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Professor Oran Doyle
Professor In, Law

Biography

Oran Doyle is professor in law at Trinity College Dublin. He also holds a dual appointment as a research professor at the Academia Sinica in Taipei. He has held visiting positions at Bocconi University Milan, Keio University Tokyo and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

Prof Doyle is an expert in comparative constitutional law, with a particular focus on the issues of constitutional amendment, territory and Irish unification. He is the author of 'The Irish Constitution: A Contextual Analysis' (Clarus, 2018) and (with Tom Hickey) 'Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials' (Hart, 2019). He co-edited with Aileen McHarg and Jo Murkens 'The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions under Pressure' (2021). He has recently published in Global Constitutionalism, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the European Constitutional Law Review, and the German Law Journal.

Prof Doyle is currently the PI for NSLMap, a New Foundations research project funded by the Irish Research Council and the Shared Island Initiative that maps the convergence and divergence of laws on either side of the Irish border.

Currently supervising Alex Layden's work on informal constitutional change, and Juan Diego Galaz's work on constitutional rights of resistance and deliberation in Latin America, Prof Doyle welcomes applications for supervision from students broadly in the area of constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law.

Prof Doyle is the co-chair of the British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and co-convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law research group on public law responses to public health emergencies. He was director of the COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory.

The recipient of a Provost's Teaching Award, Prof Doyle has lectured constitutional law 1 and jurisprudence to undergraduate students, and comparative constitutional law and theory to postgraduate students. He has also led final year research project groups on democratic decay, emergencies, and constitutional change.

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. In 2016-17, he was a constitutional law advisor to the Citizens' Assembly considering the pro-life provision in the Irish Constitution. He was a member of the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland and in February 2020, he convened a blog symposium on the IACL/IADC blog addressing the constitutional dimensions of Irish unification.

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Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Oran Doyle, Constitutional Identity, Legal Autonomy, and Sovereignty: Costello v Government of Ireland , European Constitutional Law Review, 20, 2024 Journal Article, 2024

Constitutional Identity and Unamendability in, editor(s)Ran Hirschl and Yaniv Roznai , Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2024

Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh, Assessing the Influence and Legitimacy of Citizen Deliberation on Abortion: A Reply to Eoin Carolan and Seana Glennon, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2024 Journal Article, 2024

Religion and Law in Ireland and Northern Ireland in, editor(s)Andrew Holmes and Gladys Ganiel , Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp369 - 414, [Christopher McCrudden, Oran Doyle, and David Kenny] Book Chapter, 2024

Partly Laws Common to all Judge-Kind: The Commonality and Divergence of Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation in, editor(s)Matthias Klatt , Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation: Comparative Perspectives Volume II , Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2024, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2024

Oran Doyle, Executive Power and its Limits: Burke v Minister for Education, Irish Supreme Court Review, 5, 2023, p110- Journal Article, 2023

Oran Doyle, Mapping the Jural Border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 6, (2), 2023, p101- Journal Article, 2023

Irish Unification: Constitutional Modalities and Adaptations in, editor(s)Paul Carmichael and Gisela Holfter , Unions, Break-ups and Special Relationships - Aspects of the Irish-German-UK Relationships, Limerick, Centre for Irish German Studies, 2022, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2022

Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh, Constitutional Amendment and Public Will Formation: Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Tool for Consensus Democracy, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 20, 2022, p398 - 427 Journal Article, 2022

Ireland: Developments and Debates in, editor(s)Federico Fabbrini , The Law & Politics of Brexit Volume IV: The Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2022

Oran Doyle, Leaving the Union: Constitutionalising Secession Rights in the United Kingdom, Federalismi.it, 10, 2022, p222 - 240 Journal Article, 2022 TARA - Full Text

Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Response to Populist Democratic Backsliding in, editor(s)Maria Cahill, Colm O'Cinneide, Seán Ó Conaill and Conor O'Mahony , Constitutional Change and Popular Sovereignty: Populism, Politics and the Law in Ireland , London, Routledge, 2021, pp224 - 243, [Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh] Book Chapter, 2021

The Constitutional Tensions of Brexit in, editor(s)Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg and Jo Murkens , The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions under Pressure, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp1 - 18, [Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg and Jo Murkens] Book Chapter, 2021

Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg, Jo Murkens, The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions under Pressure, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 1 - 338pp Book, 2021

