IALT Conferences2004

Irish Association of Law Teachers

Annual Conference 2004

Friday 2nd April to Sunday 4th April

City Hotel, Derry.

Law in the Modern World

Organiser

Dr. Fergus Ryan,
President I.A.L.T.,
Dublin Institute of Technology,
Aungier Street
Dublin 2.

E-mail: fergus.ryan@dit.ie

Website: www.ialt.org

TIMETABLE

FRIDAY 2ND APRIL 2004

7.30 p.m. Buffet meal (sponsored by Lexis-Nexis) followed by Opening address (Chief Justice Ronan Keane)

SATURDAY 3RD APRIL 2004

Session 1: 9.30 a.m. to 11.00 a.m.

Panel 1 - International Law

Prof. Michael J. Kelly (Creighton University): "U.N. Security Council Permanent Membership: A New Proposal for a Twenty-First Century Council"
Catherine Kenny, (NUI, Galway): "The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees – does it protect today’s refugees?"
Michael Kearney, (NUI, Galway): "The Meaning of Propaganda for War as proscribed by Article 20(1) of the ICCPR"

Panel 2 - Criminal Law

Alisdair A. Gillespie, (University of Teesside), "Tackling Grooming: the UK perspective"
Deirdre Ahern, (Law Reform Commission) – Corporate Killing
Dr. Ursula Kilkelly, "The Children’s Court: justice for children?"
Seán Quinn, (Letterkenny IT) "The Offences Against the State Acts: An offence against the People?"

Panel 3 Human Rights 1: Private Lives in the modern world

Prof. Robert Clark, (Faculty of Law, UCD and IRCHSS Government of Ireland Senior Fellow) "The retention, access and use of personal data by the Irish State"
Eoin O’Dell, (TCD) "At Long Last, Libel Reform?"
Professor Carl Monk, (AALS and American University) "A Comparative Perspective on EU and U.S. Approaches to Freedom of the Press".

Tea break 11-11.30

Session 2: 11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Panel 1 Human Rights 2

Dr. Heather Conway (Queen’s University Belfast): "Posthumous Meddling and the Human Rights Act"
Professor Carol Daugherty Rasnic, (Virginia Commonwealth University, and NUI, Galway): "Affirmative Action: USA vis-a-vis post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland"
David Keane (NUI, Galway), "Non-Discrimination Clauses and the Protection of Minorities"
Professor Charles Russo, "The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education"

Panel 2 Biotechnology, the Environment and the Law

Lynne Roach (DIT) "Legal responses to biotechnology: lessons for the future"
Prof. Gary Myers, (University of Mississippi), "Genetically Modified Food: The US Experience"
Dr. Brian Jack, (QUB) "Modernising European Agricultural Law: the Environmental Challenge"

Panel 3 Presentation by Westlaw on use of Westlaw service

1.15: Lunch

Session 3: 2.15 p.m. -3.45 p.m.

Panel 1 New Legal Philosophies

Dr. Lorna Fox and Dr. John Stannard, (QUB) "Law and the Emotions"
Prof. William Murphy, (Franklin Pierce Law Center, NH) "Self-Organizing Systems in the Information Age: Will the Economics of the Information Age foster more Monopolies and Should Anyone Care?"
Jim Tunney, (Abertay) – "Do Competition, Communications Technology and Culture point to Cosmopolitanism?"

Panel 2 Family Law

Lucy-Ann Buckley, (NUI, Galway) "'Proper provision' and 'property division': matrimonial property in Irish law"
Máire Ní Shúilleabháin, UCD), "The recognition of Foreign Divorces in Irish Law"
Cecilia Ní Choileáin (DIT), Contraceptives and the Law

Afternoon options: ·

3.45 p.m. Walking tour of the City of Derry/Londonderry, taking in the City Walls, St. Colum’s Cathedral and the Guidlhall. (1.5 hours – free for all participants at conference. Max no. 35)

7.30 p.m. Evening Dinner (Sponsored by Round Hall) preceded by Wine Reception

SUNDAY 4TH APRIL 2004

Session 1: 9.45 a.m. to 11.15 a.m.

Panel 1 - European Union Law

Stephen Carruthers (DIT): "EU Human Rights under the Proposed EU Constitution"
Dr. Sara Drake, (Cardiff Law School)"State Liability for Judicial Error: A False Dawn?"
Dr. Stephen Swann, (University of Osnabruck) "One song to the tune of another: The European private law movement and the common law reviewed"

Panel 2 Private Law

Francis McManus, Napier University – "Noise and Human Rights"
Professor Michael P. Malloy: (University of the Pacific-McGeorge School of Law) "E-Banking Law and Regulation: Problems Now, Solutions Later"
Prof. Steve Hedley (UCC), "The 'Big Picture' of private law: a third way?"

Session 2: 11.30-1 p.m.

Panel 1 New Horizons in Human Rights

Daniel Aguirre, (NUI, Galway) "The Justiciability of Social And Economic Rights"
Seán McCabe, (University of Ulster), "A Judiciary for the New Millennium"
Shane Darcy, (NUI, Galway), "The Concept of Criminal Organisations: A Human Rights Perspective"

Panel 2 Employment Law and related issues

Professor David Gregory, (St. John’s University) – "U.S. Federal Labor law"
David Nagle, Esq., (Leclair Ryan law firm, Richmond, VA), – "Arbitration of Workplace Disputes in the U.S."
Estelle Feldman, (Portobello College), "The Twins of Silence: the Dilemma of the Good Faith Whistleblower."

1.15 Lunch

2.30-3.30: Annual General Meeting

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