Events in June 2016 and following months

I've updated the listings of forthcoming events at www.irishlaw.org/events/.

Here's the current listing:

9-11 June 2016:  British and Irish Association of Law Librarians Conference, Dublin

Details at http://www.biall.org.uk/events.php

Fri. 10 June 2016:
International and Comparative Law in the 21st Century: Lessons learned, Postgraduate and Early Career Law Conference, Griffith College, Dublin
Details at https://www.griffith.ie/lawconference

13-18 June 2018:
Visiting Scholar Programme, Galway & Mayo, Jane Freedman, Professor of Politics at Universite de Paris 8 visits NUIG & Mayo to engage and participate in a series of events exploring asylum, migration & gender equality
Details at http://www.maryrobinsoncentre.ie/visiting-scholar-events.html 

Tue. 14 June 2016:
Natural Justice in Child Protection Investigation, Ballymun Community Law Centre, Dublin
Details at http://www.pila.ie/resources/bulletin/2016/06/08/ 

Wed. 15 June 2016:
The International Protection Act 2015: The Changes and Implications - Irish Refugee Council, Dublin
Details at http://www.pila.ie/resources/bulletin/2016/06/08/ 

Thu. 16 June 2016:
Migration and European Identity - Irish Society for European Law, Dublin
Details at https://www.isel.ie/event

Thu. 16 June 2016:
The Companies Act 2014: One Year On - DSBA, Dublin
Details at http://www.dsba.ie/seminars.574.html

16-25 June 2016:
Cinema and Human Rights Summer School, NUI Galway
Details at http://www.chra.ie/summerSchool.php

Sat. 18 June 2016:
Family Lawyers Association of Ireland conference, Cork
Details at http://www.familylawyers.ie/news-events/

Sat. 18 June 2016:
UCD Festival: School of Law to host four events including Brexit Debate
Details at http://www.ucd.ie/law/newsandevents/

Mon. 20 June 2016:
The Law of the Sea and Human Rights - NUI Galway
Details at
https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=IRISHLAW;811d2148.1606

Thu. 23 June 2016:
Annual Review of Important Competition Law Cases and Developments - Irish Society for European Law, Dublin
Details at https://www.isel.ie/event 

20-24 June 2016:
NUIG Centre for Disability Law & Policy: 2016 Summer School, Galway
Details at http://www.nuigalway.ie/cdlp/news.html

Wed. 22 June 2016:
Medical Ethics, Consent, Capacity & End Of Life Care Conference - Dublin
Details at http://cmgevents.ie/events/categories/legal_regulatory/

Thu. 23 June 2016:
DSBA Commercial Litigation Update, Dublin
Details at http://www.dsba.ie/seminars.574.html

23-24 June 2016:
North-South Criminology Conference, Maynooth University
Details at http://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/law/news

Fri. 24 June 2016:
The Role of International Law in Post-Conflict and Post-Colonial Societies - QUB Human Rights Centre, Belfast
Details at
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/FileStore/Filetoupload,651930,en.pdf

Sat. 25 June 2016:
Third Annual Human Rights Lecture - Hina Jilani at Mary Robinson Centre, Ballina
http://www.maryrobinsoncentre.ie/international-human-rights-lecture-2016.html

27 June to 1 July 2016:
Women and Political Settlements: International, Regional and Local Approaches to Peacemaking - Summer School on Transitional Justice 2016 - Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast
Details at http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ulster-life/events/transitional-justice-institute/summer-school-on-transitional-justice-2016

27 June to 1 July 2016:
International Criminal Court Summer School, ICHR, NUI Galway
Details at http://www.nuigalway.ie/irish-centre-human-rights/summerschools/

Tue. 28 June 2016:
Evidence-Informed Decision Making:  Putting research into practice in Criminal Justice - ACJRD, Dublin
Details at http://www.acjrd.ie/contents/315  

Tue. 28 June 2016:
DSBA Data Protection Seminar, Dublin
Details at http://www.dsba.ie/seminars.574.html

Wed. 29 June 2016:
Environmental Health and Safety Management Conference 2016, Dublin
Details at http://cmgevents.ie/events/categories/legal_regulatory/

Thu. 30 June 2016:
Deadline for submission of abstracts to World Congress on Family Law and Children's Rights - in partnership with School of Law, University College Cork, due to take place in Dublin in June 2017.
Details at http://www.wcflcr2017.com

Thu. 30 June 2016:
Digital Citizenship - Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Details at https://www.ria.ie/events/digital-citizenship

Fri. 1 July 2016:
Privacy and Data Protection Conference, ICEL, Dublin
Details at http://icel.ie/Privacy2016

1-2 July 2016:
The Sustainable Development Goals: Equality, Human Rights, Peace - The Mary Robinson Centre International Symposium 2016, Ballina
Details at http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=475

Tue. 12 July 2016:
Consumer Regulation and Proportionality - Irish Society for European Law, Dublin
Details at https://www.isel.ie/event 

10-12 August 2016:
Attorney General for Northern Ireland Constitutional Law Summer School, Belfast
Details at http://www.lawsoc-ni.org/news-events-and-media/lsni-events/  

15 August 2016:
Deadline for Submissions to Irish Journal for European Law
https://www.isel.ie/blog/irish-journal-for-european-law-call-for-papers-2016/

6-9 Sept. 2016:
Annual Conference of Society of Legal Scholars, Oxford
Details at http://www.slsconference.uk 

Fri. 9 Sep. 2016:
State Accountability for Vulnerability - Socio-Legal Research Centre, Dublin City University
Details at http://www.dcu.ie/law_and_government/news-events.shtml 

Fri. 16 Sep. 2016 1:30 p.m.:  
Current Trends in Employment Law - Central Law Training CPD Seminar, Dublin
Details at http://www.cltireland.ie/course.aspx?crseidcode=1076

Thu. 29 Sep. 2016:
Employment Law Update 2016 - Law Society, Dublin
Details at https://www.lawsociety.ie/Courses--Events/cpd/

Thu. 29 Sep. 2016:
Implementing the New EU Data Protection Regulation - Dublin
Details at http://cmgevents.ie/events/categories/legal_regulatory/

Fri. 7 Oct. 2016:
Cybercrime - ACJRD Annual Conference, Dublin
Details to follow at http://www.acjrd.ie 

Thu. 20 Oct. 2016:
Annual Property Law Conference 2016 - Law Society, Dublin
Details at http://www.lawsociety.ie/Annual_Property_Law_Conference_2016

Fri. 21 Oct. 2016:
Probate Practice - A Practical Guide to Recent Developments - Dublin
Details at http://www.cltireland.ie/cpd-training.aspx 

18-20 Nov. 2016:
Annual Conference of Irish Association of Law Teachers, Waterford.
Details at
http://www.ialt.ie/event/annual-conference-of-the-irish-association-of-law-teachers-2016

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Events in November 2015 and after

I've updated the listings of events as follows:

Thu. 26 Nov. 2015:
European Data Privacy Rights and Democratic Politics: A Tangled Web - Professor Deirdre Curtin,
Irish Society for European Law, Dublin
Details at https://www.isel.ie/event/view/108/n-a

27-29 Nov. 2015:
The Law Lecturer: Enhancing Academic Life - Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers 2015 – Salthill Hotel, Galway
Details at http://www.ialt.ie/event/annual-conference-of-the-ialt-2015

Fri. 27 Nov. 2015:
Securing Accountability: Building effective prison monitoring, inspection, and complaints systems - Irish Penal Reform Trust, Dublin
http://www.iprt.ie/contents/2792

Fri. 27 November 2015:
Emmanuel Mellisaris (London School of Economics) - ʻSolidarity and Punishmentʼ - Legal and Political Theory Workshop Series, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/research/lptheory/

Sat. 28 Nov. 2015:
Graça Machel, one of the world’s leading women’s rights activists is to deliver the Second Annual International Human Rights Lecture - Mary Robinson Centre, Ballina, Co. Mayo
Details at http://www.maryrobinsoncentre.ie/events.html

Sat. 28 Nov. 2015:
Current Legal Challenges Facing Primary School Management - Law School, Trinity College Dublin
http://www.tcd.ie/Law/events/2015/primary-schools-legal-challenges.php

