The Centre for Disability Law and Policy at National University of Ireland, Galway will run a conference on the 3rd of May 2013. The title of the conference will be ‘Community Living for all’ – A Conference on the Future Role of the European Union Structural funds to Advance Community Living for Older People and People(…)
The LL.M. in Public Law and the LL.M. in Law, Technology and Governance at the School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway will run a half day symposium on 8 March 2013 in Galway. The title of the symposium “Privacy from Birth to Death and Beyond: European and American Perspectives”. The speakers include Mr. José Maria Baño who will(…)
The Whitaker Institute, Ryan Institute and School of Law at NUI Galway will run a workshop entitled “Information and Communications Technology for Environmental Regulation: Developing a Research Agenda” on Thursday 20 June – Friday 21 June 2013. For more information see here. The Keynote Speaker is Professor Bradley C. Karkkainen a leading authority in the fields of environmental and natural resources law(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Professor Gerard Quinn Director of the Centre for Disability Law & Policy at NUI Galway. A historic hearing took place yesterday (Thursday, July 11th) in the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The issue before the Committee was US ratification of the United Nations Convention on the(…)
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(…)
The Centre for Disability Law and Policy (NUI Galway) and Amnesty International (Ireland) held a seminar today on getting legal capacity law right. The seminar can be viewed here. The seminar heard from Oliver Lewis from MDAC who spoke about the CRPD in international Best Practice on legal capacity law. Christine Gordon who spoke about(…)
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(…)
