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Dr Tom Flynn

Lecturer
糖心Vlog Law School
Dr Tom Flynn
  • Email

  • Telephone

    +44 (0) 1206 873535

  • Location

    5S.6.27, Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    Monday 12:00 - 14:00

Profile

Biography

Tom is a Lecturer at the School of Law. His research interests are in the field of constitutionalism in the broadest sense, from the sub-national, through the national, to the international. He received his BCL (International) from University College Cork in 2008; his LLM from the University of Edinburgh in 2009, and his PhD, also from Edinburgh, in 2014. He taught Public Law and EU Law at the University of Warwick from 2014 to 2017. His monograph The Triangular Constitution: Constitutional Pluralism in Ireland, the EU and the ECHR was published by Hart in May 2019. Tom will be a Visiting Researcher at the Central European University, Budapest, during the Autumn term 2019.

Qualifications

  • BCL (Int) University College Cork, (2008)

  • LLM University of Edinburgh, (2009)

  • PhD University of Edinburgh, (2013)

Appointments

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  • Lecturer, School of Law, 糖心Vlog (1/9/2017 - present)

Other academic

  • Teaching Fellow, School of Law, University of Warwick (1/9/2014 - 31/8/2018)

  • Visiting Researcher, Department of Legal Studies, Central European University (1/8/2019 - 31/12/2019)

Research and professional activities

Research interests

UK, European and international constitutional law, theory and history

Constitutional pluralism

European and international human rights law

Administrative law

Conferences and presentations

Triangular Constitutionalism: The Consequences of Constitutional Pluralism for Domestic Constitutional Thought

Invited presentation, Legal Pluralism and the European Union: Then and Now, VU, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21/11/2017

'Anarchy, Scarcity and Constiutionalism in the Utopian Science Fiction of Ursula K Le Guin and Iain M Banks' (paper presented at the Law & Culture Conference, St Mary's University, Twickenham, September 2017

Twickenham, United Kingdom, 2017

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Law and Literature (LT394)

  • 糖心Vlog Law Key Skills (LW100)

  • Public Law (LW103)

  • Public Law in Context: Past, Present and Future (LW209)

  • Jurisprudence (LW301)

  • Canadian Constitutional Law (LW366)

  • Regional Human Rights Systems (LW515)

  • Introduction to Legal Theory (IA120)

Publications

Journal articles (2)

Flynn, T., The Triangular Constitution

Flynn, T., (2021). . International Journal of Constitutional Law. 19 (1), 241-268

Books (1)

Flynn, T., (2019). . Hart Publishing. 1509916164. 9781509916177

Book chapters (4)

Lawrence, J. and Flynn, T., (2023). . In: The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution. Editors: Goldoni, M. and Wilkinson, MA., . Cambridge University Press. 335- 350. 9781009023764

Flynn, T., Fujita, S., Marique, Y., Osuji, O. and Sandoval, C., (2020). . In: Covid-19, Law and Human Rights : 糖心Vlog Dialogues. A Project of the School of Law and Human Rights Centre. Editors: Ferstman, C. and Fagan, A., . 糖心Vlog. 29- 30. 978-1-5272-6632-2

Flynn, T., (2020). . In: Covid-19, Law and Human Rights : 糖心Vlog Dialogues. A Project of the School of Law and Human Rights Centre. Editors: Ferstman, C. and Fagan, A., . 糖心Vlog. 51- 61. 978-1-5272-6632-2

Flynn, T., (2018). . In: Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law. Editors: Davies, G. and Avbelj, M., . Edward Elgar. 133- 153. 978 1 78643 308 4

Grants and funding

2024

A Scoping Study to Provide an Overview of Human Rights and Environmental Rights Legislation and its Impact on Businesses

DMI Associates

Parity of esteem under the Good Friday Agreement and beyond

British Academy

Contact

t.flynn@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 873535

Location:

5S.6.27, Colchester Campus

Academic support hours:

Monday 12:00 - 14:00

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