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Symposium: New and Emerging Voices in Constitutional Law

Date 13 March 2024;

Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm;

Location: Sutherland School of Law, UCD.

The UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies Annual Public Law conference will take place in UCD Sutherland School of Law.

Date:     29 May 2024

Time:     9.30am to 5pm

Title:      "Current issues in Irish public law"

Programme: Download it here

Venue:   UCD Sutherland School of Law (in person)

CPD:      CPD Points: 5

The UCD Centre for Constitutonal Studies is delighted to open bookings for the 2024 edition of its annual 'Current Issues' conference.
The conference will feature a mixture of general panels on public law, as well as specialist panels on a range of areas including electoral law, information and data protection law, environmental and planning law, criminal law, family and child law, and EU law.
The conference will be of particular interest to those working in or with organisations in the public sector, civil service or regulatory fields.

Participants will include:

Eoin Carolan SC, UCD
John D Fitzgerald SC
Alan Keating SC
Ronan Lupton SC
Ailbhe O'Neill SC, TCD
Conor Power SC
Bernadette Quigley SC
Sarah Cooney BL
Sarah Fennell BL
Hannah Godfrey BL
John Kenny BL
James Kneale BL
Aoife McMahon BL
Colin Smith BL
Aoiffe Moran, Mason Hayes & Curran
Brian Barry, TCD
Kevin Costello, UCD
Paul Daly, University of Ottawa
Stephanie Fitzpatrick, UCD
Andrew Jackson, UCD
Jennifer Kavanagh, SETU
Orla Kelleher, NUI Maynooth
Imelda Maher, UCD.
 Aoife Mulligan BL

Fees: General Rate - €150

Fees: Practitioners <3 yrs, Students, NGOs, Unwaged: - €80

You can book your place below. Please see the below offerings.

The list of speakers and conference programme will be available shortly.

For further enquiries please email (opens in a new window)law.events@ucd.ie.

The UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies will host their annual review of the major developments in Irish constitutional law as follows: 

Date:     17 January 2024

Time:     1.30pm to 4.15pm

Title:      ‘Annual Update on Constitutional Law: 2023 in Review’

Venue:   UCD Sutherland School of Law (in person)

The event will cover the major developments in Irish constitutional law in 2023 including important decisions on the law relating to the giving of reasons by public bodies, the rights of children and families under the Constitution, surrogacy in Ireland, the election of the Seanad and the Article 26 reference on judicial appointments.
Speakers will include Ailbhe O'Neill SC from Trinity College Dublin and the Law Library, Paul Daly of the University of Ottawa and Irish Law Reform Commission, Tom Hickey of Dublin City University, and John O'Dowd, James McDermott BL and Eoin Carolan SC from UCD.
The fee to attend is €50, with a reduced rate of €25 for students, NGO's and practitioners of less than 3 years. 
There will be 2 points available for attendees who have a requirement for CPD.

Contact UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies

University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.