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Postgraduate Conference on Criminal Justice and Human Rights

1 May 2008

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

UCC POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Hosted by the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights,

Faculty of Law, University College Cork.

Aula Maxima, 1st May 2008.

10.15-10.30am  Opening by Dr. Siobhan Mullally.

10.30-11.30am  Keynote Address: The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring by Professor Michael O’Flaherty.

11.45-1.15am  Morning Panels.  (O’Rahilly Building.)

Panel A: Contemporary Issues in Public International Law .

Chair: .  ORB 123.

Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, U.C.D.:  European Consensus in the Case Law of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Padraig MacAuliffe, U.C.C.:  Justice in Timor-Leste:  An Unaffordable Luxury?

Olufemi Amao, U.C.C.: Corporate Responsibility, Law and Human Rights in Developing Countries: The Limits of International Regulation

Panel B:  Issues of Responsibility .

Chair:  Professor Irene Lynch Fannon.  ORB 132.

Joe McGrath, U.C.C.:  The Development of Irish Corporate Regulation Addressing Corporate Criminality: The Rule of Law Endangered?

Brendan O’Halloran, U.L.:  Corporate Liability:  A Comparative Analysis.

Eilionóir Flynn, U.C.C.:  Community Visitors, Invisible Lives…The Forgotten Recommendation of the Goodbody Report on Developing an Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities.

Panel C:  Contemporary Challenges in Constitutional and Administrative Law.

Chair:  Dr. Conor O’Mahony.  ORB 156.

Darren O’Donovan, U.C.C.: The Legal Protection of the Cultural Identity of Travellers: the Role of the ECHR in Remedying the Deficiencies of the Irish Constitution.

Eoin Daly, U.C.C.:  Religious Discrimination in Public Education: Tensions between Religious Freedom and Religious Equality within a Non-Secular Constitutional Framework.

Paul Daly, University of Cambridge: Judicial Review and the Political Question Doctrine.

1.15-2.15pm  Lunch.  (Staff Dining Room)

2.15-3pm  Finding Employment and Getting Published by Professor Steve Hedley.  (Aula Maxima).

3.15-5pm  Afternoon Panels.  (O’Rahilly Building.)

Panel A:  Gender and the Law .

Chair:  .  ORB 123.

Julia Foden, U.C.C.:  Forced Marriage and International Human Rights Law.

Máiréad Enright, U.C.C.:  Forced Marriage and the Right of Exit.

Tanya Ní Mhuirthile, U.C.C.:  The Medical Management of Intersex: A Human Rights Critique.

Claire Cumiskey, U.C.C.: The Recognition of Trafficking in Persons as a Form of Gender Related Persecution and the Basis of a Claim for Asylum.

Panel B:   Trends and Challenges of Criminal Liability.

Chair:  Dr. Catherine O’Sullivan.  ORB 132.

Maria Faherty, U.C.C.: The Age of Criminal Responsibility:  A Comparative Analysis.

Louise Kennefick, U.C.C.: Prisoner First and Patient Second?: A Critique of the Position of the Mentally Disordered Offender in Ireland within a Human Rights Context.

Susan Leahy, U.C.C.:  Reflections on the Concept of Consent in Sexual Offences Legislation.

Sinéad Ring, U.C.C.:  Justice Delayed: The Fair Trial Rights of Accused Persons in Delayed Prosecutions for Child Sexual Abuse.

Panel C:  Discourses in International Criminal Law & Crime Control .

Chair:  Dr. Siobhan Wills.  ORB 156.

Maria Varaki N.U.I. Galway:  The Interests of the Victims and the ICC Article 53.

Aisling O’Sullivan, N.U.I. Galway: The Duty to investigate and prosecute under International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law.

Ekaterine Iakobishvili, University of Essex:  Zero Tolerance Crime Enforcement Policies in New York and Georgia: A Comparative Analysis.

Dorothy Appelbe, U.C.C.: The Use of Closed Circuit Television as a Crime Prevention Strategy.

5-5.15pm  Closing by  (Aula Maxima).

5.15pm  Wine Reception (Staff Common Room).

Enquiries should be directed to a.d.odonovan@student.ucc.ie.

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