Universities

Whether you simply love all animals or have a more analytical curiosity about legal protections for animal welfare – Dr Maureen O'Sullivan has the course for you! Ireland’s first animal law module is proving a hit at the University of Galway, with student numbers more than doubling. Dr

Professor Oonagh Breen of UCD Sutherland School of Law has been appointed to the Royal Irish Academy’s Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee for the 2026 to 2030 term.

Trinity Women in Law is seeking mentors to join its 2026 mentorship programme.

Dr Diarmuid Griffin, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Galway School of Law, has been appointed to the Royal Irish Academy’s Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee. Committee members are selected based on their discipline expertise and public

A&O Shearman and Ulster University are marking 10 years of a scholarship initiative that has helped to deliver more than £1 million in free legal advice to people facing social and financial barriers. The A&O Shearman Access to Justice Scholarship, funded by the A&O Shearman Founda

Professor Cherie Armour; Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Dame Siobhan Keegan and Dr Katie McGaughey More than 80 per cent of crime victims in Northern Ireland are not confident they will receive justice, Queen’s University researchers say.

The Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway, was honoured to welcome Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin for a public lecture entitled “US Sanctions against the International Criminal Court: an attack on human rights and accountability for Palestine&rdq

New research led by Trinity College Dublin’s AI Accountability Lab pinpoints the growing threat posed by the influence AI companies have over the rule of law and people's lives. The international team behind the work, which comprised researchers based in Ireland, the United States, Scotland an

Ulster University has launched a new research and educational collaboration with StructureFlow, a platform for mapping, modelling and managing complex legal structures.  Led through Ulster University’s Centre for Legal Technology, the collaboration is focused on research, teaching and ski

The School of Law and Criminology at Maynooth University has received two award nominations. The Dentons Legal Insights Programme, led by Dr Elaine Burroughs and Marie Therese Ward, is a flagship initiative within the School and run in partnership with the MU Careers and Employability Service and MU

Raising the age of criminal responsibility is overdue, but the proposed tiered model risks incoherence unless the scope of serious offence exceptions – particularly for sexual harm – is more clearly defined and justified, writes Professor Kevin J. Brown of Queen’s University Belfas

Mr Justice Séamus Woulfe of the Supreme Court of Ireland has launched the sixth edition of the Plassey Law Review at the University of Limerick. Mr Justice Woulfe, who contributed a foreword to the publication, addressed a varied audience drawn from the legal, academic, and student communitie

Dr Lydia Bracken of the School of Law, University of Limerick, has been awarded over €200,000 in research funding under the Research Ireland Collaborative Alliances for Societal Challenges (COALESCE) programme for her project on LGBTQI+ parent families’ experiences of accessing reproducti

Four legal academics are among seven people who have been appointed to serve as members of Ireland's Council of State. The new appointees include Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Professor Colin Harvey, Professor Donncha O'Connell and Professor Conor O'Mahony.

Phoenix Law partner Darragh Mackin has been recognised with an award from Trinity College Dublin's student branch of FLAC.