Dr. Oran Doyle
Associate Professor (On sabbatical 2012/13)
School of Law
Room 19, House 39
Trinity College, Dublin 2
Tel: (01) 896 3872
Fax: (01) 677 0449
Email: ojdoyle at tcd.ie
Areas of Interest
Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Planning Law, Environmental Law, Equality Law, Housing Law
Biography
Professional Qualifications
Representations
Administrative Functions
Awards and Honours
Education Details
Employment Details
Memberships / Associations
Publications
Postgraduate Research Students
Links
Biography
Oran Doyle LL.B, LL.M (Harv), Ph.D., FTCD, Barrister-at-Law graduated with a gold medal from Trinity College. He lectures Constitutional Law I and Jurisprudence on the LL.B. programme and has previously lectured Contemporary Problems in Irish Constitutional law on the LL.M. programme. His areas of interest include environmental and planning law, equality law, constitutional law and jurisprudence. He is a co-author of the Habitats Directive in Ireland and is the author of Constitutional Equality Law, as well as a number of articles concerning jurisprudence and constitutional law. He is the co-editor of the Dublin University Law Journal. He is the Irish rapporteur to the European Legal Observatory on Natura 2000.
Professional Qualifications
- Ph.D., (Dubl)
- Barrister-at-Law, the Honorable Society of the King’s Inns
- LL.M., (Harv.)
- LL.B., (Dubl)
Representations
Member of the Board of Advisers of the International Academy for the Study of Jurisprudence of the Family, 2010.
Co-editor of the Dublin University Law Journal.
Convenor of the Law School's Constitutional Law and Policy Group.
Irish rapporteur to the European Legal Observatory on Natura 2000.
External examiner for the Honorable Society of the King's Inns and in Griffith College Dublin.
Administrative Functions
Director of Teaching and Learning (Undergraduate) 2011-12
Acting Director of Teaching and Learning Undergraduate), 2010 - 2011
Member of the College Court of Academic Appeals, from 2009 - present
Director of the seminar programme for students on the LL.B. programme, 2004 - present
College Tutor, 2006 - present
Committee Member of the Health Faculty Ethics Committee, TCD, 2006 - 2010
Committee Member, College Equality Committee, TCD, 2007 - present
Acting Director of Teaching and Learning (Undergraduate), 2008
Director of the LL.B. Dissertation Programme, TCD, 2005-2008
Committee Member, Tutor's Committee, Trinity Access Programme Foundation Course for Mature Students, TCD, 2002 - 2005
Awards and Honours
Elected to Fellowship, 2010
Provost's Teaching Award, 2008
Brookes Scholar, the Honourable Society of King’s Inns, 2002
Recipient of the Gold Medal in the LL.B. degree, 1999
Scholar of Trinity College Dublin, 1997
Employment Details
Lecturer in Law, Trinity College, Dublin, 2004 - present
Tutor in Law, Foundation Course for Mature Students, Trinity Access Programme, 2002 - 2005
Publications
Books
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Dublin, Clarus Press, 2008
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Equality Law, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2004
Oran Doyle and William Binchy, Committed Relationships and the Law, Dublin, Fourt Courts Press, 2007
Articles
Oran Doyle, Legal Positivism, Natural Law and the Constitution, Dublin University Law Journal, 31, 1, 2009, 206 - 227
Oran Doyle, Direct Discrimination, Indirect Discrimination and Autonomy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 27, 2007, 537, 553
Oran Doyle, The European Communities (Natural Habitats) (Amendment) Regulations 2005, Dublin University Law Journal, 28, 2006
"Legal Validity – Reflections on the Constitution" (2003) Dublin University Law Journal
Oran Doyle and Alan Keating, Discriminatory Planning Conditions - the Case for Reform, Law Society of Ireland, 2005
"The Duration of Primary Education: Judicial Constraint in Constitutional Interpretation" (2002) 10 ISLR 222 [click here]
"The Human Personality Doctrine in Constitutional Equality Law" (2001) 9 ISLR 101 [click here]
"Facade Retention? Standing of Incorporated Persons to Challenge Planning Decisions" (1999) 2 TCLR 37 [click here]
"Men of Straw? Change to the Rules of Locus Standi: An Unsuspected Side Effect of the McKenna and Hanafin Decisions" (1998) 1 TCLR 106
Edited Books
