The Indigenous Rights Cluster at the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, School of Law, University College Cork, invites proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium exploring contemporary questions of Indigenous rights, justice and decolonisation. The symposium will form part of the formal launch of the Indigenous Rights Cluster.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is delighted to announce an interdisciplinary seminar featuring Dr Elena Kavanagh (UCC School of Law), Dr Jesse Peterson (UCC Radical Humantities Laboratory), and Julián Eduardo Suárez Bohórquez (UCC School of Law, PhD Candidate). The title of the seminar is "Entangled Rights: Indigenous Sovereignty, Rights of Nature, and More-Than-Human Justice".

The lunchtime seminar will take place on Tuesday 9th December at 2pm-3pm in the Room AL_G.33 in the School of Law at Aras na Laoi, UCC.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is delighted to announce a lunchtime seminar featuring Dr Ahmed Beshtawi, ACoRN Fellow at the UCC School of Law and a lecturer in international law at An-Najah National University, Palestine. He will be presenting a paper titled "When Law Plans Inequality: How Israel’s Planning Regime Denies Palestinian Children’s Right to Education".

The lunchtime seminar will take place on Wednesday 26th November at 1pm-2pm in the Moot Court Room (AL1.52) in the School of Law at Aras na Laoi, UCC.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is delighted to announce an upcoming event: 'Race and the Question of Palestine': In conversation with Dr Lana Tatour 

This event will take place on Thursday 27th November, 3:30pm-5pm at the Áine Hyland Room, The Hub, UCC.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is delighted to announce a lunchtime seminar featuring Professor Kris Gledhill from AUT Law School. He will be presenting a paper titled "Using Social Science Evidence in Sentencing: Lessons from Australasia".

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is delighted to announce a lunchtime seminar featuring Dr Allan McCay from the University of Sydney. He will be presenting a paper titled "The piecemeal approach to neurotechnology, and human rights: Reflections from Australian sentencing law".

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon). We send our condolences to his family and friends.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights was delighted to host the Mental Health and Capacity Law Conference on Friday 5th September 2025 in Brookfield Health Sciences Building.

UCC School of Law invites you to join visiting scholar Beverley Clough on Thursday, 25^th September, 12-2pm at the Shtepps, The Hub

The Mental Health and Capacity Law Conference will be held in Cork on 5 September 2025. The conference will be hosted and organised by the Centre of Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) at the School of Law, University College Cork (UCC). The 2025 Conference will discuss recent developments and research in mental health and capacity law.

The CCJHR is pleased to announce the publication of a new Working Paper.

On 26 March 2025, the co-founders of the Indigenous Rights Cluster celebrated a significant academic milestone at their conferring ceremony.

The Indigenous Right Cluster, CCJHR, is pleased to announce that the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge,  will host UCC researcher Dr. Elena Kavanagh for an insightful workshop on Indigenous Leadership and Self-Determination in Arctic Governance.

The CCJHR is delighted to welcome Dr Elena Kavanagh to the CCJHR. 

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) is pleased to announce that it has published research in one of Ireland’s leading peer-reviewed legal journals.

The CCJHR welcomes the appointment of Dr Nessa Lynch as a member of the new Policing and Community Safety Authority.  

The CCJHR would like to congratulate Dr Dug Cubie, Dr Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Niamh Guiry  on the publication and launch this afternoon of their report: Guidance on Risk Communication & Community Engagement Practices (full report available here open access)

This report is part of their UNIC seed-funded project Promoting Resilient Cities through Community Participation and Communication of Climate and Disaster Risks. This project was a collaboration between UCC, Cork City Council, Malmo University and the City of Malmo under the UNIC initiative.

Dr Zeffert's article speaks to the the unprecedented level of home destruction taking place in Gaza, and the dire consequences for civilians. Exploring the concept of home in international law, the role of international law in the global regime of homemaking, and the prospects and limits of criminalising the destruction of home. 

The London Review of International Law is an online only, peer-reviewed journal for critical, innovative and cutting-edge scholarship on international law

The article is available at the following link via the Journal's page: https://academic.oup.com/lril/advance-article/doi/10.1093/lril/lrae013/7746072 

The CCJHR is delighted to share that Dr. Nessa Lynch has joined the CCJHR Executive Board. Dr Lynch joined the School of Law, UCC in Spring 2024 as the newly appointed Matheson Lecturer in Law, Innovation and Technology.

The Centre for Criminal Justice & Human Rights is pleased to announce its next lunchtime Seminar series:

"The Report of the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman into Personal Independence Payment and Systemic Administrative Justice” Professor Robert Thomas.

