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Archive of Visiting Speakers for the LL.M. in Public Law

Visiting Speakers for the LL.M. in Public Law 2009/10

2pm, Monday 2nd November

Dr. Niamh Howlin on "Trial By Jury in 19th Century Ireland"
 
Niamh Howlin is a lecturer in law at Queens University Belfast.  She graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 2003. From 2003–2007 she was engaged in doctoral research funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She completed her Ph.D. thesis, entitled “The Nineteenth-Century Irish Jury: A Study in Depth”. This involved an examination of the development of practice and procedure relating to juries in Ireland, and the social and political context of the various legislative reforms introduced.

11am-1pm, Friday 27th November
 
Mr. Mark Coen on “Secrecy of Jury Deliberations and Jury Innovations”
 
Mark Coen graduated from the University of Dublin with first class honours LL.B and is a Scholar of Trinity College.  He holds the Bachelor of Civil Law degree from the University of Oxford, where he was a member of Magdalen College and specialised in Criminal Justice subjects.  He is currently undertaking doctoral research on the jury in the Law School at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Professor Ivana Bacik.  Mark has published a number of articles in peer reviewed academic journals and is a regular contributor to national and international legal conferences.
 
2pm, Monday 7th December

Dr. Penny Darbyshire on “The Future of the Criminal Jury”
 
Penny Darbyshire is a reader in law at Kingston University where she has lectured since 1978.  Penny has a first degree in law, a master's degree in criminology and a Ph.D. in socio-legal studies.  Since 1997 she has been an adjunct associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, London Law Centre.  She was a part-time lecturer at the University of Sussex 1993–1996 and a visiting lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley 1992–1993.  She is an expert in the English legal system and criminal justice.  She has specific research interests in juries, the judiciary and plea-bargaining.  Recent publications include “Where do English and Welsh judges come from?” (Cambridge Law Journal 2007).  She co-authored the monograph “What can the English Legal System learn from jury research published up to 2001?”

Speakers on the Disability Law Reform Module for 2009-2010

• Panel of Experts: Ms Maria Wolfe, Ms Maura Joyce and Mr Eamon Walsh
• Law Reform Commission, Full Time Commissioner, Ms Patricia Rickard Clarke
• Ombudsman’s Office: Senior Researcher, Mr Brendan O’ Neill
• Field Trip to residential and community services in the intellectual disability sector.

Visiting Speakers for the LL.M. in Public Law 2008/09

10am, Friday 11th April 2008

Disability Law Reform Module Seminar

Prof Phil Fennell, Cardiff University Law School, returned for the third year as guest speaker to our LL.M. students and presented a paper on Human Rights and Mental Health Law.
 
Victoria Yeates, Glamorgan University, also visited the LL.M. students for the third time and presented a paper on Carers and Mental Health Service Users Rights.
 
Prof Luke Clements, Cardiff University Law School, visited the LL.M. students for the first time and spoke on discrimination issues. He was involved in the significant Strasbourg case, DH v Czech Republic (Application no. 57325/00), involving the segregated education of Roma children.

Tuesday 26th February 2008

Dr. Maurice Manning of the Irish Human Rights Commission spoke to the Processes of Law Reform class on "The Irish Human Rights Commission as an Engine of Public Interest Reform".

Wednesday 27th February 2008

Professor Gerry Whyte of Trinity College, Dublin spoke to the Processes of Law Reform class on the role of the courts in the law reform process.

Visiting Speakers for the LL.M. in Public Law 2007/08

Friday 19th October 2007

Professor Dirk Voorhoof, University of Ghent, Belgium and Inger Høedt-Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen spoke to the Communications Law class on “Protecting Journalists’ Sources”

Professor Dirk Voorhoof, University of Ghent, Belgium and Inger Hoedt-Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen spoke to the Communications Law class on “The new EC Audiovisual Services Directive”

Professor Voorhoof is a leading expert in Europe on Media and Communications Law. He has particular expertise in the area of journalists’ rights. (http://www.psw.ugent.be/dv)

Inger Hoedt-Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen, is a former Chair of the Danish Media Council. (http://www.internationalmedialawyers.org/cgi-bin/members/blosxom.cgi/DENMARK)

Visiting Speakers for the LL.M. in Public Law 2006/07

Friday 10th November 2006

Michael O’Keefe, Chief Executive of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, spoke to the Communications Law class on the role of the Commission and the new Broadcasting Bill.

