Oran Doyle
Associate Professor
Law
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Oran Doyle is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Law in Trinity College Dublin. He is an expert in comparative constitutional law, his recent work being published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law and Global Constitutionalism as well as a number of other journals and edited collections. He is currently completing a monograph 'The Irish Constitution: A Contextual Account' for Hart's Constitutions of the World series. Currently supervising Robbie Noonan's work on declarations of unconstitutionality and Li-Kung Chen's work on the continuity of states, Prof Doyle welcomes applications for supervision from students broadly in the area of constitutional theory. The recipient of a Provost's Teaching Award in 2008, Prof Doyle has lectured constitutional law 1 and jurisprudence to undergraduate students, and comparative constitutional law and theory to postgraduate students. Prof Doyle is a regular contributor to public debates on issues of constitutional law in Ireland. He has published articles in the Irish Times on both the Children's Rights Referendum and the Marriage Equality Referendum. Most recently, he was a constitutional law advisor to the Citizens Assembly considering the pro-life provision in the Irish Constitution.
Research Interest
Prof Doyle's primary areas of interest are comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, jurisprudence and Irish constitutional law. At present, he is completing a monograph, 'The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Account' for Hart's series on Constitutions of the World. In his other work, he aims to achieve a better understanding of problems in constitutional theory by locating comparative examples in a broadly legal-positivist framework. In particular, he employs jurisprudential understandings of authority and convention to unpick constitutional phenomena. The International Journal of Constitutional Law has accepted for publication an article that advances a new theoretical explanation for law's connection to territory. Global Constitutionalism have published an article on the use of foreign law in constitutional cases while the Dublin University Law Journal has published an article on conventional constitutional law. He has contributed chapters on different aspects of constitutional change to a forthcoming volume, The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment, published by Hart. The National Journal of Constitutional Law (Canada) has recently published an article contrasting how Ireland and Canada have used conventions to mediate constitutional change.
Publications
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Oran Doyle, Desmond Ryan, Judicial Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003: Reflections and Analysis, Dublin University Law Journal, 33, 2011, p369 - 392
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Oran Doyle, The Legitimate Authority of the Living Law, Jurisprudence, 3, (1), 2012, p113 - 133
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Oran Doyle, Judicial Scrutiny of Legislative Classification, Irish Jurist, 47, (1), 2012, p175 - 184
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Oran Doyle, Conventional Constitutional Law, Dublin University Law Journal, 38, 2015, p311 - 330
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Administrative Action, the Rule of Law and Unconstitutional Vagueness in, editor(s)Laura Cahillane, Tom Hickey and James Gallen , Judges, Politics and the Irish Constitution, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2017, [Oran Doyle]
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Oran Doyle, Foreign Law, Constitutional Cases and Theoretical Authority, Global Constitutionalism, 5, 2016, p85 - 108
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Oran Doyle, Constitutional Transitions, Abusive Constitutionalism and Conventional Constraint, National Journal of Constitutional Law, 35, 2017
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Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers in, editor(s)Richard Albert, Xenephon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou, , The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2017, pp73 - 95, [Oran Doyle
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Constitutional Change and Interest Group Politics: Irelands Childrens Rights Amendment in, editor(s)Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades, Alkmene Fotiadou , The Foundations and Tradition of Constitutional Amendment, Hart Publishing, 2017, [Oran Doyle and David Kenny]
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Oran Doyle, The Silent Constitution of Territory, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 16, 2017
