Law & Government

Biographical Details:

Dr Mark Coen was a Scholar of Trinity College Dublin (2005-2010) and graduated from the University of Dublin with first class honours (LL.B., 2007). He also holds the Bachelor of Civil Law degree from the University of Oxford (2008), where he was a member of Magdalen College and specialised in criminal justice subjects. In December 2012 he successfully defended his doctoral thesis, entitled "Presumed Competent? An Analysis of the Irish Criminal Jury."

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Mark Coen. 2013. "Hearsay, Bad Character and Trust in the Jury: Irish and English Contrasts" International Journal of Evidence and Proof (forthcoming).
• Mark Coen. 2010. "Apprehended Bias: The Case of Jurors" 32 Dublin University Law Journal 121.
• Mark Coen. 2010. "Juror Comprehension of Expert Evidence: A Reform Agenda" Criminal Law Review 195 (co-authored with Dr Liz Heffernan).
• Mark Coen. 2009. "The Reliability of Expert Evidence: Reflections on the Law Commission's Proposals for Reform" 73 Journal of Criminal Law 488 (co-authored with Dr Liz Heffernan).
• Mark Coen. 2009. "Fair Procedures, Local Authority Housing, the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights" 31 Dublin University Law Journal 423.
• Mark Coen. 2008. "Religious Ethos and Employment Equality: A Comparative Irish Perspective", 28(3) Legal Studies 452.

Selected Chapters

• Mark Coen. 2011. "Interference with Jurors and its Potential Legal Consequences" in Bacik and Heffernan (eds), Criminal Law and Procedure Review (Firstlaw) .

Reviews

• Mark Coen. 2007. "Duff, Farmer, Marshall and Tadros, The Trial on Trial (vol. 3): Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial" 5(2) International Commentary on Evidence [available at www.bepress.com/ice/] .

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Mark Coen. 2010. "Elephants in the Room: The Law Reform Commission's Consultation Paper on Jury Service Part I" 20(3) Irish Criminal Law Journal 75. .
• Mark Coen. 2010. "Elephants in the Room: The Law Reform Commission's Consultation Paper on Jury Service Part II" 20(4) Irish Criminal Law Journal 98.
• Mark Coen. 2007. "Whither Strict Liability?", 25 Irish Law Times 77 .

• , "Prejudicial Publicity in Criminal Trials: A Comparative Analysis", Irish Association of Comparative Law Conference, Cork, 3 March 2012 , , - ,
• , "Fit for Purpose? Analysing the Rules on Jury Deliberations", Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference Athlone, , 20-NOV-11 - ,
• , "Shall the Sphinx Speak?: The Jury's Unreasoned Verdict After Taxquet", North/South Criminology Conference, Sligo, , 22-JUN-11 - ,
• , "Breaking the Deadlock: Juries and Verdicts", Irish Society of Comparative Law Conference, UCD, , 30-APR-11 - ,
• , "Reforming the Jury in the Republic of Ireland", Society of Legal Scholars Conference, University of Southampton, , 16-SEP-10 - ,
• , "Suspecting That All is Not as It Should Be: The Court of Criminal Appeal and Allegations of Apprehended Bias", Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights Annual Postgraduate Conference, Cork, , 29-APR-10 - ,
• , "The Secrecy of Jury Deliberations and Jury Innovations", Guest Lecture to LL.M. in Public Law students, NUIG, , 27-NOV-09 - ,
• , "Who Dares to Question the Jury?: Empirical Jury Research and the Law in Ireland", Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights Annual Postgraduate Conference, Cork, , 30-APR-09 - ,
• , "Politics, Proportionality and Child Protection in Ireland", Law Student Colloquium, Dublin, , 04-APR-09 - ,
• , "Stand Your Ground: The Cross-Jurisdictional Controversy of Self-Defence and the Burglar", Irish Society of Comparative Law Conference, Limerick, , 28-FEB-09 - ,
• , "The Past as a Judicial Country: Reported Judgments and Social History", Socio-Legal Studies and the Humanities Conference, London , , 05-NOV-08 - ,
• , "Employees of a Lesser (or no) God: Religious Ethos in an Age of Pluralism", Rights and Righteousness: Religious Pluralism and Human Rights Conference, Belfast, , 02-NOV-07 - ,