GRADUATE ASSOCIATIONS
GRADUATE ASSOCIATIONS: LAW
Retirements at the School of Law Forty years of the LLM
A number of significant retirements Former Attorney General, Chairman of AIB and Adjunct
took place from the Faculty this Professor at the School of Law, Mr Dermot Gleeson SC,
year. Professor Paul O’Connor, the delivered a special lecture to mark 40 years of the LLM. At a
university’s longest-serving dean, ceremony following the lecture, he presented three
has stepped down after 15 years at scholarships to study for a master’s degree at the school.
the helm of the School of Law, but
is remaining on as a member of the
Faculty. Professor O’Connor’s many
achievements include the
Prof Paul O’Connor
establishment of the State’s only
Institute of Criminology, as well as the creation of new degree
and diploma programmes, new Chairs and a major expansion in
staff numbers. Joe McMahon, Professor of Commercial Law, has
taken over as Interim Dean pending a permanent appointment
later this year.
James Casey, Professor of Constitutional Law, and Dr Andrew
Lyall, senior lecturer, also retired this year. Professor Casey is
retaining his connections with the school as Professor Emeritus.
Mr Dermot Gleeson SC with scholarship winners Gearoid
Annual Prizegiving Bank of Ireland/
Grogan, Katie Callanan and Kevin Horan, with Prof Joe
McMahon, Interim Dean, UCD School of Law
Law School
The UCD School of Law honoured its outstanding students at
the annual awards ceremony held in Newman House on 6
Irish European Law Forum
December 2007. Sponsored for the 31st year by Bank of Ireland,
The 11th annual Irish European Law Forum was held in
the Student Awards are presented to the top students in one
Newman House. Held under the auspices of the UCD School
subject in each of First, Second and Third BCL. This year’s
of Law, the conference’s objective is to provide an
adjudicator for the essay competition was The Honourable Mrs
opportunity for academics and practitioners to engage and
Justice Finlay-Geoghegan of the High Court. The winners were:
exchange views on EU law. Leading academics present papers
Ian Hastings, Elisabeth Carr-Fanning, Mark O’Connor, Conor
on their research to an expert audience of their peers, in
McKeown, Joanne O’Toole-Byrne, Darragh Connell, Pauline
order to stimulate scholarly debate on EU law. This year’s
Faron, Ibar McCarthy, Joseph Spooner and Ciaran Burke.
theme was ‘Constitutionalisation: in search of more effective
human rights protection in Europe’ and it dealt with the
Inaugural lecture
challenges facing the European Court of Human Rights.
Professor Colin Scott, Sutherland Professor of EU Regulation
Included in the speaker list was Suzanne Egan, lecturer at
and Governance, delivered his inaugural lecture, ‘Regulating
UCD School of Law, who is a Human Rights Commissioner and
Everything’, to an invited audience in February. In his lecture,
has published widely on the subject.
Professor Scott noted that Ireland is the world leader in
creating regulatory agencies, surpassing even the USA in recent
years. He went on to argue that we must recognise the
unworkability of ‘mega-regulation’ and substitute it with
‘meta-regulation’. For a copy of the inaugural lecture, visit
www.ucd.ie/law.
Front row: Prof Maurice Manning, Dr Gerard Hogan SC, Mr John
Paul Haran, Principal, UCD College of Business and Law; Prof
O’Dowd, Dr Marie-Luce Paris-Dobozy, Mr Donncha O’Connell,
Colin Scott; and Prof Joe McMahon, Interim Dean, UCD
Prof Alastair Mowbray, Mr Ercus Stewart SC.
School of Law
Back row: Prof Imelda Maher, Prof Takis Tridimas, Mr Colm
Ó Cinneide, Prof William Binchy and Ms Suzanne Egan
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