Welcome to the website of the Irish Jurisprudence Society (IJS). The IJS was founded in July 2007. Its purpose is to promote the study of jurisprudence and improve the standard of jurisprudential writing in Ireland.

The IJS’s main activity is to run workshops for work-in-progress jurisprudential papers; nine series have been completed and a tenth series will run in Spring 2012 (see call for papers).

The IJS has a Public Lecture series:

• Professor Joseph Raz delivered the Society’s inaugural public lecture on 25 February 2009.
• Professor William Twining delivered the Society’s second  public lecture on 14 October 2010.

Single-day Irish Jurisprudence Society conferences/symposia have also been held:

• Symposium on Constitutionalism and Legal Theory at NUI Galway, 25 October 2008.
• Symposium on Jurisprudence and Legal Theory at University College Cork on 17 April 2010.
• Symposium on Law and Justice in Community, by Garrett Barden and Tim Murphy, published by OUP in 2010. The Symposium took place at Trinity College Dublin on 5 February 2011.

Numerous papers presented to the IJS at workshops and other events have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. See here for more.

There was an IJS essay competition for students of jurisprudence which was sponsored by Eversheds O’Donnell Sweeney.

Membership of the IJS is free and open to all interested academics (in law and other disciplines), lawyers, researchers and graduate students.