UCC School of Law
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UCC School of LawSep 25, 2019
JMCE Research Project: Episode 8: The EU as promoter of Anti-Discrimination Rights in its Neighbourhood – Comparing Northern Ireland and Ukraine
In the 8th episode of our Jean Monnet Podcast for Citizens Rights, our host, Romane Lieber speaks to Professor Dagmar Schiek about our upcoming event, 'The EU as promoter of Anti-Discrimination Rights in its Neighbourhood – Comparing Northern Ireland and Ukraine' which will be held in Dublin and online on the 6th February, also touching on an upcoming Workshop which will take place in April.
To register for our February event, please visit our Eventbrite page - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/765672706677?aff=oddtdtcreator
JMCE Research Project: Episode 7: EU Integration and Citizens' Rights - A New Avenue to EU Legitimacy?
In the seventh episode of our Jean Monnet Podcast for Citizens Rights, our host, Romane Lieber speaks to Professor Dagmar Schiek and Dr Alezini Loxa about the recent panel discussion, 'EU Integration and Citizens' Rights - A New Avenue to EU Legitimacy?' which took place at the UACES 2023 Conference in Belfast, September 2023.
JMCE Research Project: Episode 6: ''Experiencing Sports Broadcasts without Borders'' with Dr Robert Butler
In the sixth episode of our Jean Monnet Podcast for Citizens Rights, our host, Romane Lieber speaks to Dr Robert Butler, Department of Economics, UCC about our upcoming seminar on 'Experiencing Sports Broadcasts without Borders'. This seminar will be held on Wednesday 20th September (both online and in person) and will look at the evolution of sports broadcasting in the European Union, from an economic and legal perspective.
Register now for this event via Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/709404346497?aff=oddtdtcreator
To find out more about our upcoming events, and the project more generally, visit our website - https://www.ucc.ie/en/eu-integration-citizens-rights/ or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
JMCE Research Project: Episode 5 'EU Citizens' Initiative - Unconditional Basic Income' with Dr Ulrich Schachtschneider and Dr Anastasia Karatzia
In the fifth episode of our Jean Monnet Podcast for Citizens Rights, our host, Romane Lieber speaks to Dr Ulrich Schachtschneider and Dr Anastasia Karatzia about our recent seminar on the European Citizens' Initiative and the Initiative of the Universal Basic Income.
To find out more about our upcoming events, and the project more generally, visit our website - https://www.ucc.ie/en/eu-integration-citizens-rights/ or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
The Consumer Rights Act 2022 - An Interview with Dr. Fidelma White
In this episode of the School of Law UCC podcast, Dr Fidelma White, Senior Lecturer in Law, speaks about the Consumer Rights Act 2022.
Dr White was part of an expert group, the Sales Law Review Group which, back in 2011, in their Final Report to Government, recommended the enactment of a new separate Consumer Contract Rights legislation which now finds shape in the Consumer Rights Act 2022.
Subsequently, Dr White was a member of an Ad hoc Advisory Group which worked with the then Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to drafting of a Scheme for a Consumer Rights Bill 2015.
Most recently Dr White was invited to contribute to a Working Group in the Attorney General Office’s responsible for drafting of this new legislation.
To find out more about Business Law, visit the Business Law Network at the School of Law, UCC.
JMCE Research Project: Episode Four 'Citizens' (free) movement rights in the EU's Neighbourhood
In the forth episode of our Jean Monnet Podcast for Citizens Rights, our host, Romane Lieber speaks to Dr Anthony Soares, Dr Oksana Holovka-Havrvsheva and Prof Dagmar Schiek about our upcoming seminar on how the EU's law and politics in its neighbourhood impact on citizens' lives in the neighbourhood and the EU itself.
