Dr Conor Crummey
Biography
Dr Conor Crummey joined the School of Law and Criminology as an Assistant Professor in Law in 2022.
Conor's research interests are in Legal Philosophy, Constitutional Theory, and Public Law. His work addresses the theoretical underpinnings of constitutional law, with a particular focus on the connections between general jurisprudence and statutory interpretation in UK public law. It also addresses fundamental debates in general jurisprudence, in particular the question of how we understand the relationship between legal obligations and genuine moral obligations. His work has been published in Legal Theory, The Modern Law Review, Public Law, and Jurisprudence. His monograph, The Principle of Legality: A Moral Theory, is under contract with Oxford University Press. He is the co-convenor of the Irish Jurisprudence Society.
Before joining Maynooth, Conor was a Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Glasgow, and before that a Lecturer in Public Law at Queen Mary University of London. He received his doctorate from the University College London Faculty of Laws.
Research Interests
In legal philosophy, he focuses on debates around non-positivist or 'interpretivist' theories of general jurisprudence; theories that view legal obligations as genuine moral obligations. He is interested in the moral and metaphysical debates in this area, and the question of what bearing these debates have on how we think about constitutional law in particular.
In public law, Conor deploys interpretivist theories of general jurisprudence to make sense of theoretical debates in public and constitutional law. His main research project focusses on developing an interpretivist theory of statutory interpretation in UK public law. He is also interested in theorising the normative foundations of other public law doctrines, and has written, for example, on the theoretical underpinnings of procedural fairness in administrative law.
He welcomes expressions of interest in doctoral supervision in the areas of legal theory or constitutional law.
Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Conor Crummey (2025) The Principle of Legality: A Moral Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Conor Crummey; George Pavlakos (2024) 'Not A Set Of Norms Or A Set Of Practices'. Jurisprudence, 15 (2). [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Crummey, C. (2023) 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL EVICTIONS'. Irish Judicial Studies Journal, 7 . [Link] | |
| 2022 | Crummey, Conor (2022) 'ONE-SYSTEM INTEGRITY AND THE LEGAL DOMAIN OF MORALITY'. Legal Theory, 28 (4):269-297. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Crummey, Conor (2020) 'Why Fair Procedures Always Make a Difference'. Modern Law Review, 83 (6):1221-1245. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12556 [Full-Text] | |
| 2018 | Conor Crummey and Eugenio Velasco Ibarra (2018) 'Statutory conventions: conceptual confusion or sound constitutional development?'. Public Law, :613-631. [Full-Text] |
Book Review
Electronic Publication
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Conor Crummey (2022) Constitutional Law: Leading Cases. [Electronic Publication] [Link] |