Dr Fergus Ryan of the Department of Law recently delivered a series of lectures on the ‘Law of Persons in Common Law Jurisdictions’ at the Catholic University of Lyon (UCly) in Lyon, France.
The lecture series addressed the law governing citizenship, birth registration, names, gender recognition, marriage, divorce, children, and parental responsibility in Ireland and other common law jurisdictions. The lectures formed part of UCLy’s University Diploma in Common Law. Several students from Maynooth University study at the UCLy as part of their Erasmus abroad year, while the two universities also share a common LLM in International Business Law, allowing students to study part of their masters in France and part in Ireland.
Dr Fergus Ryan lectures in Family Law on the Department's LLB programme and in Gender, Sexuality and the Law and Marriage and the Law on the LLM (Global Legal Studies) masters degree.