The politics of judicial selection in Ireland

The Law School of University College Dublin

A history

W.N. Osborough

The Law School of UCD has been a key centre of legal education and research since its establishment as the Faculty of Law in 1909. The staff, students and alumn…

Changes in practice and law

A selection of essays by members of the legal profession to mark twenty-five years of the Irish Legal History Society

Daire Hogan & Colum Kenny editors

Changes in practice and law is a selection of essays by members of the legal profession, including judges, counsel and solicitors, who explore a number of trans…

Lawyers, the law and history

Felix M. Larkin & N.M. Dawson, editors

The fourteen essays in this book cover a wide range of topics within the field of legal history. Most are adaptations of discourses given at meetings of the Iri…

The history and development of the Special Criminal Court, 1922–2005

Fergal Davis

The Special Criminal Court consists of three judges sitting without a jury and hears cases when the ordinary courts are ‘inadequate’. Generally this has involve…