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Monday, July 14, 2014 - 00:00
Professor Michael Doherty, Head of Maynooth University Department of Law, was recently invited to speak at the “Questioning Austerity: Realities and Alternatives” International Workshop organised by the Department of Politics and Department of Social Policy & Social Work at the University of York.
Professor Doherty’s paper, delivered with Eftychia Achtsioglou (School of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) was entitled “The Mercury Pills for the Union's Social Ills: Austerity and Labour Law in Greece and Ireland” and was based upon his recent publication in the European Law Journal; 'There Must Be Some Way Out of Here: The Crisis, Labour Rights and Member States in the Eye of the Storm'.