The Price of Accountability by Dr Fiona Donson
Accountability is lost in the axing of the Mobility Allowance scheme The decision by the Department of Health to close two disability schemes – the Mobility Allowance andMotorised Transport Grant –...
View ArticleProgramme for Reforming Abortion Law Conference March 22 2013
Conference Reforming Abortion Law: Comparative Perspectives March 22nd 2013 (1.30pm – 5.30pm) BHSC G_06 PROGRAMME Registration 1 – 1.30pm 1.30pm Welcome (S. Mullally, Director of the Centre for...
View ArticleBest Paper Prizes: 9th Annual North South Criminology Conference...
This year the CCJHR is pleased to announce that there will be three cash prizes given for Best Paper at this year’s 9th Annual North South Criminology Conference incorporating the CCJHR Postgraduate...
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Call for Papers: Irish Yearbook of International Law
The editors of the Irish Yearbook of International Law welcome submissions for publication the next volume. Articles should not be published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. Selected...
View ArticleThe Reality of cheap clothes: Reputation and Responsibility in South East...
The tragic events in Bangladesh last week once again threw a spotlight on the harsh reality of sourcing products from developing nations. Yet it remains to be seen if this latest disaster will have any...
View ArticleA Separate Process for Suicide within the Scheme of the Protection of Life...
After considerable speculation, a number of delays, and a few leaks the draft Scheme of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013 was published on Wednesday 1st May. The Taoiseach was keen to...
View ArticleDr. Ruth Fletcher’s submission to the Health Committee on the General Scheme...
We are pleased to welcome this cross-post from the Human Rights in Ireland blog of Dr. Ruth Fletcher’s submission to the Health Committee on the General Scheme of the Protection of Life during...
View ArticleOrganised crime in Ireland
Dr Liz Campbell, senior lecturer in criminal law and evidence, University of Edinburgh, liz.campbell@ed.ac.uk Author of Organised Crime and the Law: A Comparative Analysis, Hart, 2013. Since the...
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Launch of ‘Authors Meet Readers’ online series
Convenor: Prof Siobhán Mullally, Director, Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights Over the comings weeks and months, we will be welcoming graduates of UCC Law to this new CCJHR blog series. As...
View ArticleThe Law Concerning Intervention in Syria
Approximately 80,000 people have been killed in what is now being referred to as the “Syrian Civil War”, about half of whom were citizens. The conflict, which escalated from peaceful demonstrations...
View ArticleThe impact of imprisonment beyond the offender
Dr. Aisling Parkes & Dr. Fiona Donson A shorter version of this article was published in the Irish Examiner, 9th July 2013...
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Authors meet Readers series: Dr Pádraig McAuliffe on Transitional Justice and...
We are delighted to welcome this blog post from Dr Pádraig McAuliffe, Lecturer in Law at the University of Dundee, and incoming Senior Lecturer at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of...
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Authors meet Readers series: Dr Olufemi Amao on Corporate Social Responsibility
‘Authors meet Readers’ series: celebrating the work of UCC PhD Law graduates I am delighted to introduce Dr Olufemi Amao as part of our ongoing ‘Authors meet Readers’ online series, celebrating the...
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Emmanuel Oke: On the Novartis case, the Indian Supreme Court and the Right to...
We are delighted to welcome this blog post from Emmanuel Oke, PhD candidate here at the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, UCC. THE INDIAN NOVARTIS CASE: FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE BETWEEN...
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Remembering Seamus Heaney
FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE This poem was written by Seamus in 1985 at the request of Mary Lawlor of Amnesty International Ireland to mark International Human Rights Day. It has since inspired a...
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‘Authors meet Readers’ series: Dr Eoin Daly
We are delighted to welcome Dr Eoin Daly, Lecturer at UCD School of Law contributing to our ‘Authors meet Readers’ series, celebrating the work of UCC PhD law graduates. As this is an ‘Authors meet...
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Pakistan project: LLM Human Rights Law in Practice (clinic) students
Postgraduate students on the LLM programme in International Human Rights and Public Policy at UCC recently completed a clinical project addressing issues of access to justice and reform of the criminal...
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On International Law, Military Intervention in Syria and Complexity: Seán...
Welcoming Seán Butler, IRC PhD candidate at UCC Faculty of Law +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Military intervention in Syria, in the form of a bombing...
View ArticleDutch Supreme Court ruling: Responsibility for Three Civilian Deaths at...
Anna Marie Brennan (Government of Ireland PhD candidate at UCC Law) On Friday, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled that the Dutch state, whose troops retreated from the U.N. safe-zone of...
View ArticleRacism and Hate Crime: Oct 4th conference
On October 4th, the CCJHR will co-host a conference on Racism and Hate Crime in Ireland. An excellent line up of speakers will present at the event, addressing topics such as incitement to hatred, hate...
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