Universities

Professor Laurent Pech has been appointed as the incoming Dean at UCD Sutherland School of Law. Taking over the role from Dr Niamh Howlin in October, Professor ...

Postgraduate student Eoghan O'Connell has become the first recipient of a new €5,000 scholarship from Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples Group's law firm. The Maples ...

Widespread tributes have been paid to the late legal academic Dr Vicky Conway following yesterday's news of her unexpected passing. An associate professor of law at Dublin ...

A Manchester academic has been awarded a prestigious, early career prize by the Irish Legal History Society. Ashley Hannay, lecturer in property law, was awarded the Sir ...

Dr Vicky Conway, an accomplished legal academic and one of Ireland's foremost researchers on policing, has passed away. In a short statement this morning, the School of ...

Lady Hale, the first woman justice of the UK Supreme Court and its first woman president, has been awarded an honorary degree by Queen's University Belfast (QUB). ...

The former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Declan Morgan, has been presented with an honorary degree by Queen's University Belfast. Sir Declan was honoured at ...

Legal academic Professor Shane Kilcommins has been appointed to the role of provost and deputy president at the University of Limerick (UL). He will take on the ...

Two legal academics have been appointed to the Royal Irish Academy's (RIA) ethical, political, legal and philosophical studies committee. Dr Dug Cubie of University College Cork (UCC) ...

Professor Joan Loughrey has been appointed as head of Queen's University Belfast (QUB) School of Law. She joins QUB from the University of Leeds, where she served ...

A new project aimed at reducing barriers to third-level education for people with convictions has been launched at Maynooth University. The Unlocking Potential project provides a fair ...

Postgraduate student Susan Massey has been awarded the prestigious Allen & Overy (A&O) trophy in recognition of excellence in the field of librarianship and information management. This ...

Professor Imelda Maher has been appointed as the Emile Noel GlobalFellow at the Jean Monnet Center, New York University School of Law. While a Fellow at the ...

Queen's University Belfast (QUB) has welcomed eight new academic staff to the law school. Pictured above, they are Dr Elizabeth Agnew, Dr Smith Azubuike, Dr Norah Burns, ...

Constitutional law expert Dr Mariana Velasco-Rivera has joined Maynooth University Department of Law as an assistant professor. Dr Velasco-Rivera, whose research explores the relationship between constitutionalism, constitutional ...