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UCNP @ ICON-S 2026 Dublin

10 July 2026
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From 29 June to 1 July 2026, members of the UCNP project presented their research and engaged in roundtable discussions at the ICON-S annual conference hosted in University College Dublin.

Some of the papers presented by UCNP members during the conference include:  

  • Seána Glennon: ‘Positive Obligations by Another Name? Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitutional Limits on Withdrawing Supervised Consumption Services’ 
  • Hayley Hooper: ‘The Constitutional Status of the Principles of Legality’ 
  • Ruth Houghton: ‘”Too Utopian”: Theories of Utopia in Constituent Power’ and ‘Feminist Approaches to Constituent Power’ 
  • Nick Kilford: ‘Out of Dystopia, Constitution? Choice, Trust and Law-Making Authority in Frostpunk 2’ 
  • Diego Platz Pereira: ‘When Unwritten Constitutional Law Faces Authoritarianism’ and ‘Crisis Narratives and the Destabilization of Informal Judicial Institutions’  
  • Silvia Suteu: ‘Entrenched Resistance, Partial Victories, and the Long Slog to Gender Equality in Romanian Constitutional Jurisprudence’