Universities

Human rights law academic Dr Aoife Daly has been granted nearly €2 million to analyse how young climate activists are claiming and asserting their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Dr Daly, a law lecturer at University College Cork (UCC) specialising in children's right

Women are able to recall details of sexual assault and rape with accuracy, even if they have drunk — or expected to drink — moderate amounts of alcohol, a new study claims. A study conducted at the University of Birmingham found that women who had drunk alcohol up to the legal limit for

Solicitors have been invited to participate in a research project examining Irish solicitors' knowledge and use of mediation. Bill Holohan SC, partner at Holohan Lane LLP in Cork, is conducting the research as part of his doctorate study at Northumbria University.

Children with experience of surrogacy are "in favour of legal reforms", according to a new study led by the University of Leicester. Using a combination of age-appropriate methods, including a "unique set of playing cards", researchers have drawn out their views on topics that included how the legal

Law students Fallon Burns and Dariya-Mariya Petryshyn from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) have triumphed in the regional heat of the Law Society of Northern Ireland’s Client Consultation Competition 2023. The competition, which has been successfully run by the Law Society over the last

Dr John Stannard, a senior lecturer at Queen's University Belfast School of Law, has been awarded an awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list for services to legal education. Born in East Anglia and brought up and educated in the north of England, Dr Stannard read law at the University of Oxford

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) prize for the best Master's dissertation submitted to the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) at Ulster University has been awarded to Fiona MacGregor. Ms MacGregor's dissertation, "Whose Rape is it Anyway?", explores UN responses to opportunisti

Pearce Clancy, a PhD scholar at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in University of Galway School of Law, has been awarded the EJ Phelan Fellowship in International Law by the National University of Ireland. The Fellowship is awarded to one applicant every two years for an 18-month period in honour o

Law students are more likely to misuse alcohol and have suicidal thoughts than their peers, according to a new study by researchers north and south of the border. A research paper produced by academics at Ulster University (UU), Atlantic Technological University (ATU) and Uppsala University explores

Pictured (left–right): Méabh de Courcy MacDonnell, Robert O’Sullivan, Ms Justice Carmel Stewart, Mr Justice John McMenamin, Tom Casey and Hugh Joyce Three final year law students at UCD Sutherland School of Law comprised the winning team at The National Moot Court Competition 2022

Pictured (L–R): Lady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan, Aoife Killackey and Maurece Hutchinson Law students Aoife Killackey, Bailey McCrindle and Caoimhe Ringland have received a prize – worth £3,000 – after achieving the highest marks in their tort law module at Queen’

Law students Emilia Lye and Chong Zheng Yang have won the Queen's University Belfast Law Society's annual novice moot for 2022.

Law students Beth Hamill and Tom Dwan have triumphed in the final round of Trinity Law Society's annual senior mock trial. Last week's final saw the pair go head-to-head with Eoin Ryan and Fiona Stenson. All four finalists will now represent Trinity in an intervarsity competition with Cambridge Univ

Ireland's National Moot Court Competition will this year take place in-person for the first time since the pandemic. Organised by DCU and sponsored by A&L Goodbody, the 13th annual competition will take place on Saturday 19 November at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin.

Former State pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy has been presented with the Praeses Elit Award by Trinity College Law Society. The award was presented by Ruth Brady, auditor of the Law Society, at an event organised by secretary Eoin Ryan and sponsored by Arthur Cox LLP.