Pictured above on one of the panels are Shane Phelan, legal affairs editor at the Irish Independent; Alex White SC, director general of the Institute of International and European Affairs; Ms Justice Marie Baker, chairperson of An Coimisiún Toghcháin and former Supreme Court justice; and Professor Jane Suiter, director of DCU’s Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society.

Taking place under the title “Defending Democracy: Legal Responses to Emerging Threats”, the event is the first initiative of the newly established Centre for Justice and Law Reform.