The School of Law and the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway in association with the Irish Centre for International Family Mediation will host a conference on 18 May 2013 entitled “A Conference on Mediation in Cases of International Family Conflict and Child Abduction”. Leading Irish and international speakers and experts in the(…)
We welcome this guest post from Dr. Tom Hickey a lecturer in the School of Law at NUI Galway. In this guest post Dr. Hickey reflects on the work of Ronald Dworkin. Dr. Hickey lectures in the areas of constitutional law, jurisprudence and administrative law at NUI Galway. The passing last week of Ronald Dworkin, Professor(…)
The renowned UN human rights expert, Professor Michael O’Flaherty, has been appointed as Professor of Human Rights Law at the National University of Ireland Galway and will also serve as Director of the University’s Irish Centre for Human Rights. Professor O’Flaherty will combine the new roles with his current position as Chief Commissioner of the(…)
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(…)
We are delighted to welcome this post from Dr Ciara Hackett. Ciara joined the School of Law at Queens University Belfast in August 2012, prior to that she held a teaching and research fellowship at the School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway. Her research explores a diverse range of issues in the areas(…)
The School of Law at NUI Galway will host the Irish Society of Comparative Law 5th Annual Conference on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of May 2013 in Galway. The theme for the Irish Society of Comparative Law’s Annual Conference 2013 is ‘Comparative Public Law’. Papers placing Irish public law in comparative perspective are especially encouraged,(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is please to welcome this guest post from Dr Catherine O’Rourke, Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law, University of Ulster. The Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), University of Ulster, is pleased to announce the launch its innovative new masters programme, LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights. The new programme builds on both(…)
We are delighted to welcome this Guest Post from Dr. Ciara Hackett. Ciara is a lecturer in the School of Law at NUI Galway where she also serves as Deputy Director of the LL.M in Public Law. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, globalisation and marxist theories of development. In 2011, Ireland signed(…)
A one-day conference organised by the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law, NUI Galway entitled “Ireland and the United Nations Framework for Business and Human Rights” will take place on 24 March 2012 at the National University of Ireland Galway. The conference seeks to explore and analyse issues of law and(…)
A legal researcher is required to prepare background materials and drafts for a Collective Complaint to the Council of Europe, European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe on aspects of housing in Ireland. The research is being arranged by a network of housing organisations that have come together including Ballymun Community Law(…)
