Faculty Member, School of Law and Government
About
I am a lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. My research focuses primarily on the intersection of constitutional law and political theory. In particular, I am interested in how jurisdictions committed to different models of constitutional secularism order the competing social claims on the value of religious freedom in the context of public education, from the standpoint of liberal and republican theories of justice. I have also published material on the location of Rawls' theory of justice in the republican history of thought.
Recent and forthcoming publications include:
- “The ambiguous reach of constitutional secularism in republican France: revisiting the idea of laïcité and political liberalism as alternatives” (2012) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies [forthcoming, issue 3]
- “Laïcité, gender equality and the politics of non-domination” (2012) European Journal of Political Theory [published in advance online at http://ept.sagepub.com/content/early/recent].
- “Freedom of association through the lens of gender quotas in politics” (2012) 47 Irish Jurist [forthcoming, March/April]
- “Residual Conventions of the Codified Constitution: the Incongruous Example of Collective Responsibility” (2011) Public Law 703
- “Religious freedom and the ‘right to discriminate’ in the school admissions context: a neo-republican critique” (with Tom Hickey) (2011) 31 Legal Studies 615
- “Non-domination as a primary good: re-thinking the frontiers of the ‘political’ in Rawls’s political liberalism” (2011) 2(1) Jurisprudence 37
- “Competing concepts of religious freedom through the lens of religious product authentication laws” (2011) 13 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 298
- “Religious Liberty and the Rawlsian Idea of Legitimacy: the French Laïcité Project between Comprehensive and Political Liberalisms” (2010) 5 Religion and Human Rights 155
