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The Trinity College Law Review (TCLR) is a student-run law review affiliated with Trinity College Dublin School of Law. It has been published annually every March since 1998 and is available on two online legal databases: HeinOnline and Westlaw.[citation needed] The review publishes selected submissions in English, French, or German dealing with any area of law.[citation needed] Previous contributors have included Mary McAleese, Susan Denham, Pat Cox and Gerard Hogan.[citation needed]
| Discipline | Law review |
|---|---|
| Language | English, Irish, French, German |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1998-present |
| Publisher | Dublin University Law Society (Ireland) |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| Bluebook | Trinity C.L. Rev. |
| ISO 4 | Trinity Coll. Law Rev. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1393-5941 |
| LCCN | 2003250062 |
| OCLC no. | 41254523 |
| Links | |
Events
editA "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 (Director of Public Prosecutions),[1] Carol Coulter (Irish Times), Ivana Bacik (barrister and politician), and criminal law solicitors Michael Finucane and Petter Mullan.[citation needed] 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).[citation needed] Notable participants in the series have included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lord Hoffman, Professor Cass Sunstein and Mónica Feria Tinta.[citation needed]
The TCLR also hosts an annual "Authors' Night", where advice is provided to students who are considering entering submissions for the publication.[citation needed]
Awards
editA number of awards are available for those who enter submissions to the TCLR.[citation needed]
- 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.[2][better source needed]
- 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.[citation needed]
Editorial board
editThe editorial board of the Trinity College Law Review consists of undergraduate and postgraduate law students of Trinity College Dublin.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
Highly cited articles
edit- Stephen Ranalow, "Bearing a Constitutional Cross: Examining Blasphemy and the Judicial Role in Corway v Independent Newspapers" [2000] 3 Trinity CL Rev 95.[citation needed]
- Michael Kearney, "Extraterritorial Jurisdiction of the European Convention on Human Rights" [2002] 5 Trinity CL Rev 158.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "DPP says no 'quick fixes' to gangland crime". Irish Times. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
- ^ "Submissions". trinitycollegelawreview.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2014.