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Prof Aisling McMahon delivers an invited lecture at the World Intellectual Property Organization Summer School
Professor McMahon’s lecture examined the topic of ‘Patents and Biotechnological Inventions in Europe’.
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Professor Tobias Lock delivers keynote address on “Lessons for Irish Reunification from Germany”
Like German reunification, Irish unity would require the completion of negotiations at different levels: internal, bilateral and international (including at the EU level); it would require a similarly complex process of merging two distinct legal orders.
Tuesday, 09 July 2024
Professor McMahon delivered recent invited research seminars/papers at Newcastle University, Durham University and at Wellcome Trust funded ‘Future of Human Reproduction’ project’s international symposium on ‘In Vitro Gametogenesis (IVG): Ethics and Polic
Prof McMahon is a Professor of Law specialising in health and intellectual property law at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Monday, 08 July 2024
Geographers 'Headline' Glastonbury Festival 2024
Geographers Headline Glastonbury Festival 2024 Geography at Maynooth University, in collaboration with the Department of Design Innovation. The Circus team of six members has just returned from headlining at the Glastonbury Festival which ran from 26 to 30 June in Somerset, England with attendance of over 200,000 people.
Thursday, 04 July 2024
Prof Doherty speaks at NERI Annual Conference 2024
Prof Doherty chaired a panel organised by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) on the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive.
Thursday, 04 July 2024
Extreme temperatures becoming more common in Ireland -- MU study
A temperature event of 33 degrees Celsius in Dublin’s Phoenix Park has gone from being a 1 in 180-year event in 1942 to a 1 in 9-year event in 2020, according to a new study led by Maynooth University.
Tuesday, 02 July 2024
Gizem Yardimci, PhD candidate at the School of Law and Criminology, presents at the University of Ljubljana
This presentation is a reflection of Gizem’s ongoing PhD research project which is funded by the Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI).
Tuesday, 02 July 2024
Maynooth scholars present at all-island criminology conference
The conference, Criminology in Times of Conflict: Rights, Harms and Responsibilities, was hosted by Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University.
Monday, 01 July 2024
ERC DANCING project hosts fifth Academic Conversation with Professor Eliantonio, Professor Korkea-aho and Professor Mӧrth
The DANCING team welcomed Professor Mariolina Eliantonio from Maastricht University, Professor Emilia Korkea-aho from the University of Eastern Finland and Professor Ulrika Mӧrth from Stockholm University to present and discuss their recent co-edited volume ‘Research Handbook on Soft Law’ (Edward Elgar 2023).
Friday, 28 June 2024
Sociology Department welcomes visiting researcher & political activist Nadja Lüttich
Nadja joins us for a three-week research visit funded by the Technical University of Dresden. She will take part in a colloquium on social movement learning & knowledge production & collaborate with Professor Laurence Cox on a conference presentation for the IPB.
Friday, 28 June 2024