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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
Law Society Gazette in Ireland publishes article by Prof Aisling McMahon on PatentsInHumans Project examining the potential impact of patents on access to health
The article outlines how such issues (amongst others) will be examined as part of the European Research Council funded PatentsInHumans project.
Date: Friday, 19 April 2024
LLB student Anna Barnes participates in #Vote4OurRuleOfLaw Fellowship – Berlin Bootcamp
Anna got the opportunity to research Irish youth voters’ motivations and barriers, while also getting to meet the other 42 fellows and participate in an intensive bootcamp in Berlin.
Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024
Pathways to the Legal Profession – Summer Internship opportunity
The School of Law and Criminology and the Maynooth Access Programme are delighted to announce that the Pathways to the Legal Profession Summer Internship Programme 2024 is now open for applications! This summer internship programme is supported by Matheson Law Firm, and the Association of Criminal Justice Research Development (ACJRD). The programme will support two MAP students to access paid summer internships in the legal profession.
Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024
ERC DANCING hosts world premiere of ‘Lived Fiction’ in Dublin
The piece was commissioned and specifically created for DANCING and forms integral part of the arts-based research embedded in the project which employs empirical, arts-based and legal-doctrinal research methods to uncover how EU law protects and promotes the right to culture of persons with disabilities.
Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Dr Orla Kelleher publishes in RTE Brainstorm
On the 12th April, Orla Kelleher, School of Law and Criminology Maynooth University and Andrew Jackson UCD, published an article in RTE Brainstorm entitled, ‘What does the latest European climate judgment mean for Ireland?’
Date: Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Call for Papers Maynooth University Workshop on Internal Displacement Law and Policy
In June 2022, the UN Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement called for states to develop and implement ‘relevant laws and policy frameworks’ to address the rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Maynooth University responds to this call by hosting its second workshop on IDP law and policy on 19 and 20 September 2024.
Date: Friday, 12 April 2024