The Irish Famine of 1845-1852 (also known as the Great Hunger or An Gorta Mór) is one of the most catastrophic famines in modern history. It is estimated that over one million people died, two and half million emigrated within ten years, and almost 300,000 smallholdings disappeared. On April 20-21, 2013, Fordham Law School will(…)
As noted previously on this blog, the newly-formed Irish Clinical Legal Education Association (ICLEA) will be formally launched at the upcoming Developing Clinical Legal Education in Ireland conference. This conference, hosted by the School of Law, NUI Galway and the Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA), will take place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th of April 2013. The Call for Papers has(…)
The School of Law and Government at Dublin City University wishes to appoint a Professor of Law and a Lecturer in Law (5-Year Post), as part of its continuing development. Both appointments will commence on 1 Sept 2013. Further information on the Professor of Law position is available here. Further information on the Lecturer (5-Year(…)
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On Monday of this week, Patrick O’Brien, Old Court Avenue, Bray, Co. Wicklow, was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment for raping and sexually assaulting his daughter over the course of ten years of her childhood. He can be named here, and in the media, because the victim of his abominable crimes, his own daughter, Fiona(…)
Crosscare, the social care agency of the Dublin Archdiocese, through its Migrant Project, launched a scheme entitled “Opening Power to Diversity” in 2012. This scheme, run in conjunction with Leinster House, matches volunteer migrants or new Irish citizens with a number of TDs for a six-month period. The migrant/new citizen acts as an intern and(…)
The Socio-Legal Research Centre, DCU, held the fourth in its annual “Law on…” seminar series on Wednesday of last week. Following previous explorations of the Law on… Film, Celebrity, and Risk, this year’s seminar focused on the Law on… Police Accountability. There were three speakers: Damien McCarthy, Chairman of the Legal Assistance Scheme and former(…)
The Socio-Legal Research Centre at Dublin City University will host the fourth in its “Law on…” seminar series on Wednesday November 14th 2012 at 6.30pm. The theme of this seminar will be “Law on…Police Accountability” and it will focus on the oversight of the Garda Síochána by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. The speakers at(…)
The Inspector of Prisons’ Report into St. Patrick’s Institution makes for harrowing reading. His use, throughout, of the word “child” is poignant and dramatic. He does not speak in technical or legal terms about “juveniles” or “young offenders”; he does not list complicated Articles of the Constitution or European Convention on Human Rights; he does(…)
Griffith College Law School is pleased to be hosting its first academic conference entitled Social Exclusion and the Law: Domestic and International Perspectives on Friday, 28th September 2012. The conference features academics from Griffith College and across Ireland, practitioners and speakers from the NGO sector. The theme of the conference examines how law, economics and social(…)
In February of this year a most significant decision was handed down by the Supreme Court in the area of criminal procedure. This decision, Damache v DPP [2012] IESC 11 (discussed here), found that s.29(1) of the Offences Against the State Act 1939, which had been in operation for the past 36 years having been inserted(…)
