Ireland's Evolving Constitution 1937-1997 by Tim Murphy
These essays offers insight into the changing role of the constitution in light of social and political change in Ireland over the past 60 years.
It is an enormous pleasure to welcome this first-class collection of essays on Ireland's fascinating, endlessly controversial, but doggedly durable constitution..The editors of this volume have had the brilliant idea of hanging their collection on the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of Bunreacht na hEireann. Their choice of contributors is particularly to their credit, since it reflects very well the breadth and range of modern Irish constitutional studies. We have essays from an historian.., a comparativist..., and a philosopher.., as well as three stimulating pieces from erstwhile and contemporary practitioners of politics, to remind us that even under a written constitution the government must not become the intellectual property of the lawyers... So who should read this book? The obvious answer is students of Irish constitutional law. But clearly it will also be immensley valuable to the comparativist, who seeks an intelligent and stimulating rather than a rigidly black-letter introduction to a constitutional system of which he or she desires to know more. Conor Gearty Cambridge Law Journal September 2002 ...this collection deserves to be purchased by every lawyer with even a passing interest in Irish constitutional law. Gerard Hogan The Bar Review September 2002 Many of these essays...are so interesting and well written that they deserve not a short review, but a long monograph by way of response. Gerard Hogan Legal Studies September 2002
Tim Murphy is a Lecturer in Law at University College, Cork. Patrick Twomey is a lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham
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| ISBN 13 | 9781901362176 |
| ISBN 10 | 1901362175 |
| Title | Ireland's Evolving Constitution 1937-1997 |
| Author | Tim Murphy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1998-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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