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.