Since 1999, our Annual Lecture has become a staple event in the Irish legal calendar, at which topics of contemporary significance are discussed by a panel of distinguished guests. In recent years, the HLJ has been fortunate to welcome, among others, current Attorney General Paul Gallagher SC, former Chief Justice John Murray, Professor Colin Harvey of Queen’s University Belfast and Senator Michael McDowell SC as speakers at our Annual Lecture.
Previous Lectures
2021
Disinformation in an Information Age: Ireland’s Response to a Global Challenge
The Hibernian Law Journal held its Annual Lecture of 2021 virtually on 27 April 2021.
2019
Ireland, Northern Ireland and a Constitutional Conversation
The Hibernian Law Journal held its Annual Lecture of 2019 – Ireland, Northern Ireland and a Constitutional Conversation – at the Law Society of Ireland on 28 November 2019.
Panel
- Mr Justice Michael Twomey (Chair & Judge-in-Residence of the Hibernian Law Journal)
- Paul Gallagher SC (29th Attorney General of Ireland
- Sir Paul Girvan (Former Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland)
- Professor Aileen Kavanagh (Chair of Constitutional Governance at TCD)
- Mr Justice John L Murray (10th Chief Justice of Ireland)
2018
One Island, Two Systems: The Future of Rights Post-Brexit
Speakers: Mr Justice Michael Twomey (Chair), Séamus Woulfe SC, Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC (Doughty Street Chambers), Professor Conor Gearty (London School of Economics), Eilis Barry (Chief Executive of FLAC)
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), 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