The Hibernian Law Journal’s Annual Lecture of 2018 – One Island, Two Systems: The Future of Rights Post-Brexit will take place at the Law Society of Ireland on 1 November 2018. The speakers will make a short presentation followed by panel discussion and audience Q&A.
Panel
- The Hon. Mr Justice Michael Twomey, Chair
- Séamus Woulfe SC, Attorney General of Ireland
- Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC
- Professor Conor Gearty (London School of Economics)
- Eilis Barry (Chief Executive of FLAC)
Details
6:30pm | Education Centre, Law Society of Ireland
Refreshments to Follow
Former Lectures
2017
Checkpoint Cathal – Brexit and the Border
Speakers: Ms Justice Bronagh O’Hanlon (Chair), Senator Michael McDowell SC, Miriam González (Partner, Dechert LLP), Professor Colin Harvey (Queen’s University Belfast)
2016
Climate Change and Legal Disruption
Speakers: Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan (Chair), Professor Maria Lee (UCL), Dr Áine Ryall (UCC) and Dr Eloise Scotford (KCL)
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