Why the Corporate World Went Woke

Review of Woke Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam, by Vivek Ramaswamy, Spiked (August 2021)

A Call to Re-Embrace Our Privacy

Review of 'I Have Nothing to Hide’: And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy by Heidi Boghosian, accompanied by reflections on the constitutional meaning and importance of privacy, LA Review of Books (August 2021)

Snowden: A Whistle-Blower Who Lived to Tell About It

Review of Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, LA Review of Books (December 2019)

Heartbreaking Stories from Academia

Investigative journalism piece detailing the working conditions and lives of six American adjunct lecturers and the crisis these poor conditions pose for quality education, Alternet, reprinted by Salon, Truthdig and Naked Capitalism (September 2016)

Vergleich der Stellung der Kommunen in der Staats-, Aufgaben- und Finanzordnung ausgewählter Länder

Contribution of an extensive study on local electoral politics in the Republic of Ireland for a research project by the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation on comparative local politics (December 2015)

Structuring Big Data to Facilitate Democratic Participation in International Law

Article on the challenges of providing information about international organizations to the public in a manner that goes beyond ‘data dumping’, International Journal of Legal Information (June 2015)

All Bark and No Bite? Rhetoric and Reality in the War on Terror

Popular article detailing how in contrast to official American rhetoric, a considerable amount of armed American intervention depends on the cooperation of other States. America is thus a significantly less dominant global power than is commonly supposed, Indonesian Journal of International and Comparative Law (2015)

A Matter of National Security: Whistleblowing in the Military as a Mechanism for International Law Enforcement

Comprehensive article discussing the legal and practical challenges with whistleblowing in the military (higher necessity, conflict of duties), detailing the cases of Anat Kamm (targeted killings, Israel), Katharine Gun (surveillance, UK/United Nations), and Chelsea Manning (‘Collateral Murder’, Wikileaks, USA), San Diego International Law Journal (2013)

Enforcing International Law: States, IOs, and Courts as Shaming Reference Groups

Conceptual article co-authored with Prof. Sandeep Gopalan on how shame could be used as a method of enforcing international law, treating among others, the case of the Mau Mau (Kenya) and Burma/Myanmar, Brooklyn Journal of International Law (2013)

A Short History of Sovereignty and the International Criminal Court

Three-part series detailing the relationship between sovereignty and the International Criminal Court, in Irish Law Times (November-December 2011)

The Price of Equality: Equality in Price

Article on European judgements regarding price discrimination in insurance products, Irish Law Times (May 2011)

Democracy: Straightening the Circular Logic of an Undefined Legal Term

Workshop on the definition of democracy and how measuring democracy solely on current legal terms represents circular logic for the Irish Jurisprudence Society (April 2011)

German Constitutional Court to Indirectly Rule on Irish Bailout

Irish Law Times (February 2011)

Democracy and International Law: An Analysis of the Origins of Democracy, its Relationship with International Law and its Applicability to Modern International Institutions

Doctoral thesis centering on the historical definition of democracy and its application to modern international institutions with large sections on the historical origins and philosophy of collective decision-making institutions as well as Enlightenment-era developments (November 2010)

Das verfassungsrechtliche Verhältnis Irlands zum Prozess der Europäischen Integration

Article explaining the process of European integration in Ireland from referenda to constitutional amendments, Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht-Extra (September 2008)