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The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a leading peer-reviewed journal that provides an international forum for articles, commentaries and notes in all areas of legal scholarship and across a range of methodologies including doctrinal, theoretical and socio-legal. 


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Current Issue

Vol. 75 No. 3 (2024): Autumn

Published: 04.10.2024

Special issue: The Windsor Framework – guarantees, gaps and governance

Guest editors: Tobias Lock, Mary Dobbs and Karen Lynch Shally 

Editorial

The Windsor Framework – guarantees, gaps and governance

Tobias Lock, Mary Dobbs, Karen Lynch Shally
Abstract 192 | NILQ 75.3.1 Lock et al Editorial Downloads 100

Page 433-442

Articles

The origins of ‘civil rights and religious liberties’ in the Belfast–Good Friday Agreement

Christopher McCrudden
Abstract 158 | NILQ 75.3.2 McCrudden Downloads 59

Page 443-487

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in Northern Ireland under the Windsor Framework

Anurag Deb, Eleni Frantziou, Tobias Lock
Abstract 209 | NILQ 75.3.3 Deb et al Downloads 103

Page 488-521

Social Rights under Article 2(1) of the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland

Ollie Bartlett, Tamara Hervey
Abstract 206 | NILQ 75.3.4 Bartlett and Hervey Downloads 43

Page 522-549

Non-diminution, dynamic alignment and cooperation: exploring the potential of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland to protect the environment

Mary Dobbs, Alison Hough, Orla Kelleher, Lisa Claire Whitten, Ciara Brennan
Abstract 232 | NILQ 75.3.5 Dobbs et al Downloads 35

Page 550-583

Peter Thiel’s oxymoron? The Windsor Framework and Exceptional Economic Governance Spaces

Aoife O'Donoghue
Abstract 268 | NILQ 75.3.7 O’Donoghue Downloads 69

Page 613-640

Commentaries and Notes

Re-bordering the Common Travel Area

Imelda Maher
Abstract 136 | NILQ 75.3.9 Maher Downloads 33

Page 652-658

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The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a legal research journal published quarterly by the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast.