The Plassey Law Review is an independent, student-run academic law journal open to submissions from law students and legal scholars across Ireland and internationally.

The sixth edition features five peer-reviewed articles and two case notes. Among the contributions is an examination of whether a state supplying weapons to a belligerent party can be considered a co-party to an armed conflict under international law, a question Mr Justice Woulfe described as one “of heightened relevance due to a number of ongoing conflicts in Europe and elsewhere.” 

A further article addresses the copyrightability and authorship of AI-generated works, which Mr Justice Woulfe noted is “likely to demand much of the attention of Ireland’s commercial lawyers in the near future”. Other contributions cover the GDPR right to be forgotten as applied to young people, victimhood in the International Criminal Court, and the theological roots of English contract law.

Contributors were drawn from institutions including NUI, QUB, UCC, DCU, UCL, and the University of Nanjing. The edition was supervised by Dr Una Woods and Professor Laura Cahillane of the UL School of Law and sponsored by Orbitus Law LLP and Arthur Cox LLP.

Lee Mac Cuinneagáin and Sadhbh King, Co-Editors-in-Chief of the journal, said: “The Plassey Law Review is the University of Limerick School of Law’s own student-led legal journal. We are very proud for such a young publication to have this edition, which contains a wide range of discussion on many contemporary issues in law, launched by one of the most senior members of the judiciary in Ireland.”

In his foreword, Mr Justice Woulfe described the Plassey Law Review as “a monument to the rapid rise of the University of Limerick’s School of Law”. He added that it reflects “the commitment of its students to careful legal research and critical thinking”. The launch follows UL School of Law being named Law School of the Year at the LEAP Irish Law Awards.