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Niamh Ní Bhriain (Transnational Institute), ‘On EU Militarism, Arms Trade, Deadly Border Politics and Complicity in Israel's Genocidal War on Gaza’, 25 April 2024.
In this hybrid event, Niamh discussed the expansion of the European Union (EU) as a “militarised union”, focusing in particular on the increase in defence spending in the EU Budgets and arms trade by the EU.
Date: Thursday, 09 May 2024
Professor Aisling McMahon appointed as member of the Irish National Research Ethics Committee for Clinical Trials
Professor McMahon will sit on NREC CT-A, one of four committees examining applications and ethics considerations surrounding Clinical Trials of Investigational Medicinal Products in Ireland.
Date: Friday, 03 May 2024
CORD Partnership hosts webinar on developing research partnerships
Funded by the National Open Research Forum (NORF) under the Open Research Fund Call 2023, CORD is bringing its partners together for three events in 2024 to determine collectively how best to embed a culture of interdisciplinary open research in criminal justice in Ireland.
Date: Friday, 03 May 2024
Cydney Sheridan receives 2023 Prize for Best Dissertation
Congratulations to Cydney Sheridan who received the Research Centre for Criminology 2023 Prize for Best Dissertation in the MA in Comparative Criminology & Criminal Justice
Date: Thursday, 02 May 2024
Professor Julian Go of the University of Chicago delivered a keynote lecture about his newest book
Professor Go’s Policing Empires demonstrates that this is nothing new and looks at how and why police brought the war home, situating this in relation to imperial feedback loops, the ‘imperial boomerang’.
Date: Wednesday, 01 May 2024
Dr. Yağmur Hortoğlu speaks at the Arbitration & Crime conference
Last Friday, Dr. Yağmur Hortoğlu gave a speech on The Federal Republic of Nigeria v P & ID Limited [2023] EWHC 2638 (Comm) and EWHC 3320 (Comm) at the Arbitration & Crime conference that took place in Sciences Po Paris.
Date: Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Maynooth University welcomes His Excellency Vincent Guérend, the esteemed French Ambassador to Ireland
Ambassador Guérend delivered a captivating keynote address, delving into the intricate intersections of law and diplomacy, to a captivated audience comprising of students, esteemed faculty members, Lyon colleagues, and distinguished guests. The event not only celebrated the longstanding collaboration between Maynooth and UCLy but also marked the new BCL Law and Languages programme, a collaborative effort between the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Date: Friday, 26 April 2024
Prof Aisling McMahon & Dr Opeyemi Kolawole present PatentsInHumans papers at the SLSA conference at the University of Portsmouth
Prof Aisling McMahon and Dr Opeyemi Kolawole presented a co-authored paper at the health law panel of the SLSA conference entitled “Intellectual Property Rights, Control and Repair of Medical Devices: Autonomy, Sustainability and the Need (and Challenges) for a Right to Repair for Medical Devices?”
Date: Thursday, 25 April 2024
Maynooth Law Graduate, Dr Mariza Avgeri, wins European Law PhD Thesis Prize
The award recognised Mariza's thesis entitled "A transgender studies approach to gender identity and expression-based asylum claims based on a critical doctrinal and discourse analysis of CJEU and ECtHR Jurisprudence".
Date: Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Mark Leiser raises questions about the EU's Digital Services Act
Dr Mark Leiser is a regulatory theorist, specialising in Digital, Legal, and Platform Regulation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Department of Transnational Legal Studies, Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute).
Date: Monday, 22 April 2024