Journal Articles

Enright, M (2026) Demanding inheritance: families "At the heart" of the public inquiry.

Enright, M (2026) Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional Abuses. By A.-M. McAlinden, M. Keenan, and J. Gallen, The British Journal of Criminology, azag012, ISSN: 0007-0955. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azag012.

Enright, M, O’Donoghue, A, O’Rourke, C (2025) Prefiguring feminist constitutions: An experimental legal writing method for Northern/Ireland?, International Journal Of Constitutional Law, 23(3), pp.693-717, ISSN: 1474-2640. DOI: 10.1093/icon/moaf059.

Cloatre, E, Pickersgill, M, A. Atuire, C, Enright, M, Friesen, P, Kingori, P, Ndoye, T, Urquiza-Haas, N (2025) States, law, and the regulation of controversial health-related claims: consolidating a research agenda between disciplines and contexts, Wellcome Open Research, 10, pp.414-414, ISSN: 2398-502X. DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.24597.1.

Enright, M (2025) Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Report: Alternative Executive Summary, feminists@law, 14(1), ISSN: 2046-9551.

Enright, M (2025) Haunting reform: older women, English Good Shepherd institutions and the Children Act 1948, Contemporary British History, 39(2), pp.181-218, ISSN: 1361-9462. DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2025.2453243.

Enright, M (2025) “Up with the Brave”: Gender, Transgression and Judges’ Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959, Law and History Review, pp.1-25, ISSN: 0738-2480. DOI: 10.1017/s0738248024000439.

Enright, M (2025) Aborto e direitos constitucionais na Irlanda desde 2018, Direito Público, 21(112), ISSN: 1806-8200. DOI: 10.11117/rdp.v21i112.7330.

Enright, M (2023) Book Review: Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from the Periphery by Lynsey Black, Louise Brangan and Deirdre Healy, Critical Social Policy, 43(4), pp.741-743, ISSN: 0261-0183. DOI: 10.1177/02610183231190796.

ENRIGHT, M (2023) The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law By Sally Sheldon, Gayle Davis, Jane O'Neill, and Clare Parker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 360 pp, £25.99, Journal of Law and Society, 50(3), pp.417-420, ISSN: 0263-323X. DOI: 10.1111/jols.12430.

Enright, M and Kinsella, T (2023) Legal Aesthetics in The Touching Contract : Memory, Exposure and Transformation, Law, Culture and the Humanities, 19(2), pp.297-319, ISSN: 1743-8721. DOI: 10.1177/1743872120987113.

Enright, M (2023) Abortion in Ireland: Prospects for Rights-Centred Law Reform? European Human Rights Law Review, 2023(4), pp.323-332, ISSN: 1361-1526.

ENRIGHT, M and DUFFY, D (2022) Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8^th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness, Journal of Law and Society, 49(4), pp.753-777, ISSN: 0263-323X. DOI: 10.1111/jols.12399.

Enright, M (2021) SHARON COWAN, CHLOË KENNEDY and VANESSA MUNRO (eds), Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law From the Outside In, Social & Legal Studies, 30(5), pp.818-822, ISSN: 0964-6639. DOI: 10.1177/0964663921992106.

Enright, M, McNeilly, K, De Londras, F (2020) Abortion activism, legal change, and taking feminist law work seriously, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(3), pp.359-385, ISSN: 0029-3105. DOI: 10.53386/nilq.v71i3.890.

Enright, M, McNeilly, K, De Londras, F (2020) Abortion activism, legal change, and taking feminist law work seriously, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(3), pp.oa7-oa33, ISSN: 0029-3105. DOI: 10.53386/nilq.v71i3.317.

Enright, M (2020) Four Pieces on Repeal: Notes on Art, Aesthetics and the Struggle Against Ireland’s Abortion Law, Feminist Review, 124(1), pp.104-123, ISSN: 0141-7789. DOI: 10.1177/0141778919897583.

Enright, M and Ring, S (2020) State Legal Responses to Historical Institutional Abuse: Shame, Sovereignty, and Epistemic Injustice, Éire-Ireland, 55(1-2), pp.68-99, DOI: 10.1353/eir.2020.0003.

Enright, M and Cloatre, E (2018) Transformative Illegality: How Condoms ‘Became Legal’ in Ireland, 1991–1993, Feminist Legal Studies, 26(3), pp.261-284, ISSN: 0966-3622. DOI: 10.1007/s10691-018-9392-1.

Cloatre, E and Enright, M (2017) ‘On the Perimeter of the Lawful’: Enduring Illegality in the Irish Family Planning Movement, 1972–1985, Journal of Law and Society, 44(4), pp.471-500, ISSN: 0263-323X. DOI: 10.1111/jols.12055.

Enright, M, McCandless, J, O’donoghue, A (2017) Acknowledgements, Northern Irish Feminist Judgments Judges Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity, pp.ix-xii.

Enright, M and Mullally, S (2013) Introduction: complex transformations – gender, religious subjectivities and the new politics of belonging, International Journal of Law in Context, 9(3), pp.291-294, ISSN: 1744-5523. DOI: 10.1017/s1744552313000153.

Enright, M (2013) The beginning of the sharpness: loyalty, citizenship and Muslim divorce practice, International Journal of Law in Context, 9(3), pp.295-317, ISSN: 1744-5523. DOI: 10.1017/s1744552313000141.

