Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this module, students should be able to: demonstrate a detailed knowledge of: the development of the English constitution in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the legal historical background to the Constitution of Ireland 1937; the legal history of freedom of expression; the history of the Penal Laws and the right of religious liberty in Ireland; of the evolution of the principal institutions of the criminal trial; and of the rights of defendants in the criminal process; th legal history of the right to vote; the legal history of the rights of women; and the history of judicial review.
Students should, through undertaking a research-based essay in legal history, have acquired an appreciation of the sources and techniques of legal historical research.
Students on this module are expected to have read and understood the UCD Academic Integrity Policy and the School Protocol on Academic Integrity. Students must ensure that they comply with all requirements laid down therein and avoid academic misconduct. Students are not permitted to use generative artificial intelligence, or other machine learning technology, in their learning and in completing assessments on this module. Students are expected to follow Oscola Ireland in citing sources in completing assessments.