It provides a forum for important legal academic debate on contemporary Irish law as well as developments from further afield in the common law world, in European and international law, and in legal theory. The journal publishes longer articles providing in-depth analysis of a wide range of legal issues, as well as shorter articles, comments and case-notes providing up-to-date analysis of recent developments and book reviews providing critical assessment of important legal publications. The Dublin University Law Journal thus provides accessible and balanced coverage of a wide spectrum of current and enduring issues in law and legal scholarship. 

The Dublin University Law Journal will now publish twice annually.

Volume 45, issue 2, 2025 contains the following:

Afterwords

What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Participate’: Afterword to the Foreword by Graham Butler | Gavin Barrett
At the Heart of Legal Europe?: An Afterword to the Foreword by Graham Butler | Anthony M Collins
Ireland (mostly) at The Bar: An Afterword to the & Davy Lalor Foreword by Graham Butler| Róisín Á Costello
Strengthening Ireland’s European Legal Capacity – Challenges and Solutions: An Afterword to the Foreword by Graham Butler | Tobias Lock
Evolution of Law in the EU and Ireland – Lawyering Up to a Changing EU?: An Afterword to the Foreword by Graham Butler | Imelda Maher
Rejoinder: At the Heart of Legal Europe? Member States and their Relationship to the EU Legal Order | Graham Butler
Symposium on Aileen Kavanagh’s The Collaborative Constitution

Legality in the Collaborative Constitution | Conor Crummey
Collaboration in The Collaborative Constitution: Modes, Value, and Comity | Daniel Gilligan
Responding to The Collaborative Constitution in an Irish Context | Gerard W Hogan
Articles

Media Representations of Privacy and Data Protection: Covid-19 Coverage in the Irish Times Newspaper | Maria Helen Murphy
Corporate Security and The Limits of Contractual Freedom:
The Nature of the Interest Created by a Floating Charge| John Quinn and Rónán Condon
Review Article

Democracy and its Malcontents: Review Article of Jonathan Sumption, The Challenges of Democracy and The Rule of Law | Venkat Iyer
Case Note

Anonymity for Child Defendants on the Cusp of Adulthood: DPP v PB [2025] IESC 12187 | Liz Heffernan