Research Workshop on
Legal protection of carbon sinks in the fight against climate change: interactions between ecosystem protection and human rights
ENVREG member and PhD Candidate, Alessandra Accogli, is organising, with the support of the UCD Sutherland School of Law and supervisor Amrei Muller, a Research Workshop entitled ‘Legal protection of carbon sinks in the fight against climate change: interactions between ecosystem protection and human rights’. The workshop will be held on 4-5 December 2023 at UCD Sutherland School of Law (Dublin, Ireland).
The workshop is centred on the legal protection of carbon sinks and aims to offer a selected group of academics and practitioners a forum to analyse and discuss the role of carbon sinks in climate change mitigation from a legal perspective. While there is consensus in the literature on the importance of carbon sinks in addressing climate change, this scientific understanding of carbon sinks in the carbon cycle rarely translates into legal research. At the same time, ecosystems that act as carbon sinks are often subject to human uses (e.g. land use activities) leading to their degradation and the release of the stored carbon back into the atmosphere. While restrictions on such uses aim, on the one hand, to limit the degradation of ecosystems and to ensure their conservation, on the other hand, they can have an impact on the human rights of those whose livelihoods or culture are linked to the natural habitat and its resources. Simultaneously, human rights may be affected by ecosystem degradation itself. Therefore, the workshop intends to address the tensions and synergies between the interest in protecting and restoring carbon sinks and the human rights at stake in ecosystem management and to promote legal approaches that allow synergies to be realised in tackling climate change, ecosystem degradation and human rights violations in an integrated fashion.
Speakers:
- Elisa Morgera
- Shashikala Gurpur
- Edwin Albas
- Alice Bisiaux
- Rodrigo Ramos Gómez
- Niels Hoek
- Gloria Kosgei
- Shuma Talukdar
- Kenny Cetera
- Natalia Kobylarz
- Jamie McLoughlin
- Calum Stewart
If you are interested in attending the workshop in person, please register (opens in a new window)here.
If you are interested in attending the workshop online, please register (opens in a new window)here. The Zoom link will be shared the week before the event.
If you have any other questions, please contact the organisers at (opens in a new window)alessandra.accogli@ucdconnect.ie. A detailed programme of the event will be shared in due course.
UCD and Eversheds Sutherland Conference Friday 10 November 2023
We are delighted to announce that we are hosting an Individual Accountability Framework conference, sponsored by Eversheds Sutherland.
Taking place on Friday 10 November, this conference brings together regulators, leading academics, lawyers and industry leaders to consider individual accountability in financial services.
The new Individual Accountability Framework in Financial Services Ireland
Friday 10 November 2023
8:45 - 13:20
UCD Sutherland School of Law
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(Please note, when registering for this conference, your contact details are shared with Eversheds Sutherland and UCD for the purposes of this event only).
(opens in a new window)Download the full conference programme here
Agenda
8.45-9.15: Registration – Tea and coffee
9.15-9.30: Introduction to the conference
Professor Colin Scott, University College Dublin
9.30-10.30: The new Individual Accountability Framework
Chair: Dr. Joe McGrath, University College Dublin
Panel session, involving:
- Professor Blanaid Clarke, Trinity College Dublin
- Professor Niamh Moloney, London School of Economics
- Wieke Scholten, BR Insights B.V.
10.30-11.15: Addressing the employment law, HR and training challenges
Chair: Joanne Hyde, Eversheds Sutherland LLP
Panel session, involving:
- Sophie White, Eversheds Sutherland UK
- Evelyn Cregan, Director of Executive Education, Institute of Banking
11.15-11.45: Break – Tea and coffee
11.45-12.15: Relevant lessons for Ireland from other jurisdictions: The Australian Banking Executive Accountability Regime
Professor Elizabeth Sheedy, Macquarie University
12.15-13.15: The Central Bank’s implementing regulations and guidance
Chair: Ciaran Walker, Eversheds Sutherland LLP
Panel session, involving:
- Gerry Cross, Central Bank of Ireland
- Brian Hayes, CEO, Banking and Payments Federation Ireland
- Michael D’Arcy, CEO, Irish Association of Investment Managers
- Neil Freshwater, CEO of Zurich Insurance plc
- Dr Margaret Cullen, Governance Advisor to Institute of Directors Ireland
13.15-13.20: Closing remarks
Dr. Joe McGrath, University College Dublin
Ciaran Walker, Eversheds Sutherland LLP
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Note: There is no charge to attend this conference but pre-registration is essential.
