Law School (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Unities of Law and the State
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2021)This thesis is a study of the composition of state and legal system and their relation, with a particular focus on their configuration as a group which can act as an agent. It seeks to contribute to legal philosophy and ... -
Judicial Culture and Social Rights
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2021)My doctoral thesis explores the conditions under which judicial protection of social rights develops within common law jurisdictions. Social rights relate to material interests necessary for human survival and flourishing, ... -
The rise of private policy in the digital market: consequences for fundamental rights and the rule of law
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2020)The work which follows examines the process by which private actors in the digital market are redefining fundamental rights through their contractual terms and practical operation. The argument is allied to works which ... -
Constructing Accountability in Business and Human Rights: An Investigation of the Development of Foreign Direct Liability Litigation and Feasibility in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2021)Constructing Accountability in Business and Human Rights: An Investigation of the Development of Foreign Direct Liability Litigation and Feasibility in Ireland RACHEL WIDDIS This thesis is situated within the ... -
Shareholder Engagement in EU and Irish Corporate Governance Law: The Impact of theRevised Shareholders Rights Directive.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2020)This thesis is concerned with the operation of shareholder democracy across the European Union and especially in relation to Irish public listed companies and Irish institutional investors and asset managers. More specifically, ... -
The legal scope to use public procurement to achieve horizontal objectives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2020)The fundamental object of public procurement concerns the acquisition of a product, the delivery of a service or the completion of a work. Where a contracting authority seeks to incorporate criteria which are not necessary ... -
Well-Being, Skills and Work in a Neorepublican EU: The Case of Third-Country Nationals
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2020)This is a work in special analytic jurisprudence and applied normative political theory. It applies neorepublican political theory to people at work in the EU, taking third-country nationals as a case study. Empirical data ... -
The Occupying State as Legislator in Occupied Territory: Challenges to the duty imposed by the international law of belligerent occupation to respect the existing law and institutions in occupied territory
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2020)The Occupying State as Legislator in Occupied Territory: Challenges to the duty imposed by the international law of belligerent occupation to respect the existing law and institutions in occupied territory Author: David ... -
What explains the crime/tort distinction? Developing and applying Razian theory
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2020)This thesis is a work of legal theory within the discipline of philosophy of action and more particularly the field of practical reason theory. The thesis asks the question: What explains the crime/tort distinction? It ... -
Liberalisation and restructuring of the electricity industry : is regulatory uncertainty the weakest link? The devil is in the detail. Focus-Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2012)This thesis examines the European Union's restructuring and liberalisation policy of the electricity industry. It details the level of implem entation of this policy in law and in practice, particularly, in the case of the ... -
A perfection of means and confusion of aims : finding the essence of autonomy in assisted death laws
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2012)This thesis was developed through standard library-based research methods as well as legal research conducted via the internet and electronic databases including LexisNexis, QuickLaw, Westlaw and HeinOnline as well as the ... -
Collective organisation and external regulation of professional rugby league in the United Kingdom
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2010)This thesis examines the external regulation of professional rugby league in the United Kingdom. It considers specifically the employment of players in the Super League competition by British clubs. In the course of this ... -
The limitations of international humanitarian law to the reallocation of Iraqi oil resources under the US/UK transformative occupation of Iraq
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2011)This thesis examines the emergence of a new characterisation of belligerent occupation evidenced in Iraq (2003-2004), transformative belligerent occupation. After the institutions of government were destroyed in hostilties ... -
Developing trends in the Catholicity of judicial decisions on the Constitution
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2010)In this thesis I examine the development of Catholicity as an influence on judicial decisions on the Constitution. When I refer to Catholicity, it concerns Catholic thought, Catholic social teaching, clerical intervention ... -
The role of CED lawerying in promoting / implementing a strategic model of legal aid in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2013)This thesis aims at determining what role, if any, Community Economic Development (CED) lawyering plays in Ireland in relation to the promotion/implementation of a strategic model of legal aid. The research starts by ... -
The Significance of the Supervision of Directors of Financial Institutions and the Boom-And-Bust Cycles
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2019)The thesis is focused on an analysis of the significance of the supervision of the directors of financial institutions and the impact that results from the cycles of booms-and-busts. The thesis examines whether or not the ... -
The legal protections of language in the Euopean Union
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2015)This thesis investigates the legal protection of languages within the legal system of the European Union (EU). It aims to determine the nature and scope of this legal protection, taking an interdisciplinary approach. This ... -
Democracy and international law : an analysis of the origins of democracy, its relationship with international law and its applicability to modern international institutions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2010)This thesis utilises legal history, comparative law, the law of state organization and international economic law, as well as analyses of political scientists, national and international jurisprudence and original systematic ... -
Life, death and the transformation of the Western jurisprudential tradition : a comparative critical analysis of constitutional, legislative and judicial strategies
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2013)A comparative analysis of the constitutional, legislative and judicial strategies employed in the intentional recalibration of the traditional Western embodiment of the principle of the sanctity of life in order to legitimate ... -
The right to religious expression in Europe and Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2015)This thesis explores the meaning of the right to religious expression in Europe and Ireland. As the contemporary legal environment has sought to re-characterise its relationship with religion, this thesis attempts to ...
