I specialise in thepolitical theory ofconstitutional law, with a focus on issues aroundlaw and religion, Church and State, judicial power,rePublic - No restrictionanism, French political thoughtand the history of political thought.My latest book is Rousseaus Constitutionalism: Austerity and RePublic - No restrictionan Freedom (Hart, 2017).I am also author(with Tom Hickey of) A Political Theory of the Irish Constitution (Manchester University Press, 2015), and of Religion, Law and the Irish State (Clarus, 2012) . I have also authored over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles on various issues in legal and political theory as well asconstitutional law.I studied Law and French as an undergraduate and received a PhD fromUniversity College Cork in 2010. My thesis examinedhow jurisdictions committed to different concepts of constitutional secularism order the competing social claims on the value of religious freedom in schools.Subsequently I worked as a Lecturer in DCU until 2012, and in University College Dublin until 2014. I joined NUI Galway in February 2014.