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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
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
Dr Lynsey Black's article, 'The Pathologisation of Women Who Kill: Three Cases from Ireland', was published in the May issue of the Social History of Medicine.
The article draws on Lynsey's research on women, murder and punishment in Ireland, looking in particular at the discourses of pathology women were subject to. The article examines the cases of three women convicted of murder in Ireland post-1922 and explores how each woman was constructed as pathologised. Using archival materials, the article demonstrates that diagnoses were contingent on notions of gender, morality, dangerousness, and class.
Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Professor Tobias Lock gave evidence at the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights on 18 June.
He spoke about ways of incorporating human rights at the devolved level in the United Kingdom, which is under consideration by the Committee. Professor Lock drew on his experience as a member of the Scottish First Minister’s Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership and reported on the findings of that group. He also answered questions by Committee members concerning different types of human rights, constitutional limitations for the Northern Ireland Assembly as well as their judicial reviewability.
Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Dr Louise Kennefick authors an article with Howard League for Penal Reform, entitled: "Verdict as a site of social (in)justice: more groundwork for a multivalent approach"
This article claims that the bivalent verdict amounts to a persisting structural injustice in our contemporary criminal justice system, with no convincing modern justification, owing to the misrecognition of the offender collective through status subordination. It argues that reconstructing the verdict as a multivalent mechanism would recognise more substantively the innate worth of persons and their relevant moral and social context, (in addition to their proportionate responsibility for the criminal act they committed), thereby advancing justice at the site of verdict.
Date: Monday, 22 June 2020
PhD Candidate, Ethan Shattock, received award for Highly Commendable Paper at the University of Leicester Postgraduate Law Research Conference
On 16 June PhD candidate at the Department of Law, Ethan Shattock presented his research on the ‘technology and human rights’ panel at the University of Leicester Postgraduate Law Research Conference. His paper was entitled “Beyond Freedom of Expression: A Human Rights Perspective on Electoral Disinformation Under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)”. Ethan received the award for “Highly Commendable Paper”.
Date: Friday, 19 June 2020
UNODC Education for Justice and Maynooth University collaborate to host online roundtables on restorative justice pedagogy
From criminology, psychology and political studies degrees, to university courses for the social workers, lawyers and schoolteachers of the future, restorative justice and restorative practice increasingly appear on higher education curricula. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Education for Justice (E4J) initiative recognises the importance of restorative justice, and has developed a module to promote and strengthen its teaching in higher education institutions globally.
Date: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Scholarship Success for Department of Law Student, Paul Whelan, in prestigious College of Europe
Paul Whelan has been accepted to a to the prestigious College of Europe to undertake a Masters in the College of Europe for the upcoming academic year. Paul has also won a European Neighbourhood Project Scholarship. Paul’s Masters will be an MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies (Major: EU Public Affairs and Policies) and will study in the Natolin campus of the College, situated in Warsaw.
Date: Friday, 05 June 2020