Northern Ireland’s legal order is already making the process of adapting to its special place within the Brexit deal. This Special Supplement of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly addresses the nature of the Protocol’s operation within Northern Ireland law, the basis for the UK Government’s claims that hollowing out the domestic legal effect of the Protocol through the Protocol Bill will not breach its international commitments, the significance for Northern Ireland of post-Brexit divergences between Great Britain and the EU in regard to product standards and rights/equality and the ongoing difficulties in navigating post-Brexit arrangements for those on the island of Ireland who fall into the category of frontier workers.

There will also be a related online discussion event on 11 January 2023: see announcement for details.

We are delighted to announce the publication of NILQ 72.3 Autumn 2021. 

We are delighted to announce the publication of our summer 2021 special issue entitled 'Domestic and Comparative Perspectives on Loss of Self-control and Diminished Responsibility as Partial Defences to Murder: A 10-year Review of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 Reform Framework'. The guest editors are Alan Reed, Nicola Wake and Bethany Simpson. 

The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly has a new look and a new website!

We are delighted to announce that the NILQ has this week been relaunched with a new design for the journal itself and an updated more interactive website.

The winter 2020 issue (vol 71, no 4) of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly has just been published. In addition to the tributes to Lord Kerr and the open access articles published earlier in our winter preview edition, we have Graeme Watt's Irish rights of residence: the anatomy of a phantom and Skype kids and the price elasticity of demand: constructing the common law constitution by Chris Rowe, plus our 'Notes and commentaries' section. Prospective contributors to all sections are warmly invited to visit our Information for Authors page.

We are delighted to announce the publication of our autumn 2020 issue. The issue includes two highly topical OA pieces: Patents, access to health and COVID-19 – The role of compulsory and government-use licensing in Ireland by Aisling McMahon and Procurement and commissioning during COVID-19: reflections and (early) lessons by Albert Sanchez-Graells. There are also new articles on: duress and loss of control; remedial clauses; mediation in France; and the Singapore Convention; plus a comment on the Supreme Court's judgment in Adams.

See the full contents list for details.

We are delighted to announce the publication of this special issue edited by Paul F Scott of the University of Glasgow.

See the website for the full contents list. There are two articles that have been given immediate OA:

They are:

‘“Something like the principles of British liberalism”: Ivor Jennings and the international and domestic, 1920–1960’ by Martin Clark

and

‘Constitutional law and empire in interwar Britain: universities, liberty, nationality and parliamentary supremacy’ by Donal K Coffey

We are delighted to announce the publication of our Spring 2020 Issue. This issue is dominated by two issues – gender and Brexit; and COVID-19 – that warrant its availability immediately on an open access basis. 

To view the complete contents and download individual articles or the complete spring issue, please visit

https://nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/nilq/issue/view/60

NILQ Chief Editor Dr Mark Flear is delighted to announce the publication of 37 issues of the journal from the NILQ archive dating from spring 2008 to winter 2016 (volumes 59 to 67). All the material in this valuable collection is immediately available as an open access resource.

The winter issue of the NILQ has just been published. Visit the website to read articles by Daniel Attenborough; Dimitrios Kivotidis; Gemma Turton and Sally Kyd; Lara McMurtry; Brice Dickson; John Morison, Brice Dickson and Andrew Godden; Shivaun Quinlivan and Charles O'Mahony; and Albert Sanchez-Graells

We are delighted to announce the publication of two articles from our forthcoming winter issue. The first is 'The political legitimacy of company law and regulation' by Daniel Attenborough of Durham Law School. The second is a case commentary by Albert Sanchez-Graells, University of Bristol, entitled 'Liability threshold for damages in public procurement: the EFTA Court’s Fosen-Linjen saga'. Both articles will be permanently available as open access.

Our former colleague, Professor Stephen Livingstone, made a huge and special contribution to the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. To commemorate and celebrate Professor Livingstone’s contribution, here, for the first time, we collect several of his main articles from our journal. The publication of this special issue is timed to occur with the 2019 Livingstone Lecture, which will take place on Thursday 21 November 2019. The special issue is available open access. We hope this special issue will become a key reference point for future scholarship, extend the influence of Professor Livingstone’s scholarship, and continue to reflect our thanks to him, far into the future.

The autumn issue of the NILQ has just been published. Visit the website to read articles by Neil Maddox, Kathryn O’Sullivan, Masood Ahmed, David Capper, Samantha Hopkins and John E Stannard.

Now available open access – a preview article from our next issue: 'Limited, inclusive, and communitarian: in defence of recognising property in the human body' by Neil Maddox of Maynooth University

David Gibbs-Kneller, University of East Anglia, and Derek Whayman, Newcastle University, have contributed a blog about their recent NILQ article.

Sharon Thompson, Cardiff University, blogs about her recent NILQ article: 'A millstone around the neck? Stereotypes about wives and myths about divorce'

The summer issue of the NILQ has just been published. Visit our website to read articles by Sharon Thompson, Omar Mahdloom, David McLauchlan, David Gibbs-Kneller and Derek Whayman, Peter Devonshire, and Brice Dickson.

Following on from our special issue for spring 2019 on 'Reviewing the boundaries of health law – new directions and dimensions', the editors John Coggon and Judy Laing and four of their colleagues have contributed four new blogs.

Now available open access – a preview article from our next issue: Sharon Thompson, Cardiff University, 'A millstone around the neck? Stereotypes about wives and myths about divorce'. 

The latest issue of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly just been published. It is a Special Issue entitled 'Reviewing the boundaries of health law – new directions and dimensions'. The Guest Editors are John Coggon and Judy Laing of the Centre for Health, Law, and Society, University of Bristol Law School. 

Visit our homepage for details.

The latest issue of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly just been published. Entitled 'Caught in the web: capturing the zeitgeist of "Big Tech" companies, social media speech and privacy', it has been guest edited by Peter Coe. 

Visit our home page for full details.

Following recent developments in the UK and EU Brexit negotiations, Professor Dagmar Schiek (editor of our recent Brexit special issue), outlines her thoughts on the latest version of the Draft Withdrawal Agreement. See the NILQ Contributors’ Blog.

This short preview edition showcases articles to be published in our forthcoming winter special issue entitled: 'Caught in the web: capturing the zeitgeist of "Big Tech" companies, social media speech and privacy'. 

Additional article added to Autumn Preview issue

We have now made available another open access article in this preview issue by our special issue guest editor, Dagmar Schiek. Entitled 'Brexit on the island of Ireland: beyond unique circumstances', it is one of eight articles along the theme of: On the never-ending road to ‘Brexit’: perspectives for the European Union.

Read the article here.

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The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly was founded in 1936 and is a leading peer-reviewed legal journal published four times a year in electronic format by the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast. The journal considers prospective articles on all areas of law and from all methodologies. At the start of 2018 a new Editorial Board was appointed with Dr Mark Flear as the Chief Editor, and Dr Heather Conway and Dr Luke Moffett as Co-Editors.