Events in November 2011 and After

This is the listing of forthcoming events from November 2011 on. For the live listing, see www.irishlaw.org/events/.

Tue. 8 Nov. 2011:
Juvenile Justice 2001-2011: Criminal and Welfare Concerns - Dublin
http://www.acjrd.ie/contents/133

Wed. 9 Nov. 2011:
Company Charges and Financial Assistance: The Significance of Planned Reforms in Law and Practice - Irish Corporate Law Forum Seminar, Dublin
http://www.iclf.ie/

Fri. 11 Nov. 2011:
Political Commitment, Practical Protection: Using the ECHR North and South - Dublin
http://www.pila.ie/events/2011/11/11/pila-pils-conference/

Fri.11 Nov. 2011:
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators International Young Members Group Conference, Law Library, Distillery Building, Dublin 7
http://www.arbitration.ie/

Fri. 11 Nov. 2011:
Extradition: The European Arrest Warrant and Fundamental Rights - Belfast
http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/NewsandEvents/Events/

Fri.-Sun.11-13 Nov. 2011:
Family Lawyers Conference - Belfast
http://www.familylawyers.ie/

Sat.12 Nov. 2011:
UCD Lawyers and Public Life: 100 Years of Activism and Influence - School of Law, UCD, Conference - Newman House, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
http://www.ucd.ie/law/events/title,100574,en.html

Sat. 12 Nov. 2011:
Litigation Against Post-Primary Schools: All the Recent Decisions - School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, Conference
http://www.tcd.ie/Law/events/

Sat.12 Nov. 2011:
Employment Law and Mental Health - NUI Galway
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=147

Wed.16 Nov. 2011:
Casement’s speech from the dock and the archive of inhumanity - Dublin
http://www.lawsociety.ie/Pages/Events/25th-Hugh-M-Fitzpatrick-Lecture/

Thu.17 Nov. 2011:
Law on...Risk - Risk assessment in the criminal process in the context of mentally disordered offenders, persons seeking parole and temporary release - Dublin City University
http://dcu.ie/socio-legal/news/article/law-on-risk-seminar

18-20 Nov. 2011:
Annual Conference of Irish Association of Law Teachers, Athlone
http://www.ialt.ie/event/ialt-annual-conference-2011

Fri.18 Nov. 2011:
Reflections on the role of European Union law through the financial and economic crisis - Irish Society for European Law (ISEL) and the United Kingdom Association for European Law (UKAEL), Dublin
http://www.isel.ie/

Fri. 18 Nov. 2011:
"Unimaginable Atrocities": International criminal tribunals, politics and human rights - Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/law/events/

Sat. 19 Nov. 2011:
Genetic Discrimination – Transatlantic Perspectives on the Case for a European Level Legal Response - NUI Galway
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=139

Sat. 19 Nov. 2011:
Criminal Law Update - School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, Conference
http://www.tcd.ie/Law/events/

Sat. 19 Nov. 2011:
Integrating a Socio-Legal Approach to Evidence in International Criminal Tribunals - University College Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/law/events/

Tue. 22 Nov. 2011:
Debt Collection and Enforcement of Judgments - Dublin Solicitors Bar Association
http://www.dsba.ie/legal_resources/seminars.683.seminars.html

Thu.24 Nov. 2011:
The Autonomous Concept of 'Family' in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights - Irish Society for European Law, Dublin
http://www.lawsociety.ie/Pages/Events/9th-Annual-Brian-Walsh-Memorial-Lecture/

Fri.25 Nov. 2011:
Enforcing European Union Environmental Law - Faculty of Law, University College Cork
http://www.ucc.ie/en/lawsite/eventsandnews/Conferences/EnforcingEuropeanUnionEnvironmentalLaw/

Fri. 25 Nov. 2011:
Competition in Energy and Regulated Markets - Irish Centre for European Law, Dublin
http://www.icel.ie/events_currentprogramme.php

Sat. 26 Nov. 2011:
Tort Litigation 2011: All the Recent Developments - School of Law, Trinity College Dublin
http://www.tcd.ie/Law/events/

Sat. 26 Nov. 2011:
IWLA Seminar on the Legal Services Bill - Dublin
http://www.iwla.ie/

Tue. 29 Nov. 2011:
Enduring Powers of Attorney - Law Society, Dublin
http://www.lawsociety.ie/LSPT/

Thu. 1 December 2011:
Access to Justice - FLAC Lecture by Baroness Nuala O'Loan - Dublin
http://www.flac.ie/news/events.html

Fri. 9 December 2011:
Conference on EU Migration Law - Irish Centre for European Law / Academy of European Law, Dublin
http://www.icel.ie/events_currentprogramme.php

Thu.-Fri. 12-13 January 2012:
SLSA Postgraduate Conference 2012 - Belfast
http://www.slsa.ac.uk/content/view/169/144/

Fri.-Sat. 2-3 March 2012:
Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference - University College Cork
http://irishsocietyofcomparativelaw.blogspot.com/

Fri.23 March 2012:
Irish European Law Forum / The Enforcement of Competition Law - University College Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/law/events/

Tue.-Thu. 3-5 April 2012:
Socio-Legal Studies Association conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/business_and_law/conferences/slsa/

Fri.-Sat.20-21 April 2012:
Contemporary Housing Issues in a Changing Europe - NUI Galway
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=135

Thu. 10 May 2012:
John M Kelly Memorial Lecture: Appraising the EU experiment after 60 years - University College Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/law/events/

Travellers - Clare, Equal Status Act

In 2008 I blogged about a complex case in County Clare concerning travellers bringing claims under the Equal Status Act 2000.