The Constitutional Politics of a United Ireland in, editor(s)Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg, Jo Murkins , Constitutions Under Pressure: The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the UK, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp129 - 152, [Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden] Book Chapter, 2021 TARA - Full Text

Alan Renwick, Oran Doyle, John Garry, Paul Gillespie, Cathy Gormley-Heenan, Katy Hayward, Robert Hazell, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden, Brendan O'Leary, Etain Tannam, Alan Whysall , Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland: Final Report, Constitution Unit, University College London, May, 2021, p1 - 259 Report, 2021

Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden, The Franchise in Irish Unification Referendums, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 32, (2), 2021, p182 - 213 Journal Article, 2021

Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh, Deliberation in Constitutional Amendment: Reappraising Ireland's Deliberative Mini-Publics, European Constitutional Law Review, 16, (3), 2020, p440 - 465 Journal Article, 2020

Oran Doyle, Minority Rights and Democratic Consensus: The Irish Same-Sex Marriage Referendum, National Taiwan University Law Review, 15, (1), 2020, p21 - 48 Journal Article, 2020 TARA - Full Text

Order from Chaos? Typologies and Models of Constitutional Change in, editor(s)Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou , Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Change, Abingdon on Thames, Routledge, 2020, pp45 - 60, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2020

Philosophical Foundations of Natural Rights, Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Max Planck Encylopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Heidelberg, Oxford University Press, 2019, [Oran Doyle and John Martin Gillroy] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2019

Unearthing the 'Constitutional' in Quasi-Constitutionality in, editor(s)Richard Albert and Joel Colon Rios , Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes: Forms, Functions and Applications , Routledge, 2019, pp89 - 93, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2019

Oran Doyle, Erik Longo, Andrea Pin, Populism: A Health Check for Constitutional Democracy, German Law Journal, 20, (3), 2019, p401 - 407 Journal Article, 2019

The Use of Foreign Law in Irish Constitutional Adjudication in, editor(s)Giuseppe Ferrari , Judicial Cosmopolitanism: The Use of Foreign Law in Contemporary Constitutional Systems, Brill, 2019, pp69 - 93, [Oran Doyle and Tom Hickey] Book Chapter, 2019

Oran Doyle, Clearing the Legal Decks for the Abortion Referendum: The Supreme Court, Constitutional Precedent and Legal Certainty, Irish Supreme Court Review, 1, 2019, p223 - 241 Journal Article, 2019

Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh, Participatory Democracy in Ireland: Citizens' Assemblies, Studi Senesi, 131, 2019, p485 - 496 Journal Article, 2019

Oran Doyle, Populist Constitutionalism and Constituent Power, German Law Journal, 20, (2), 2019, p161 - 180 Journal Article, 2019

Oran Doyle, The Silent Constitution of Territory, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 17, 2018, p887 - 903 Journal Article, 2018

Interpretation: The Unrealizable Ideal of judicial Constraint in, editor(s)Eoin Carolan , Judicial Power in Ireland, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2018, pp110 - 125, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2018

Oran Doyle, The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis, 1st, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2018, 0 - 230pp Book, 2018

Oran Doyle, Informal Constitutional Change, Buffalo Law Review, 65, (5), 2017, p101 - 118 Journal Article, 2017

Constitutional Change and Interest Group Politics: Ireland's Children's Rights Amendment in, editor(s)Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades, Alkmene Fotiadou , The Foundations and Tradition of Constitutional Amendment, Hart Publishing, 2017, pp199 - 218, [Oran Doyle and David Kenny] Book Chapter, 2017 TARA - Full Text

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, pp237 - 251, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2017 TARA - Full Text

Oran Doyle, Constitutional Change in Ireland: Political History and Balance of Power, Dublin University Law Journal, 42(2), 2017, p3 - 18 Journal Article, 2017

Oran Doyle, Constitutional Transitions, Abusive Constitutionalism and Conventional Constraint, National Journal of Constitutional Law, 35, 2017, p67 - 90 Journal Article, 2017

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] Book Chapter, 2017 TARA - Full Text

Oran Doyle, Foreign Law, Constitutional Cases and Theoretical Authority, Global Constitutionalism, 5, 2016, p85 - 108 Journal Article, 2016 TARA - Full Text

