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The ''Trinity College Law Review'' (TCLR) is a student-run
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affiliated with
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School of Law. It is the oldest Irish student edited law journal, published annually every March since 1998. It is available on two online legal databases:
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. The review publishes selected submissions in English, French, or German dealing with any area of law. Previous contributors have included
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Susan Denham Susan Jane Denham, SC (''née'' Gageby; born 22 August 1945) is a retired Irish judge who served as Chief Justice of Ireland from 2011 to 2017, she was the first woman to hold the position. She served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1992 to ...
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Gerard Hogan Gerard William Augustine Hogan, (born 13 August 1958) is an Irish judge, lawyer and academic who has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since October 2021. He previously served as Advocate General of the European Court of Justice ...
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Events

A "Distinguished Speaker Series" was established in 2006. The 2009 discussion was on "The Law's Response to Gangland Crime in Ireland". Panellists have included James Hamilton (
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), Carol Coulter (
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),
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(barrister and politician), and criminal law solicitors Michael Finucane and Petter Mullan. Other topics of discussion have included "Is the Seanad Worth Saving?" (2011), "The Fusion of the Legal Professions" (2012) and "The Future of the Irish Corporate Tax Regime" (2014). Notable participants in the series include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lord Hoffman, and Professor Cass Sunstein. In 2018 the series welcomed David Bruck and Monica Feria-Tinta. The TCLR also hosts an annual "Authors' Night", where speakers such as law professors and the editors of law journals discuss legal writing strategies and provide advice to students who are considering entering submissions for the publication.


Awards

A number of awards are available for those who enter submissions to the TCLR. * In November 2009 "The Inaugural Gernot Biehler Memorial Competition" was launched. This is a casenote competition in honour of
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, lecturer in International Law and Conflicts of Law and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, who died in September 2009. This competition is open to all first and second year law students in any university. The prize for the best casenote is €250. * The "Reddy Charlton Prize" is awarded to the best article published in the review each year. * The "Norton Rose Fulbright Internship Prize" is awarded to the best article on a topic of commercial law. * The "FLAC Award" is awarded by Trinity FLAC to the best article on a topic of human rights or social justice. * The "Conseil d'État Prize" is awarded to the best French article each year. This comes in the form of a summer internship at the Conseil d'État. * The "German Language Prize" is awarded to the best German article and this also comes in the form of an internship with a law firm in Germany.


Editorial board

The
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of the ''Trinity College Law Review'' consists of undergraduate and postgraduate law students of
Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...
. Responsible for the selection and editing of the articles published in the review, the board also works to promote legal writing in Trinity College through holding workshops and guest lectures throughout the year.


Notable alumni

Past editorial board members of the ''Trinity College Law Review'' include: Oran Doyle, constitutional law scholar and Head of Trinity College Dublin Law School and James Nix, Director of Policy & Operations with An Taisce: The National Trust for Ireland.


Highly cited articles

* Stephen Ranalow, "Bearing a Constitutional Cross: Examining Blasphemy and the Judicial Role in ''Corway v Independent Newspapers''"
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3 ''Trinity CL Rev'' 95. * Michael Kearney, "Extraterritorial Jurisdiction of the European Convention on Human Rights"
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5 ''Trinity CL Rev'' 158.


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External links

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