Mon. 30 Nov. 2015:
Direct Democracy Considered – Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Transnational European Perspectives on the Use of Referendums, Quinn School of Business, UCD
Details at http://www.ucd.ie/law/eventsseminars/title,260230,en.html

Tue. 1 Dec. 2015:
The Future of the European Court of Human Rights
Irish Society of International Law, Dublin
Details at http://seanlester9.eventbrite.ie

Tue. 1 Dec. 2015:
Deflecting the Law from its Course: Capital Punishment and Clemency in Ireland, 1923-1990 - Professor Ian O'Donnell, Hugh M. Fitzpatrick Lecture in Legal Bibliography, Dublin
Details at http://www.lawsociety.ie/Courses--Events/Other-Events/Events/Hugh-M-Fitzpatrick-Lecture-in-Legal-Bibliography2/

Wed. 2 Dec. 2015:
Constitutionalising Labour Rights - Professor Judy Fudge, UCD Sutherland School of Law
Details at http://www.ucd.ie/law/eventsseminars/title,258804,en.html

Thu. 3 Dec. 2015:
Using the Law to Secure Social Justice - Lecture by Michael Farrell, FLAC, Dublin
http://www.flac.ie/news/events/2015/12/03/ninth-annual-dave-ellis-memorial-lecture/

Thu. 3 Dec. 2015:
Barristers at War, Courts Centenary Commemoration Committee, Dublin
Details at http://www.lawsociety.ie/Courses--Events/Other-Events/Events/Barristers-at-War-Lecture/

Sat. 5 Dec. 2015:
Precedent in the EU: The Linguistic Aspect Irish Centre for European Law and University of Exeter Workshop, Dublin
Details at http://www.icel.ie/Precedent

Wed. 9 Dec. 2015:
Constitutional Law: An Update - UCD Sutherland School of Law, Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/law/eventsseminars/title,259667,en.html

Wed. 9 Dec.2015 12:30 PM:
Two Cheers for the Anti-Impunity Norm - Ulster University, Transitional Justice Seminar Series, Jordanstown campus
https://www.ulster.ac.uk/ulster-life/events/transitional-justice-institute/anti-impunity-norm

Thu. 10 Dec. 2015:
The EU Digital Single Market: Professor Robert Clark, Arthur Cox Solicitors, IP Law Café at University of Limerick
Details at http://www.ul.ie/law/news/00%5Bnid%5D-ip-law-café-201516

Fri. 11 Dec. 2015:
Employment Law - Irish Centre for European Law conference, Dublin
Details at http://www.icel.ie/Employment2015 

Fri. 11 December 2015
Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov (Swansea University) - ʻWhat does it mean to be responsible for action: lessons from criminal lawʼ - Legal and Political Theory Workshop Series, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/research/lptheory/

Mon. 14 Dec. 2015:
Where Next For a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland - Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ulster-life/events/transitional-justice-institute/a-bill-of-rights-for-northern-ireland-where-next

2016:

Thu. 21 Jan. 2016:
Valuing IP rights: Professor Bill Murphy, School of Law, UNH, IP Law Café at University of Limerick
Details at http://www.ul.ie/law/news/00%5Bnid%5D-ip-law-café-201516

Tue. 29 January 2016
Zoi Aliozi (NUI Galway Irish Centre for Human Rights) - ʻDeconstructing Human Rights in Times of Economic Crisis: A Philosopho-Legal Approachʼ - Legal and Political Theory Workshop Series, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/research/lptheory/

Thu. 18 Feb. 2016:
IP and Disruptive Technologies : 3D Printing explored: Kate Harnett, William Fry Solicitors, IP Law Café at University of Limerick
Details at http://www.ul.ie/law/news/00%5Bnid%5D-ip-law-café-201516 

Fri. 19 February 2016:
Michael Sevel (University of Sydney) - ʻJoseph Razʼs Philosophy of Human Rightsʼ - Legal and Political Theory Workshop Series, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/research/lptheory/

Fri. 4 March 2016:
Elizabeth Shaw (University of Aberdeen) - ʻFree will scepticism and criminal behaviourʼ - Legal and Political Theory Workshop Series, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/research/lptheory/

Thu. 10 Mar. 2016:
National and international taxation of IP rights: Professor Jeffrey Maine, University of Maine Law School, IP Law Café at University of Limerick
Details at http://www.ul.ie/law/news/00%5Bnid%5D-ip-law-café-201516

Fri. 18 March 2016:
Mairead Enright and Emilie Cloatre (University of Kent) - ʻTransformative Illegality: Condom Mail Order in the West of Irelandʼ - Legal and Political Theory Workshop Series, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/research/lptheory/

Fri. 8 April 2016:
Michael Frazer (University of East Anglia) - ʻThe Ethics of Social Explanation: Causal and Interpretive Approaches as Expressions of (Dis)Respect for Subjectsʼ - Legal and Political Theory Workshop Series, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/research/lptheory/

Mon. 18 Apr 2016 2:00 p.m.:  
Access to Justice; identifying the problems, finding the solutions - WIT Waterford, School of Humanities, and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Seminar, Dublin
Contact   Sinead Conneely - sconneely@wit.ie

Thu. 21 April 2016:
Law and the Environment 2016 - School of Law, University College Cork
Details to follow at http://www.ucc.ie/law/ 

Thu. 21 April 2016:
Protecting Patents: Michael Lucy, Patent Attorney, IP Law Café at University of Limerick
Details at http://www.ul.ie/law/news/00%5Bnid%5D-ip-law-café-201516 

Fri. 29 April 2016:
Yaniv Roznai (The Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa) - ʻUnconstitutional Constitutional Amendmentsʻ - Legal and Political Theory Workshop Series, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/research/lptheory/

Fri. 13 May 2016:
Uladzislau Belvusau (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Alexsandra Gliszczynska-Grabias (Poznan Human Rights Centre) and Ioanna Tourkochoriti (NUI Galway) - ʻRemembering Holocaust and other Atrocities Through Lawʼ  - Legal and Political Theory Workshop Series, NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/research/lptheory/

23-24 May 2016:
(Dis)locating Comparative Law: Annual conference of the Irish Society of Comparative Law, NUI Galway
http://bit.ly/ISCL-2016

27 June to 1 July 2016:
Summer School on Transitional Justice 2016 - Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ulster-life/events/transitional-justice-institute/summer-school-on-transitional-justice-2016

Law Society Diploma and Certificate courses:  

Details at http://www.lawsociety.ie/Courses--Events/Public-Diplomas-CMS/

Diploma in Arbitration; Diploma in Finance Law; Diploma in Corporate Law and Governance
Diploma in Mediation; Diploma in Technology Law; Diploma in In-House Practice
Diploma in Litigation Management Skills (new); Certificate in Aviation Leasing and Finance
Certificate in Advanced Negotiation; Certificate in Charity Law, Trusteeship and Governance
Certificate in Employment Law Advocacy Skills; Certificate in Commercial Contracts
Certificate in Company Secretarial Law and Practice; Certificate in Trade Mark Law
Diploma in Aviation Leasing and Finance; Diploma in Commercial Property;
Diploma in Employment Law; Certificate in Data Protection Practice;
Certificate in Environmental and Planning Law; Certificate in Human Rights Law

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School Admissions and the Equal Status Act

I have written a short piece for the Irish Times concerning school admissions and the Equal Status Act.  The article has been published here.  I may in due course develop this into a longer article for a journal in which I can provide evidence for each aspect, and tease out the issues in more depth. 

Some extra points:

The Supreme Court case is Stokes v Christian Brothers High School [2015] IESC 13.

My article only discusses the main judgment in the case, agreed by three judges. It does not discuss the other judgment in the case, in which two judges found that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal in a case such as this.

The Equality Authority appeared as amicus curiae in this case.  See the press release of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (which replaces the Equality Authority). 

Aisling Twomey writes in the Irish Examiner about how travellers would thrive if they were given the opportunity. 

The earlier stages  are as follows:

• Equality Tribunal - DEC-S2010-056
• Teehan J., Circuit Court - [2011] IECC 1
• McCarthy J., High Court, 3 February 2012 - http://tinyurl.com/stokes-HC 

Commentary on the High Court stage:

• Olivia Smith, ‘Perpetuating Traveller children’s educational disadvantage in Ireland: Legacy rules and the limits of indirect discrimination’ (2014) 14 International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 145 (Sage Journals)
• Mel Cousins, "Travellers, equality and school admission in the High Court: Stokes v Christian Brothers High School Clonmel" - http://works.bepress.com/mel_cousins/22
• Page at Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project 

 I previously posted on travellers in County Clare and the Equal Status Act.

Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, 24th & 25th May 2013

The School of Law at NUI Galway will host the Irish Society of Comparative Law 5th Annual Conference on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of May 2013 in Galway. The theme for the Irish Society of Comparative Law’s Annual Conference 2013 is ‘Comparative Public Law’.

The Irish Society of Comparative Law was established in June 2008 and is recognised by the International Academy of Comparative Law. The ISCL is open to those interested in Irish and comparative law. Its purpose is to encourage the comparative study of law and legal systems and to seek affiliation with individuals and organisations with complementary aims.

For inquiries please contact charles.omahony@nuigalway.ie

Friday 24th May 2013

1.30 Registration

2.15 Welcome by Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness, Adjunct Professor at the School of Law, NUI, Galway and Professor Steve Hedley, President of the Society.

2.30 – 3 30 Keynote Address
Dr. Susan Farran, University of Northumbria
‘The age of Empire. Again: critical thoughts on legal imperialism’


3.30 – 5.30 Masters Students’ Presentations

5.30 Drinks Reception.

5.30 - 6.15 Annual General Meeting of the Society

8.00 p.m.               Gala Dinner and Presentation of Masters Prize (Aula Maxima)

Saturday 25th May 2013

8.30 – 9.00 Late Registration – Tea & Coffee
9.30 – 10.30 Keynote Address
Professor Brice Dickson Queens University Belfast
‘The Irish Supreme Court in Comparative Perspective: Preliminary Thoughts.’

10.30 – 11.45 Parallel Session - 1
1. Children and the Law:

Chair: Judge Catherine McGuinness
Marta Tomasi, PhD in Comparative and European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Trento,
“The protection of children in rainbow families.”

Catríona Moloney, PhD Candidate, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI, Galway,
“Access to justice for children with mental disorders.”

Katherine Wade, PhD Candidate, Department of Children and Youth Affairs Research Scholar, Faculty of Law, University College Cork,
“Protection of Child Research Participants in the Research Process: Lessons from the US Regulatory Approach.”

2. Comparative Criminal Law I:

Chair: Charles O’Mahony
Mathilda Twomey, Judge Court of Appeal Seychelles and PhD Candidate, NUI, Galway,
“Commonality in common intention in common law jurisdictions.”

Dr. Chris Taylor and Dr. Yvonne Marie Daly, Bradford University Law School and School of Law and Government, Dublin City University,
“Comparative Observations on Compelled Co-operation: Adverse Inferences in the Criminal Process.”

Ronan Ó Fathaigh, PhD Candidate, Universiteit Gent, Belgium,
“Criminal Defamation and Freedom of Expression: Lessons for Strasbourg from the Inter-American Court.”


3. Collaboration and Alternative Approaches to Law:

Chair: Marie McGonagle
Connie Healy, PhD Candidate, School of Law, NUI, Galway, research funded by the Irish Research Council,
“Collaborative Practice: The Critics’ View.”
Darren McStravick, O’Hare Scholar and PhD Candidate, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University,
“Adult Reparation Panels, Best Practice and the Search for Community: Lessons and Warnings from Other Jurisdictions.”
Miriam Keane, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, University College Dublin,
“The Regulation of Legal Costs: A comparative historical approach.”

4. Constitutional Interpretation:

Chair: Donncha O’Connell
Stephen Gerard Brittain, PhD Scholar and Irish Research Scholar, Trinity College Dublin,
“Originalism in Irish Constitutional Discourse: the Straw Man Answers Replies.”
Elisabeth Pulice, PhD Candidate in Public Law at the Doctoral School in Comparative and European Legal Studies, University of Trento (Italy),
"Extra-legal sources and Constitutional Interpretation: A Comparative Analysis in the Field of Biolaw."
David Kenny, Assistant Professor of Law, Trinity College Dublin,
“They Don’t Like It Like That in Canada: The Proportionality Principle in Irish Constitutional Law in Comparative Perspective.”
5. Legal Theory and Legal History:

Chair:Dr. Conor Hanly
Dr. David Prendergast, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin,

“The differing demands of legality”.