Oran Doyle, Conventional Constitutional Law, Dublin University Law Journal, 38, 2015, p311 - 330 Journal Article, 2015 TARA - Full Text

Dublin University Law Journal, 36, (2013), 1 - 403p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.] Journal, 2013

Oran Doyle, The Dynamics of Constitutional Change, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 102, (2), 2013 Journal Article, 2013

Dublin University Law Journal, 35, (2012), 1 - 355p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.] Journal, 2012

Oran Doyle, The Legitimate Authority of the Living Law, Jurisprudence, 3, (1), 2012, p113 - 133 Journal Article, 2012

Oran Doyle, Judicial Scrutiny of Legislative Classification, Irish Jurist, 47, (1), 2012, p175 - 184 Journal Article, 2012

Oran Doyle, Law and Justice in Community: the Significance of the Living Law, Nordicum-Mediterraneum: Icelandic E-Journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies, 6, (2), 2011, p19 Journal Article, 2011 TARA - Full Text URL

Dublin University Law Journal, 34, (2011), 1 - 280p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.] Journal, 2011

Oran Doyle, Elusive Quarries: A Failure of Regulation, Dublin University Law Journal, 34, 2011, p180 - 207 Journal Article, 2011 TARA - Full Text

Dublin University Law Journal: A Festchrift for the Honorable Justice Ronan Keane, 33, (2011), 1 - 428p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.] Journal, 2011

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 Journal Article, 2011 TARA - Full Text

Sisterly Love: the Importance of Explicitly Assumed Commitment in the Legal Recognition of Personal Relationships in, editor(s)Lynn Wardle, Scott Fitzgibbon, A Scott Loveless , The Jurisprudence of Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships, USA, WS Hein & Co, 2010, pp329 - 351, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2010 TARA - Full Text

Oran Doyle, Family Autonomy and Children's Best Interests: Ireland, Bentham and the Natural Law, International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family, 1, 2010, p55 - 76 Journal Article, 2010 TARA - Full Text

Oran Doyle, Legal Positivism, Natural Law and the Constitution, Dublin University Law Journal, 31, (1), 2009, p206 - 227 Journal Article, 2009 TARA - Full Text

Doyle, Oran and Carolan, Eoin, The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall , 2008, x-xlvi, 1-530pp Book, 2008

"Article 44: Privileging the Rights of the Faithful" in, editor(s)Eoin Carolan and Oran Doyle , The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2008, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2008

Moral Argument and the Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships in, editor(s)Oran Doyle and William Binchy , Committed Relationships and the Law, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2007 TARA - Full Text

Oran Doyle, The Constitution at 70, Doctrine and Life, 57, 2007 Journal Article, 2007

Doyle, Oran and Binchy, William, eds, Committed Relationships and the Law, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, 272pp Book, 2007

Oran Doyle, Direct Discrimination, Indirect Discrimination and Autonomy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 27, 2007, p537 - 553 Journal Article, 2007

The Separation of Powers and Constitutional Egalitarianism after the Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill Reference in, editor(s)Eoin O'Dell , Older People in Modern Ireland: Essays on Law and Policy, Dublin, First Law, 2006, pp393 - 426, [Oran Doyle and Gerry Whyte] Book Chapter, 2006

Oran Doyle, The European Communities (Natural Habitats) (Amendment) Regulations 2005, Dublin University Law Journal, 28, 2006 Journal Article, 2006 TARA - Full Text

Dublin University Law Journal, Dublin, Clarus Press, [eds.], 2004-2017 Editorial Board, 2004

Oran Doyle, Constitutional Equality Law, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2004 Book, 2004

Oran Doyle, Legal Validity - Reflections on the Constitution, Dublin University Law Journal, 25, 2003 Journal Article, 2003

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden, Fionnula Ní Aoláin, Legal Convergence and Divergence on the Island of Ireland: Report of the North-South Legal Mapping Projectto the Shared Island Unit, Oxford, Irish Research Council/Shared Island Unite, September, 2022, p1 - 19 Report, 2022

Ideological Commitments and Constitutional Projects of Cross-Border Parties in the Irish Context, Alessandro Torre, Springer Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism , Springer, 2022, [Oran Doyle] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2022

Conor Casey, Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Donna Lyons, Ireland's Emergency Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dublin, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission , February, 2021, p1 - 104 Report, 2021