The CCJHR is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Samantha Morgan-Williams as new Director and Dr Luke Noonan as Deputy Director of the CCJHR. 

Saturday 8 April 2017 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, University College Cork  

The Centre for Criminal Justice & Human Rights (CCJHR), School of Law, UCC and the Irish Mental Health Lawyers Association (IMHLA) are delighted to announce that their Annual Conference will take place on Saturday, April 8th at UCC.

On Sunday, 8 November, there will be a screening of 'Yo Cambio | I Change' in the Gate Cinema at 4pm as part of the Cork Film Festival.

‘Securing Justice in an Unjust World’ with Baroness Helena Kennedy QC Principal, Mansfield College, University of Oxford.

Congratulations to our most recent PhD graduate in Human Rights Law!

‘Republicanism, Human Rights and the Ending of the Armed Struggle’

Professor Kieran McEvoy, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast

Rights in Conflict: Socio-Legal and Critical Approaches to Human Rights 

See here for details on where CCJHR staff and students have been asked to present/advise/teach.

Care Migration and Rights, edited by Siobhán Mullally, now published by Routledge.

Mr Colin Wrafter, Director, Human Rights Unit, Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade to speak with School of Law on the work of the Human Rights Unit.

Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project at UCC on Feb 4 & 5

Seminar

 ‘The International Court of Justice: Leading Cases, Judicial Cultures and Practices’ 

 Judge Joan E. Donoghue

Date: January 26^th 2015 | Venue: Council Room, North Wing, the QUAD, U.C.C. | Time: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (School of Law, UCC) and Department of French (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UCC)

 “Cartoons, Comics and Human Rights after the Charlie-Hebdo Massacre”

 Dr David Keane

(Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Middlesex University)

Chair: Dr Patrick Crowley

 CACSSS Seminar Room, O’Rahilly Building, Monday January 19, 12.30-2pm

Professor Siobhan Mullally, Director of the CCJHR, appointed to the IHREC

David Joyce from IHREC will speak at UCC on Tuesday 11th November.

UCC students involved in deciding the winner of the 2014 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

The Faculty of Law, University College Cork

invites you to a Public Lecture with

Professor Shashikala Gurpur, Dean of Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India

 ‘Constitutional law, human rights and the challenges of globalisation in India’

Date: Wednesday Oct 22^nd

‘Lethal Allies: The Collapse of the Rule of Law in the N. Ireland Conflict’

 Speakers: Anne Cadwallader (Pat Finucane Human Rights Centre and Author of ‘Lethal Allies’)

Margaret Urwin (Justice for the Forgotten)

"Prosecuting Cases at the International Criminal Court"

with

 Mr Mark Dillon, Head of Information and Evidence

International Criminal Court, The Hague

‘Crimea in International Law’

Dr Thomas D. Grant

Tuesday Sept 30^th

Public Panel Discussion, Thursday 26th June

Abortion Secrecy / Abortion Privacy – What’s the difference and why does it matter?’ with Professor Carol Sanger

June 6, UCC

'Dignity and Respectful Coercion' with Professor Jeremy Waldron

Professor Siobhán Mullally, Law, UCC to give the 8th Sean Lester Lecture:

International Law and Trafficking in Human Beings: Crisis responses and continuums of exploitation

8th Annual CCJHR Postgraduate Conference

5th and 6th June 2014

Justice and Dignity under Challenge

Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights

8th Annual Distinguished Lecture

May 14th 2014

‘20th century law: 21st century problems’

Professor Harold Hongju Koh

Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale University, (former Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, 2009-2013)

Marriage Equality, Relationship Recognition and Non-Discrimination: Securing Equality and Rights?

One day conference

March 28^th 2014, 11.00 – 5.00pm

CCJHR Annual Conference Programme and Booking Information

We are delighted to announce that Dr Claire Murray has agreed to be Deputy Director of the CCJHR.

Dr Michael Kearney

 Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex 

Lunchtime seminar

Palestine, International Law, War Crimes & Settlers

1-2 p.m., Wed March 12th, Áras na Laoi, Room AL1.64 (first floor)

 ALL WELCOME

Professor Emmanuel Sur, from Université de Bordeaux, an expert on sovereignty and constituent power, will present on the philosophical and historical context for the writings of Jean Bodin, the father of modern sovereignty.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights and the MA in Women's Studies, UCC 

Lunchtime seminar on March 6th to mark International Women's Day

'The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - the 'Istanbul Convention'.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) at University College Cork is pleased to announce its 8th Annual Graduate Conference which will take place on the 5^th and 6^th June, 2014 and is putting out a call for papers.