Dr.  Sean Patrick Donlan, School of Law, University of Limerick,
“The American Orleans Territory and Spanish West Florida, c1803-1810: A Study in Entangled Legal History.”


11.45 – 12.00 Tea and Coffee

12.00 – 1.15 Parallel Session – 2
1.International and Comparative Disability Law:

Chair: Catríona Moloney

Candia Emmanuel, Advocate/Managing Partner: M/S Candia Advocates & Legal Consultants, Kampala, Uganda: Founder/Director: Accessibility Initiative Uganda (AIU),
“Why DPO’s counter the Human Rights Approach on Delivering CRPD in Disability Movements.”

Charles O’Mahony, Lecturer in Public Law, School of Law, NUI Galway,
“A Disability Perspective on the Prohibition on Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Torture.”

Priscilla Fay, Courts Service, ISIS Intern.
“Problem-Solving Justice as a Reasonable Accommodation: Does the Criminal Justice System Really Care?”

2. Law Governance and Regulation:

Chair:   Professor Steve Hedley
Andy Noble, PhD Candidate and Postgraduate Teaching Assistant Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham,
“Central Dictatorship or Local Discretion?: Comparing Regulation of the Taxi Trade in Ireland and England and Wales.”

Dr. Niamh Connolly, Lecturer in Law, Trinity College, Dublin,
“The private law lives of public bodies.”

Dr. Annabel Brody, Editor of IRIS, University of Amsterdam,
“Regulation of the print media: an analysis of the trend towards re-regulation as indicated by recent European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence and inquiries into freedom of the press.”

3. Employment Law Issues:

Chair:Aisling de Paor
Aneta Tyc, University of Lodz,
“Burden of Proof in Employment Law: A Comparative Perspective.

Dr. Clíodhna Murphy, Lecturer in Law, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University,
“Domestic Workers and Diplomatic Immunity: Converging Approaches in Europe and the US?”

Mamedova Aybeniz Tariverdi Kizi, PhD Candidate, Department of Civil Disciplines, Gumilev L.N. Eurasian National University,
“New trends in labour market regulation.”

4. Transitional Justice:

Chair: Judge Mathilda Twomey
Dr. James Gallen, Lecturer, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University,
“Property Rights, Reparations and Transitions.”

Amina Adanan, Doctoral Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway,
“Universal jurisdiction the crimes of piracy and slavery before World War II.”

Alice M. Panepinto, PhD Candidate, Durham Law School,
“Caramel Latte? Giving Transitional Justice an Islamic Flavour.”


5. Family Law:

Chair: Connie Healy
Dr. Anne Egan, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, NUI Galway,
“All by myself: An analysis of adoption law in Ireland and the United Kingdom for non-marital couples.”

Dr. Ronagh McQuigg, Lecturer, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast,
“A Comparative Perspective on Domestic Violence in Regional Conventions on Violence Against Women.”

Dr. Lucy-Ann Buckley, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, NUI Galway,
“Choice rhetoric’ and relational autonomy in Ireland and Canada: comparative approaches to marital financial agreements.”

1.15- 2.15 Lunch

2.15 – 3.30 Parallel Sessions – 3
1. Constitutions of the World:

Chair: Dr. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko
Dr. Marie-Luce Paris, Lecturer in Law, ISCL Treasurer, School of Law, University College Dublin,
“French Constitutional Review in the Era of Globalisation and Europeanisation: A Comparative Perspective.”
Thomas McDonagh, PhD Candidate, School of Law, NUI Galway,
“Sources of education rights? Ireland and the United States – a comparison.”

2. Constitutional and Human Rights:

Chair: Dr. Ciara Smyth
Prof.  Fiona de Londras, School of Law, Durham,
“Politicising the Legal Constitution: can the ECHR Act 2003 work?”
Dr. Semahagn Gashu Abebe, Bank of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway,
“Institutional Accommodation of Cultural Diversity in Sub-Sahara Africa with particular emphasis to Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federal System.”
Maureen O’Sullivan, Lecturer, School of Law, NUI Galway,
“Do Human-Animal Hybrids and Chimeras Deserve Constitutional Recognition?”

