Universities

Arthur Cox has named Jarlaith Brady and Thomas Walsh as the recipients of the 2024 Niamh Burke Memorial Bursary. Established in memory of late Arthur Cox partner Niamh Burke, the bursary fosters and supports study and research in the field of renewable energy through an annual award of €10,000

The University of Galway's Professor Roja Fazaeli has been appointed as deputy chairperson of international human rights organisation Front Line Defenders. Professor Fazaeli was appointed last summer as established professor of law and Islamic studies at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Universi

Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology has announced the appointment of Dr Jiangyuan Fu as a lecturer and assistant professor in law. Dr Fu, who will join the university in July, is currently a faculty member and the assistant dean for international collaboration at Huazhong University of

Jude Pierse, a second-year student of law and political science at Trinity College Dublin, has been named as winner of the 2023 Matheson Cara Scholarship. The annual scholarship is named in honour of late Matheson partner Cara O'Hagan and delivered as part of Matheson's impactful business programme.

Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin has received the University of Galway’s 2024 Alumni Award for Law, Public Policy and Society.

Undergraduate students Esther Ozonyia from Maynooth University, Johana Hajduchová and Ainsley Hamilton from Trinity College Dublin, and Anastasiia Ukhlova from University College Dublin have won the Matheson University Challenge 2024.

Dr Mariza Avgeri, a graduate of Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology's PhD programme, has been named joint winner of the prestigious European Law Faculties Association (ELFA) award for the best doctoral thesis on European law for 2023. The ELFA thesis award "seeks to stimulate and recog

A rare posthumous presidential pardon is to be granted to two men convicted and executed in relation to an 1882 murder following research by Dr Niamh Howlin. Sylvester Poff and James Barrett were convicted of the murder of Thomas Browne in October 1882 and executed in January 1883.

In the latest episode of the University of Galways's Human Rights Podcast, LLM student Julia Collins hosts Professor Ray Murphy, program director of the LLM in peace operations and humanitarian law. Together, they discuss children and armed conflicts, focussing on the recruitment of children and the

Professor Suzanne Kingston is to deliver UCD Sutherland School of Law's John M Kelly Lecture 2024. She was appointed as a judge of the General Court of the European Union in 2022. This year's lecture will be a major part of the celebration of 10 years in the Sutherland School of Law building on the

A law student at the University of Galway has secured a prestigious internship with a US federal appeals court. Grace O'Brien, a final-year student on the BCL Criminology and Criminal Justice degree programme, obtained the internship through a summer exchange programme with Suffolk University Law Sc

Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology is believed to have become the first academic department in a European university to adopt a restorative practices policy. Dr Ian Marder, whose research focuses on the development of restorative justice and restorative practices in criminal justice,

Students from the National Law School of India have emerged as winners of the 10th annual International Negotiation Competition (INC) organised by ELSA Maynooth in collaboration with ELSA Ireland. Dhawal Mittsl and Pratyush Singh triumphed over Arima Kaushal and Dhruv Maheshwari of the National Univ

Professor David Kenny has been elected as the next head of Trinity College Dublin School of Law. An expert in constitutional law, Professor Kenny joined the faculty in 2012. He was elected as a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2021 and promoted from associate professor to professor last year.

Scholarships and prizes have been awarded to law students at University College Cork (UCC). The Quercus Undergraduate College Scholarships, awarded based on the results of the summer 2022 university examinations, were awarded to Pepper Robson, Erin O'Riordan, Niamh Lorraine Fitzpatrick, Eadaoin Ther