Thanks to Stare Decisis Hibernia, I see that High Court judgment was issued in July - Clare County Council v Director of Equality Investigations [2011] IEHC 303.
 
The Council made various complaints about ongoing Equality Tribunal hearings, e.g. that the claim forms submitted were not adequately completed. Hedigan J. refused various orders sought by the Council and allowed the hearings to proceed. Hedigan J. stated: "In establishing the Equality Tribunal, the Oireachtas did not intend to create a complex system of adversarial decision-making. The procedures before the respondents are not to have the formality of a court case."


Hedigan J. appeared to approve of the call-over system which was used to establish which claimants wished to proceed with their cases. He also emphasised that the claimants were entitled to be respresented by a non-lawyer (Ms Heather Rosen) and that "allowances must be made for the fact that lay persons and representatives do not articulate complaints in the same way as professionally qualified advocates".
 

Events in October 2011 and after

This is the listing of forthcoming events from October 2011 on.


For the live listing, see www.irishlaw.org/events/.

Thu. 6 Oct. 2011: 
E-Discovery Ireland 2011 - Dublin 
http://www.ediscovery.ie/

11-15 Oct.2011: 
ABA Section of International Law 2011 Fall Meeting - Dublin  
http://bit.ly/aba-dub-2011

Tue. 11 Oct. 2011:
Alternatives to Litigation in a Civil Society - School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, International Centre for Dispute Resolution and American Arbitration Association  
http://www.tcd.ie/law/events

Wed.12 Oct. 2011:  
A comparison of sanction regimes in Ireland, the United States and Canada - ISEL Competition Law Forum, Dublin   
http://www.isel.ie/ 

Thu. 13 Oct. 2011:  
Annual Property Law Conference - Law Society, Dublin  
http://www.lawsociety.ie/LSPT/

Fri.14 Oct. 2011:  
Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System: The deliverables of the Department of Health’s ‘Vision for Change’ - ACJRD, Dublin  
http://www.acjrd.ie/contents/109

Fri.14 Oct. 2011:  
Current Developments in Public Procurement Law - ICEL - Belfast   
http://www.icel.ie/ 

Wed. 19 Oct. 2011:  
The Law and People with an Intellectual Disability - Dublin  
http://www.inclusionireland.ie/LawConference.asp

Thu. 20 Oct. 2011:  
Cohabitation and Civil Partnership: The New Law in Practice - Faculty of Law, University College Cork  
http://www.ucc.ie/en/lawsite/eventsandnews/events/ 

Fri. 21 Oct. 2011:  
European Union Law in Practice - Faculty of Law, University College Cork   
http://www.ucc.ie/en/lawsite/eventsandnews/Conferences/  

Sat. 22 Oct. 2011:  
Ireland's Human Rights Record Under the Spotlight: The Implications of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review - Dublin   
http://www.lawsociety.ie/Pages/Events/9th-Annual-Human-Rights-Conference/   

Thu. 3 Nov. 2011:  
Union Citizenship in Practice: Its scope of application, its impact on Residence Rights, Social Security entitlements and Immigration Procedures - ICEL, Dublin 
http://www.icel.ie/ 

Thu. 3 Nov. 2011:
Annual Contract Law Update - Law Society, Dublin
http://www.lawsociety.ie/LSPT/

Sat. 5 Nov. 2011: 
Insolvency Law and Practice in the 21st Century: Irish and International Experience - University of Limerick
http://www.ucc.ie/law/irishlaw/events/Insolvency-UL-05nov2011.pdf

Tue. 8 Nov. 2011: 
Juvenile Justice 2001-2011: Criminal & Welfare Concerns - Dublin
http://www.acjrd.ie/contents/133

Wed. 9 Nov. 2011:  
Company Charges and Financial Assistance: The Significance of Planned Reforms in Law and Practice - Irish Corporate Law Forum Seminar, Dublin
http://www.iclf.ie/

Fri. 11 Nov. 2011:
Political Commitment, Practical Protection: Using the ECHR North and South - Dublin
http://www.pila.ie/events/2011/11/11/pila-pils-conference/

18-20 Nov. 2011: 
Annual Conference of Irish Association of Law Teachers, Athlone
http://www.ialt.ie/event/ialt-annual-conference-2011

Fri.18 Nov. 2011: 
Reflections on the role of European Union law through the financial and economic crisis - Irish Society for European Law (ISEL) and the United Kingdom Association for European Law (UKAEL), Dublin 
http://www.isel.ie/ 

Sat. 19 Nov. 2011: 
Genetic Discrimination – Transatlantic Perspectives on the Case for a European Level Legal Response - NUI Galway 
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=139

Tue. 29 Nov. 2011: 
Enduring Powers of Attorney - Law Society, Dublin 
http://www.lawsociety.ie/LSPT/

Events in September 2011 and after

This is the listing of forthcoming events from September 2011 on.
For the live listing, see www.irishlaw.org/events/.

Fri. 16 Sep. 2011:
Irish Penal Reform Trust Annual Lecture - Minister Alan Shatter - Dublin
www.iprt.ie/contents/2173

Fri.-Sat. 16-17 Sept. 2011:
Law, State and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Honour of Dr Shirin Ebadi, UCD, Dublin
www.lawstatereligion.com/

Fri.23 Sept. 2011:
Employment Law Update 2011 - Law Society, Dublin
www.lawsociety.ie/LSPT/

11-15 Oct.2011:
ABA Section of International Law 2011 Fall Meeting - Dublin
http://bit.ly/aba-dub-2011

Tue. 11 Oct. 2011:
Alternatives to Litigation in a Civil Society - School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, International Centre for Dispute Resolution and American Arbitration Association
www.tcd.ie/law/events

Thu. 13 Oct. 2011:
Annual Property Law Conference - Law Society, Dublin
www.lawsociety.ie/LSPT/

Fri.14 Oct. 2011:
Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System: The deliverables of the Department of Health’s ‘Vision for Change’ - ACJRD, Dublin
www.acjrd.ie/contents/109 

Wed. 19 Oct. 2011:
The Law and People with an Intellectual Disability - Dublin
www.inclusionireland.ie/LawConference.asp

Sat. 22 Oct. 2011:
Ireland's Human Rights Record Under the Spotlight: The Implications of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review - Dublin
http://bit.ly/hum-rts-22oct11

Thu. 3 Nov. 2011:
Annual Contract Law Update - Law Society, Dublin
www.lawsociety.ie/LSPT/

Tue. 8 Nov. 2011:
Juvenile Justice 2001-2011: Criminal and Welfare Concerns - Dublin
www.acjrd.ie/contents/133

Fri. 11 Nov. 2011:
Political Commitment, Practical Protection: Using the ECHR North and South - Dublin
www.pila.ie/events/2011/11/11/pila-pils-conference/

18-20 Nov. 2011:
Annual Conference of Irish Association of Law Teachers, Athlone
www.ialt.ie/event/ialt-annual-conference-2011

Fri.18 Nov. 2011:
Reflections on the role of European Union law through the financial and economic crisis - Irish Society for European Law (ISEL) and the United Kingdom Association for European Law (UKAEL), Dublin www.ukael.org/upcoming_events.html#isel

Tue. 29 Nov. 2011:
Enduring Powers of Attorney - Law Society, Dublin
www.lawsociety.ie/LSPT/

CURRENT CONSULTATIONS:

Department of Health: Review of Mental Health Act 2001:
Submissions by Fri. 7 October 2011
www.dohc.ie/consultations/open/mental_healthact2011/

Law Reform Commission: "Submissions either verbal or written are welcome at any stage during our deliberations on any topic." www.lawreform.ie/submissions.9.html

LLM in IP and E Law at University College Cork

LLM Intellectual Property and E Law

Vacancy: Lectureship in Law, UCC

Lectureship in Law

One Year Fixed Term Post

Faculty of Law, College of Business and Law

Applications are invited for this one year post in the Department of Law. The Department of Law at University College Cork has established itself as one of the leading law schools in Ireland, with a record of providing innovation and excellence in legal education and research, including a contribution to policy development and society.

As one of the largest departments in University College Cork, Law has a distinguished history over many decades in attracting high quality students and recruiting high quality staff nationally and internationally. The Law Department operates with a complement of twenty seven full-time academic staff providing BCL, LLB, LLM and PhD programmes, in addition to an Evening BCL programme. Moreover, it offers law modules across a range of programmes in all disciplines in the University.

Applications are invited for a full-time temporary one year Lecturer post in the Department of Law. The holder of this post, working under the direction of the Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty of Law, will be expected to contribute to all day and evening law programmes offered at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Applicants must hold a post-graduate qualification in law. The post holders will be expected to teach under the direction of the Head of Department, to fulfil administrative roles, and to be actively engaged in research.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Steve Hedley, Head of Department of Law, email: s.hedley@ucc.ie

Further information on the Department can be found online on www.ucc.ie/en/lawsite/

Salary scale (new entrants 2011)*: €31,821 - €51,270 / €62,353 - €81,459

* Existing public servants continuously employed in the public sector on/after 31st December 2010 will be placed on the 2010 salary scales (non new entrants). In all instances the successful appointment will be at the first point of the scale

Closing date: 12 noon, Friday, 24th June 2011

Application forms must be completed, and are available, together with further details, on our website at: www.ucc.ie/hr/vacancies or from the Department of Human Resources, University College Cork, Ireland. Tel: +353 21 4903603 / Email: recruitment@per.ucc.ie / Fax: +353 21 4271568

Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependant upon University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector

University College Cork is an Equal Opportunities Employer

Contrasting Recent Internet Copyright Cases

I wrote an article (available here) for the Sunday Business Post on 8 May contrasting two recent Internet Copyright Cases - the opinion of the Advocate General of the ECJ in Scarlet v SABAM (Press Release Full text in French) and the English High Court judicial review regarding the Digital Economy Act, R. (British Telecom & TalkTalk) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

In the Scarlet case, the Advocate General issued an opinion against a Belgian court order requiring an ISP to block and filter material which is in breach of copyright. The opinion strongly emphasised the human rights at stake, as expressed in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Lisbon Treaty. For example, he said the court order unduly restricted the right to privacy of communications and the right to protection of personal data. He acknowledged that such rights could be restricted by law, but considered that the court order was not sufficiently accessible, clear or predictable.

In the British Telecom and Talk Talk case, the English High Court rejected most challenges to Britain’s 2010 Digital Economy Act, which allows blocking of sites that infringe copyright, and ‘‘three-strikes’’ style disconnection for users who breach copyright. Mr Justice Kenneth Parker found that the new scheme laid down by the Act would improve the existing process which involves copyright holders applying to court to seek to identify copyright infringers. The role of ISPs will be ‘‘passive’’, in that they react to notices of infringement drawn up by copyright holders. The holders send the notices to the ISPs which then send them on to customers. While fundamental rights such as privacy and freedom of expression are affected, Parker J. held that the British parliament had struck a proportionate balance between those rights and the property rights of copyright holders. He emphasised that the British government had extensively consulted copyright holders and ISPs before enacting the legislation, and he deferred to Parliament in choosing between policy options.

In Ireland, there have been a number of court cases about the role of ISPs in copyright infringement. In the most recent one, EMI v UPC last October, Mr Justice Peter Charleton decided that he could not grant an injunction restraining UPC from making available to the public sound recordings which infringed copyright. He found that s. 40 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 did not include an explicit power to authorise an order of this type, as it covered only removal of files, not blocking or diverting access.

At the end of the article, I said that there will be a need for detailed debate in Ireland on the implications of the English and Belgian cases, and the appropriate balance to be struck between the competing rights and interests. A mere superficial amendment of our 2000 Act will not be an adequate response.

Since the article was published, it has been announced that the Irish Government is to review copyright law, by means of a Copyright Review Committee consisting of Dr Eoin O'Dell, Ms Patricia McGovern and Professor Steve Hedley. Submissions to the Copyright Review Committee should be sent to copyrightreview@deti.ie or posted to Copyright Review, Room 517, Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Submissions should be received by close of business on 30 June.

ICCL Consultation on the Veil in Irish Schools

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is organising a consultation on its Policy Paper on the Veil in Irish Schools: An Equality and Human Rights Analysis .

The event is scheduled to take place from 2.15pm-4.30pm on Monday, 23 May 2011 in the Equality Authority, 2 Clonmel Street, Dublin 2 and is aimed at educational managers, educationalists, parliamentarians, public policy makers, legal practitioners, academics and members of civil society.

Corinna Ferguson [see picture above], Legal Officer with UK human rights group Liberty, will discuss her organisation’s recent success in representing 14-year-old Sarika Singh who successfully argued that her school breached race relations and equality laws by excluding her for wearing the kara which is a Sikh bracelet and a central tenet of the Sikh religion.

Tanya Ward, Deputy Director with the ICCL, will outline the ICCL’s recommendations in this area and seek feedback from interested individuals and parties (see paper attached). Ward will also summarise any feedback received to date.

If you are interested in attending this event, please rsvp by 5pm, Friday, 20 May 2011 to Joanne Garvey, Administrator, ICCL, 9-13 Blackhall Place, Dublin 7, Email: joanne.garvey@iccl.ie ; Tel: (01) 799 4504

About Corinna Ferguson

Corinna Ferguson is a barrister and has been a legal officer at Liberty since August 2008. She is currently working on cases concerning religious freedom in the workplace, the duty on the state to investigate allegations of inhuman and degrading treatment in an immigration detention centre and police photography of peaceful protesters. Ferguson is a regular contributor to Liberty’s Legal Clinic which is hosted by the Guardian Newspaper.

About the ICCL’s Paper

The ICCL has prepared a paper for consultation in response to the ongoing debate concerning the wearing of the hijab (head veil) in Irish schools and the Minister for Education and Science’s recommendations on the wearing of school uniforms. The ICCL’s paper considers the likely impact of the recommendations and examines whether exclusions of pupils wearing hijabs or niqabs (full covering) from schools complies with the State’s constitutional, legal and international human rights obligations. The paper also makes recommendations aimed at the Department of Education and Science, patrons of schools and school management and others interested parties in the education sector.

International Copyright Conference to be held in Dublin 30th June - 1st July, 2011

The Copyright Association of Ireland is delighted to be hosting the bi-annual Study Days of ALAI in Dublin over the two days 30th June and 1st July 2011. It’s a rare opportunity to hear leading world copyright lawyers and industry representatives debate pressing issues and reflect on new challenges to copyright paradigms.

Speakers are drawn from academia, international organisations and the copyright industries, with a sprinkling of judges and practitioners. International participants include the President of HADOPI, the French online enforcement agency, and prolific author Professor Silke von Lewinski of the Max Planck Institute. The industry perspective will be represented by speakers from Google and the Walt Disney Corporation. Irish contributors will include Judge Peter Charleton, Professor Robert Clark, and Helen Sheehy, Solicitor, who represented the Plaintiffs in the Eircom/UPC file-sharing litigation.

The cost of the two-day conference package is €400, which includes lunch on both days, and conference dinner on 1st July. There is a special one-day rate of €150. Student discounts are available.

The programme and application forms can be accessed at http://www.alaidublin2011.org/

Conference on OTC Derivatives and the Global Financial Crisis

Fri. 20 May 2011:
Forging a New Regulatory Balance: OTC Derivatives and the Global Financial Crisis - Dublin
www.ucd.ie/reggov/newsevents/body,87212,en.html

UCD Centre for Regulation and Governance

The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has revealed certain weaknesses in financial regulation, generating both commentary and policy responses.

Within elements of this commentary, over the counter (OTC) financial derivative instruments, in particular, have been held up as a prime example of a market warranting substantially more direct public regulatory intervention, exemplified by recent regulatory proposals emanating from the United States and the European Union. This conference will map out both the historical and emerging nature and operation of both public and private regulation in the OTC derivatives markets. This offers participants a sense of where OTC derivatives regulation has been and where it is likely to go in the future, including its capacity to cope with challenges thrown up by the GFC. This will be coupled with an emphasis on OTC equity derivatives and the particular challenges they present to traditional corporate governance paradigms.
This includes discussion both of the potential benefits of OTC equity derivatives as well as their capacity to skew incentives in the market for corporate control and facilitate a sidestepping of public disclosure rules

This conference will be relevant to lawyers, accountants and other professionals with interest and experience in financial markets.

Venue: UCD Newman House, 85/86 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2

Further Information and Booking Form:

www.ucd.ie/reggov/newsevents/body,87212,en.html

Programme for Burren Law School 2011

www.burrenlawschool.org

Extracts from Programme:

Burren Law School 2011
Imagining a New Republic
A Contemporary and Brehon Perspective
Director: Fintan O'Toole
Friday 29th April- Sunday 1st May 2011
Burren College of Art, Newtown Castle, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare

www.burrenlawschool.org Bookings 065 7077200

Friday 29th April 2011
8.30pm OPENING ADDRESS IMAGINING A REPUBLIC
Theo Dorgan, poet

Saturday 30th April 2011

CITIZENS OR SUBJECTS? CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE REPUBLIC
Professor Fred Powell
Professor of Social Policy and Dean of Social Science, UCC

THE LAW AND THE REPUBLIC
Dearbhail McDonald
Legal Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Independent

John McMenamin
Judge of the High Court

THE IRISH REPUBLIC: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF AN IDEA
Dr Iseult Honohan
Senior Lecturer in Politics, UCD

PUBLIC IDEAS FORUM - PECHA KUCHA* SESSION
10 presentations, each lasting 6 minutes
(If you would like to have your say, let us know in advance by emailing anna@burencollege.ie)
This method of presentation was developed by architects in Japan in 2003. The idea is to share a lot of ideas without anyone person taking all the time available. (The architects who started it said all architects talked too much).

Sunday 1st May 2011

THE DUTIES OF RULERSHIP IN BREHON LAW
Professor Donnchadh O Corrain
Emeritus Professor of History, UCC

TOWARDS A NEW REPUBLIC
Justine McCarthy, columnist Sunday Times
Elaine Byrne, Trinity College Dublin
Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times
Dr Tom Hickey, legal and political theorist, UCD

Venue: Newtown Castle, Burren College of Art,
Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
Tel: 065 7077200 Fax: 065 7077201
www.burrenlawschool.org Email: admin@burrencollege.ie
The Burren Law School is supported by
BURREN COLLEGE OF ART
www.burrencollege.ie

U.S./Ireland Legal Symposium to take place in the West of Ireland

The inaugural U.S./Ireland Legal Symposium will take place in Westport, Co Mayo from 11-13 May 2011. This international Symposium will be hosted by the Brehon Law Society of Philadelphia and is supported by the Western Development Commission (WDC), Mayo County Council and Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia.

Topics relevant to international business exchange are high on the agenda and this event qualifies for CPD hours. Attendees will include Irish and American lawyers, business consultants and businesses operating in Ireland, the United States and the United Kingdom. Delegates will also include representatives from the banking and financial services sector, accountants and tax professionals, venture capitalists, state bodies, government departments and local authorities.

The Symposium will be chaired by Deirdre Somers, Chief Executive of the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) and Vice President of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE). Guest speaker at the Gala Dinner will be Enda Kenny TD, Leader of Fine Gael.

Speaking at the launch of the Symposium at Knockranny House Hotel, Joseph T Kelley, President of the Brehon Law Society of Philadelphia said, “The theme of this year’s Symposium is ‘Doing Business in the U.S. / Ireland / Europe – Critical Legal Issues for U.S. and Irish Companies’. The programme will address topics which are essential for international business exchange between both countries and will include import/export regulations, legal trends in the U.S. and Ireland and how to navigate cross border legal risks in intellectual property”.

The WDC is the key instigator in bringing this Symposium to the West of Ireland. It is supported by Mayo County Council in this initiative which dovetails with Government plans for trade, tourism and investment.

U.S. legal groups are no strangers to Ireland as part of their quest for continuing legal education. However, most trips have typically focused on Dublin. The U.S./Ireland Symposium is the first event of its kind to draw lawyers from across the United States and throughout Ireland to an event in the Ireland’s Western Region.

Speakers:

Deirdre Somers: Chairperson for the Brehon Law Syposium; CEO, Irish Stock Exchange

Enda Kenny: Offical address at the Gala Conference dinner; Leader of Fine Gael

Kelly G. Huller: Vice President - Legal, Globus Medical, Inc.

John J. Egan: J Egan & Associates, LLC and J Egan Consulting LLC

The Honorable Joseph Rocks: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, NHS Human Services

Nevan Elam: Chief Executive Officer, Aero Surgical Limited

Frank Ryan: Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise Ireland

Gerry Kilcommins: President, American Chamber of Commerce

Regina Brehony: Director General, Irish Venture Capital Association

Gillian Buckley: Chief Executive Officer, Western Development Commission

Brendan Cahill: Partner, William Fry

Kieran Cowhey: Partner, Dillon Eustace

Jeanne Kelly: Partner, Mason Hayes & Curran

John Malady: Principal, Malady and Wooten Public Affairs

Kevin Dooley Kent: Shareholder, Conrad O'Brien PC

Joseph T. Kelley Jr.: Founder/Managing Partner, Kelley & Murphy

Agenda

The following topics will be addressed by Irish, European and U.S. speakers and panelists at the Symposium:*

Accessing Capital and Starting Up a Business

Attracting venture capital, capital finance, banking (bulleted list)
State funding and grant assistance
Legal structure and formations, redomiciliation, mergers and acquisitions and other areas of corporate law
Public private partnerships
Current tax and accounting issues

Conducting Business/Comparative Analysis

Employment and Benefits
Insurance
Immigration
Lobbying
Public Law, Regulatory Law
Intellectual Property Law
Legal issues relevant to Hi-Tech Industries
Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance
Investigations and Fraud
Contracts and Commercial Transactions

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Commercial/Regulatory Litigation
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Ireland as a Forum for Alternative Dispute Resolution

* Topics are subject to change. A final program will be circulated to all delegates and interested parties as speakers and panels are confirmed

The website for bookings etc is www.brehonsymposium.com.

FitzPatrick Family Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (Criminology, Criminal Justice, Penology)

FitzPatrick Family Foundation Doctoral Scholarship

UCD Institute of Criminology

University College Dublin

Closing Date: Friday April 22nd

The UCD Institute of Criminology, part of UCD’s School of Law, is pleased to offer one doctoral scholarship in the area of criminology/ criminal justice / penology.

Applications are sought from exceptional graduates for a scholarship to undertake on a full-time basis a four year funded PhD programme of research in the fields of criminology, criminal justice, or penology. The scholarship is being generously funded by the FitzPatrick Family Foundation. It is available to candidates commencing their studies in September 2011 and is tenable for a maximum of four years, renewable each year subject to satisfactory progress.

In addition the payment of fees there is an annual stipend of €16,000 per annum (plus a €500 conference attendance allowance) and is open to Irish, EU and International applicants. In the case of non EU applicants any offer is conditional on the applicant demonstrating at the time of accepting the offer that s/he has sufficient funds to supplement the living allowance to cover the cost of living in Dublin. Information for international students contemplating a period of study at UCD is available at: http://www.ucd.ie/international

To apply please submit an application on-line at http://www.ucd.ie/apply/. Letters of application should be accompanied with a proposal for research (300-500 words in length).

Please also send a covering letter explaining

· why you wish to undertake a PhD, and in particular, why you wish to undertake a PhD at UCD Institute of Criminology.

· why you would be a suitable recipient for the scholarship.

This letter should be no more than 2 sides of A4 single-spaced and can be sent either as an email attachment to niamh.mccabe@ucd.ie or in hard copy to Ms. Niamh McCabe, Graduate Programme Manager, School of Law, UCD, Roebuck Castle, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that references are received before the closing date for this scholarship.

Please direct any queries regarding the application process to Niamh McCabe at the above email address or by telephone on + 353 1 716 8769.

Late applications will not be accepted.

All applicants will be notified of the outcome of the decision of the scholarship committee. No correspondence will be entered into about the committee’s decision.

Vacancy - Professorship of Law at UCC

Applications are invited for the post of Professor of Law at University College Cork to lead research, contribute to UCC’s national and international profile in Law, and play a critical role in attracting external research funding. The Department of Law at University College Cork is recognised as one of the University’s centres of excellence in research and teaching. The Department of Law at UCC has 46 full-time and part-time teaching and research staff with a large undergraduate and growing postgraduate student body with a strong doctoral programme.

The Department of Law at UCC has an outstanding record of research and publication, a strong and vibrant research culture and has been the recipient of numerous major national and international grants and awards. The appointee will be expected to play a pivotal academic leadership role in further developing these strengths and to be a distinguished contributor to research and teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, PhD supervision and administrative elements of the Department

UCC law academics are centrally involved in the development and implementation of College and University policies and strategies and the Law Faculty is well-known also for its public engagement and its contribution to professional, civil and legal life at national and international level.

The appointee shall be an outstanding legal scholar of international standing and shall have a significant track-record of sustained internationally published research. S/he will have the capacity to act as Dean of the Faculty of Law together with the requisite communication, management, administrative and leadership skills.

For further information on the post and Department see www.ucc.ie/hr/vacancies/academic

Salary Scale (Scale B): €113,604 - €145,953

Completed application forms must reach the Recruitment Office, Department of Human Resources, University College Cork, Ireland, before 12pm on Friday 8th April 2011.

University College Cork is an equal opportunities employer.

Constitutional Law: An Update - UCD Constitutional Studies Group seminar

Constitutional Law: An Update

School of Law, Roebuck Castle, University College Dublin

Wednesday March 2nd 2011

6.00-8.30 pm

2.5 CPD HOURS

Conference schedule

5.45 Registration.
6.00 The top 20 cases of 2010 — Eoin Carolan.
6.30 Questions and answers

6.40 Recent developments in Irish constitutional law – Eoin Carolan.
7.20 Questions and answers

7.30 Constitutional Reform: a new conventional wisdom? – John O’Dowd.
8.10 Questions and answers.

Booking Details
Conference Fee: €60 (practitioners of at least 5 years experience; government representatives)
Conference Fee: €45 (practitioners of less than 5 years experience; students; NGO representatives; the
unwaged).

To Reserve a Place: sinead.hennessy@ucd.ie

Speaker Details

Eoin Carolan B.L. is a practising barrister and a lecturer in Constitutional Law in University College
Dublin. He has contributed to a number of works in this area, including The New Separation of
Powers (Oxford University Press, 2009), The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values (Thomson
Round Hall, 2008) and The Right to Privacy (Thomson Round Hall, 2008). He is also the internal examiner for the FE-1 examinations for the Law Society of Ireland.

John O’Dowd has lectured constitutional law in UCD since 1992. He a member of the European
Group of Public Law and regularly contributes to conferences and publications of that international group of experts on constitutional and administrative law and in other fora. He is the internal examiner for Irish Constitutional Law in the entrance examination for the Degree of Barrister at Law in the King’s Inns.

www.ucd.ie/law/constitutionalstudiesgroup/events/

More events: www.irishlaw.org/events/

Constitutional Reform Seminar Series: Health Care and Children's Rights

Constitutional Reform Seminar Series: Health Care and Children's Rights
University College Cork

The third seminar in the Constitutional Reform Seminar Series will take place on Friday 25th February 2011 in Brookfield Health Sciences Room G10.
This session will focus on health care and children's rights. Confirmed speakers for the seminar include:

Maeve Lewis, Executive Director, One in Four
Claire Hayes, Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Mary Hughes, Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Dr Mary Donnelly (Seminar Chairperson), Faculty of Law

The seminar is free to attend and open to all. However, as places will be limited, please confirm your place by sending an email in advance to Shannon at childrensrightsseminar@gmail.com . The seminar will run from 1-3 pm with coffee/tea beforehand.

The seminar is organised by the Faculty of Law, the School of Applied Social Studies, the Irish Social Sciences Platform, and the ISS21 Children and Young People Research Cluster. The seminar is funded by PRTLI4 through the ISS21 Children and Young People Research Cluster

The full text of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children (2010) report is available at this link: www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=9925.

Best wishes

Dr Ursula Kilkelly (Law), Dr Conor O'Mahony (Law) & Dr Kenneth Burns (Applied Social Studies)

University College Cork

www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/

Call for Papers Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights Postgraduate Conference 2011

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at University College Cork is pleased to announce its fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference which will take place on Thursday, 28th April, 2011. The conference is aimed at those who are undertaking postgraduate research in the areas of criminal law, criminal justice and human rights. The Organising Committee is particularly eager to incorporate multi-disciplinary perspectives. Abstracts are welcome from scholars from disciplines outside of law (such as politics, social studies, sociology and philosophy, for example) who are working on related topics.

The theme for this year's event is “Human Rights Protection and Criminal Justice in the Age of Crisis”. The aim is to reflect upon the impact of crises on fundamental rights protection and the criminal law. We hope that this theme will encourage debate on the challenging and complex questions which arise in turbulent times. We are especially interested in papers that relate to human rights, criminal justice, criminal law or the intersection of these fields. However, we also welcome papers dealing with issues outside these areas that fall within the broader theme of the conference. Papers will be streamed thematically. Anticipated sessions include "Contemporary Discourse in Criminal Law", "Civil Liberties, Technology and State Security Claims" and "International Law, Human Rights and Development Policy". Session titles will be finalised based on submissions, and the Committee also invites proposals for additional streams.