3.Contemporary Issues:

Chair: Dr. Marie-Luce Paris
George J. Siedel, Thurnau Professor of Business Law and Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan,
“A Comparative Study of the US “Law for Competitive Advantage” Movement and the Continental Proactive Law Movement.”

Anouck Juraver, Trinity College Dublin,
“The concept of public contract in the French legal system and the Common Law system.”
Mike Madden, J.S.D. (candidate) and Lieutenant-Commander, Legal Advisor Military Justice, Office of the Judge Advocate General,
“Keeping up with the Common Law O’Sullivans? The Limits of Comparative Law in the Context of Military Justice Law Reforms.”

4. Issues in International Criminal Law:

Chair: Dr. Ciara Hackett
Dr. Sharon McLaughlin, Lecturer, Department of Law and Humanities, Letterkenny Institute of Technology,
“Tightening the Net on Cyberbulling”
John Lombard, Leona O’Brien, PhD Candidates, University College Cork,
“The International Response to Money Laundering: An Examination of the External Forces which have shaped Money Laundering Regulations in the European Union and the United States.”
Susan Power, Lecturer in Law, Griffith College Cork,
“The Responsibility to Rebuild: An uneasy Framework for Economic Reconstruction.”
3.30 - 3.45 Tea & Coffee

3.45 – 5.00 Parallel Sessions – 4
1.Comparative Criminal Law II:

Chair:Tom O’Malley
Dai Tamada, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, Japan
“Can the Irish Jury system survive? Taxquet and obligation to state reasons under the ECHR”

Patrick O’Donnell, Lawyer, Wiltshire & Grannis, LLP, Washington Extraterritorial Enforcement of U.S. Criminal and Civil Law,
“Extraterritorial Enforcement of U.S. Criminal and Civil Law.”

Maria Manuela de Almeida Silva, Legal Interpreter,
“Facing Criminal Proceedings with Limited Knowledge of the English Language in Ireland: A case for justice to be done and heard.”

2. Constitutional Issues:

Chair: Dr. Anne Egan
Magdalena Duggan, PhD Researcher, School of Law, University of Limerick,
“Blurring the Boundaries? The ‘Constitutionalism’ of the Irish Private Law on the Example of the Rights Attributable to an Unborn Child as compared with the Continental Approach.”
Lucia Bussata, PhD in Comparative and European Legal Studies, University of Trento,
“How to grant equality to healthcare: the perspective of comparative ` constitutional law.”
Dr. Denise Amram, Attorney at Law (avvocato) at the State Bar in Pisa (Italy),
“Family Law reforms in European countries and the role of the Constitutional Charts.”

3.Comparative Public Law and the EU:

Chair:   Dr. Sean Patrick Donlan
Dr. Carlo Panara, Sr. Lecturer EU/Public Law, LJMU, UK,

 “A Legal Appraisal of Multilevel Governance in the EU: A Crucial Role for Comparative Public Law.”

Robert Siucinski, University of Lodz,
“Convergence of Law in the Field of Administrative Procedure.”
Krzystek Krzysztof, PhD Candidate, University of Lodz
"The parallel application of competition law and sector specific regulations in the European Union".

4.  Law and the Economic Crisis:

Chair: Dr. Niamh Connolly
Prof. Elizabeth F. Brown, Dept. of Risk Management and Insurance J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University,
“A Comparison of the Handling of the Financial Crisis in Ireland and the United States.”
Dr. Ciara Hackett, Lecturer in Law, Queen’s University Belfast,
“Moving beyond banking legislation and regulation: the tort of reckless lending.”
Tania Abbiate, PhD Candidate in Comparative Public Law, University of Siena,
“Courts facing the crisis: a difficult balance of principles.”

5.00 Close of Conference

Full information and registration:
http://conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=218

90 Years - The 1922 Irish Free State Constitution and the Birth of the Modern Irish State

90 YEARS – THE IRISH FREE STATE CONSTITUTION AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN IRISH STATE

CONSTITUTION PROJECT @ UCC invites you to a free public event on
Thursday 6th December at 6pm in G30 Aras na Laoi, UCC
to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 1922 Irish Free State Constitution.

