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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. 76 No. 3 (2025): Autumn
Published: 12.12.2025
Special issue: Reform of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement
Guest editor: Katie A Johnston
Full Issue
Editorial
Reform of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: Introduction
Abstract 43 | NILQ 76.3.0 Johnston Downloads 20Page 401-410
Articles
Reforming the 1998 Agreement institutions: the state of the debate
Abstract 80 | NILQ 76.3.1 Whysall Downloads 2Page 411-416
Stormont: from rights-based safeguards to political vetoes – has the intention of the Good Friday Agreement been turned on its head?
Abstract 41 | NILQ 76.3.2 Holder et al Downloads 9Page 417-445
Reform of a constitutional fundamental: the principle of cross-community consent and Northern Ireland’s governance
Abstract 29 | NILQ 76.3.3 Graham Downloads 19Page 446-476
Triple Consent? Parties, people and Parliament: reforming the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement
Abstract 17 | NILQ 76.3.4 Torrance Downloads 8Page 477-493
Brexit and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: the case for reform amid evolving political, legal, and international norms
Abstract 17 | NILQ 76.3.5 Burke Downloads 2Page 494-529
The reform of the institutions created by the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and treaty amendment: an example of the interplay between a treaty and a non-legally binding agreement
Abstract 52 | NILQ 76.3.6 Xiouri Downloads 2Page 530-553
Unilateral change to the institutions of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement
Abstract 23 | NILQ 76.3.7 Johnston Downloads 14Page 554-595
Contested pathways to security normalisation in Northern Ireland
Abstract 22 | NILQ 76.3.8 Lennon and Walker Downloads 4Page 596-621
An alternative Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, in instalments: Assembly incorporation of international rights instruments
Abstract 25 | NILQ 76.3.9 Murray Downloads 3Page 622-651
Book Reviews
The Future of Peace: Incorporation of Intergenerational Equity and Justice in Peace Treaties and Reconciliation Agreements by Alexandra Harrington
Abstract 47 | NILQ 76.3.10 Coakley Downloads 13Page 652-658
The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a legal research journal published quarterly by the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast.