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The ''Trinity College Law Review'' (TCLR) is a student-run
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affiliated with
Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...
School of Law. It has been published annually every March since 1998 and is available on two online legal databases:
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and
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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 ...
,
Pat Cox Patrick Cox (born 28 November 1952) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician, journalist and television current affairs presenter who served as President of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004 and Leader of the European Liberal Democrat ...
and
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 ...
.


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
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( Director of Public Prosecutions), Carol Coulter (''
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''),
Ivana Bacik Ivana Catherine Bacik () (born 25 May 1968) is an Irish politician who has been the Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland), Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland), Labour Party since 24 March 2022 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay South ...
(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 have included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lord Hoffman, Professor
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and
Mónica Feria Tinta Monica Feria Tinta (born 1966) is a British/Peruvian barrister, a specialist in public international law, at the Bar of England & Wales. She practises from Twenty Essex, London. She has been referred to as 'one of Britain's most dazzling legal m ...
. The TCLR also hosts an annual "Authors' Night", where advice is provided 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 Gernot Biehler, 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
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. * 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 Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...
. In addition to selecting and editing the articles published in the review, the board works to promote legal writing in Trinity College through workshops and guest lectures.


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

* {{University of Dublin, Trinity College 1998 establishments in Ireland Annual journals Irish law journals Multilingual journals Academic journals established in 1998
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