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Date: Wednesday, 08 July 2020
Dr Aisling McMahon publishes RTE Brainstorm article on how patents may affect access to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments
Dr Aisling McMahon has published a timely article in RTE Brainstorm discussing how patents can affect access to and delivery of healthcare, and how this may impact access to future vaccines and treatments for Covid-19. The article demonstrates that voluntary and compulsory licensing mechanisms can be used to address such issues.
Date: Tuesday, 07 July 2020
John Reynolds from the Department of Law and Colin Coulter from the Department of Sociology have written an essay for Jacobin magazine on Ireland's new coalition government.
It traces political developments since the general election in February, through the pandemic, and considers the prospects and pitfalls for the new government on key questions of political economy, climate change and housing. The essay also reflects on the ongoing realignment of Ireland's political fault lines - from the historic partition-based rivalry to a more conventional but more fragmented left-right divide.
Date: Friday, 03 July 2020
New Publication: Exceptions in International Law
Dr Oisin Suttle has a chapter in a new book just published by Oxford University Press. Exceptions in International Law, edited by Dr Lorand Bartels and Dr Federica Paddeu, provides a systematic and analytic study of exceptions to legal obligations in international law and defences for breaches of these obligations. It features contributions written by legal philosophers, who introduce various theoretical approaches to the role of exceptions, and scholars of international law, who elaborate on generic issues applicable to exceptions in international law, as well as examining specific issues arising from exceptions in their respective areas of expertise
Date: Wednesday, 01 July 2020
UK and Ireland Patent Network Virtual Seminar Series Launched
Dr Aisling McMahon (Maynooth University) together with Dr Naomi Hawkins and Dr Karen Walsh (Exeter University), co-founders of the UK and Ireland Patent Scholars Network, have recently launched an online seminar series for the network. This seminar series offers a monthly forum to discuss research in progress from leading patent scholars based in the UK and Ireland.
Date: Monday, 29 June 2020
Dr. Ciara Bracken-Roche has published a chapter in the edited collection 'Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance: Actors, practices and processes' by Antonio Calcara, Raluca Csernatoni, and Chantal Lavallee.
This collection is of relevance in the tech-mediated COVID19 (in)security context. Dr. Bracken-Roche's chapter concludes the collection and is entitled 'The Governance of Emerging Security Technologies: Towards a Critical Assessment', in which she contrasts the EU and North American contexts around security technology.
Date: Friday, 26 June 2020
Can contact tracing apps stop the pandemic?
Can contact tracing apps stop the pandemic? – In his recent post in the Business&Society blog, Dr. Bastian Rake reflects on the diffusion of contact tracing apps.
Date: Thursday, 25 June 2020
Maynooth University wins two awards from Royal Society of Arts (RSA) for innovations in Student Design
Maynooth University has had outstanding success at this year's Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Student Design Awards
Date: Thursday, 25 June 2020
Workshop on "The EU as a Good Global Actor", 19 June 2020
Dr Oisin Suttle took part in a virtual workshop on The EU as a Good Global Actor, organised by Prof Elaine Fahey of City University of London as part of the European Union Horizon 2020 funded network on European Union Trade and Investment Policy (EUTIP-ITN). Participants from universities across Europe and North America examined various aspects of the EU's external trade policy, and its efforts to promote good governance and export European values. Dr Suttle presented a paper examining the normative foundations of free trade agreements, and the appropriate criteria for their moral evaluation.
Date: Thursday, 25 June 2020
Maynooth University ranks 43rd in global Young University Rankings and #1 in Ireland
Maynooth University has moved up the 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings of leading young universities globally.
Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2020