Trinity College Law Review

The Trinity College Law Review (TCLR) is a student-run law review affiliated with Trinity College Dublin School of Law. It is the oldest Irish student edited law journal, published annually every March since 1998. The review publishes selected submissions in English, French, or German dealing with any area of law. Its Bluebook abbreviation is Trinity C.L. Rev.

Previous contributors to the review have included Mary McAleese, Brian Walsh, Susan Denham, Pat Cox, Gerard Hogan, Fergus Ryan, Oran Doyle, Desmond Ryan, and Raymond Ryan.

The TCLR is available on two online legal databases: HeinOnline and Westlaw.

TCLR events

A "Distinguished Speaker Series" was established in 2006. The 2009 discussion was on "The Law's Response to Gangland Crime in Ireland". Panellists included James Hamilton (Director of Public Prosecutions), Carol Coulter (Irish Times), Senator Ivana Bacik, and criminal law solicitors Michael Finucane and Petter Mullan.^[1] More recently 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).

The TCLR also hosts an annual "Authors' Night", where speakers such as law professors and editors of prominent 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 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]
• 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 leading law firm in Germany.

Editorial board

The editorial board of the Trinity College Law Review consists of undergraduate and postgraduate law students of Trinity College Dublin. Selection to the board is merit-based and highly competitive. 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. The current editor-in-chief is Feidhlim Mac Róibín.

Notable Alumni

Prominent past editorial board members of the Trinity College Law Review include: Oran Doyle, constitutional law scholar and Head of Trinity College Dublin Law School^[3] and James Nix, Director of Policy & Operations with An Taisce: The National Trust for Ireland.^[4]

Highly Cited Articles

• Stephen Ranalow, "Bearing a Constitutional Cross: Examining Blasphemy and the Judicial Role in Corway v Independent Newspapers" [2000] 3 Trinity CL Rev 95.
• Michael Kearney, "Extraterritorial Jurisdiction of the European Convention on Human Rights" [2002] 5 Trinity CL Rev 158.

References

External links

• Official website