Will be giving a talk at my old childhood haunt in Killarney library next week about the Free State Constitution.

Last day the public has access to this view of Front Square in Trinity College Dublin, as Early Printed Books moves next week.

We are really looking forward to having Donal Coffey MU School of Law & Criminology with us Cardiff Law CentreOfLaw&Society

Sharing his pathbreaking work on imperial history and legal education.

Seminar at 11am on Tuesday 30th April. Sign up⬇️

On Tuesday I'll be giving a talk in Cardiff as part of my visiting fellowship with CentreOfLaw&Society where I'll be talking a little bit about the South Asian students who studied in the metropole and went on to write their independence constitutions. Looking forward to it.

One for the criminologists...

Speech given by Lord Reed is available here:
cambridgeblog.org/2024/04/introd… (includes the reference to 'collaboration' Aileen Kavanagh )

The motion to establish the Society of Public Teachers of Law on 15 December 1908 (now The SLS ) was proposed by A.V. Dicey.

Dublin Bay looking as nice as I've seen it this morning.

When he was editor of the Law Quarterly Review, Frederick Pollock would sometimes insert little editorial notes in the footnotes of other people's articles.

I’m quite taken with this Burmese depiction of Éamon de Valera from Nagani Book Club late 1940s, brought to us here Republic 75 by Donal Coffey

Republic at 75 Conference being kicked off by Prof Bryce Evans at Liverpool Hope.

A typically erudite oversight of Sri Lankan constitutional history by Dr Asanga Welikala

Looking forward to hearing Donal Coffey speak at our conference commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Ireland officially becoming a Republic in six days time.
Tickets are still available, click here to register store.hope.ac.uk/product-catalo…
Prof Bryce Evans

Donal Coffey presenting at today’s #CenturyofCourts conference in Dublin castle, examining the 1924 Act in a comparative perspective

Kevin Costello of UCD Sutherland School of Law on the new Circuit Courts #CenturyofCourts

Presentation by Lynsey Black of MU School of Law & Criminology on a paper co-authored with Danielle Jefferis on cross-border smuggling in the Free State. #CenturyofCourts

First conference I've been at which includes commemorative stamps as part of the package. Also a very nice badge with the logo created for the event. #CenturyofCourts

Next Legal Histories of Empires conference will be on 10-12 July 2025 in Toronto: lhbe.org/save-the-date-…

Looking forward to this event tomorrow in Dublin Castle about the centenary of the Courts of Justice Act.

The hardback is out in the wild!
#newbook #Constitution22