Dr Gavin Byrne

Birmingham Law School
Associate Professor

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6301
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 3585
Email: g.d.byrne@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Law School
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
United Kingdom

Dr Gavin Byrne is Head of Internationalisation for Birmingham Law School and teaches Political and Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Property Law subjects.

Qualifications

BCL (University College Dublin)
LLM by Research (Kent)
PhD (Birmingham)

Biography

Dr Byrne received a BCL from University College Dublin in 1999, an LLM by research from the University of Kent in 2001, and a PhD from Birmingham Law School in 2008. From 2001 to 2002 he worked with 脡lan Corporation plc, a leading global neuroscience based biotechnology company, as part of its Dublin-based, in-house legal group.

Teaching

Political & Legal Theory II (LLB, module leader)
Advanced Political & Legal Theory (LLM, module leader)
Jurisprudence (LLB)
Property A: Land Law (LLB)

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:

Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law

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Research

His major research interest is in Jurisprudence, in particular the application of mainstream philosophy to issues in legal theory. His current research is on the perceived split between the Anglo-American and Continental traditions in relation to legal philosophy. He has specific expertise in the writings of Martin Heidegger and their application to legal philosophy.

Other activities

He is Head of Internationalisation for Birmingham Law School and Director of the Swedish Exchange Program.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Byrne, G 2020, '', Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 30鈥�60.

Byrne, G 2018, '', Comparative Legal History, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 65-96.

Byrne, G 2018, '', Law Culture and the Humanities.

Byrne, G 2015, '', Jurisprudence, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 204-234.

Byrne, G 2013, '', Journal Jurisprudence, vol. 20, no. 3.

Byrne, G 2012, '', The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 477. <>

Byrne, G 2011, '', Law Culture and the Humanities, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 219-243.

Byrne, G 2006, '', Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 3-30.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Byrne, G & Child, J 2017, . in A Reed & M Bohlander (eds), Consent: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives. Substantive Issues in Criminal Law, Routledge, Oxford and New York, pp. 52-67.