2009 Press Releases

UCC Law Faculty hosts Fifth Annual e-Law Summer Institute
20.07.2009

UCC's Law Faculty hosts the e-Law Summer Institute (eLSI) from July 6th-24th 2009.  Initiated in the summer of 2005, the eLSI focuses on the emerging policy and law of the information age.
Now in its fifth year, it is a co-production between UCC's Faculty of Law and the Franklin Pierce Law Center, New Hampshire, and utilises both the Faculty's considerable teaching expertise in the fields of e-Law and Commercial Law and the Law Center's deep understanding of the world of Commerce, Technology and Intellectual Property, resulting in an in-depth and pertinent course for the modern e-Law specialist.

At the Annual eLSI Reception, sponsored by the Southern Law Association (SLA) and the Faculty of Law, Mr Mortimer Kelleher, President of the SLA, welcomed all those participating in the Institute and wished them well in their studies.  The members of the eLSI programme attending the reception, also attended by local legal practitioners and members of the Law Faculty, were delighted to welcome High Court Judges, The Hon Mr Justice Eamon DeValera and The Hon Mr Justice Paul Butler.

Among the areas covered during the course, eLSI focuses on the emerging policy and law of the information age and is designed to be a critical learning experience for the lawyer of the 21st century.  Topics discussed include: regulation of the internet and cyber crime; data protection; online contracting; and the legal control of blogs, spam and phishing. As well as addressing issues of law and policy of the information age, eLSI is at the fore in using information technology in the delivery of its courses.  For instance, students are provided with CDs of reading materials in advance of classes.  eLSI also includes asynchronous teaching modules whereby individual classes are pre-recorded and delivered on DVD for viewing on computer or video iPod.  Participants include students from Ireland, the US and France, both undergraduate and postgraduate, which provides an interesting and dynamic learning environment.

As well as hosting the e-Law Summer Institute, the Law Faculty at UCC also offers an LLM (Masters Degree) in e-Law.

Picture shows L-R:  Ms Fidelma White (Director of eLSI, Ireland & Lecturer, UCC Department of Law), Professor William Murphy (Director of eLSI, US & Lecturer Franklin Pierce Law Center), the Hon Mr Justice Paul Butler (Judge of the Irish High Court), Mr Mortimer Kelleher (President, Southern Law Association), The Hon Mr Justice Eamon DeValera (Judge of the Irish High Court), Professor Susan Richey (Associate Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center), Ms Louise Crowley (Director of eLSI, Ireland & Lecturer, UCC Department of Law), Professor Steve Hedley (Dean, Faculty of Law and Head, Law Department, UCC).

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