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Robert Noonan, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin

Robert Noonan

Ph.D. Candidate

c/o Law School
House 39
Trinity College, Dublin 2

Fax: (01) 677 0449
Email: noonanr@tcd.ie

Ph.D. Thesis: Metaphysics in Jurisprudence and Law: Theoretical and Doctrinal Lessons

Supervisor: Prof. Oran Doyle

Biography Professional Qualifications Awards Research Interests
Education Details Employment Details Memberships / Associations Publications

Biography

Robert Noonan is a Ph.D. student supported by an Ussher Fellowship researching constitutional law and legal theory under the supervision of Dr Oran Doyle. Robert graduated from Trinity College, University of Dublin in 2014 with first class honours in the LL.B. degree. He then pursued graduate study at the University of Oxford and obtained the degree of B.C.L. in 2015, graduating with distinction.

His thesis focuses on doctrinal and theoretical problems arising around legal validity, unconstitutionality, and the mode of existence or non-existence of legal norms. In particular, his research seeks to motivate an understanding of the metaphysics of legal phenomena through the prism of how laws in various jurisdictions may become extinguished, for example as the result of a court declaration of invalidity or unconstitutionality

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Professional Qualifications

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Awards

  • Ussher Fellowship (2015 - 2018)
  • Law Faculty Prize in Constitutional Theory, University of Oxford (2015)
  • B.C.L. Joint Faculty/College Scholarship (2014 - 2015)
  • Julian Prize (2014)
  • Honourable T.C. Kingsmill-Moore Prize (2013)
  • Gold Medal for Best Undergraduate Article for the Thirteenth Edition of the Cork Online Law Review (2013)
  • Elected a scholar of Trinity College, University of Dublin (2012)

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Research Interests

  • Constitutional Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Jurisprudence

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Education Details

  • Ph.D Candidate at Trinity College, University of Dublin 2015 - present
  • B.C.L. (Oxon.) at Jesus College, University of Oxford 2014 - 2015
  • LL.B. (Dubl.) at Trinity College, University of Dublin 2010 - 2014

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Employment Details

  • Seminar Tutor in Constitutional Law I, Jurisprudence, and Legislation and Statutory Regulation (Trinity College, University of Dublin) 2015 - 2018

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Memberships /Associations /Representations

    Irish Jurisprudence Society

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Publications

Robert Noonan, 'The Ontology of the Subject of Rights: Postmodern Perspectives on the Irish Constitution through a Case Study on the Right to Free Speech' (2014) 13 COLR 71.

Robert Noonan, 'The Kelsenian Paradigm in Irish Legal Theory' (2013) 31 ILT 286.

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