Enright, M (2013) Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory, by Rumee Ahmed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 158 + (appendices + bibliographies + index) 62 ($100 hardback). ISBN: 9780199640171, Legal Studies, 33(2), pp.350-352, ISSN: 0261-3875. DOI: 10.1111/lest.12015_3.

Enright, M (2011) Girl Interrupted, Social & Legal Studies, 20(4), pp.463-480, ISSN: 0964-6639. DOI: 10.1177/0964663911417278.

Enright, M (2010) The Limits of Legal Citizenship: Reading Aleem v. Aleem, Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, 104, pp.52-55, ISSN: 0272-5037. DOI: 10.5305/procannmeetasil.104.0052.

Enright, M (2009) Choice, Culture and the Politics of Belonging: The Emerging Law of Forced and Arranged Marriage, The Modern Law Review, 72(3), pp.331-359, ISSN: 0026-7961. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2009.00747.x.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (Accepted for publication) 'The Only Lawyer on the Panel': Anti-Choice Lawfare in the Battle for Abortion Law Reform, SSRN Electronic Journal, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3378470.

Books

De Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) Repealing the 8th: Reforming Irish abortion law.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) Repealing the 8th, Bristol University Press, DOI: 10.1332/9781447347545.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) Repealing the 8th, Bristol University Press, DOI: 10.51952/9781447347545.

Enright, M, McCandless, J, O’donoghue, A (2017) Northern / Irish Feminist Judgments: Judges’ Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity. DOI: 10.5040/9781509908950.

Chapters

Enright, M (2026) Normalised suffering: obstetric violence in LF v. Ireland. In Godden-Rasul, N and Kula, SL (ed) Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law, Edward Elgar, pp.25-43, ISBN: 9781035319398.

Enright, M (2025) Symphysiotomy and Law’s Many-Tailed Binder. In Harper, C (ed) The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland: A Material Culture View of Irish Shame, Oppression, Morality and Repression, Bloomsbury, pp.203-215, ISBN: 9781350445734. DOI: 10.5040/9781350445734.ch-021.

Enright, M (2023) ‘Benefactors and Friends’: Charitable Bequests, Reparation and the Donnybrook Laundry1. In A Dublin Magdalene Laundry Donnybrook and Church State Power in Ireland, pp.151-169.

Enright, M (2023) ‘Charitable Inclinations’: Women’s Bequests to Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. In Inheritance Matters Kinship Property Law, pp.77-93, DOI: 10.5040/9781509964840.ch-004.

Enright, M (2022) Alliance for Choice as agents of legal change. In Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland Legislation and Protest, pp.101-112.

Enright, M (2021) Contract, the state, and the Magdalene Laundries. In Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries Commemoration Gender and the Postcolonial Carceral State, pp.193-215, DOI: 10.7765/9781526150813.00020.

Ring, S and Enright, M (2019) State shame, sovereignty, and legal responses to historical institutional abuse. In Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland, pp.70-87.

Enright, M (2019) Abortion Law in Ireland: Reflecting on Reform. In Law and Gender in Modern Ireland Critique and Reform, pp.55-70.

Enright, M (2018) 'No. I won't go back': National time, trauma and legacies of symphysiotomy in Ireland. In Law and Time, pp.46-74, DOI: 10.4324/9781315167695.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) The Constitution after the 8th. In Repealing the 8th, Bristol University Press, pp.15-32, DOI: 10.56687/9781447347545-004.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) The case for repealing the 8th. In Repealing the 8th, Bristol University Press, pp.1-14, DOI: 10.56687/9781447347545-003.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) Model legislation. In Repealing the 8th, Bristol University Press, pp.105-126, DOI: 10.56687/9781447347545-007.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) Bibliography. In Repealing the 8th, Bristol University Press, pp.129-136, DOI: 10.56687/9781447347545-009.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) Accessing abortion care: principles for legislative design. In Repealing the 8th, Bristol University Press, pp.61-104, DOI: 10.56687/9781447347545-006.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) A rights-based approach to abortion. In Repealing the 8th, Bristol University Press, pp.33-60, DOI: 10.56687/9781447347545-005.

de Londras, F and Enright, M (2018) A note on terminology. In Repealing the 8th, Bristol University Press, pp.v-vi, DOI: 10.56687/9781447347545-002.

Enright, M (2018) Health (Family Planning) Act 1979. In Womens Legal Landmarks Celebrating the History of Women and Law in the Uk and Ireland, pp.349-355.

Enright, M (2017) ‘Involuntary Patriotism’: Judgment, Women and National Identity on the Island of Ireland. In Northern Irish Feminist Judgments Judges Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity, pp.27-48.

McCandless, J, Enright, M, O’donoghue, A (2017) Introduction: Troubling Judgment. In Northern Irish Feminist Judgments Judges Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity, pp.3-26.

Wills, S, Enright, M, de Londras, F (2017) Zappone and Gilligan v The Revenue Commissioners, Ireland and the Attorney General. In Northern Irish Feminist Judgments Judges Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity, pp.283-302.

Cloatre, E and Enright, M (2017) McGee v Attorney General. In Northern Irish Feminist Judgments Judges Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity, pp.95-116.

Other

Enright, M (2026) ‘Hold Harmless’: Disappearing Religion in a Legal History of Irish Symphysiotomy.