Autorentext

David H. McIlroy is a Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England. He is also a Barrister called to the Bars of England and Ireland.

Klappentext

This volume looks at key Irish figures, beyond lawyers and judges, whose ideas have impacted on the way law is conceived, conceptualised, and practised. The work consists of four Parts, each corresponding to a distinct historical phase.

Inhalt

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

David H. McIlroy

Part I

Ireland before the Anglo-Norman Invasion

1. Adomnán of Iona (642-704): The Law of the Innocents

James W. Houlihan

2. The Political and Legal Thought of Sedulius Scottus' De Rectoribus Christianis (On Christian Rulers) (fl.840-860)

Noémi Farkas

Part II

Ireland in the time of the Protestant Ascendancy

3. Sir John Davies (1569-1626): Law, Church, "Commonwealth" and "Empire"

Robert Armstrong

4. English Law and Irish Religion in the Early Seventeenth Century: The Case of Sir Thomas Ryves (1583-1652)

Alan Ford

5. Of Canon Law and Kings: The Legal Thought of James Ussher (1581-1656)

Samuel L. Bray and D. N. Keane

6. George Berkeley (1685-1753) on Obedience and Natural Law

Kenneth L. Pearce

7. Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Student of the Common Law

Samuel Burgess

Part III

The Struggle of Irish Independence

8. Liberation through Law: Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847)

Patrick Geoghagen

9. The Authority of Tradition: John Henry Newman (1801-1890) and Legal Theory

Michael P. Moreland

10. Edward Carson (1854-1935): Nostalgia, Identity, and the Justification of Violence

Clare O'Hare

11. In the Shadow of Patrick Pearse (1879-1916): a Partial Biography of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland

William Olhausen

12. Soldier, Revolutionary, Statesman, Lawgiver: An Essay on the Constitutional Thought of Éamon de Valera (1882-1975)

Conor Casey

Part IV

Irish Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

13. James Joyce (1882-1941) as a Great Irish Christian Jurist

Nicholas J. McBride

14. Richard O'Sullivan QC (1888-1963): Chronicler of the Common Law

David H. McIlroy

15. Charles McQuaid (1895-1973) on the Duties of a Catholic Democracy

Leonard Taylor

16. C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) on Natural Law and Retribution

Micah J. Watson

17. Left of Legalism: Herbert McCabe (1926-2001) on Law and its Limits

James Chegwidden