Queries can be directed by email to law.events@ucd.ie
Recognising Refugees Online Series: Practices and Modes of Recognition
(Public Event: Online)
Thursday, 21.09.2023 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (CEST)
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We are delighted to promote this event hosted by the (opens in a new window)RefMig project, led by our new colleague, Prof. Cathryn Costello.
This is the second event in the Recognising Refugees Online Series hosted by the RefMig project at the Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School in cooperation with the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales.
Refugee status determination is the process to determine who gets recognised as a refugee and is a central part of the international protection regime. However, practices and modes of recognition vary widely and are often politicised and contested. Given these dynamics, how to ensure the quality of recognition processes and outcomes? Which alternatives to formal refugee status do exist? And, how do group-based forms of recognition work and compare to individualised refugee status determination? The speakers of this online event shed light on these and related questions.
Speakers:
Prof. Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin and Hertie School) & Prof. Gregor Noll (University of Gothenburg): The Determination of Refugee Status: Conceptualising beyond Binaries
Prof. Liliana Jubilut (Universidade Católica de Santos): Brazil’s Dual Format of RSD: From the Tradition of Individual Procedures to the Use of Technology on Group Recognition
Dr Tamara Wood (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law): Group-based Refugee Recognition Practices in Africa
Chair: Dr Luisa Feline Freier de Ferrari (Universidad del Pacifico)
This event is the second in the Recognising Refugees Online Series organised by the RefMig project at the Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School in cooperation with the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales. It is part of a series of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). The event will showcase scholarship on Refugee Status Determination and other refugee recognition practices globally. Scholars will present cutting-edge scholarship from diverse disciplines and methodological traditions. It aims to foster dialogue between researchers, practitioners and the interested public.
Prior registration is required to attend this event.
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COMPLICATING RIGHTS OF NATURE
THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
09:45 am – 5:30 pm
Harty Boardroom, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin
ENVREG’s members Amanda Byer and Alessandra Accogli are organising a one-day
workshop titled ‘Complicating Rights of Nature’. Convening a wide range of scholars, the
event intends to critically discuss the concept of Rights of Nature (RoN) in international law
and its achievements, while exploring strategies for expanding the paradigm to include
diverse and sustainable ideas about nature.
The event will be opened by a video presentation by Keynote Speaker Mr Thomas Linzey
(Senior Legal Counsel, Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, USA).
Invited guest speakers include:
o Dr Daphina Misiedjan, Assistant Professor in Human Rights and the Environment,
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
o Dr Oluwabusayo Wuraola, Lecturer in Law at Anglia Ruskin University, United
Kingdom
o Dr Peter Doran, Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast and founder of
Environmental Justice Network Ireland, Northern Ireland
o Mr Devin Beaulieu, PhD researcher and Anthropologist, co-founder and Director of
the Instituto de Estudios Jurídicos Indígenas y Originarios in Sucre, Bolivia
o Dr Bróna MacNeil, PhD researcher, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
o Mr Julian Suarez, PhD candidate, University College Cork, Ireland
o Ms Niamh Guiry, PhD candidate, University College Cork, Ireland
The event will take place on Thursday, 25 May 2023 and it will be hosted by UCD
Sutherland School of Law with generous financial support of the Earth Institute, the
Environmental Regulation Research Group and the Property [In]Justice Project.
