Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology

On Wednesday 28th February Dr. Donal Coffey gave a talk at the LSE Legal and Political Theory Forum entitled ‘Constitutional Law and Empire in the inter-War University of London’. The talk considered how constitutional law was taught in the period, and gave an account of the impact of empire on the work of two of the faculty members, Edward Jenks and Maurice Amos.

Donal joined the School of Law and Criminology as an Assistant Professor in Law in August 2020. His research interests are in the fields of public law and legal history. His interests are particularly in the fields of contemporary constitutional law and comparative constitutional history, with a specific interest in the constitutional history of the British Empire.