'Integrating Equality and Human Rights’, a talk by Colm O’Cinnéide, University College London was given on Thursday Feb 13^th, 4-6pm in the Moot Court Room, Áras na Laoi.

'Integrating Equality and Human Rights’, by Colm O’Cinnéide, University College London, Thursday Feb 13^th, 4-6pm in the Moot Court Room, Áras na Laoi.

Justice Teresa Doherty, former Judge of the Special Court of Sierra Leone

‘Developments in Prosecutions of Crimes of Sexual Violence: perspectives from international criminal law’

Monday, Feb 10^th 2014, 4-6pm, Moot Court room

(first floor Áras na Laoi, to the left of the Law Dept reception office)

All WELCOME (advance booking not required)

Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Faculty of Law and School of Asian Studies, UCC

Gender, Security and Islam: Negotiating religion, culture and conflict in Pakistan

Prof Shaheen Sardar-Ali, Professor of Law, University of Warwick and Vice-President UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

‘The Dynamics of Family Law Reform in Pakistan: A Gender Perspective’

Prof Javaid Rehman, Professor of Islamic Law and Human Rights, Brunel Law School

'Sexual Minorities and Islamic State Practices: Examining the issue of the rights of LGBT and other sexual minorities in Pakistan'.

Thursday Jan 23^rd, 3-5pm

Venue: Aras na Laoi, Moot Court room

(first floor, to the left of the Law Dept reception office)

All Welcome

This event is organised in association with the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Public Policy, UCC Faculty of Law

 ‘Migrant Workers in the Gulf: Challenges of Human Rights Activism and Advocacy’

Dr Nicholas McGeehan, Human Rights Watch, London

Monday: January 20^th

Time: 12.30-2pm

Venue: Law Dept, Áras na Laoi, Room AL1.64 (first floor)

All Welcome

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda talk on December 16th may be read here: Lecture delivered by Prosecutor of the ICC Fatou Bensouda RIA Dec 12 2013

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms Fatou Bensouda, will deliver a public lecture at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, on Monday 16^th December, on the topic, ‘The International Criminal Court: current challenges and future prospects.’  The event will be chaired by the Chief Justice, Ms Justice Susan Denham.

Wednesday 27th November 

CCJHR and Frontline Defenders seminar with: Professor Bai Guimei, Professor of Law, Peking University

3-4.30pm, Moot Court Room, 1st floor, Aras na Laoi, UCC (1st floor)

'Chinese Human Rights and Human Rights Education in China'

Front Line Defenders, in association with UCC Centre for Global Development and Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights

invite you to

"Freedom of Expression in Syria"

with

YARA BADER

Director of the Syrian Centre for Media & Freedom of Expression

Public Lecture

‘National Human Rights Commissions: Giving Teeth to International Treaties’

Racism and Hate Crimes in Ireland: Is the Legislative and Policy Framework Adequate?

Conference: 4th October 2013

Venue: Brookfield Health Science Building, College Road, Room G10, University College Cork

Time: 1.15 – 5.00pm (registration begins at 1.00pm)

 Hosted by NASC, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre and the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, UCC

The CCJHR is delighted to announce the recent appointment of Professor Siobhán Mullally to the High Council (Governing Body) of the European University Institute, Florence (2013-15).

“If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You’re un-owned.” — Samantha Power

Samantha Power’s nomination for appointment as US Ambassador to the UN has been widely welcomed by foreign policy scholars, human rights advocates and international lawyers. Widely known as a passionate and rigorous advocate of human rights, Power has the potential to be a truly transformative Ambassador, not only in terms of US Foreign Policy but also for the UN itself.

Professor Siobhán Mullally, Director of the CCJHR, has been appointed as Member Designate of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.

The editors of the Irish Yearbook of International Law welcome submissions for publication the next volume.

An international conference on migrant domestic workers will be hosted on October 19th, 2012, by the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights and the Irish Human Rights Commission. The conference will mark European Anti-Trafficking day. Recent years have witnessed significant developments in international human rights standards relating to migrant domestic workers, including the adoption of the landmark 2011 ILO Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, the CEDAW General Recommendation on Women Migrant Workers and a General Comment by the UN Committee on Migrant Workers. The conference will examine the continuing tensions between immigration laws and policies, limited access to employment rights protections and evolving human rights standards on the rights of migrant domestic workers.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCHJR) at University College Cork will host its sixth annual postgraduate conference on Thursday, 26^th April 2012 in Áras na Laoi, UCC.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCHJR) at University College Cork is pleased to announce that the 6th Annual Postgraduate Conference will take place on Thursday, 26th April 2012. The conference is aimed at postgraduate researchers working in the areas of criminal law, criminal justice and human rights.