Professor Colin Scott, Professor of EU Law and Governance, UCD, spoke to the Law, Regulation and Policy class on the concept of the regulatory state

Friday 17th November 2006

Professor Tom Gibbons, University of Manchester, spoke to the Communications Law class.

Friday 24th November 2006

Mary-Clare Kennedy of the Better Regulation Unit in the Department of the Taoiseach spoke to the LL.M. class on regulatory reform in Ireland.

Galway Sentencing Seminars 2005-2006

In conjunction with its newly-inaugurated LL.M. programme in Public Law, the Faculty is pleased to host a series of seminars on sentencing law and policy. The sentencing of offenders is currently one of the more controversial and hotly-debated areas of public policy on both sides of the Atlantic . The Faculty is therefore particularly happy to welcome some of the leading international experts in the field to share their insights and research findings with Irish students and practitioners.

• Friday November 25, 2005
  Julian Roberts, “Public Attitudes towards Sentencing”
• Friday December 2, 2005
  Cyrus Tata, “Sentencing Information Systems: the Scottish Experience”.
• Friday March 10, 2006
  Carolyn Hoyle, “Restorative Justice”

Speakers

Dr. Julian Roberts has recently been appointed Assistant Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology. He is also a Reader in Criminology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College. Prior to that, he was Professor of Criminology and University Research Professor at the University of Ottawa . From 1991 to 2005, he was editor of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He has published extensively on many aspects of sentencing, including the role of the victim and, particularly, on public attitudes towards sentencing. His books include Understanding Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice (Open University Press, 2005), Changing Attitudes to Punishment (Willan Publishing, 2002), both co-authored with Professor M Hough, and Criminal Justice in Canada (2nd ed, Thomson Nelson, Toronto , 2003), co-authored with M. Grossman.

Cyrus Tata is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School of the University of Strathclyde and is Co-Director of the Centre for Sentencing Research there. With his colleague, Professor Neil Hutton, he developed a sentencing information system for use in the Scottish courts and has published extensively in leading international journals on the use of computerised information systems for sentencing purposes. He has also carried out and published research on the delivery of criminal legal aid. Together with Professor Hutton, he edited Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives (Ashgate Publishing 2002). This was based on the proceedings of the first of two highly successful international sentencing conferences organised by them at Strathclyde in 1999 and 2002.

Dr. Carolyn Hoyle is a University Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Green College. She is a member of the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology where she has worked since 1991. She has carried out research and published in leading scholarly journals on a range of criminological issues including police response to domestic violence, victim impact statements, and restorative justice. She is also the author of Negotiating Domestic Violence: Police, Criminal Justice and Victims (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Communications Law - Guest Seminars 2005-2006

• Friday 4th November 2005 - “Communications Regulation in Ireland Present and Future”
  • Michael O'Keeffe, Chief Executive, Broadcasting Commission of Ireland
  • Isolde Goggin, Chairperson, Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg)
  • Ciarán Ó hÓbáin, Principal Officer, Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources
• Tuesday 8th November 2005 - “The role and regulation of public service broadcasting”
  • Sarah Kieran, Solicitor, RTÉ
  • Patricia Galvin, Head of Regulatory Affairs, RTÉ
• Friday 18th November 2005 - “Communications Law and Policy: Ofcom and beyond”
  • Dr Damian Tambini, Director, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford.
• Friday November 25, 2005 - “Public Attitudes towards Sentencing”
  • Julian Roberts

Process of Law Reform - Schedule of Visiting Speakers 2006

• 3 February 2006 - Eilis Barry, Equality Authority: Equality Law Reform
• 15 February 2006 - Alpha Connolly, Irish Human Rights Commission: the role of the Irish Human Rights Commission in law reform
• 17 February - Patricia Rickard-Clarke, Law Reform Commission: the Disability Law Reform project
• 23 February 2006 - Visit to Law Reform Commission, Dublin
• 11 March (Saturday, 11-1) - Eithne Fitzgerald , former Government Minister who steered the Freedom of Information Act through Parliament: the pre- parliamentary and parliamentary processes
• 15 March 2006 - Judge Donal Barrington: the role of the courts and universities in law reform
• 22 March 2006 - Prof. Gerry Maher Fiona Southward , Scottish Law Commission: processes of law reform in Scotland case study: the SLC's rape project

 

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