Other law stories in brief
DCU to offer new degree course
DCU is the latest university to offer a new undergraduate law degree, beginning in September 2009. According to the university, the BCL (Law and Society) will provide students with a strong academic foundation, as well as an array of related applied skills.
The degree focuses on the interaction between society and the law, and offers critical perspectives on legal study, which distinguishes it from other law degrees.
As well as the core law subjects required by the professional bodies for entry to their professional training, students will have the opportunity to study non-traditional subjects like law and body politics; work, employment and society, and law and social inclusion.
Conference on European law
On November 17th next the Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL) is holding a conference and dinner to mark its 20th anniversary. The conference, entitled The Impact of European Law on the Corporate World, will be opened by President Mary McAleese and will take place from 9am until 5pm in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin. The dinner will be held in the King's Inns.
The speakers will include Supreme Court judge, Mr Justice Nial Fennelly; Lord Christopher Haskins, from the House of Lords; Brian Doherty, Departmental Solicitors Office in Northern Ireland; the Attorney General, Paul Gallagher SC; Dr Mary Robinson, president of Realising Rights: The Ethical Global Initiative; Prof Irene Lynch-Fannon of University College Cork; Dr John Temple Lang of Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton; Michael Collins SC, chairman of the Bar Council, and Prof Jonathan Rickford CBE, London School of Economics.
Planning event at Law Library
A conference on planning and environmental law, organised by Thomson Reuters and sponsored by Arthur Cox, will take place in the Law Library Distillery Building, Dublin, on Saturday next, November 8th.
It will be chaired by the former chief justice, Mr Justice Ronan Keane, and will be addressed by John O'Connor, chairman of An Bord Pleanála, Deborah Spence from Arthur Cox, Eamon Galligan SC, Garrett Simons SC and Tom Flynn BL.
Institute to host two talks
On Wednesday, Deirdre Somers will speak to the Institute of European Affairs on Towards a Transparent and Independent Exchange at 12.45pm at the institute's office in North Great George's Street. Ms Somers was appointed chief executive of the Irish Stock Exchange in 2007.
On Thursday next, Denis Corboy, director of the Caucasus Policy Institute at King's College London, will speak on the topic Russia and Georgia after the August War, also at 12.45pm at the institute's office.