Workshop Series 2025-26
The Irish Jurisprudence Society is an inter-University Group dedicated to the discussion of legal theory and philosophy.
Except where otherwise indicated, workshops will take place on Wednesday afternoon, 3:00-4:30pm. Participants are expected to have read the paper, which will be circulated in advance. Registration on Eventbrite for each event.
If you would like to be kept up to date about upcoming workshops, please subscribe to the mailing list by sending a request to irishjurisprudencesociety@gmail.com. All are welcome to attend!
Autumn 2025
22 October – Free Will as A Fundamentally Contested Concept
Author: Jiani Zhong (TCD)
Discussant: Kenneth Silver (TCD)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room
5 November- Aquinas on Evil Law
Author: Dr Anna Lukina (LSE)
Discussant: David Prendergast (TCD)
Venue: Trinity College Dublin, South Leinster Street, Room 3.03
19 November – Republicanism and Unamendability
Author: Seán Rainford (DCU)
Discussant: Oisin Suttle (Maynooth)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room
3 December: A House Built on Sand: A Thomistic Critique of Common Good Constitutionalism
Author: Joshua Jowitt (Newcastle)
Discussant: Conor Crummey (Maynooth)
Venue: NUI Building, Phelan Room
Spring 2026
18 February – Victims’ Duties and Victim-Blaming: accountability as a deliberative exercise
Dr Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queen’s Law School, Ontario)
4 March –Why the Rule of Recognition is Not About Validity
Author: Dr Paolo Sandro (Leeds)
18 March – The Shape of Private Law
Author: Prof Steve Hedley (UCC)
1 April – Extra Hungry Judges: Why AI Exacerbates some Problems it Purports to Solve
Author: Dr Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi (UCLA)
Date TBA – Book Symposium : Status in Law and Morality (OUP 2026)
Author: Prof George Letsas (UCL)
The convenors would like to gratefully acknowledge the funding support of Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology.
If you have any inquiries about the above events, please contact us at
irishjurisprudencesociety@gmail.com.
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