Lockdown v. Liberty: do we still believe in freedom?

26 May 2020

In a new blogpost, originally published on Verfassungsblog and republished with permission on Constitution Project @ UCC, the School of Law's Professor Maria Cahill considers theories of freedom and how they might explain our acceptance of the current COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.

Read the blogpost here: http://constitutionproject.ie/?p=778

About Constitution Project @ UCC

Constitution Project @ UCC is an inter-disciplinary research group looking at issues surrounding constitutional law, history, governance and politics. It comprises academic staff and graduate students from the Faculty of Law, the Department of Government, the School of History and Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge (Department of Modern Irish) at University College Cork.

It aims to firmly establish UCC’s reputation as a centre of excellence in constitutional studies, enhancing the profile of work already taking place, as well as providing a collaborative space for interdisciplinary work in the future.