"The Duration of Primary Education: Judicial Constraint in Constitutional Interpretation" (2002) 10 ISLR 222 [click here]
"The Human Personality Doctrine in Constitutional Equality Law" (2001) 9 ISLR 101 [click here]
"Facade Retention? Standing of Incorporated Persons to Challenge Planning Decisions" (1999) 2 TCLR 37 [click here]
"Men of Straw? Change to the Rules of Locus Standi: An Unsuspected Side Effect of the McKenna and Hanafin Decisions" (1998) 1 TCLR 106
Oran Doyle and William Binchy, Committed Relationships and the Law, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007
Book Contributions
Constitutional Law, Raymond Byrne and William Binchy, Annual Review of Irish Law 2007, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2008, 97-144, Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman
Sisterly Love: the Importance of Explicitly Assumed Commitment in the Legal Recognition of Personal Relationships, Lynn Wardle, Scott Fitzgibbon, A Scott Loveless, The Jurisprudence of Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships, USA, WS Hein & Co, 2010, 329 - 351, Oran Doyle
"Article 44: Privileging the Rights of the Faithful", Eoin Carolan and Oran Doyle, The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2008, Oran Doyle
Moral Argument and the Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships, Oran Doyle and William Binchy, Committed Relationships and the Law, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, Oran Doyle
Separation of Powers and Constitutional Egalitarianism, Eoin O'Dell, Older People in Modern Ireland: Essays on Law and Policy, Dublin, Firstlaw, 2006, 393, 426, Oran Doyle and Gerry Whyte
Doyle, Oran and Scannell, Yvonne, Town and County Planning and Natura 2000 in Ireland, Amenagement du Territoire Urbanisme et Reseau Natura 2000, 11, 2009, 190 - 206
Property Rights and Natura 2000 in Ireland, Michel Paques, Natura 2000 and Property Rights, Brussels, Bruylant, 2005, 139, 152, Oran Doyle
Rapport National: Ireland, Jessica Makowiak, La Mise en Place du Reseau Natura 2000, Limoges, Pulim, 2005, 213, 233, Oran Doyle
Constitutional Law, Raymond Byrne and William Binchy, Annual Review of Irish Law 2009, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2009, 122 - 182, Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman
Constitutional Law, Raymond Byrne and William Binchy, Annual Review of Irish Law 2007, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2008, 97 - 144, Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman
Constitutional Law, Raymond Byrne and William Binchy, Annual Review of Irish Law 2005, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2006, 179 - 241, Oran Doyle;Estelle Feldman
Constitutional Law, Raymond Byrne, William Binchy, Annual Review of Irish Law 2004, Dublin, Roundhall, 2005, 163 - 212, Oran Doyle, Estelle Feldman
Newspaper Articles
"Granting Supreme Court Consultative Powers is a Thorny Issue", Irish Times, 8 December 2008.
"Delicate Task of Defining Partnerships" Irish Times, 27 April 2005
Postgraduate Research Students
I welcome inquiries from potential research students in the areas of constitutional law, jurisprudence and equality. I am currently supervising nine postgraduate research students. In the area of constitutional law, David Prendergast is analysing the legitimacy of the judicial review of political processes. Rachael Walsh is completing a PhD on property rights under the Irish Constitution. David Kenny is critically analyzing the doctrine of proportionality in relation to judicial review of legislative action, while Mellissa English is commencing a study of the non-legislative functions of the Oireachtas. Joseph Harrington is undertaking a PhD that analyses the concept of sovereignty and the sovereign in Irish constitutional law while Rebecca Halpin is completing an MLitt on the limiting provisions of the Constitution. In the area of jurisprudence, Cathal Curran is researching a PhD on the compatibility of the Rule of Law ideal with the reality of judicial discretion in interpretation. Maria Oleinik's thesis addresses the subject of justice and morality and its relationship to the philosophy of law, in particular to the process of legal adjudication. Gordon Wade is about to commence an MLitt assessing the legal rights that ought to be afforded to companion animals