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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. 2 (2025): Summer
Full Issue
Articles
The challenge of effective ‘corporate purpose law’ reform
Abstract 296 | NILQ 76.2.1 Hardman Downloads 141Page 151-178
Investment arbitration and the autonomy of the EU’s legal order: a rule of law perspective
Abstract 251 | NILQ 76.2.2 Vassileva Downloads 54Page 179-212
Sentencing policy reform in post-conflict Northern Ireland: charting a distinctive response to penal populism
Abstract 289 | NILQ 76.2.3 Brown Downloads 237Page 213-246
Fantasy legal exhibitions
Abstract 168 | NILQ 76.2.4 Barnes and Perry-Kessaris Downloads 64Page 247-276
Views from the coal face: the development of international commercial mediation
Abstract 109 | NILQ 76.2.5 Clark and Sourdin Downloads 36Page 277-309
Nineteenth-century registers: constituting the market, professions and individuals
Abstract 110 | NILQ 76.2.6 Dent Downloads 41Page 310-337
Commentaries and Notes
Review of Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance After Brexit by Tamara K Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark L Flear and Matthew Wood
Abstract 143 | NILQ 76.2.7 Ó Néill Downloads 51Page 338-342
Out of time and out of pocket: The Victoria Square apartments debacle and the (empty?) promise of the Defective Premises Act (Northern Ireland) 2024
Abstract 152 | NILQ 76.2.8 Rhodes Downloads 54Page 343-358
Putting participants at the heart of the public inquiry process: insights from the Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry on engaging with vulnerable witnesses
Abstract 111 | NILQ 76.2.9 Ireton and Ratcliffe Downloads 37Page 359-390
Sentencing: R v Kenneth Clarke & Jamie McConnell (Reference by the Director of Public Prosecutions) [2024] NICA 52
Abstract 122 | NILQ 76.2.10 Taggart Downloads 45Page 391-399
The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a legal research journal published quarterly by the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast.