On June 6th the Faculty of Law and the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University College Cork will host a conference on Children’s Rights to Healthcare and Healthcare Services. Speakers include the Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan, Professor Johnathan Hourihane of UCC, Dr Elspeth Webb, Consultant Paediatrician and Clinical Reader in Child Health at(…)
On March 22 2013, the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, UCC will host a conference on Reforming Abortion Law: Comparative Perspectives. This event is part of the Gender, Law and Sexuality research initiative in the Faculty of Law, supported by the Irish Research Council and Dean of Law Strategic Fund. Convened by(…)
Maeve O’Rourke Barrister and member of the Justice for Magdalenes Advisory Commitee will be speaking today at University College Cork on the topic ”Justice for Magdalenes: Pursuing Human Rights Claims.” The seminar is organised as part of the LLM in Human Rights Law and Public Policy and the MA in Women’s Studies, UCC. Maeve has(…)
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,(…)
Aoife Nolan is Professor of International Human Rights Law in University of Nottingham. Liam Thornton is a lecturer in law and director of clinical legal education in University College Dublin. Aoife and Liam are organising Human Rights in Ireland’s contribution to the debate on Article 42A, the Children’s Amendment. It is important that clear, accessible(…)
Seán Ó Conaill is a lecturer in law in the Faculty of Law, University College Cork. On each occasion in Ireland when it is proposed to have a referendum to amend the Constitution, the Bill which grounds this process is required to give the text of the proposed amendment in English and in Irish. The(…)
Dr Aisling Parkes is a lecturer in law in the Faculty of Law, University College Cork. Proposed Article 42A.4.2 provides: Provision shall be made by law for securing, as far as practicable, that in all proceedings referred to in subsection 1 (all proceedings brought by the State…for the purpose of preventing the safety and welfare(…)
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(…)
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(…)
We are pleased to welcome this guest post from Anne Neylon, who is a PhD candidate in Law at University College Cork. The Court of Justice of the European Union has criticised Ireland’s failure to take prescribed steps to set out in law how it will implement into domestic law standards on asylum procedures agreed by(…)
