Provost Linda Doyle has announced Trinity Central as the new location for the law school.
The announcement was delivered in a College staff meeting which discussed Trinity’s strategic plan for 2026-2030.
The building, which is to the left of Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) on Pearse Street, currently houses the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) and a commercial client.
Speaking to The University Times, a College Spokesperson said: “At its February meeting, the College Board approved the progression of Trinity’s long-planned-for Law School development to be located in Trinity Central.”
“The project will involve a complete refit of two upper floors of the Trinity Central building as well as the development of new, bespoke teaching spaces on the ground floor. The project is at an early stage of delivery with the next step to procure a design team to work with the Law School on progressing the design of the spaces.”
Doyle said “There are two floors that would be entirely devoted to the law school, atrium areas, and there’ll be new lecture space there as well, and roof space.”
She praised the law school’s academic business plan: “They really expanded their offerings.”
“They’ve really grown, we’ll say, in FinTech, in European law, and in other areas.”
The Provost further commented “With the view to having a new law school, and that has been something that’s been going on for a long time, and it took us quite a long time to find a solution to that.”
In the same meeting, the Provost stated that the Martin Naughton E3 Learning Foundry will be hopefully finished within a few months, and that visible construction of the new Laidlaw Digital Library in Trinity East will soon be underway.
Commenting on the news, Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union Education Officer Eoghan Gilroy said the law school announcement, alongside the soon to be developed student centre “marks a significant step into the investment of the student experience here in Trinity”.
While welcoming the news with “open arms”, Gilroy also said that the announcement highlights that with “investment and vision” it is possible to tackle “the challenges we face here in Trinity with regards to digital infrastructure, physical infrastructure as well as teaching and learning”.
He continued, “Imagine what could be achieved through the Government addressing the core funding gap of €307 million in the sector.”
