argued (a) that the earlier jurisprudence of the Irish Supreme Court held that the constitutionally protected natural human rights can ...

The thesis "Liability and Peaceful Space Activities: Selected Legal Issues at National, Regional and International Levels" defines space activities by reference to the historical development of the space industry, its ...

This thesis explores two issues in medicinal product defect litigation. The first issue relates to the difficulty that people have in suing pharmaceutical companies for medicinal product defects. The second issue involves ...

This thesis will look at the dialogue that is currently taking place between children's rights and private international law to discover the extent to which the concepts of the first are and can be successfully incorporated ...

This work examines constitutional and legal aspects of partition, in the light of historical developments since the passing of the Government of Ireland Act 1920, and in particular in the context of the Good Friday Agreement. ...

The methods used in this thesis were primarily literature-based involving a review of relevant international and national jurisprudence relating to international human rights law, constitutional law, administrative law and ...

The bribery offences are a much neglected area of law, both from an academic and from a practical perspective. Although the existing statutory offences can trace their origins to the dawn of the twentieth century, there ...

In recent times courts and legal scholars have paid increased attention to the concept of judicial deference. This thesis examines one discrete strand of the debate - judicial deference to legislative constitutional ...

The thesis examines the Irish constitutional relationship between the Article 40.6. 1°(i) right to freedom of expression and Article 40.3.2° right to good name in the context of defamation law. It is argued that defamation ...

The ideal of equality has become increasingly prominent in Irish political discourse. Article 40.1 of the Constitution of Ireland, 1937 guarantees the equality of all citizens, as human persons, before the law, but has ...