Due to limited number of places available, if you are interested in attending the event, please
contact the organisers at amanda.byer@ucd.ie and alessandra.accogli@ucdconnect.ie.
PhD and Post-Doctoral Researcher Biannual Workshops
The UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies is delighted to host biannual workshops for PhD and postdoctoral researchers at the Sutherland School of Law.
These workshops are designed to support researchers by providing a platform to connect with one another, present research in a safe space and gain valuable feedback from colleagues. They are a great opportunity to get used to articulating a research question or approach, or to practice delivering a brief presentation on the status of a project. The workshops can also be a forum to outline any difficulties encountered in a project – theoretical or practical - and to gain insights from others on how to move forward.
Each session includes presentations from two speakers –PhD candidates or postdoctoral researchers – whose research touches on any aspect of constitutional law, constitutional politics or constitutional theory. Presentations should be approximately 15 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of feedback from the group.
Speakers will also have the option of contributing a short blog piece on their presentation topic after the workshop which will be added to the Centre’s website.
To present at a workshop, please contact either Professor Eoin Carolan, Centre Director, at eoin.carolan@ucd.ie or Seána Glennon, Chief Outreach Officer, at seana.glennon@ucdconnect.ie with a short paragraph on the proposed topic. Please include the subject line ‘Centre for Constitutional Studies PhD and Post-Doctoral Researcher Workshop’.
2023 Distinguished Guest Lecture in Employment Law
Speaker: (opens in a new window)Professor Matthew Finkin
Date: 24 April 2023, 6pm
Title: “The Privatization of Justice and the Atomization of the Worker: the U.S.
Supreme Court’s Love Affair with Employment Arbitration”.
Venue: William Fry Theatre (L143), UCD Sutherland School of Law
Register: Please register to attend at (opens in a new window)this link.
You are also invited to join us for a reception in the Gardiner Atrium at 7pm.
Note: All are welcome to attend this event but due to limited capacity, pre-registration is required.
The UCD Sutherland School of Law’s Annual Distinguished Guest Lecture in Employment Law – an integral part of the School’s Professional Diploma in Employment Law – has provided students in, and graduates of, the Diploma programme, as well as the wider employment law community, with the opportunity of hearing from leading international scholars on a variety of key issues. Previous
speakers have included Professors Bernd Waas (Frankfurt), Keith Ewing (KCL), Frank Hendricks (Leuven), Claire Kilpatrick (EUI), Catherine Barnard (Cambridge) and Jeremias Prassl (Oxford). The 2022 lecture was delivered by Lord John Hendy QC (a recording of the lecture can be viewed (opens in a new window)here).
The 2023 lecture will be delivered by Professor Matt Finkin of the University of Illinois and currently a visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Milan. Professor Finkin, in addition to authoring numerous articles and books, is the co-editor of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal and, in 2021, was awarded the Bob Hepple Award for Life-Time Achievement in labour law by the Labour Law Research Network.
Professor Finkin’s topic is “The Privatization of Justice and the Atomization of the Worker: the U.S. Supreme Court’s Love Affair with Employment Arbitration”. The lecture will take place in the UCD Sutherland School of Law at 6pm on Monday, 24 April 2023. Attendance is not confined to graduates of the Professional Diploma in Employment Law but registration is essential.
All guests are invited to a reception in the Gardiner Atrium when the lecture ends at 7pm.
The Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act: implications for legal and healthcare professionals
To coincide with the expected commencement of this act on 26 April 2023, the UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies is hosting the following seminar for interested parties:
Date: 27 April 2023
Time: 1.30pm to 5.30pm
Title: "The Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act: implications for legal and healthcare professionals"
Venue: UCD Sutherland School of Law (in person)
CPD: CPD points will be awarded
The Act marks the biggest change for decades in Ireland's legal framework for people with capacity issues. The Act abolishes the current wards of court system and replaces it with a new framework which is intended to maximise autonomy for people who require support to make decisions about their personal welfare, property and financial affairs.
