Trinity College Law Review

It is the oldest Irish student edited law journal,^{[citation needed]} published annually every March since 1998. It is available on two online legal databases: HeinOnline and Westlaw. 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]}

Trinity College Law Review

Discipline	Law review
Language	English, Irish, French, German
Publication details
History	1998-present
Publisher	Dublin University Law Society (Ireland)
Frequency	Annually
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
Bluebook	Trinity C.L. Rev.
ISO 4	Trinity Coll. Law Rev.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1393-5941
LCCN	2003250062
OCLC no.	41254523
Links
Journal homepage

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 James Hamilton (Director of Public Prosecutions), 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 include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lord Hoffman, and Professor Cass Sunstein. In 2018 the series welcomed David Bruck and Monica Feria-Tinta.^{[citation needed]}

The TCLR also hosts an annual "Authors' Night", where speakers such as law professors and the editors of law journals discuss legal writing strategies and provide advice to students who are considering entering submissions for the publication.^{[citation needed]}

A 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.^{[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]}

The editorial board of the Trinity College Law Review consists of undergraduate and postgraduate law students of Trinity College Dublin.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

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

• 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]}