Universities

UCC law students Caitlin Ong and Chidindu Ukah have each been awarded a diversity scholarship worth €5,000 and a work placement opportunity with RDJ. The RDJ Diversity Scholarship, which commenced in 2021, supports students from ethnically diverse backgrounds studying law at UCC, with the aim o

Providing more support for litigants in person would help to ease pressure on Northern Ireland's family courts, according to new research from Ulster University. Two reports produced by Ulster University School of Law with funding from the Nuffield Foundation set out recommendations which researcher

Maynooth University students recently enjoyed the opportunity to hear from Aonghus Kelly, the Irish lawyer serving as a senior adviser on the prosecution of international crimes in Ukraine. Mr Kelly, who is currently in Kyiv, remotely joined the event hosted by the recently-established International

The University of Galway Law Review is now accepting submissions for Volume III, to be published in print and online next September. Articles are welcome on any area of law and can be written in English, Irish or French.

The Irish head of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), Dr Michael O'Flaherty, has joined UCD Sutherland School of Law as an adjunct professor. Dr O'Flaherty was appointed in 2015 as director of the FRA, the independent centre of reference and excellence for promoting and protecting human rights i

The High Court has determined that University of Limerick’s on-campus student accommodation is comprised of private dwellings for the purposes of s.21(6)(a) of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 (as amended) and therefore exempt from water charges. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Ms J

Professor Colm O'Cinneide defends the human rights framework from significant challenges to its legitimacy and integrity in a new lecture released in video format by Queen's University Belfast. The academic, a professor of constitutional and human rights law at University College London (UCL), deliv

The Dublin University Law Journal, published by Clarus Press in association with Trinity College Dublin, has issued a call for submissions for Volume 45. The editors — Conor Casey, Oran Doyle, Hilary Hogan and Suryapratim Roy — welcome articles that adopt a wide range of methodological a

The archive of former civil rights activist, founding member of the SDLP, politician and economist Hugh Logue is being made available at the University of Galway to coincide with his award of an honorary doctorate of laws. The historical resource is made up of more than 20 boxes of manuscripts, docu

International Criminal Court judges have taken a “cautious” attitude to considering the impact of mental health issues on witnesses and the accused, analysis shows. A new study outlines how the issue of mental health in international criminal law and justice has gathered momentum as the

Maynooth University has congratulated Professor Aisling McMahon of the School of Law and Criminology on receiving the IRC Early Career Researcher of the Year Award for her work in health and intellectual property law. The Irish Research Council’s Researcher of the Year Awards celebrate the ver

A Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Index has been developed by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) in partnership with the Law School at Queen’s University Belfast. NIHRC chief commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick said: “This new Northern Ireland Business and Human R

UCD Sutherland School of Law has welcomed Dagmar Schiek to the faculty as full professor of EU law and labour law. Professor Schiek joins UCD from University College Cork, where she held the Synnott Family Chair in EU law and directed the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence EU Integration and Citizens&

Eversheds Sutherland and University College Dublin this month welcomed financial services industry leaders, academics, lawyers and representatives of the Central Bank to a conference exploring the implications of the new individual accountability framework. Ciaran Walker, consultant in financial ser

King's Inns student Norah O'Brien has been elected as auditor of the Law Students' Debating Society of Ireland (LSDSI). A graduate of the University of Limerick, Ms O'Brien is studying on the modular barrister-at-law degree at the King's Inns while working as a judicial assistant to a High Court jud