Universities

Dr Kevin Costello, associate professor of law at UCD Sutherland School of Law, has been elected as an honorary bencher by The Honorable Society of King's Inns. He dined for the first time as a bencher last Thursday evening. He was joined at the event by a number of colleagues from UCD School of Law

The Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) has welcomed a Labour Court recommendation which it says vindicates the trade unions’ insistence that serious negotiations must now take place on precarious employment and working conditions across higher education. The recommendation concerns

The DCU Law Review is calling for submissions for its inaugural issue on the topic of ‘Law, Society and the Disjuncture Between’. Founded by final year law students and editors in chief, Regina Chow and Darragh McDonald, the Review is the first student-led review at the university since

Matheson and University College Cork (UCC) recently welcomed a record 90 students to the fourth annual Matheson and UCC Hackathon, held at UCC on Tuesday 13 October 2026. The event, which forms part of the UCC and Matheson Innovation Partnership, brings together students from across a range of disci

What does it mean to be human, and what are we seeking to protect in the age of AI? On Friday evening, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson joined Centre for Digital Ethics (CDE) founder Niamh Lenihan at Trinity College Dublin for ‘The Human in Human Rights: Dignity, Autonomy and Democrac

The University of Limerick School of Law is hosting an alumni gathering in Dublin as part of their Silver Jubilee Celebrations.

QUB Women in Law is seeking legal professionals to become mentors as recruitment opens for the annual mentoring scheme. 

UCD Sutherland School of Law has released a special series of SSRN Working Papers honouring alumnus, the late Professor Conor Gearty, who passed away in September 2025. Professor Gearty graduated from UCD with a BCL degree in 1978 thereafter qualifying as a solicitor and attending the University of

The courts and judiciary must play a central role in shaping how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in legal systems if public trust and legitimacy are to be maintained, experts stressed at an event hosted by University of Limerick. The issue was explored during a panel discussion entitled ‘

Dr Victoria Barnes, associate dean of education and academic at the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded the 2026 Podgórecki Prize by the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) of the International Sociological Association.  Established in 2004 in mem

Applications have opened for the UK Supreme Court’s Moot programme for university law schools and law societies. The UK Supreme Court offers 12 graduate law schools and university law societies the chance to have their moot final judged by one of the Supreme Court Justices at the court or virt

The University of Limerick School of Law has launched a year-long programme of silver jubilee celebrations marking its 25th anniversary. Starting out as a small academic unit established in 2001 it is now one of Ireland’s leading centres for legal education, research and public engagement.

Professor Joan Loughrey takes up the position as president of the Society of Legal Scholars of the United Kingdom and Ireland (SLS) from today. The SLS is a learned society with charitable status whose aim is the advancement of legal education and scholarship in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Profe

Former Supreme Court Judge Peter Charleton has been awarded an LL.D. by publication at Trinity College, Dublin. In order to be eligible candidates must show that they have made an outstanding, internationally recognised contribution to the advancement of knowledge and that they have a connection to

The Centre for Digital Ethics (CDE) is convening The Human in Human Rights: Dignity, Autonomy and Democracy in the Age of AI at the Trinity Long Room Hub on Friday 16 October 2026, from 6.00pm. Mary Robinson will deliver the opening keynote address, with Miriam O’Callaghan moderating the