Programme:

6.00: Welcome by Dr Andrew McCarthy (School of History)

6.05: Professor David Gwynn Morgan (Faculty of Law) “The Separation of powers in the Irish Free State Constitution – Real or Imaginary?”

6.25: Dr Neil Buttimer  (Department of Modern Irish) “The Irish Version of the 1922 Constitution: Beginning a Linguistic Tradition”

6.45: Dr Laura Cahillane (Faculty of Law) “Appreciating the Irish Free State Constitution – Novelties and Experiments”

7.05: Tim Pat Coogan “Revisiting the 1922 Constitution after 90 years”.

7.30: Questions and discussion

Further details on www.constitutionproject.ie

This event has been kindly sponsored by the College of Business and Law, Invited Speaker Series

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/

Equality and the Sikh Turban Ban

Lord Lester facilitated a fascinating workshop this morning here at UCC on Equality Law, assisted by Colm O'Cinneide.

Among the many interesting points that arose concerning the recent ban on a Sikh turban in the Garda reserve were the following:

• Could it be argued that a member of the Garda reserve is engaged in an "occupation" (under the Framework Directive 2000/78/EC)

• Even though the particular person involved has withdrawn from the Garda reserve, could a Judicial Review be brought against the Garda Commissioner's decision?

• Could a JR application be made by the Equality Authority and/or the Human Rights Commission?

• If a JR were brought, an argument could be made that the Garda Commissioner's decision applies both to members of the reserve and ordinary Gardai, if need be, in response to any defence relating to the status of members of the reserve.

Mandatory Life Sentences, the Constitution and the ECHR

RTE is reporting that a challenge to the mandatory life sentence has been rejected:

Challenges to life sentences rejected Friday, 5 October 2007 16:20

"Two convicted murderers have lost their High Court challenge to the constitutionality of the mandatory life sentence for murder.

They are 25-year-old Peter Whelan, who was jailed for life in 2002 for the murder of Cork student Nicola Sweeney, and 30-year-old Paul Lynch, who pleaded guilty in 1997 to the murder of Donegal pensioner, William Campbell.

Each claimed the sentence breached their rights under the Constitution and under the European Convention of Human Rights.

The two men claimed the mandatory life sentence interfered with the role of the judiciary and offended the independence of the judiciary enshrined in the Consitution.

They also claimed their rights under the Convention were breached because they have no way of knowing how or when they are likely to be released.

The case could have had implications for more than 250 people serving life sentences for murder in Ireland.

But Ms Justice Mary Irvine rejected the men's claims on all grounds."

The full story is here.

Proposed Referendum Regarding Children

The wording of the proposed constitutional amendment regarding children is available at
http://www.dohc.ie/press/releases/2007/20070219.html

The proposed Article 42(A) would say:

1. The State acknowledges and affirms the natural and imprescriptible rights of all children.
2. 1. In exceptional cases, where the parents of any child for physical or moral reasons fail in their duty towards such child, the State as guardian of the common good, by appropriate means shall endeavour to supply the place of the parents, but always with due regard for the natural and imprescriptible rights of the child.
   2. Provision may be made by law for the adoption of a child where the parents have failed for such a period of time as may be prescribed by law in their duty towards the child, and where the best interests of the child so require.
3. Provision may be made by law for the voluntary placement for adoption and the adoption of any child.
4. Provision may be made by law that in proceedings before any court concerning the adoption, guardianship or custody of, or access to, any child, the court shall endeavour to secure the best interests of the child.
5. 1. Provision may be made by law for the collection and exchange of information relating to the endangerment, sexual exploitation or sexual abuse, or risk thereof, of children, or other persons of such a class or classes as may be prescribed by law.
   2. No provision in this Constitution invalidates any law providing for offences of absolute or strict liability committed against or in connection with a child under 18 years of age.
   3. The provisions of this section of this Article do not, in any way, limit the powers of the Oireachtas to provide by law for other offences of absolute or strict liability.

For some discussion of the proposed amendment see the archives of the Irish Law Discussion group at
https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0702&L=irishlaw

See also the usual media sites such as www.rte.ie/news/