On January 13 2011, the Government published the terms of reference and named the expert group tasked with addressing the outcome of the A, B & C v Ireland ruling at the European Court of Human Rights.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights University College Cork is holding  a seminar on ‘Mass Incarceration on Trial’ By Professor Jonathan Simon Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley School of Law On Wednesday 13th July, 2011 Moot Court Room  Faculty of Law, Áras na Laoi at 3pm.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is pleased to present its 2010 newsletter featuring the centre’s teaching and research activities, events, and publications.

Unfortunately we are not in a position to proceed with the CCJHR Annual Conference entitled "Different Approaches, Same Justice?: Lessons to be Learned Across the White/Blue Collar Divide" this Friday due to circumstances beyond our control.  We hope that the Conference will proceed at a later date and Further details will be posted on this site once available.

The LLM in International Human Rights Law and Public Policy is an innovative and exciting new LLM programme...

The 5th Annual Criminal Justice and Human Rights Lecture will be delivered by Professor Sir Adam Roberts President of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University on “The Fate of the Civilian in War”.

Child Protection and children's constitutional rights will be the subject of an inter-disciplinary seminar organised jointly by colleagues in the Departments of Law, Applied Social Studies and the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century Children (Young People Research Cluster) at University College Cork on Friday 19th November at 12pm.

A one day international conference on gender equality, citizenship and multiculturalism will take place on Friday September 10^th 2010 in Brookfield room G04 from 10.15 – 5.30.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Right at the Faculty of Law at UCC was delighted to host its fourth annual criminal law conference, entitled Accommodating Victims in the Criminal Justice System

The conference updated delegates on current debates in criminal justice with particular emphasis on the role of victims of crime. 

Dr Ursula Kilkelly, Co-Director of the CCJHR, recently acted as Rapporteur at a high level international conference designed to promote strategies to protect children from violence.

The fourth annual Conference of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights took place on Thursday the 29th April. The Theme for this year's event was "Borders of Justice: Locating the Law in Times of Transition" and the various papers which were presented reflected upon how reactionary law making and the related rhetoric of crisis impact negatively on fundamental rights protection and the criminal law as well as many related topics.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at UCC will host its fourth annual postgraduate conference on Thursday, 29 April, 2010.

The Conference will be taking place in Brookfield Health Sciences Building on College Road. Registration is at 9 am.. 

'Subjects Before the Law: Membership, Recognition and the Religious Dimensions of Women's Citizenship.'

We invite PhD students and Early Career Researchers (no more than 3 years post-doc) from any discipline to apply to participate in a workshop, to take place on Thursday, September 9, 2010. 

The 4^th Annual Criminal Justice and Human Rights Lecture took place on Thursday March 4^th  2010. The lecture titled “Respectable Criminality” was delivered by The Honourable Mr. Justice William  McKechnie, Judge of the High Court.

Dr Ursula Kilkelly, Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Law at University College Cork writes in the irish times, in regard to the proposed changes to the Constitution which would force the State to give deserved priority of place to children in all decisions that might affect them.

Dr Ursula Kilkelly and Dr Catherine O'Sullivan wrote an article in the Irish times on Wednesday the 26 of May 2010 in response to recently issued guidance from the HSE to social workers on the approach they should take with families suffering domestic violence and abuse.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at University College Cork is pleased to announce its IV Annual Postgraduate Conference which will take place on Thursday, 29th April, 2010.  The conference is aimed at those who are undertaking postgraduate research in the areas of crimial law, criminal justice and human rights.

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) recently concluded its Second Annual Course on Citizenship and the Law in Cork prison. Thirteen inmates completed the short course, delivered by staff of the Law Faculty over a six week period in May / June 2009.

Venue: Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights

Organiser: ucclawconf@gmail.com

Venue: Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights

Organiser: ucclawconf@gmail.com

Venue: Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7

Organiser: Bart Daly

The CCJHR Annual Distinguished Lecture will take place on Monday March 23^rd 2009 at 6pm. The lecture on ‘The Extra-Territorial Reach of Human Rights Obligations’ will be delivered by Mr Guy Goodwin-Gill.

