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June 2013 - Fundamental Rights Agency appoint Quinn to Scientific Board

Gerard Quinn, Professor at the School of Law at NUI Galway and Director of its Centre for Disability Law and Policy, has been appointed to the ’scientific committee’ of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) which is headquartered in Vienna. The EU FRA is one of the specialized agencies of the EU which was set up in 2007 to provide expert advice to the EU and its Member States to ensure that the fundamental rights of people living in the EU are respected.  It helps to inform EU law and policy and to ensure that its power is properly harnessed to respect fundamental rights.
 
The ’scientific committee’ oversees the quality of the research of the FRA across a broad range of topics (e.g., racism, the rights of older people, privacy, the quality of the democratic process, etc.). This June (2013) Professor Quinn joins eleven other widely renowned experts from across Europe for a five year term. Quinn says “Europe is at a historic turning point away from failed economic and social models. It has a chance to reinvent itself as a force for good in its own citizens’ lives and around the world. This turn is by no means assured. But bodies like the EU FRA are at the fore of helping to redefine the EU of thefuture. That's why I am involved.”  
 
The Head of the School of Law at NUI Galway, Professor Donncha O’Connell, says “I would like to warmly congratulate Professor Quinn on this prestigious international appointment. It speaks directly to his impressive track record as an engaged scholar animated by impact in the domain of public policy, something to which the School of Law at NUI Galway is deeply committed.”

April 2013 - Launch of Volume 3 of the European Yearbook of Disability Law & Research Colloquium

The third volume of the European Yearbook of Disability Law was given its official launch in the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday 9th April 2013. The annual Yearbook, which the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway publishes jointly with the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights at Maastricht University, reviews the significant developments at European level regarding disability law and policy and contains a series of articles on current challenges and developments from senior analysts and academics working in the field. Read more here.

February 2013 - Prof. Gerard Quinn profiled by SOROS-OSF

Prof. Quinn is profiled in a blog post on the SOROS - Open Society Foundations website. Prof. Quinn talks about how he has seen changes in the area of disability law and talks about what an open society should mean. To read this post, please click here.

November 2012 - CDLP memo on the US ratification process

In light of the recent discussions in the US Senate on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the CDLP has written a memo on the U.S ratification process thus far. The memo is available to read here.

December 2012 - CDLP Alumna profiled by SOROS-OSF

Elizabeth Kamundia, graduate of the LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy 2011 - 12 and inaugural gold medal winner in the class, is profiled in this blog on the SOROS - Open Society Foundations website. Elizabeth writes very positively of her time in Galway at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy whilst on a scholarship from SOROS - Open Society Foundations. To read Elizabeth's blog post, please click here.

September 2012 - New Soros Scholars meet with University President, Dr. Jim Browne

President Browne recently welcomed a cohort of SOROS Open Society Foundations scholars to Galway as they embarked on their studies on the LLM in International & Comparative Disability Law and Policy. The LLM programme, one of the first of its kind in the world and now in its second year, is supported by the international philanthrophic organisation SOROS Open Society Foundations, this year in the form of seven full-time scholarships for students from Nepal, Peru, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
 
Pictured L-R are: Shivaun Quinlivan, LLM Programme Director; Frankson Musukwa; Gabriel De Barros; Innocentia Mgijima; Dr Jim Browne; Alberto Vasquez Encalada; Kiran Wagle; Sindile Mhlanga; Pooja Bhandari; Professor Gerard Quinn, Director, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, School of Law.  

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