2016 Annual Lecture
The topic for the Hibernian Law Journal’s Annual Lecture 2016 was Climate Change and Legal Disruption. The Journal’s Judge-in-Residence, Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan, chaired the lecture and was joined by speakers Professor Maria Lee (UCL), Dr Áine Ryall (UCC) and Dr Eloise Scotford (KCL).
Previous Lectures
2015
World Wide Web or Wild Wild West? The Rule of Law in a Digitised Society
Speakers: Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan (Chair), Cliona Kimber BL, Dr. Eoin O’Dell (TCD) and Dr. Raphael Cohen-Almagor (Hull)
2014
The Future of the Legal Profession
Speakers: Professor Stephen Gillers (NYU), Professor Alan Paterson (Strathclyde), Professor John Flood (UCD), Mr Justice Michael Peart
2013
Press for Freedom – Legal Friction between Press Freedom and Press Regulation in Modern Society
Speakers: David Leigh (The Guardian), Professor John Horgan (Press Ombudsman), Mr Justice Michael Peart, Vincent Browne
2012
The Future of Defamation in an Online Society
Speakers: Mr Justice Michael Peart, Mr Hugh Mohan SC, Mr Michael Kealey (Solicitor)
2011
The Commercial Court
Speakers: Mr Justice Peter Kelly, Ms Justice Finlay-Geoghegan, Mr Justice Michael Peart
2010
Nationalism, Constitutionalism and the Future of the European Union
Speaker: Professor Sir David Edward
2009
The Three Courts
Speakers: Mr Justice Kevin O’Higgins, Ms Justice Fidelma Macken, Professor Imelda Maher (UCD)
2007
Speaker: Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston
2006
Speakers: Judge Erik Mose, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda & Dr Maurice Manning, President of the Irish Human Rights Commission
2004
Justice John Cooke – Impressions on White Paper
Speakers: Geoffrey Robertson QC, (2004-2005) 5 Hibernian Law Journal 1 and Robert Marshall (Solicitor)
2002
Sanctions and International Law: Connect or Disconnect?
Speakers: Andreas Lowenfeld (NYU), (2003) 4 Hibernian Law Journal 1 and “Legal Limits to International Sanctions” – Gernot Biehler (TCD), (2003) 4 Hibernian Law Journal 15
2001
The Rule of Law and Judicial Remedies in the European Union
Speakers: Advocate General Francis G. Jacobs, (2002) 3(1) Hibernian Law Journal 1
2000
Post Nice or Anti-Nice? The Debate on Europe’s Constitutional Future after Ireland’s No Vote
Speakers: Professor Gráinne de Búrca (EUI), (2001) 2 Hibernian Law Journal 1, John Rogers SC, Dr. Vincent Power (Solicitor)
1999
The Second Great English Reform of Civil Justice – A Triumph of Hope over Experience
Speakers: Professor Adrian Zuckerman (Oxford), (2000) 1(2) Hibernian Law Journal 178 and Michael McDowell SC, “A Reply to Mr Zuckerman” (2000) 1(2) Hibernian Law Journal 198