Universities

A pair of aspiring lawyers have been awarded the Gateley Legal Northern Ireland prize by Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Law. Students Robin Clarke and Tara McFeely split this year’s award, which is given to the student from the Masters in Law course who scored the highest o

A legally comprehensive study of Lord MacDermott, former law lord and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, has been published for the first time. Lord MacDermott was first appointed to the bench in 1944 and retired from Northern Ireland's top judicial post in 1971, though continued to sit in vari

Irish human rights activist Brian Dooley has been recognised with the University of Oslo's annual human rights award. Mr Dooley, a senior advisor to Washington DC-based NGO Human Rights First, was named winner in September and this month travelled to Oslo to collect the award.

Children's ombudsman Dr Niall Muldoon has been awarded an honorary doctor from University College Dublin. A clinical psychologist from Donegal with nearly 20 years’ experience in child protection, Dr Muldoon holds a PhD from the UCD School of Psychology, where his research focused on psychothe

Research projects on prisoner experiences and AI-assisted judicial decision-making at Trinity College Dublin have secured prestigious EU funding grants worth up to €2 million over five years. Professor Mary Rogan and Dr Brian Barry in the School of Law are among three Trinity researchers who ha

Northern Ireland's family courts should apply a "presumption against contact" in cases involving domestic violence and abuse, a report has recommended.

A new collection of papers presented at the 25th British Legal History Conference at Queen's University Belfast has been published on an open access basis. Law and Constitutional Change brings together some of the best papers presented at the conference, which examined the role that law plays when c

Professor Kim Lane Scheppele has been appointed as visiting full professor at UCD Sutherland School of Law. Professor Scheppele is the Laurance S Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, where her work focuses on the rise and fall of constitutional democr

The University of Limerick's law school has hosted a first-of-its-kind workshop delivered by the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The University of Galway has welcomed 19 research students to campus as part of the 2025 Hardiman PhD Scholarship. The new scholars in the College of Business, Public Policy and Law include Pratik Purswani and Amil Jafarguliyev, who are researching legal topics.

UCD Sutherland School of Law has welcomed Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC, Professor Neil H Buchanan, the Honorable Patricia Lucas and Dr Nikolaos Pitsos as adjuncts. Ms Ní Ghrálaigh, who has been appointed as an adjunct full professor, is a leading international and human rights

Wider use of community sanctions can help to improve public safety while tackling the prison overcrowding crisis, write Dr Ian Marder, Dr Eoin Guilfoyle, Dr Lousie Kennefick, Dr Niamh Maguire and Professor Nicola Carr. Amid extensive debate on public safety in recent weeks, one proven tool rema

Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis. In recent weeks, journalists, developers, tech entrepreneurs, the Minister for the Environment, and now even the Taoiseach have lined up to blame public participation in the planning system,

A new Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence has been opened at Maynooth University’s School of Law and Criminology. Realising European Values through European Law (REVEL), led by Professor Tobias Lock, has secured €100,000 in funding over a three-year period starting this month.

DCU Law Society has held its 10th annual criminal mock trial, with Mairéad Carthy and Bronwyn O'Connell triumphing over runners-up Aoibhínn O'Grady and Andrea Girleanu. All four contestants in Saturday's competition were first-year BCL students at Dublin City University.