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Eoin Carolan is a Full Professor at the School of Law, University College Dublin (UCD), and Director of the UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies. He leads the €2m ERC-funded Foundations Project, investigating democratic governance and the rule of law across six states. His expertise spans constitutional law, administrative law, and democratic institutional design.
- Education: LLB (UCD), LLM (Cambridge), PhD (UCD); former Scholar of Trinity College Dublin.
- Professional Roles: Senior Counsel at the Bar of Ireland; Visiting Researcher at Harvard and UCLA Law Schools.
- Teaching: Coordinates modules on Constitutional Frameworks, Media Law, and Theory of Court Practice.
His research focuses on constitutional theory, democratic governance, and privacy rights. Key works include The New Separation of Powers (Oxford UP, 2009), awarded the 2011 Kevin Boyle Prize. He critiques traditional separation of powers doctrines and explores citizen participation in constitutional reforms, such as Ireland’s abortion referendum process.
Major awards include the Kevin Boyle Prize (2011), IRCHSS Collaborative Research Award (2012), and a Government of Ireland 'New Ideas' Award (2011). His work bridges legal scholarship with empirical analysis, addressing topics like online privacy, anti-poverty policies, and small-state governance challenges.
Grants/Labs: Leads the Foundations Project; affiliated with the Royal Irish Academy’s Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee.