Micheál Martin, TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs Will Launch Protecting Civilians: The Obligations of Peacekeepers by Dr Siobhán Wills (Oxford University Press)

Venue: AL142

Organiser: Dr Conor O’Mahony

CCTV as a Crime Prevention Strategy: A Review of the Literature by Dorothy Appelbe, was launched by His Honour Judge Patrick J. Moran on Wednesday, 28th January 2009.

New Book on Children's Rights

New Research Project on Victims of Crime launched

Clinical Legal Education at the CCJHR: NAIRTL Integrative Learning Research Project

CCJHR/Faculty & Department of Law PhD Candidate Awarded Prestigious Fellowship

New Book: Terrorism, Rights and the Rule of Law: Negotiating Justice in Ireland

Judicial Diversity: Strategies for Change
Thursday 18th September 2008: 1800 - 2000
Dublin

Gender and Human Rights Post-Doc fellowship

Reforming Laws on Sexual Violence: International Perspectives
Friday 27th June 2008: 1015 - 1715
Aula Maxima, UCC

An Analysis of the United States Supreme Court’s Decisions in Boumediene, Al Odah and Munaf
Wed June 18th: 1-2pm
AL142, Aras Na Laoi, UCC

LLM (Criminal Justice) Graduate, Rebecca Coen, Appointed Deputy Head of Prosecution Policy Unit

Postgraduate Conference on Criminal Justice and Human Rights
1st May 2008
University College Cork

New Book: Terrorism, Rights and the Rule of Law: Negotiating Justice in Ireland

Citizenship and the Law programme at Cork Prison

New Publication: Volume 1 of the Irish Yearbook of International Law

How the U.S. Can Lose the War on Terror
23rd April 2008: 6pm
Council Room, North Wing, The Quad, University College Cork

Youth Justice 2008: An International Conference
3rd-4th April 2008
University College Cork

Seminar on Male Intimate Violence
28th February 2008: 4-6pm
AL1, Aras na Laoi, University College Cork

Protecting Human Rights at the International Criminal Court: Judge Navanethem Pillay
21st February 2008: 6.00-7.30 pm
Aula Maxima, UCC

The Pernicious Side of Proportionality: Two Studies in the hollowing out of Human Rights
24th January 2008: 5.30-7.30 pm
Council Room, Quad, UCC

Michelle Diskin to speak in UCC on “The Trial of Barry George”

Judge James McNulty – “Sentencing in General and Section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act in Particular”

CCJHR PhD candidate, Nidal Jurdi, appointed as Human Rights officer for the Middle East, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN)

Kazakhstan: National Ombudmsan for Human Rights

Seminar on the Special Criminal Court and States of Emergency
13th December 2007: 4-5.30 pm
AL1, Aras na Laoi, University College Cork

Lecture by General (ret.) John de Chastelain: Decommissioning and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 1994 – 2007
5-6pm, 3rd December 2007, UCC

One day Seminar on Guardianship and Migrant Children

Visit of Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner

In the News: Recognition of Gender Identities and the ECHR: PhD candidate, Tanya Ni Mhuirthile Opinion (Irish Times, Nov 1st)

Mental Health & Human Rights: Challenges for Law and Practice

In the News: Adjunct Professor Law, Justice Paul Carney, ‘The Role of the Victim in the Criminal Process: Part II’

Children's Rights Research Launched

Timor-Leste Justice Review

Professor Maeve McDonagh Appointed to the Press Council of Ireland

Annual Criminal Law Conference - "Rebalancing Criminal Justice in Ireland: a question of Rights"

Visiting Research Fellowship to UCLA awarded to CCJHR student

Launch of Subsidiary Protection Casebook for Asylum Lawyers

Children’s Rights Audit of Law and Practice in Ireland

International Criminal Justice Program, Washington D.C.

Submission on Youth Justice Legislation in New Zealand

Research project on Migrant Workers Rights in Ireland

Scholarship awarded by the Office of the Minister for Children

Fiona de Londras awarded a visiting fellowship to the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London.

‘War in Iraq, Political Dissent in Ireland and Military Transit through Shannon: Ireland’s international legal obligations’

Article 3 of the ECHR and Prisoners' Rights - Rick Lines, Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust

Dr Siobhán Mullally awarded IRCHSS thematic project grant for research programme on Gender, Multiculturalism and Religious Diversity in contemporary Ireland.

Launch of the Centre and first Annual Distinguished Lecture in Criminal Justice and Human Rights

Amnesty International: Capital Punishment in the USA, Speaking Tour

‘The Irish Human Rights Commission: Future Prospects and Challenges’

First Annual Distinguished Lecture of The Irish Yearbook of International Law - Ms. Mary Robinson