Dr Tom Flynn
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873535
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Location
5S.6.27, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Monday 12:00 - 14:00
Profile
Biography
Tom is a Lecturer at the School of Law. His research interests are in the field of constitutionalism in the broadest sense, from the sub-national, through the national, to the international. He received his BCL (International) from University College Cork in 2008; his LLM from the University of Edinburgh in 2009, and his PhD, also from Edinburgh, in 2014. He taught Public Law and EU Law at the University of Warwick from 2014 to 2017. His monograph The Triangular Constitution: Constitutional Pluralism in Ireland, the EU and the ECHR was published by Hart in May 2019. Tom will be a Visiting Researcher at the Central European University, Budapest, during the Autumn term 2019.
Qualifications
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BCL (Int) University College Cork, (2008)
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LLM University of Edinburgh, (2009)
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PhD University of Edinburgh, (2013)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Lecturer, School of Law, University of Essex (1/9/2017 - present)
Other academic
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Teaching Fellow, School of Law, University of Warwick (1/9/2014 - 31/8/2018)
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Visiting Researcher, Department of Legal Studies, Central European University (1/8/2019 - 31/12/2019)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
UK, European and international constitutional law, theory and history
Constitutional pluralism
European and international human rights law
Administrative law
Conferences and presentations
Triangular Constitutionalism: The Consequences of Constitutional Pluralism for Domestic Constitutional Thought
Invited presentation, Legal Pluralism and the European Union: Then and Now, VU, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21/11/2017
'Anarchy, Scarcity and Constiutionalism in the Utopian Science Fiction of Ursula K Le Guin and Iain M Banks' (paper presented at the Law & Culture Conference, St Mary's University, Twickenham, September 2017
Twickenham, United Kingdom, 2017
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Law and Literature (LT394)
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Public Law (LW103)
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Career Development Learning Part 1 (LW111)
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Public Law in Context: Past, Present and Future (LW209)
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Legal Research Skills (LW254)
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Jurisprudence (LW301)
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Regional Human Rights Systems (LW515)
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French Private Law II (LW208)
Current supervision
Publications
Journal articles (2)
Flynn, T., The Triangular Constitution
Flynn, T., (2021). Constitutional pluralism and loyal opposition. International Journal of Constitutional Law. 19 (1), 241-268
Books (1)
Flynn, T., (2019). The Triangular Constitution Constitutional Pluralism in Ireland, the EU and the ECHR. Hart Publishing. 1509916164. 9781509916177
Book chapters (4)
Lawrence, J. and Flynn, T., (2023). The Material Constitution of International Investment Law. In: The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution. Editors: Goldoni, M. and Wilkinson, MA., . Cambridge University Press. 335- 350. 9781009023764
Flynn, T., Fujita, S., Marique, Y., Osuji, O. and Sandoval, C., (2020). Global, Regional and Comparative Perspectives: A Discussion. In: Covid-19, Law and Human Rights : Essex Dialogues. A Project of the School of Law and Human Rights Centre. Editors: Ferstman, C. and Fagan, A., . University of Essex. 29- 30. 978-1-5272-6632-2
Flynn, T., (2020). Crisis, Opportunism, and Opportunity: How the Pandemic has Exacerbated Pre-existing Constitutional Tensions in the European Union. In: Covid-19, Law and Human Rights : Essex Dialogues. A Project of the School of Law and Human Rights Centre. Editors: Ferstman, C. and Fagan, A., . University of Essex. 51- 61. 978-1-5272-6632-2
Flynn, T., (2018). Triangular Constitutionalism: The Consequences of Constitutional Pluralism for Domestic Constitutional Thought. In: Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law. Editors: Davies, G. and Avbelj, M., . Edward Elgar. 133- 153. 978 1 78643 308 4
Contact
Academic support hours:
Monday 12:00 - 14:00
