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NI Legal Quarterly
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Leading peer-reviewed journal providing an international forum for articles, commentaries and notes in all areas of law and from all methodologies.

https://nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/nilq
We are delighted to inaugurate our new Reflections on Teaching series with a very special first contribution!

All contributions to the series will be freely available via our website.

Inaugural article doi.org/10.53386/nil...

Reflections on Teaching webpage nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Our final advance open access piece published this week is also freely available to read here doi.org/10.53386/nil....

In this piece, Robert Craig, University of Bristol offers his thoughts on Aileen Kavanagh’s ‘The Collaborative Constitution’.
September 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A new advance access piece by Peter Coe, University of Birmingham, and Helen Fenwick, Durham University, is published freely available to view here doi.org/10.53386/nil....
September 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A new advance access piece by Sarah E Hamill, Trinity College Dublin is now available freely to view here doi.org/10.53386/nil....
September 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
In the fourteenth contribution to our Reflections on Writing series, Michael Dougan @livunislsj.bsky.social describes his highly structured approach to writing, starting with an intuition, and moving on via shorthand notes and bullet points to create order out of chaos.

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September 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
September 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Check out our summer issue!

Fully open access here doi.org/10.53386/nil....

Individual contributions ⬇️.
August 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
‘Sentencing: R v Kenneth Clarke & Jamie McConnell (Reference by the Director of Public Prosecutions) [2024] NICA 52’

John Taggart @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
‘Putting participants at the heart of the public inquiry process: insights from the Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry on engaging with vulnerable witnesses’

Emma Ireton, Christopher Ratcliffe

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August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
‘Out of time and out of pocket: The Victoria Square apartments debacle and the (empty?) promise of the Defective Premises Act (Northern Ireland) 2024’

Louise Rhodes @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
‘Review of Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance After Brexit by Tamara K Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark L Flear and Matthew Wood’

Clayton Ó Néill @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
‘Nineteenth-century registers: constituting the market, professions and individuals’

Chris Dent @murdoch.edu.au

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August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
‘Views from the coal face: the development of international commercial mediation’

Bryan Clark @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social, Tania Sourdin

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August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
‘Sentencing policy reform in post-conflict Northern Ireland: charting a distinctive response to penal populism’

Kevin Brown @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
‘Investment arbitration and the autonomy of the EU’s legal order: a rule of law perspective’

@radosvetavassileva.bsky.social @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social

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August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
‘The challenge of effective ‘corporate purpose law’ reform’

@hardmanlaw.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social

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August 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We are delighted to share Conor Gearty @lselaw.bsky.social’s reflections on writing: 8 tips for surviving (and enjoying!) academic writing.

Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!

Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...

Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
July 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Since it’s Friday, it may be wise to go easy on writing!

You may find it particularly useful to read Barbara Prainsack’s reflections on writing, and heed the advice: don’t write on Fridays!

Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...

Wider series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
July 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Emily Jackson @lselaw.bsky.social shares her reflections on writing: why, how and when.

This is the 12th contribution to the series.

Many thanks to Emily for her thoughts.

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July 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We are delighted to participate in @slsauk.bsky.social’s journals initiative!

See slsa.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?....
June 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The 11th piece in our Reflections on Writing series is extra special.

Nicola Lacey @lselaw.bsky.social meditates on 45 years of writing by highlighting key projects, and describing the hurdles of peer review, loneliness, co-writing and self-doubt.

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June 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@lwdsc.bsky.social and Simon Halliday @lawstrath.bsky.social share their experiences of working and writing together!

This is the 10th piece in our Reflections on Writing Series.

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June 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today is Empathy Day!

@librariesni.bsky.social had a great initiative today, which prompts us to ask:

Which law book has helped grow your empathy the most?

We’d ❤️ to read your responses ⬇️.
June 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We are delighted to publish the 9th article in our Reflections on Writing series.

Thanks so much to @sylviademars.me for her efforts at such a very busy time of year!

Full open access article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...

Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
June 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM