Welcome to the website of the Irish Jurisprudence Society (IJS). The Society was founded in July 2007. Its purpose is to promote the study of jurisprudence and improve the standard of jurisprudential writing in Ireland. IJS’s main activity is to host workshops for work-in-progress jurisprudential papers; six series have been completed. There has also been one day conferences: an IJS Symposium on Constitutionalism and Legal Theory at NUI Galway, October 2008, and an IJS Symposium on Jurisprudence and Legal Theory at University College Cork on 17 April 2010. Several of the papers presented to the IJS at workshops and other events have since been published as journal articles or as a book chapter; more publications are forthcoming.

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

Professor Joseph Raz delivered the IJS’s inaugural public lecture on 25 February 2009.

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