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Dr Sinéad Ring was an invited contributor to Liveline
Dr Sinéad Ring was an invited contributor to Liveline on the 23rd April. The entire programme was dedicated to remembering Mr Michael O’Brien who passed away this week.
Date: Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Dr Conor Crummey publishes book - The Principle of Legality: A Moral Theory
Through the lens of a non-positivist theory of general jurisprudence, The Principle of Legality demonstrates that judges, when invoking the principle of legality, are engaging in a complex process of moral reasoning. This innovative approach provides clear, satisfying answers to some of the most pressing and controversial questions in contemporary public law scholarship.
Date: Tuesday, 29 April 2025
The Criminology of Policing Protests, Riots and Civil Disorder, hosted by School of Law and Criminology.
On Wednesday, 9th April the School of Law and Criminology and the Research Centre for Criminology hosted an event, The Criminology of Policing Protests, Riots and Civil Disorder with keynote lecture by Professor Ed Maguire
Date: Monday, 28 April 2025
Fruitful Collaboration between Maynooth University and Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Alessia worked with Dr. Orla Kelleher and Dr. Mary Dobbs as part of her Erasmus+ Traineeship and the research she conducted informed her thesis, titled “The recognition of Rights of Nature in the European Union legal order - Il Riconoscimento dei Diritti alla Natura nel panorama legale dell'Unione Europea”, supervised by Prof. Marco Gestri.
Date: Friday, 25 April 2025
New Research Report Published - An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System
Dr Avril Brandon, Assistant Professor, Ashleigh Pillay, PhD Candidate, School of Law and Criminology and Professor Denis Bracken, University of Manitoba co-authored a new research report entitled, An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System.
Date: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
School of Law and Criminology Mid Semester Research Newsletter
The School of Law and Criminology is proud to showcase some incredible research that our colleagues have been working on over the last few weeks.
Date: Tuesday, 22 April 2025
John Reynolds leads joint Antwerp-Birzeit-Maynooth LLM session
Dr John Reynolds was at the University of Antwerp in March 2025 to lead a set of joint LLM hybrid lectures on Third World Approaches to International Law & the Question of Palestine.
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2025
Maynooth Law Student wins Legal Undergraduate of the Year Award
The School is delighted to congratulate final year LLB student Zoe Walsh Gibb who was awarded this year's Legal Undergraduate of the Year Award at the gradireland UGOTY Awards, sponsored by William Fry LLP. The award was announced at a ceremony in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin on 9 April 2025.
Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Professor Aisling McMahon & Dr Opeyemi Kolawole publish article in Medical Law Review on the potential health and bioethical implications of how intellectual property can be used over medical devices
This article is available open access and is based on research conducted as part of the European Research Council-funded PatentsInHumans project.
Date: Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Seminar - "On the Borders of Migration and Labour Regimes"
The seminar brought together scholars from Maynooth University and University of Strasbourg to explore temporary labour migration as a multifaceted phenomenon in the EU, which both shapes and is shaped by the intersection of migration and labour regimes.
Date: Monday, 14 April 2025