Oran Doyle is Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, where he was Head of theSchool of Law from 2014-2018. He has authored and edited a number of other books onIrish constitutional law, including The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis (Hart,2018) and Constitutional Equality Law (Round Hall, 2004). He is published widely in thefields of comparative constitutional law, legal theory, equality and discrimination law, andconstitutional transitions. Oran is the co-chair of the British-Irish Chapter of InternationalSociety of Public Law (ICON-S).Tom Hickey is Assistant Professor at the School of Law and Government, Dublin CityUniversity and was Visiting Professor at Universite Montesquieu, Bordeaux IV from 2013through 2018. He is co-author (with Eoin Daly) of The Political Theory of the IrishConstitution: Republicanism and the Basic Law (MUP, 2015) and co-editor (with LauraCahillane and James Gallen) of Judges, Politics and the Irish Constitution (MUP, 2017). Hehas published widely in the fields of constitutional theory, religious liberty, and judicial power

• Part I - The Irish Constitutional OrderKey themesEvolution and constitutional foundationsRights in the constitutional orderConstitutional interpretationThe referendum and constitutional changePart II - Institutions and the Separation of PowersThe political structure of governmentJudges and the political arms of governmentLegislative powerExecutive powerJudicial powerPart III: Rights in Irish Constitutional LawPrinciples of constitutional litigationStandards of reviewThe Constitution and criminal LawEqualityPersonal rightsLiberty and the dwellingThe three freedoms: expression, assembly and associationThe family and educationProperty rightsReligion and conscience

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