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LLM Children's Rights and Family Law

The LLM (Children's Rights and Family Law) is the first course of its kind in Ireland and it builds on the School’s wide range of expertise and knowledge in the area of child and family law.

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Students compete for James D Donegan Memorial Prize at Annual UCC School of Law Gala Moot 2026

This year’s Gala Moot competition was held on Tuesday 10th March in Cork City at the Courthouse on Washington Street. Four students from the UCC School of Law participated in this year’s Gala Moot incorporating the James D Donegan Memorial Prize.

Registration now open for the annual UCC Law and the Environment Conference 2026

This year’s conference will take place on Thursday 23rd April, and will focus on the question of whether environmental law has reached a level of maturity where codification of this extensive corpus of principles, rules and standards is now required in order to ensure its internal coherence.

UCC teams at the Irish Red Cross Corn Adomnáin competition in Dublin (21.03.26): Dr Dug Cubie, Gloria Princess Sunny-Joe (LLM IHR), Eimear Hogan (LLM IHR), Tiyese Japhet Chirwa (LLM IHR), Gearoid Clarke (BCLI4), Vladimir Molnar (BCL2), and Patrick Kerry (BCLC4).

UCC Law students’ success in Irish Red Cross International Humanitarian Law competition March 2026

Two teams of UCC law students took part in the annual Irish Red Cross Corn Adomnáin competition this weekend in the Irish Defence Forces’ Cathal Brugha Barracks in Dublin.

Dr Henrietta Zeffert presents at Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva

This conference brought together an interdisciplinary group of experts to explore the intersections of sovereignty, land rights, and contemporary forms of territorial capture.

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