Universities

The University of Galway's alumni award for law, public policy and society is to be awarded to Major General Maureen O'Brien, deputy military adviser to the Secretary ...

A team of trainee solicitors representing the Law Society of Ireland have taken second place in the Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition. The team of Sophie ...

Insights into climate and disaster risk governance, emergency planning, the evolving Aarhus Convention and the emerging rights of nature are among the subjects at the ‘Law and ...

Cork law student Hannah Janknecht has been awarded the Southern Law Association prize for the highest mark on her dissertation. The prize was awarded during the UCC ...

Cork postgraduate law student Deirdre McCormack has been awarded the Comyn Kelleher Tobin Scholarship for 2023. The scholarship supports one postgraduate student of the LLM Children's Rights ...

Queen's University Belfast students Jessica Rae-Anne Richards and Ciara Ambrose have triumphed in the 2023 International Negotiation Competition (INC), hosted by the European Law Students' Association ...

Professor Imelda Maher of UCD Sutherland School of Law has been appointed as senior vice-president of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). The RIA is Ireland's leading body ...

Irish prison law expert Dr Mary Rogan has won a highly competitive €150,000 grant to continue her work on human rights and prison oversight. The European Research ...

A bursary established in memory of the late Arthur Cox partner Niamh Burke will be awarded this year to Sean Murphy from Cavan and Karin Mackey from ...

University College Cork (UCC) and Matheson have launched a new "innovation partnership" which will support the creation of a new lectureship and scholarship as well as a ...

Law students Katie Morrissey and David Lynch have been named among three winners of an essay competition themed around "Social Justice & the City". Ms Morrissey and ...

A networking event hosted by QUB Women in Law brought together students starting their legal journey and women from various sectors of law to share their experiences ...

Dr Mary Tumelty has been reappointed to the Health and Social Care Professionals Council within multi-profession health regulator CORU. Dr Tumelty is a law lecturer at University ...

UCD's alumni community will tomorrow mark International Women's Day with a webinar recalling the long road to the introduction of Ireland's gender recognition law in 2015. Dr ...

Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden, professor of law and criminal justice at Queen's University Belfast, has been conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. The Academy ...