This topic was discussed in more detail at our event which was held both online and at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in Dublin on Wednesday 5th July, from 3-5pm
JMCE Research Project: Episode Three 'The Covid-19 Crisis: Free Movement, Borders and testing of Union Citizenship' with Dr Stephen Coutts
In the third episode of our Jean Monnet Podcast for Citizens Rights, Dr Stephen Coutts speaks to our host, Romane Lieber, about the Covid-19 Crisis and the response of the European Union. To find out more about our upcoming events, and the project more generally, visit our website - https://www.ucc.ie/en/eu-integration-citizens-rights/ or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
JMCE Research Project: Episode Two 'Activating EU Rights Globally - Legal Mobalisation in Third Countries' with Dr Luigi Lonardo
In the second episode of our Jean Monnet Podcast for Citizens Rights, Dr Luigi Lonardo speaks to our host, Romane Lieber, about the Activation of EU derived rights in third countries.
To find out more about our upcoming events, and the project more generally, visit our website - https://www.ucc.ie/en/eu-integration-citizens-rights/ or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
JMCE Research Project: Episode One 'A Year in Review' - One year of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for EU Integration and Citizens' Rights
In the first episode of our Jean Monnet Podcast for Citizens Rights, Professor Dagmar Schiek reflects on the past year of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for EU Integration and Citizens' Rights.
Along with our host, Romane Lieber, Professor Schiek reflects on the Centre's past events and discusses upcoming events for 2023.
To find out more about our upcoming events, and the project more generally, visit our website - https://www.ucc.ie/en/eu-integration-citizens-rights/ or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Professor Ursula Kilkelly and Pat Bergin discuss their new book on Oberstown Children Detention Campus - "Advancing Children’s Rights in Detention: A Model for International Reform"
In this episode, Professor Ursula Kilkelly (UCC School of Law and Chairperson of the Board of Management at Oberstown Children Detention Campus) and Pat Bergin (Director of Oberstown Children Campus 2013-2020) discuss their new book, "Advancing Children’s Rights in Detention: A Model for International Reform", recently published by Bristol University Press.
Using the case study of Oberstown Children Detention Campus, the book details how reform of children's detention facilities can take place through the application of a child-centred model of detention that fulfils the rights of the child under the five themes of provision, protection, participation, preparation and partnership.
In this conversation, the authors reflect on the major reforms made at Oberstown over the past eight years in transforming the facility and developing a rights-based, child-centred model of care for children detained by the courts.
Communicating EU Environmental Law: Insights on the Right of Access to Environmental Information
Professor Áine Ryall speaks with Fred Logue, Principal of FP Logue Solicitors.
The Centre for Law and the Environment and the UCC School of Law acknowledge the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs Communicating Europe Initiative 2021.
Communicating EU Environmental Law: Some Insights from Practice
Professor Áine Ryall speaks with Joe Noonan, Noonan Linehan Carroll Coffey.
The Centre for Law and the Environment and the UCC School of Law acknowledge the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs Communicating Europe Initiative 2021.
Communicating EU Environmental Law: Some Insights from the European Parliament
Professor Áine Ryall speaks with Grace O’Sullivan, Green Party MEP for Ireland South.
The Centre for Law and the Environment and the UCC School of Law acknowledge the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs Communicating Europe Initiative 2021.
Impact Series: Spotlight on UCC School of Law PhD students
In this special episode of the UCC School of Law Impact Series, nine of our PhD students share an overview of and insights from their fascinating research. The breadth of scholarship across so many legal areas – from family law to company law, gambling regulation to the environment – is indicative of the high-quality research undertaken in the School.
UCC School of Law is proud to host Ireland’s most successful graduate research programme in Law. Our PhD students are provided with an unparalleled experience within a well-established and vibrant community of over 40 graduate researchers, where they produce cutting-edge legal research contributing to national and international scholarship.
Find out more: https://www.ucc.ie/en/law/courses/phd/
Impact Series: An interview with Professor Conor O'Mahony - Special Rapporteur on Child Protection
This Impact Series features interviews with UCC School of Law faculty members, focusing on the resounding impact of their work across a broad range of areas in the public policy sphere.
Today's episode is an interview with Professor Conor O'Mahony, Special Rapporteur on Child Protection. The Special Rapporteur is appointed by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to take an independent, objective and expert view of the child protection system in Ireland and related issues, contributing to the development and review and development of child protection policy and legislation.
Interviewed by Joan Cronin, of the Dept of Applied Social Studies at UCC - and graduate of the LLM in Children's Rights and Family Law - Professor O’Mahony discusses his role, including the application process in becoming Special Rapporteur, the scope of the role, its interaction with government and civil society and the day-to-day realities of juggling a public service position with academic work.
