346 research outputs found
Albert Venn Dicey, the law of the constitution
No full textIn this chapter, Conor McCormick examines Dicey's The Law of the Constitution, the archetypal leading work in British public law. After exploring the biographical and professional influences on the work, McCormick goes on to outline its key arguments and their shortcomings, some of which Dicey acknowledged himself in later editions. McCormick concludes by exploring the reasons for the book's extraordinary and continuing influence on public law
The Three Tiers of Executive Power in Northern Ireland
No full textThis chapter contends that there are three tiers of executive power in Northern Ireland and examines the constitutional qualities of the executive power exercisable on each of those tiers. It begins by analysing how and why primary executive power, which is vested in the UK Government, is understood in generally unitary terms. It then suggests that secondary executive power, which is vested in devolved Ministers, is best characterised as semi-siloed and comparatively conditional in nature. Finally, it submits that tertiary executive power, which is vested in devolved departments, should be conceptualised as such by virtue of the fact that it is moderated by greater conditionality than any of its superordinates
The Development of Lord Kerr’s Judicial Mind
No full textThis chapter discusses the career and output of the man in whose honour this book has been compiled. It charts his path to the role of Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, surveys how the decisions he made were dealt with when they were appealed to the House of Lords and Supreme Court and briefly analyses the quantity and nature of the judgments he himself delivered in the Supreme Court. We conclude that the judicial mind reflected in his judgments became ever more liberal as his career progressed
QUB HRC Response to the UK Government Consultation on Human Rights Act Reform
No full textThis document has been submitted on behalf of the Human Rights Centre of the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast in response to the UK Ministry of Justice's consultation on whether and (if so) how to reform the Human Rights Act 1998. It was drafted jointly by Prof Brice Dickson, Dr Conor McCormick, Prof Louise Mallinder and Prof Christopher McCrudden. The response was submitted to the UK Government on 8 March 2022 and published for public consumption immediately thereafter
QUB HRC Response to the UK Government Consultation on Human Rights Act Reform
No full textThis document has been submitted on behalf of the Human Rights Centre of the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast in response to the UK Ministry of Justice's consultation on whether and (if so) how to reform the Human Rights Act 1998. It was drafted jointly by Prof Brice Dickson, Dr Conor McCormick, Prof Louise Mallinder and Prof Christopher McCrudden. The response was submitted to the UK Government on 8 March 2022 and published for public consumption immediately thereafter
2013 Common Book Convocation: Conor Grennan, author of Little Princes: One Man\u27s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal.
No full textLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan’s remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/commonbook/1003/thumbnail.jp
Executive Lawyers and Executive Power: A New View of the Cathedral
No full textThis blog post was written as an invited contribution to the IACL-AIDC led symposium on a recently published journal article by Conor Casey and David Kenny, namely ‘The Gatekeepers: Executive Lawyers and the Executive Power in Comparative Constitutional Law’ (2022) 20(2) I∙CON 664-695. For the full set of international scholarly contributions to the symposium, see: https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/wmps-gatekeepers
Executive Lawyers and Executive Power: A New View of the Cathedral
No full textThis blog post was written as an invited contribution to the IACL-AIDC led symposium on a recently published journal article by Conor Casey and David Kenny, namely ‘The Gatekeepers: Executive Lawyers and the Executive Power in Comparative Constitutional Law’ (2022) 20(2) I∙CON 664-695. For the full set of international scholarly contributions to the symposium, see: https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/wmps-gatekeepers
“Hey Skinny, Your Ribs Are Showing”: The Fitness Industry of Charles Atlas and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century United States
No full textAbout the author
Conor Heffernan is a senior of History and Political Science at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Conor has a keen interest in health and fitness and American culture in the 20th century. He hopes to further his studies into the history of physical culture in the future
Thank God for Free Time: A Leisure Examen
No full textHow are you using your free time? Do you have enough of it? Too much? Are you mainly using it to veg out? Or are you devoting time to growing closer to God and other people and promoting the common good? These are some of the questions that animate the scholarly work of our latest AMDG podcast guest, Dr. Conor M. Kelly. An assistant professor of theology at Marquette University, Conor is the author of the recent book “The Fullness of Free Time: A Theological Account of Leisure and Recreation in the Moral Life.
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