TriCON Events - Michaelmas Term 2023
TriCON events in association with the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.
Tuesday 17 October 2023
- Time: 5:00pm
- Location: Room 11, The Law School, House 39, New Square, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Yvonne Tew (Anne Fleming Research Professor at Georgetown Law, and Co-Director of the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, UK).
‘Judicial Statecraft and Strategic Judicial Empowerment’
In this seminar, Professor Tew will speak to her recent article Strategic Judicial Empowerment by Yvonne Tew :: SSRN (2023) American Journal of Comparative Law, available at, followed by comments from Professor Brian Barry (TCD), author of How Judges Judge (Routledge, 2021)
Tuesday 31 October 2023
- Time: 2:00pm
- Location: Room 11, The Law School, House 39, New Square, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Vanessa MacDonnell (Associate Professor, University of Ottawa & Co-Director uOttawa Public Law Centre).
‘Executive Constitutionalism’
In this seminar, Professor MacDonnell will discuss her recent work on the constitutional role of the Executive branch of government.
Tuesday 16 November 2023
- Time: 5:00pm
- Location: Room 11, The Law School, House 39, New Square, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Roberto Gargarella (Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Buenos Aires) & Professor Aileen Kavanagh (TCD).
‘Constitutionalism and Democracy: From Conversation to Collaboration’
In this seminar, Professors Gargarella and Kavanagh will discuss the conceptions of democracy underpinning their recent books - Gargarella, The Law as a Conversation between Equals (CUP, 2022) & Kavanagh, The Collaborative Constitution (CUP, 2023).
Tuesday 28 November 2023
- Time: 5:00pm
- Location: Room 11, The Law School, House 39, New Square, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Sergio Verdugo (Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, IE Law School, Madrid and Secretary General of ICON-S) & Professor Oran Doyle and Professor Rachael Walsh (TCD).
‘Comparing Participatory Constitutional Change in Chile and Ireland’
In this seminar, Professors Serdugo, Doyle and Walsh will engage in a comparative constitutional law discussion about the different experiences of participatory constitutional change in Chile and Ireland.
All are welcome to these events. For queries please contact aileen kavanagh at tcd.ie
These seminars are supported by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union through the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Law and Politics, Trinity College Dublin.
