The International Criminal Court came into existence on the 1st July 2002. The Court is the first permanent, treaty-based, international criminal court to be established. It was established under the Rome Statute as a significant step forward in ensuring all those who commit the most serious of crimes, such as genocide and crimes against humanity,(…)
Professor Ursula Kilkelly is Head of the Department and Dean of the Faculty of Law in University College Cork. Ursula is a national and international expert on child law, and is currently updating two of her texts on child law. You can read more on Ursula’s extensive publishing and policy contributions on children’s rights (and(…)
Dr Conor O’Mahony is a lecturer in law in the Faculty of Law, University College Cork. The proposed Article 42A.1 provides The State recognises and affirms the natural and imprescriptible rights of all children and shall, as far as practicable, by its laws protect and vindicate those rights. Its stated intention, in the words of(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Aisling de Paor, a Ph.D candidate in the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway, and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) scholar. Aisling is a graduate of NUI Galway (BCL) and University College Cork (LL.M). Aisling qualified as a solicitor(…)
