Dr Conor Crummey

    Law

    Lecturer / Assistant Professor

    Riverstown House
    2nd Floor
    13

    Biography

    Dr Conor Crummey joined the School of Law and Criminology as an Assistant Professor of 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.

    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

    Conor's research interests focus on the intersection between general jurisprudence and public law theory. 

    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.

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2022 'ONE-SYSTEM INTEGRITY AND THE LEGAL DOMAIN OF MORALITY'
    Crummey, Conor (2022) 'ONE-SYSTEM INTEGRITY AND THE LEGAL DOMAIN OF MORALITY'. Legal Theory, 28 (4):269-297 [DOI] [Details]
    2022 'Book Review: Paolo Sandro, The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law'
    Conor Crummey (2022) 'Book Review: Paolo Sandro, The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law'. Jurisprudence, 0 (0):1-7 [DOI] [Details]
    2021 'Book Review: Mark Elliott and Kirsty Hughes (eds) Common Law Constitutional Rights'
    Conor Crummey (2021) 'Book Review: Mark Elliott and Kirsty Hughes (eds) Common Law Constitutional Rights'. Public Law, :449-452 [Details]
    2020 'Why Fair Procedures Always Make a Difference'
    Crummey, Conor (2020) 'Why Fair Procedures Always Make a Difference'. Modern Law Review, 83 (6):1221-1245 [DOI] [Details]
    2018 'Statutory conventions: conceptual confusion or sound constitutional development?'
    Conor Crummey and Eugenio Velasco Ibarra (2018) 'Statutory conventions: conceptual confusion or sound constitutional development?'. Public Law, :613-631 [Details]
    2018 'Book Review: Dimitrios Kyritsis, Where Our Protection Lies: Separation of Powers and Constitutional Review, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 240 PP, hb £50.00'
    Crummey, Conor (2018) 'Book Review: Dimitrios Kyritsis, Where Our Protection Lies: Separation of Powers and Constitutional Review, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 240 PP, hb £50.00'. Modern Law Review, 81 (3):554-559 [DOI] [Details]

    Teaching Interests

    Currently Conor teaches across Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Constitutional Theory modules.