This international one-day event has attracted promising research scholars from Ireland, the UK and Europe in the areas of law, politics, philosophy and the related social sciences. This year's conference aims to build on this success.
Details of the keynote speaker will follow shortly.
Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) to the organising committee by Friday 18th February 2011. Successful conference submissions will be notified by Friday, 4th March 2011. Submissions and further enquiries should be directed to ucclawconf@gmail.com.
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UCC Law Postgraduate Conference
Department of Law
University College Cork
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Cork
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ucclawconf@gmail.com

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Events from January 2011 on

=== Forthcoming Events ===
Details of events at http://www.irishlaw.org/events/
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Fri.28 Jan. 2011
Remedies in EU Law - Irish Centre for European Law, Dublin
http://www.icel.ie

Tue. 1 Feb. 2011, 6.15 p.m.:
"If These Walls Could Talk: The Graffiti of Female Prisoners" - Irish Women Lawyers Association, Dublin
http://bit.ly/iwla-jan

Wed. 2 Feb. 2011:
The EU and International Law: Uneasy Bedfellows - Professor Takis Tridimas at Queen's University Belfast
http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/NewsandEvents/Events/

Sat.12 Feb.2011, 10.00-4.30:
Contemporary Issues in Child and Family Law, presented by the Department of Law, Dublin Institute of Technology, in association with Fulbright Ireland
http://www.dit.ie/socialscienceslaw/newsevents/

Wed. 16 Feb. 2011:
Religion and Human Rights: Towards a Better Understanding - Professor Mashood Baderin (SOAS) at Queen's University Belfast
http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/NewsandEvents/Events/

Tue.22 Feb. 2011:
The Legal and Policy Challenges of Financial Elder Abuse - National Centre for the Protection of Older People, Dublin
http://www.ncpop.ie/index.php?uniqueID=8

Wed. 23 Feb. 2011:
The Middle East International Law Dynamics - Mr Solon Solomon at Queen's University Belfast
http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/NewsandEvents/Events/

Thu. 24 Feb. 2011:
The General Principles of EU Law in the Light of the Rulings in Mangold and Kücükdeveci -
Professor Michael Dougan (University of Liverpool) at Queen's University Belfast
http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/NewsandEvents/Events/

Mon.28 Feb.2011:
Irish Approaches to Justice, Special Edition of the Irish Journal of Legal Studies: Call for Papers; Expressions of interest to n.howlin@qub.ac.uk by 28 February

1-2 April 2011:
The Legacy and Future of the ECHR: Evaluating Sixty Years of the European Human Rights Project - University College Dublin School of Law PhD Workshop on Human Rights
http://www.ucd.ie/law/newsevents/name,73847,en.html

11-12 April 2011:
British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association conference - Manchester
http://www.bileta.ac.uk

12-14 April 2011:
Socio-Legal Studies Association conference - Brighton
http://www.slsa.ac.uk/content/view/179/139

19-21 April 2011:
Crossing Borders: Legal Education United - Association of Law Teachers, Cardiff
http://www.lawteacher.ac.uk/events/?id=20

Fri.-Sat. 29-30 April 2011:
Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, UCD School of Law, Dublin
Call for Papers - The Society is seeking especially proposals which place Irish law (in either part of Ireland) in a comparative dimension but is also open to comparative analyses from other legal systems. Any topic in comparative law or legal systems may be proposed: private or public law, criminal law and criminal justice, legal education, legal history, etc.
http://www.irishlaw.org/events/iscl-cfp-2011.pdf

29 April-2 May 2011:
Burren Law School 2011
http://www.burrenlawschool.org/programme.html

16-18 June 2011:
British and Irish Association of Law Librarians conference - Newcastle
http://www.biall.org.uk

CURRENT CONSULTATIONS:
Law Reform Commission:
"Submissions either verbal or written are welcome at any stage during our deliberations on any topic."
http://www.lawreform.ie/submissions.9.html

Irish Human Rights Commission - Have your say on Ireland's human rights record
The IHRC, as Ireland's National Human Rights Institution, will submit its own report for the Universal Periodic Review process. To inform our report, the IHRC welcomes contributions from the Irish Public and its other stakeholders. Submissions for consideration in our report should be made to the IHRC by 14 February 2011.
Members of the Public can write to us outlining their human rights concerns at upr@ihrc.ie
Stakeholders are also invited to submit their views for consideration in the IHRC's Report at upr@ihrc.ie

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If These Walls Could Talk: The Graffiti of Female Prisoners

The Irish Women Lawyers Association (IWLA)

are hosting a talk by

Niamh O’Sullivan BL

former curator of Kilmainham Gaol archive
and author of Every Dark Hour and Written in Stone

entitled

"If These Walls Could Talk: The Graffiti of Female Prisoners"

at 6.15 p.m. on Tuesday 1st February 2011

in the Multimedia room, Distillery Building
145/151 Church Street
Dublin 7

Refreshments will be served

This event is free to all members of IWLA.
A nominal fee of €5.00 will be charged to non members who wish to attend.

In order to assist in the organisation of refreshments please indicate if you are attending by e-mailing events@iwla.ie, or by phone to 087-9480388 by Friday 29th January 2011.

Information on IWLA is available on the website: www.iwla.ie.

CFP - Irish Society of Comparative Law

The ISCL Annual Conference will take place on 29-30 April 2011 in University College Dublin School of Law.

Call for Papers

The Society is seeking especially proposals which place Irish law (in either part of Ireland) in a comparative dimension but is also open to comparative analyses from other legal systems. Any topic in comparative law or legal systems may be proposed: private or public law, criminal law and criminal justice, legal education, legal history, etc.

The closing date for submission of abstracts is 21 February 2011.Abstracts should be submitted to Dr. Marie-Luce Paris at marieluce.paris@ucd.ie.

www.irishlaw.org/events/iscl-cfp-2011.pdf

http://irishsocietyofcomparativelaw.blogspot.com