Professor Áine Ryall has been re-elected unanimously as Chair of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee.
The Convention is a multilateral agreement linking the environment and human rights.
She was elected Chair in 2021 and re-elected to serve a second term as Chair in Feb 2026.
🌱 Green Careers Series | Ep 8
Meet Diarmuid Torney, Director of DCU Institute for Climate & Society and DCU lead for the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.
From politics & economics to fair transitions, he explains why inclusive decision-making matters.
Watch here: buff.ly/IVO4hkP
Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The AI4People Summit 2025 starts tomorrow - see details at ai4people.org/advancing-et... and sign up at ai4people.org/ai4people-su...
“Bhí sé soiléir san fheachtas seo go bhfuil daoine ag tabhairt aire ar chúrsaí teanga”
Sa Irish Times, míníonn an tOllamh Laura Cahillane, ó Scoil Dlí Ollscoil Luimnigh, an ról a bhí ag an nGaolainn i dtoghchán Catherine Connolly go dtí an Áras
www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/scea...
@ulsol.bsky.social
New article out with Katie Nolan (@katieanolan.bsky.social) and Orla Lynskey in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies: 'Digital Empire or Digital Fiefdoms? Institutional Tensions and the EU Right to Data Protection'.
Open access at: doi.org/10.1017/cel....
@cambup-law.cambridge.org
We’re launching a new series on curious legal cases in Ireland.
The use of Irish in court remains rare. In the 2019 Ó Cadhla case, the High Court ruled the State must make “reasonable efforts” to assign a bilingual judge when requested.
Read more (in Irish): viz.legal/an37kaJQ
#LegalTech
Looking forward to the launch of David Cowan's new book on law and technology at the @ials.bsky.social next month - sign up at ials.sas.ac.uk/events/law-a...
Dr Orla Kelleher of Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology calls on Ireland to show greater leadership and ambition on climate action. @maynoothlaw.bsky.social @orlakelleher.bsky.social
I presented @futureoflawassoc.bsky.social on AI & the Future of #LegalEd abt building crucial #problemsetting skills through writing, along w Jonny Hall & @csimmonds.bsky.social (#Problembasedlearning & AI), Brian Tang (Authentic Team #Projectbasedlearning) & Samuel Dahan (No-code Legal AI Creation)
Where did the shirt come from? I need one of those.
FAO any scholars interested in judicial studies - I am hoping to establish an Irish Judicial Studies Network to develop this area of legal studies in Ireland and to create opportunities for research collaboration. If interested - or if you know anyone who might be interested - please let me know!
#LegalTech #Ireland 2025 finally underway, with Ms Justice Nuala Jackson’s keynote
Last chance to register for #LegalTech #Ireland 2025 which takes place on Monday - www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
We're just a week away from #LegalTech #Ireland 2025 - check out the schedule at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub... and register for either in-person or online attendance
#LegalTech #Ireland is coming up on 7 April - the schedule is now available at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub... and there is still time to register!
When AI eats its own tail, it damages the environment. My new piece, Clean Data: Recursion as Pollution in Environmental AI (scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/881/) is out from Oxford University Press, with great editors @joshgellers.bsky.social and @spillteori.bsky.social. #OUP #AIethics #newoil
Registration is now open for Legal Tech Ireland 2025, co-organised with @letsopenculture.bsky.social and Alison Hough of TUS Midlands and taking place in @uniofgalway.bsky.social on Monday 7 April - sign up at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
Today is the last day to submit a paper for the #LegalTech #Ireland conference in @universityofgalway.bsky.social - for details, see www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
We have just extended the deadline for the "Legal Tech Ireland: Impacts, Policies and Pathways" conference, which takes place on 7 April. Abstracts due by 18 March, by email to me. Details at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
A reminder that the closing date for paper submissions for Legal Tech Ireland is Monday 10th - email me your abstracts! More details at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
Check out Sinéad Mercier's brilliant chapter on the 'placelessness' of energy law in Ireland!
The deadline for paper submissions for #LegalTech #Ireland 2025 is coming up fast. Abstracts are due by the 10th. More details at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
My new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' is now available in the US and globally with @politybooks.bsky.social The book charts how digital and AI interventions in humanitarian settings harm some of the world's most marginalized people www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Join us for a timely in-person seminar 'Transatlantic Perspectives on Legislating AI'.
Speakers: Prof. Woodrow Hartzog, Prof. Barry C Smith, Dr. Anna-Maria Sichani
🗓️19 February 2025, 5:30pm-7:00pm, in-person at IALS
Book your place now!👇
ials.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...
Webinar 12-1pm today (Jan 23rd)
"Ireland’s scientific and legal responsibilities on climate change."
Speakers:
Prof. Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
Dr. Andrew Jackson, UCD
Oisín Coghlan, Friends of the Earth
Rose Wall, CLM.
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Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We've migrated our company account away from Twitter. If you are in the legal world on here a follow would be most appreciated: 🙏
@vizlegal.bsky.social
Looking forward to speaking about Ireland’s Climate Justice Obligations this Thursday from 12-1pm (free webinar) alongside @kevinclimate.bsky.social @oisinc.bsky.social & Rose Wall of Community Law & Mediation. Registration here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations is now online and shortly in print, with a chapter on the Irish situation by @mariamurphy.bsky.social and myself.
If you don't have access and would like a preprint of the Irish chapter then drop me a line at tjmcintyre@ucd.ie.
If you are interested in the cross-disciplinary challenges of "Law as Data, Data as Law", have a look at the new symposium in Law, Technology and Humans co-edited by myself and Dr Brian Barry of Trinity College Dublin: tinyurl.com/lthj140
