Name: Seán Patrick Donlan
Position: Lecturer
Email: sean.donlan@ul.ie
Phone: +353 61 234199
Fax: +353 61 202417
Office: FG020
Description:
University of Dublin, Trinity College. PhD. June 2002.
Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University (US). JD. May 1999.
University of Houston (US). BA (Philosophy/Film studies). Dec 1991.
Teaching (2007-8):
Legal systems and methods.
Jurisprudence.
Comparative legal systems.
Introduction to Comparative and International law (LLM).
Comparative public law (LLM).
Trinity College Dublin: European legal history (LLM Programme; Spring Term 2008).
Research Interests:
Irish intellectual and legal history, especially the eighteenth century.
Comparative legal history.
Comparative law, especially mixed jurisdictions.
Edmund Burke.
Current projects (selected):
Organiser (with Dr Michael Brown (Aberdeen)), Rota: A legal history roundtable -- the boundaries of the state: Ireland 1700-1850 (Limerick 16 February 2008).
Editor (with Dr Michael Brown (Aberdeen)), The boundaries of the state: Ireland 1700-1850.
Research on the Irish jurist and politician Arthur Browne (1756?-1805) and on Irish responses to Edmund Burke.
Continuing research on comparative legal history and comparative law.
Selected Publications:
Forthcoming publications include twenty-five entries for the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography (8 vols, due 2008), an entry for the International Encylopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd edn), and a book review in Irish Historical Studies.
Books:
Editor, Edmund Burke's Irish identities (Irish Academic Press, 2006).
Editor of, and introduction to, reprint of Francis Stoughton Sullivan, Lectures on the constitution and laws of England (2nd edn, 1776) (Clark, NJ: the Lawbook Exchange, 2004).
Other publications:
'William Blackstone (1723-1780)' entry in EJ Jenkins, (ed.), Dictionary of literary biography: eighteenth-century British historians (2007).
'Edmund Burke (1729-1797)' entry in EJ Jenkins, (ed.), Dictionary of literary biography: eighteenth-century British historians (2007).
'Thomas Leland (1722-1785)' entry in EJ Jenkins, (ed.), Dictionary of literary biography: eighteenth-century British historians (2007).
'Charles O'Conor of Belanagare (1709/10-1790)' entry in EJ Jenkins, (ed.), Dictionary of literary biography: eighteenth-century British historians (2007).
'A flood of light?: Comments on the Interpretation Act 2005' (with Rónán Kennedy) (2006) 6:1 Judicial Studies Institute Journal 92.
Introduction and 'An "interior history of Ireland": Edmund Burke's Irish history' in Edmund Burke's Irish identities (2006).
'"The places most fit for this purpose": Francis Stotghton Sullivan and legal study at the University of Dublin (1761-6)' (2005) 18 Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr 122.
'Law and lawyers in Edmtnd Burke's Scottish enlightenment' (2005) 20:1 Studies in Burke and His Time (ns) 38.
'Seanad errant? [printed as 'Seanad plan fails to deliver on promise of radical reform]', The Examiner (13 May 2004).
'The Reformer?: Edmund Burke, "scorned loyalty, and rejected Allegiance"' (2004) History-Ireland 21.
'"A thing without cohesion of parts": the professional and pedagogical contribution of mixed jurisdictions': Review article of VV Palmer (ed.), Mixed jurisdictions worldwide: the third legal family and J Smits (ed.), The contribution of mixed legal systems to European private law in (2003) 38 Irish Jurist (ns) 383.
'The jury and the common law': Review article of JW Cairns and G MacLeod (eds), "Thd dearest birth right of the people of England": the jury in the history of the common law in (2003) 25 Dublin University Law Journal (ns) 277.
'"A very mixed and heterogeneous mass": Edmund Burke and English jurisprudence, 1757-62' (2003) 4 University of Limerick Law Review 79-88.
'Little better than cannibals: Property and progress in Sir John Davies and Edmund Burke' (2003) 54 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 1.
'An active intelligent people: Edmund Burke's Scottish enlightenment' (2003) 3:4 History-Scotland 32.
"Language is the eye of Society": Edmund Burke on the origins of the polite and the civil' (2003) 18 Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr 80.
'The poverty of satisfaction: communitarianism, social partnership, and the responsible republic' (2002) 91 Studies 38.
'"Beneficence acting by a rule": Edmund Burke on law, history, and manners' (2001) 36 Irish Jurist (ns) 227.
'Virtue and vigour: The federalist and American civic republicanism' (1999) 21 Dublin University Law Journal (ns) 90.
Researcher and draftsman (1998) on KS Spaht, 'Family as community' (family policy paper, inc. model legislation for civilian and common law jurisdictions) published by the Communitarian Network. Reprinted in MK Whyte, ed., Marriage in America (2000)).
Book reviews have been published in the Dublin University Law Journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, The Irish Examiner, Irish Jurist, The Irish Law Times, The Sunday Independent, and the University of Limerick Law Review.
Administrative Functions (current):
Acting Course Director, LLM in European and Comparative Law Programme.
Law School Co-ordinator and Programme Board Member, LLM in Civil and Canon Law Programme.
Law School Co-ordinator, Cooperative Education Programme.
Member, Faculty Teaching Board.
LLM in European and Comparative Law Programme Board.
Member, Student Status Committee (BA Public Administration).
Commitees/Councils (active):
Council Member, Irish Legal History Society (2004-present)
Secretary, Eighteenth-century Ireland Society/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag (2004-present).
Steering Committee, Eighteenth-Century Research Group, University of Limerick (2005-present).
Editorial Board, Studies in Burke and his Time and Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr (2003-present).
External Functions:
Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
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