To mark the commencement, UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies is organising an event featuring a range of speakers, all of whom have expertise and experience in dealing with legal issues in this area. It will be of interest to legal practitioners, healthcare professionals and anyone else working with persons with potential capacity issues.
A distinguished panel of speakers will take part, these will include:
- Mr. Justice David Barniville, President of the High Court.
- Eoin Carolan SC, UCD
- Áine Hynes, St. John Solicitors
- Orla Keane, General Counsel Mental Health Commission/Decision Support Service
- Fiona McNulty, Mason Hayes & Curran Solicitors.
- Aoife Mulligan BL
With more speakers to be announced in due course.
Please register to attend below. If you have any queries, please email (opens in a new window)law.events@ucd.ie.
Baroness Onora O’Neill: ‘'Philosophical views on judgement”
UCD Sutherland School of Law is delighted to welcome renowned philosopher Baroness Onora O’Neill to deliver the next John M. Kelly Memorial Lecture.
Date: 29 March 2023
Title: "Philosophical views on judgement"
Time: 6pm Registration (Tea/Coffee), Lecture starts at 6.30pm sharp
Venue: A&L Goodbody Theatre (L023), UCD Sutherland School of Law
Register: (opens in a new window)At this link
Note: All are welcome to attend this event but due to limited capacity, pre-registration is required.
Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve CH CBE FBA Hon FRS FMedSci MRIA
Onora O’Neill comes from Northern Ireland and was educated in London before attending university in Oxford and Harvard, where she completed a PhD under the supervision of John Rawls. She has taught at various universities in the US and the UK, and was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge from 1992 to 2006. She combines writing on political philosophy and ethics with a wide range of public activities. She chaired the Nuffield Foundation from 1998-2010 and was President of the British Academy from 2005-9. She has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 1999. She has served on House of Lords Select Committees on Stem Cell Research, BBC Charter Review, Genomic Medicine, Nanotechnology and Food, Behavioural Change and Political Polling and Digital Media.
She has published Acting on Principle (second edition 2013), Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice (1986), Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy (1989), Towards Justice and Virtue (1996), Bounds of Justice (2000), Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002), A Question of Trust (the 2002 Reith Lectures), Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics (jointly with Neil Manson, 2007), Constructing Authorities: Reason, Politics and Interpretation in Kant's Philosophy, (2016); Justice Across Boundaries: Whose Obligations? (2017), From Principles to Practice (2018) and A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication (2022) as well as numerous articles in philosophical journals and on public affairs. She currently works on practical judgement and normativity; conceptions of public reason and of autonomy; trust and accountability; the ethics of communication, and on Kant’s philosophy.
She has been awarded the Kant Prize, the Holberg Prize and the Berggruen Prize.
(opens in a new window)Register now to attend this lecture by Baroness O'Neill.
Abstract for: "Philosophical Views on Judgement"
Some recent and distinguished work on judgement has argued that it is typically flawed not because it is invariably biased, but because even where there is no detectable bias judgement is too variable so is unreliable. This looks like a serious criticism. If indeterminacy is a flaw, it may affect and mar judgements not only when part of legal and other formal proceedings, but when made by every sort of expert and by each of us in innumerable contexts. I shall argue that indeterminacy is indeed a feature both of practical and of theoretical judgement of all sorts, but that it is indispensable because judgement typically has to take account of a plurality of features of situations. Since circumstances alter cases, there can be no algorithms for judgement. Onora O’Neill March 2023
John M. Kelly Memorial Lecture
The lecture series honours the memory of the late John M. Kelly (1931 – 1991) and has been hosted by the UCD School of Law for more than 20 years.
John M. Kelly was born in Dublin and educated at Glenstal Abbey, UCD, Heidelberg University, Oxford University and the King’s Inns. He studied a number of law courses and qualified as a barrister. He was a fellow and a lecturer at Trinity College Oxford from 1961-65; Professor of Roman Law and Jurisprudence at UCD from 1965; and also edited The Irish Jurist from 1966-73.
