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Constitutional law, legal history. Assistant Prof in Maynooth University, Ireland.
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What is the best time to start packing for an international flight - 2, 3, or 4 hrs before the flight?

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Come Work With Us! the School of Law and Criminology is hiring a University Tutor in law or criminology (permanent role) Closing Date: 23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Thursday 10 July, 2025 For full details see: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies

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"With the barons of the 13th century and the parliaments of the 14th it was the substance of power, not the theoretical limitation of executive functions, that was the object of contention." Stubbs, Constitutional History of England. My sense is that this neatly describes Trump vs Dems in the US.

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"When Univeristy College was founded under the name of the University of London a hundred years agi, many critics regarded the event as the birth of a somewhat saucy rival of the older English Universities. It was that; but it was also something more..." Centenary Addresses

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You haven’t really written an academic paper until you’ve cut the paragraph you built the entire paper around.

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'These old Universities serve the English-speaking race as a whole, without distinction of countries, colonies, or even allegiance. They are local Universities to England as a part of the Empire...' de Montmorency, 1909, on Oxford and Cambridge.

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Here is the opening of his 'Ballad of General Offers' on Carlill v The Carbolic Smoke Ball...

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Has there been a worse naming of a multi-volume work than Anson? The third volume is 'Vol II: The Crown. Part II'!

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The Petition of Right from In re A Petition of Right [1915] 3 KB 649.

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A good overview of the Boundary Commission's role in Irish history here: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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I've spent much of my career studying the legal institution known as "the posse comitatus" as well as "The Posse Comitatus Act." Here's a quick thread. Cites at the end. Posse comitatus is Latin for "power of the county," or temporarily deputized people obligated to assist law enforcers.

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There is an apparent lack of coherent ideology underpinning the Irish Givt's changes to Rent Pressure Zone rules. It is very easily expicable if the question isn't "what is the political ideology?" but rather "what would the Ministry of Finance want?"

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They should stop releasing him. www.thejournal.ie/drink-drug-d...

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Public Law has entered the chat.

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Today is another morning where I search 'will Tim Ho Wan open a European branch?'

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The excellent Come Here to Me blog has more details: comeheretome.com/2018/01/25/s...

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Managed to get around to checking this out this morning - the Dublin suburb where all the streets are named after the Apollo 11 mission.

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Curious conclusion to this article that the judiciary only have themselves to blame. The Oireachtas are responsible for this mechanism.

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Exhibit A for Dublin City Council not actually valuing the city - why put these ugly metal blocks up rather than integrate them into the cityscape?

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Me, writing: this is an incoherent mess, what the hell am I even trying to say here? Me, re-reading: not bad

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Proofs! In the next issue of Public Law, @colinmurray.bsky.social and I discuss things the Supreme Court has to confront as it hears the first successful Windsor Framework challenge later this year. Grateful to @aileenmcharg.bsky.social and @rogermasterman.bsky.social for the rapid turnaround!

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The top banter heuristic in the US is that Trump signs an Executive Order restricting campaign finance to prevent Musk primarying his candidates, and the Supreme Court upholds it.

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US Government representatives should not be trying to pressure the Irish media commissioner. They shouldn't even be meeting them. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

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Found this in the wild in Dublin today @legalmusings.bsky.social @bymyong.bsky.social

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Lough Leane.

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My four year old nephew is a truther, wandering around my parents' house shouting "leprechauns are real!"

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Oireachtas debate with Úna Mulally @irishtimes.com and @donalcoffey.bsky.social on the 10th anniversary of the Marriage Equality Referendum

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A great story, but not great news, on lead in the tap water in Dublin: www.dublininquirer.com/community-te...

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This looks like it will be particularly problematic for Ireland, as the European HQ of US tech companies. www.state.gov/announcement...

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The eternal battle between "I should get better sleep" and "I haven't watched the restored version of the Godfather in a decade".

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I did not imagine I would find Finnis recommending people read Baxi's review of Austin...

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You can watch it back here if interested: www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...

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