Publications of Donal Coffey

Coffey, D.: Drafting the Irish Constitution, 1935–1937: Transnational Influences in Interwar Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (2018), XIII, 312 pp.

Coffey, D.: Constitutionalism in Ireland, 1932–1938: National, Commonwealth, and International Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (2018), xiii, 235 pp.

Coffey, D.; Vogenauer, S. (Eds.): Legal transfer and legal geography in the British Empire. Brill, Leiden (2025), 328 pp.

Cahillane, L.; Coffey, D. (Eds.): The Centenary of the Irish Free State Constitution. Constituting a Polity? Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (2024), 291 pp.

Coffey, D.: The Drafting of the Constitution of the Union of Burma in 1947: Dominion Status, Indo–Burmese Relations, and the Irish Example. Law and History Review 41 (2), pp. 254 - 272 (2023)

Coffey, D.: Constitutional Law and Empire in Interwar Britain: Universities, Liberty, Nationality and Parliamentary Supremacy. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 71 (2), pp. 193 - 209 (2020)

Coffey, D.: The Influence of the Weimar Constitution on the Common Law World. Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Rg 27, pp. 222 - 230 (2019)

Dzehtsiarou, K.; Coffey, D.: Suspension and Expulsion of Members of the Council of Europe: Difficult Decisions in Troubled Times. The International and Comparative Law Quarterly 68 (2), pp. 443 - 476 (2019)

Coffey, D.: "The Right to Shoot Himself": Secession in the British Commonwealth of Nations. The Journal of Legal History 39 (2), pp. 117 - 139 (2018)

Coffey, D.: The Commonwealth and the Oath of Allegiance Crisis: A Study in Inter-War Commonwealth Relations. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 44 (3), pp. 492 - 512 (2016)

Coffey, D.: 1916, 1921 and the 'Destruction of the Legal Unity of the British Empire'. Dublin University Law Journal 39 (2), pp. 333 - 348 (2016)

Coffey, D.; Eastaugh, C.: Don’t Stop Me Now (Without Reasonable Suspicion). King’s Law Journal 26, pp. 6 - 13 (2015)

Dzehtsiarou, K.; Coffey, D.: Legitimacy and Independence of International Tribunals: An Analysis of the European Court of Human Rights. Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 37, pp. 271 - 322 (2014)

Coffey, D.: The Need for a New Constitution: Irish Constitutional Change 1932 – 1935. The Irish Jurist N.S. 48, pp. 275 - 302 (2012)

Coffey, D.: Discussion: Custom and Living Law. Introduction. Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought 3 (1), pp. 71 - 73 (2012)

Coffey, D.: The Judiciary of the Irish Free State. Dublin University Law Journal 33, pp. 61 - 74 (2011)

Coffey, D.: British, Commonwealth, and Irish responses to the abdication of King Edward VIII. The Irish Jurist N.S. 44, pp. 95 - 122 (2009)

Coffey, D.: The Judicial Pension Levy: A Reply to Professor Gwynn Morgan. Irish Law Times 27, pp. 271 - 274 (2009)

Coffey, D.: Article 28.3.3, The Natural Law and the Judiciary - Three Easy Pieces. Irish Law Times 22, pp. 310 - 314 (2004)

Coffey, D.; Vogenauer, S.: Preface. In: Legal transfer and legal geography in the British Empire, pp. 1 - 3 (Eds. Coffey, D.; Vogenauer, S.). Max Planck Institute for legal history and legal theory, Frankfurt am Main (2025)