This episode was recorded remotely and we apologise for a few audio glitches in the recording.
Impact Series: An Interview with Professor Mary Donnelly - discussions on health and capacity law, consent issues and research ethics
This Impact Series features interviews with UCC School of Law faculty members, focusing on the resounding impact of their work across a broad range of areas in the public policy sphere.
Today's episode is an interview with Professor Mary Donnelly, joint-chair of HSE National Consent Policy Advisory group, joint-chair of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act commencement group, member of the Mental Health Commission Legislation Committee and member of the National Research Ethics Committees.
Interviewed by School of Law PhD candidate and Law Lecturer at Munster Technological University, Ann Lynch, this episode covers a range of fascinating issues surrounding health and capacity law, assisted decision-making, consent and research ethics.
Impact Series: An Interview with Professor Irene Lynch Fannon - Chair of the Insolvency Sub-Committee of the Company Law Review Group
This new Impact Series features interviews with UCC School of Law faculty members, focusing on the resounding impact of their work across a broad range of areas in the public policy sphere.
Today's episode is an interview with Professor Irene Lynch Fannon - conducted by School of Law PhD candidate Michael Boland - about her fascinating and timely work as Chair of the Insolvency Sub-Committee of the Company Law Review Group, a government body which advises the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the review and development of company law in Ireland.
Enforcing EU Environmental Law: An ENGO Perspective
Enforcing EU Environmental Law: Some Insights from Luxembourg
Enforcing EU Environmental Law: A Litigator's Perspective
Dr Bjørn-Oliver Magsig in Conversation with Captain Brian Fitzgerald of the Irish Naval Service
Looking toward the future, he also sketches out some of the complicated scenarios the Naval Service might have to address following Brexit.
Dr Áine Ryall Speaks to Dr Fred Logue About Accessing Environmental Information
Professor Ursula Kilkelly in Conversation With Robert Schwartz, Co-founder of Juvenile Law Center
Interview with Professor Rhona Smith, the UN Human Rights Committee Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia
Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change?
Interview with Dr Mary Tumelty
Jane Mulcahy Speaks with delegates at the Justice Conference
Jane speaks with Deirdre Kelleher about the rights of cohabitants in Ireland
Interview with Australian Detention Inspector and Churchill Fellow, Steven Caruana
Rachel O'Sullivan from Parents for Choice discusses the graphic imagery used by the No campaign during the referendum on the 8th amendment.
Interview with Dr Dug Cubie, Deputy Director, Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR)
Interview with disability rights activist - Suzy Byrne
Professor Fiona de Londras, discusses her and Mairead Enright's new book "Repealing the 8th - Reforming Irish Abortion Law" with Jane Mulcahy.
Professor Owen McIntyre Speaks About International Water Security and Shared Water Resources
Interview with Jonathan Jonathan Todres, Professor of Law at the Center for Law Health and Society in Georgia State University and visiting Fulbright scholar in the UCC Law school
Dr Darius Whelan shares his thoughts on electronic monitoring in the workplace.
Interview with Dr Vicky Conway and Cathleen O'Toole, member and chair of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland respectively.
Law and Justice Episode 10 - February 28 2018
Interview with Michael Prendergast
Law and Justice Episode 8 - February 8 2018
With thanks to the Referendum Commission, we also have Dr Conor O'Mahony's address at the Citizen's Assembly, where he spoke on the legal regulation of referendum campaigns.
Law and Justice Episode 7 - December 20, 2017
Law and Justice Episode 6 - December 6, 2017
Shay Buckley, Editor-in-Chief of the Cork Online Law Review, also dropped into studio to talk about one of Ireland's leading online law journals.
Law and Justice Episode 5 - 22 November 2017
Dr Lawrence Siry, talks us through his fascinating career as a public defender in New York, and Professor Owen McIntyre discusses the future of water.
Law and Justice Episode 4 - 7 November 2017
In addition, Dr Mark Cullinane from the Department of Applied Social Studies at UCC discusses the "Licensees in Private Rented Accommodation: the Forgotten Sub-Sector?" seminar.