TriCON

About TriCON

The Trinity Centre for Constitutional Governance (TriCON) provides a focal point for research, events, and public engagement on all aspects of constitutional law and governance. Based in Trinity College Dublin School of Law, TriCON Fellows have a wide range of research interests, including constitutional law, comparative constitutional studies, administrative law, human rights, EU law, international law, democratic theory, legal philosophy, constitutional theory, and more. TriCON hosts a vibrant series of seminars and workshops which bring scholars, judges, and legal practitioners together to discuss constitutional issues from a theoretical, comparative, interdisciplinary, and practical perspective. In 2026, it will launch the annual TriCON Verdon Lecture 2026, with Professor Cass Sunstein as the inaugural speaker.

Director and Deputy Director of TriCON

Professor Aileen Kavanagh is the Director of TriCON and Chair of Constitutional Governance in the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin.  Formerly a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Oxford, Professor Kavanagh researches, teaches, and writes in the fields of constitutional theory, comparative constitutional law, and human rights.  She is author of numerous books and articles, including The Collaborative Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which won the Inner Temple Book Prize 2026, a ‘major prize for outstanding authorship’ awarded triennially by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in London.

Professor David Kenny is acting Director of TriCON, during a period of research leave of Professor Aileen Kavanagh. He is Professor of Law and Fellow at the School at Trinity College Dublin.  He researches and teaches Irish and comparative constitutional law, and law and literature. He is co-author of Kelly: the Irish Constitution, the leading text on Irish constitutional law, and author of  numerous of articles on various topics such as proportionality, referendums, constitutional culture, and parliamentary systems of government. He also has engaged with stakeholders on constitutional reform in various countries, such Ireland, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Japan

Our Deputy Director is Roisin Costello, who is Assistant Professor of EU and International Law at Trinity College Dublin School of Law, and Director of DEMCONEX, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Freedom of Expression and Democratic Resilience in Europe’s Digital Age supported by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.  She is author of Privacy Law in Ireland (Bloomsbury, 2023).

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