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David Mangan comments on EU Social Partners’ Digitalisation Agreement
Dr. David Mangan has commented on the EU Social Partners’ Autonomous Framework Agreement on Digitalisation.
Date: Friday, 08 January 2021
PhD Candidate at the Department of Law Maria del Val Bolivar Oñoro won the Ist Contest of University Articles on Law and Human Rights
This event was hosted by the “Foundation of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers” (Fundación Abogacía) for articles on “Universal Access to Health: an approach from Human Rights” (El Acceso Universal a la Salud: un enfoque desde los Derechos Humanos).
Date: Tuesday, 05 January 2021
Department of Law Annual Fundraiser for Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin
In December the Department of Law organised a 'Christmas Walk for Crumlin' to raise money for Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin and are delighted to have raised a fantastic €1000!
Date: Monday, 04 January 2021
Dr Lynsey Black was invited to speak as part of the Irish Legal History Society's Winter Discourse 2020
The event concerned the subject of ‘Researching and Writing Irish Legal History in the 21st Century.
Date: Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Dr Brian Flanagan has received funding under the MU Social Sciences Institute and Faculty of Social Science Small Grants Scheme
Brian's project is entitled 'The Experimental Jurisprudence of Rules’, and is a collaborative research project with Guilherme de Almeida and Noel Struchiner of PUC-Rio and Ivar Hannikainen of the University of Granada. The project will use social scientific methods to investigate contested philosophical questions concerning the relation between legal and moral normativity.
Date: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
Dr Donal Coffey awarded funding for a research project under the Mussi Small Grants Scheme 2021
The project is called ‘comparative constitutional histories in South Asia in the time of decolonisation".
Date: Tuesday, 08 December 2020
Dr Richardson and Dr McMahon awarded funding under MUSSI and Faculty of Social Science Small Grant Scheme 2021
Dr Edana Richardson and Dr Aisling McMahon have been awarded funding under the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI) and Faculty of Social Sciences, Co-funded Small Grants Scheme 2021 for a project examining “Social and Sustainability Bonds –Funding a more sustainable future for healthcare?”
Date: Monday, 07 December 2020
The Maynooth Law Society recently held its first Negotiation Competition
Maynooth Law Society has hosted its first ever negotiations competition kindly sponsored by Pinsent Masons. The competition saw over twenty teams from all over Ireland and the UK come together to strike the best deals possible. Negotiation is an area of life that goes under the radar and members felt that students should get the opportunity to show off and develop these skills.
Date: Friday, 04 December 2020
Dr Aisling McMahon’s work is cited in UK House of Commons Briefing on equitable access to Covid-19 treatments
Dr Aisling McMahon’s work on patents and access to Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics, has been cited in the UK House of Commons Library Research Briefing debate pack in advance of a recent debate within the House of Commons on the ‘UK Government’s role in ensuring innovation and equitable access to treatment within the international covid-19 response’. The debate took place on 5th November 2020.
Date: Tuesday, 01 December 2020
Dr. Ian Marder delivers series of workshops and presentations in October and November
During October and November 2020, Dr. Ian Marder was invited to deliver a number of presentations relating to restorative justice. First, on the afternoon of 13th October 2020, Ian collaborated with ACO Angelena Murphy from the Irish Prison Service (IPS) College to organise and deliver a webinar to IPS HQ staff. The webinar, lasting for 90 minutes and attended by over 60 persons, introduced civil servants working at IPS HQ to restorative practices and principles, illustrating how these can be applied in prisons and across prison services more broadly to the benefit of staff, management and people in custody
Date: Monday, 30 November 2020