We welcome this Guest Post from Amina Adanan, co-editor of the inaugural edition of the Socio-Legal Studies Review. Amina, previously a student at Dublin City University, is currently researching for her PhD at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway. Earlier this month, the Socio-Legal Research Centre and the School of Law 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 DCU Socio-Legal Studies Review is accepting submissions for its inaugural volume. The review is a peer-reviewed law journal, which focuses on socio-legal scholarly work, both national and international. This is the only such review in Ireland, and represents a unique platform for work by scholars and practitioners in this area. Socio-Legal studies encompass the study(…)
The Socio-Legal Research Centre at Dublin City University will host an event, with the view to potentially establishing an Irish Socio-Legal Studies Network on August 29th at 5pm in HG17, the Nursing Building, DCU. Professor Rebecca Wallace from Robert Gordon University and Detective Superintendent Noel Clarke from the Garda Anti-Human Trafficking Unit will address the topics(…)
Following the success of last year’s “Law on Screen” seminar, the School of Law and Government and the Socio-Legal Research Centre at Dublin City University are pleased to announce the next seminar in the ‘Law on…’ series: ‘Law on Celebrity – Privacy and the Press in Ireland‘. This seminar will focus on developments in privacy(…)
