Biography

Having recently completed a stint as a visiting researcher in the University of California, Berkeley, Brian O'Beirne is now commencing the second year of my PhD. Prior to this, he completed as Masters of Law (the BCL) in the University of Oxford and a Bachelors in Law (LLB) in Trinity College Dublin.

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Professional Qualifications

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Awards

• Arthur Cox Studentship, 2012
  
• Law School Studentship, 2011
  
• Law School Book Award, 2009
  
• Law School Book Award, 2008

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Research Interests

• Legal, Political and Moral Philosophy
  
• Constitutional and Administrative Law
  
• The Philosophical Foundations of the Common Law

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Education Details

• PhD Candidate (Dubl.)
  
• BCL (Oxon.)
  
• LLB (Dubl.)
  
• St Conleth's College

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Employment Details

• Director of the Mooting Programme for Undergraduate Law Students, 2012
  
• Seminarist in Private Law Remedies, 2012
  
• Seminarist in Constitutional Law, 2011-2012
  
• Seminarist in Jurisprudence, 2011-2012
  
• Seminarist in Legislation and Statutory Regulation, 2011
  
• Copy Editor of the Dublin University Law Journal, 2011

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Memberships /Associations /Publications

• Member of the Irish Association of Law Teachers
  
• Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
  
• Honorary Member of the University Philosophical Society
  
• Member of the Oxford and Cambridge University Club

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Publications

Books/Journals
Trinity College Dublin, Law Student Colloquium, Cambridge University Press, 2012
Trinity College Law Review, Editor-in-Chief, Volume XIII, 2010

Articles/Papers
"The Interaction between Legal Scholarship and Judicial Reasoning: A Morally and Fiscally Suspect Status Quo", The Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference, 2012.
“The Vanity of Normative Legal Positivism”, (Paper Delivered at Irish Jurisprudence Society Workshop), 2012.
“Pruning Gardner’s Positivism”, Der Jurist, 2012.
“The Logical Inconsistency in the Theory of Natural Law”, Trinity College Law Review, 2011
“An Eye for that Blind Eye: Retributive Justice as a Means to Re-Legitimating Ireland’s International Law Obligations Post-Rendition”, Hibernian Law Journal, 2010.
“A Transcendentalist Framework of Constitutional Law”, Irish Law Student Colloquium, Research Paper, February 2010.
“Expanding the Right to Privacy: The ECHR’s Recent Article 8 Jurisprudence”, Coventry Law Journal, 2009.
“An Analysis of American Foreign Policy: A Plea to the American People”, Winner of University Philosophical Society’s Gold Medal, 2008.

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