As an expert in constitutional law, he had various law publications including: Fundamental Rights in Irish Law, Constituting Roman Litigation, Studies in Civil Jurisprudence of the Roman Republic and The Irish Constitution. John Kelly was elected to Seanad Eireann in 1969 and subsequently served as TD for Dublin South from 1973 - 1989, when he retired from politics. He served as a Junior Minister in the 70s and subsequently as Attorney General, acting Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Trade and Tourism.
John M. Kelly died suddenly on January 24, 1991 aged 59 years.
French Judicial System and Franco-Irish judicial cooperation in the EU context seminar.
UCD Sutherland School of Law is proud to be hosting two seminars by Ms Estelle Cros, French 'magistrat de liasion' (liaison judge) for the UK and Ireland.
Ms Estelle Cros has been the French Liaison judge for the UK and Ireland since 1 September 2020, after having worked at the Court of Appeal of Saint-Denis de la Réunion as an adviser in charge of the general secretariat. Between 2015 and 2018, she worked at the Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature as training coordinator and coordinator of the international dimension unit. Ms CROS is a specialist in the instruments of international mutual assistance in criminal matters due to her varied experience in overseas or cross-border jurisdictions.
Seminar 1: The French Judicial System
Friday, 25 March 2021, 1-3 pm, UCD Sutherland School of Law, CLEC Moot Court Room
In this seminar Ms Estelle Cros will discuss and will invite the participants to engage in discussions on the following topics:
- The organisation of the French courts
- The difference between administrative justice and judicial justice in the French legal system
- The main actors of the justice system (magistrate - lawyer - public officer)
- The role of the judge in France
This event is free, but registration is required. Please register at:(opens in a new window) https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/296857307197
Seminar 2: Franco-Irish judicial cooperation in the EU context
Tuesday, 19 April 2021, 4-6 pm, UCD Sutherland School of Law, CLEC Moot Court Room
In this seminar, Ms Estelle Cros will presentation the main European tools for cross-border judicial cooperation and mutual assistance in civil, commercial, family and criminal matters in the EU, with an emphasis on the tools linking France and Ireland. At the end of the seminar, participants will have the chance to apply the tools discussed to various practical cases.
This event is free, but registration is required. Please register at:(opens in a new window) https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/296876675127
The seminars will mostly be held in the French language, but participants can also ask questions in English.
For more information, contact sara.benedilahuerta@ucd.ie.
Virtual book launch: 'Changing individual behaviour and culture in financial services'.
Wednesday, 9 March 2022 | 12pm - 1.30pm GMT
UCD Sutherland School of Law and Eversheds Sutherland are hosting the launch of the new book: (opens in a new window)New Accountability in Financial Services: Changing Individual Behaviour and Culture.
The launch will be a virtual event co-hosted by Eversheds Sutherland and University College Dublin on 9 March 2022, 12pm - 1.30pm. All are welcome to attend but you must pre-registered (opens in a new window)here if you wish to do so.
Co-authored by Dr Joe McGrath (UCD Sutherland School of Law), and Ciaran Walker (Eversheds Sutherland), they will be joined by the following guest speakers:
- Mr Justice John Hedigan, Chairman of Irish Banking Culture Board
- Paschal Donohoe TD, Minister for Finance
- Derville Rowland, Director General, Financial Conduct, Central Bank of Ireland
- Colin Hunt, Chief Executive Officer, AIB
- Mary O'Dea, Chief Executive, The Institute of Banking
The book provides a framework for analysing whether the new individual accountability regimes internationally, including the forthcoming Irish regime, are likely to lead to behavioural and cultural change.
Given how topical this is with the forthcoming introduction of the new Senior Executive Accountability Regime ("SEAR") in Ireland, we hope you will find the discussion insightfuland clarifying.
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