Oran Doyle and Tom Hickey, Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials, 2nd, Dublin, Clarus Press, 2019, 1 - 650pp Book, 2019

Oran Doyle, Populism and Democratic Theory, Congress of International Academy of Comparative Law, Fukuoka, 25 July, 2018, International Academy of Comparative Law Invited Talk, 2018

Oran Doyle, The Constitutional Implications of Brexit, UK Italian Constitutional Law Conversation, London, 7 June, 2018, UK Constitutional Law Association and Italian Devolution Club Invited Talk, 2018

Oran Doyle, Constitutional Beginnings: Taiwan and Ireland, World Congress of Taiwan Studies, Taipei, 7 September, 2018, Academia Sinica Taipei Invited Talk, 2018

Oran Doyle, Constitutional Change in Ireland, Faculty Workshop, Tokyo, 10 July , 2018, Keio University Law School Invited Talk, 2018

Oran Doyle, Approaches to Comparative Constitutional Law, Seminar on Comparative Constitutional Law, Hiroshima, 27 July, 2018, Law Faculty University of Hiroshima Invited Talk, 2018

Oran Doyle, アイルランドの憲法変動, 法学セミナー, 467, 2018, p46 - 54 Journal Article, 2018

Oran Doyle, Constitutional Change and Intergenerational Disagreement, Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, Athlone, 25 November, 2018 Meeting Abstract, 2018

Oran Doyle, Constitutional Beginnings, Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law, Hong Kong, 26 June, 2018 Meeting Abstract, 2018

Oran Doyle, Andrea Mulligan and Mary Rogan, Graduate Attributes, Curriculum Reform, and Pedagogical Innovation, LERU Law Schools Conference - The Future of Legal Pedagogy, Lund, 14 November 2018, 2018 Meeting Abstract, 2018

Oran Doyle, It's Bad to Talk: Judicial Dialogue and Foreign Law, Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law, Copenhagen, 2017 Meeting Abstract, 2017

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2015, Dublin, Round Hall, 2017, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman] Book Chapter, 2017

Oran Doyle, The Supreme Court, Review of The Supreme Court of Ireland, by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic , Studies: An Irish Quarterly, 2017 Review, 2017

Oran Doyle, The Constitution of Territory, Borders, Fences and Firewalls, Max Planck Institute Gottingen, 2017 Meeting Abstract, 2017

Oran Doyle, Let's Not Play Peekaboo with Constituent Power, Popular Will, Electoral Democracy and the Courts, Padova, 17 November, 2017 Meeting Abstract, 2017

Ireland in, editor(s)Detlef Merten and Hans-Jurgen Papier , Handbuch der Grundrechte in Deutschland und Europa, Heidelberg, CF Muller GmbH, 2016, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2016

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2014, Dublin, Round Hall, 2015, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman] Book Chapter, 2015

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2013, Dublin, Round Hall, 2014, pp110 - 207, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2014

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2012, Dublin, Round Hall Press, 2013, pp117 - 202, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2013

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2011, Dublin, Round Hall Press, 2012, pp160 - 239, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2012

Constitutional Law in, Annual Review of Irish Law 2010, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2011, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman] Book Chapter, 2011

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2009, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2010, pp188 - 258, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman] Book Chapter, 2010

Oran Doyle, The Human Personality Doctrine in Constitutional Equality Law, Irish Student Law Review, 9, 2009, p101- Journal Article, 2009

Doyle, Oran and Scannell, Yvonne, Town and County Planning and Natura 2000 in Ireland, Amenagement du Territoire Urbanisme et Reseau Natura 2000, 11, 2009, p190 - 206 Journal Article, 2009

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2008, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2009, pp122 - 182, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman] Book Chapter, 2009

Oran Doyle, Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Dublin, Clarus Press, 2008 Book, 2008

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2007, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2008, pp97 - 144, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman] Book Chapter, 2008

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2005, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2006, pp179 - 241, [Oran Doyle;Estelle Feldman] Book Chapter, 2006

Oran Doyle and Alan Keating, Discriminatory Planning Conditions - the Case for Reform, Law Society of Ireland, 2005 Report, 2005 URL

Rapport National: Ireland in, editor(s)Jessica Makowiak , La Mise en Place du Reseau Natura 2000, Limoges, Pulim, 2005, pp213 - 233, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2005

Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne, William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2004, Dublin, Roundhall, 2005, pp163 - 212, [Oran Doyle, Estelle Feldman] Book Chapter, 2005

Property Rights and Natura 2000 in Ireland in, editor(s)Michel Paques , Natura 2000 and Property Rights, Brussels, Bruylant, 2005, pp139 - 152, [Oran Doyle] Book Chapter, 2005

Oran Doyle, The Duration of Primary Education, Irish Student Law Review, 10, 2002, p222- Journal Article, 2002

Doyle O., Scannell, Doyle and Clarke, The Habitats Directive in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, 1999 Book, 1999

Oran Doyle, Façade Retention: Standing of Incorporated Persons to Challenge Planning Permissions, Trinity College Law Review, 2, 1999, p106- Journal Article, 1999

Oran Doyle, Men of Straw? Change to the Rules of Locus Standi: An Unsuspected Side Effect of the McKenna and Hanafin Decisions, Trinity College Law Review, 1, 1998, p37- Journal Article, 1998

Research Expertise

Description

Prof Doyle is an expert on comparative constitutional law and theory, with a particular focus on foundational questions of constitutionalism: how are constitutions made? How do constitutions relate to a particular people and territory, particularly in contested cases of secession and territorial conflict? How are constitutions changed? In 2018, he published a monograph, 'The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis' for Hart's series on Constitutional Systems of the World. This book provides the first analysis, richly informed by comparative study, of how the Irish Constitution as a whole operates in practice. Prof Doyle is currently collaborating with Prof Rachael Walsh on a number of papers related to Ireland's experiment with citizens' assemblies and how these may inform new approaches to constitutional amendment. In 'Deliberation in Constitutional Amendment: Reappraising Ireland's Deliberative Mini-Publics' (European Constitutional Law Review, 2020), they provide the first analysis of all recommendations for constitutional amendment made by Ireland's mini-publics and explore why some gained political traction while most did not. In 'Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Response to Populist Democratic Backsliding' (Constitutional Change and Popular Sovereignty: Populism, Politics and the Law in Ireland, Routledge, 2021), they interrogate suggestions that deliberative mini-publics could help stem democratic backsliding. In 'Constitutional Amendment and Public Will Formation: Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Tool for Consensus Democracy' (International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2022), they situate deliberative mini-publics within a theory of constitutional amendment and explore their potential and problems through an analysis of Ireland's Citizens' Assembly's recommendations on abortion. Developing from this work, Prof Doyle is currently preparing a monograph on constitutional amendment. This work will theorise the distinctive democratic value of constitutional amendment and deploy that theory to reassess key debates in the field: from the unconstitutional constitutional amendment doctrine to informal constitutional amendment.

Projects

  • Title
    • Measures on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
  • Summary
    • Dr Doyle prepared the Irish report for a European Union project on the extent to which the laws of each Member State complied with Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention.
  • Funding Agency
    • European Commission
  • Date From
    • 01/01/2007
  • Date To
    • 12/07/2007

Keywords

Comparative Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law; Jurisprudence

Recognition

Representations

Co-convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law research group on public law responses to public health emergencies

Constitutional Law Advisor to Ireland's Citizens' Assembly 2016-2018

Co-Chair of the British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law 2017-present

Member of the International Society of Public Law Working Group on New Chapters 2018-present

Guest Editor special volume of the German Law Journal on Populism and Constitutionalism 2019

Global Associate Professor, Keio University, Tokyo 2018

Visiting Research Fellow, Bocconi University Milan 2017

Visiting research fellow at the Institutuum Jurisprudentiae of the Academia Sinica in Taipei. 2015

Member of the editorial board of the Dublin University Law Journal. 2009-present

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Constitutional Studies.

External Examiner, NUI Galway 2015-2019

External Examiner, Honorable Society of King's Inns 2007-2012

External Examiner, Griffith College Dublin 2008-2012

Awards and Honours

Elected to Fellowship of the College 2010

Provost's Teaching Award 2008

Brookes Scholar, the Honourable Society of King's Inns 2002

Awarded Gold Medal in LLB Degree 1999

Scholar of Trinity College Dublin 1997

Memberships

Irish Jurisprudence Society 2007 – Present

International Society of Public Law 2015 – Present

Law and Society Association 2016 – 2017