ProfessorEoin Carolan

Eoin Carolan is a Professor at University College Dublin where he is the Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies. He is currently leading The Foundations Project (www.foundations.ac), a €2m ERC-funded project investigating the legal, social and constitutional foundations of democratic governance and the rule of law across six different states.

He has authored or co-authored a number of books, including "The Right to Privacy: A Doctrinal and Comparative Analysis" (Round Hall, 2008), "The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values" (eds) (Round Hall, 2008), "The New Separation of Powers: A Theory for the Modern State" (Oxford University Press, 2009), "The Irish Constitution: Perspectives and Prospects (Bloomsbury, 2012), "Judicial Power in Ireland" (ed), (IPA, 2018) and "Media Law in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2019). He was awarded the 2011 Kevin Boyle Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship for "The New Separation of Powers: A Theory for the Modern State". The book was also shortlisted for the 2010 Peter Birks Prize. It has been described as "thought-provoking and based on consummate scholarship" (Tom Flynn, University of Edinburgh, Modern Law Review), "a book that deserves to be widely read and widely debated" which "has made a lasting contribution to the discipline" (N.W Barber, University of Oxford, Public Law), and as "an impressive work" which contains "the strongest critique I have yet encountered of the Montesquieu orthodoxy on the existence of only three branches of government" (John Power, University of Melbourne, Administration and Society)

He is a graduate and former Scholar of Trinity College Dublin, where he lectured constitutional and administrative law for a number of years before joining UCD. He is also a graduate of the University of Cambridge and a former Visiting Researcher at Harvard and UCLA Law Schools.

He is also a Senior Counsel at the Bar of Ireland.