Spring Seminar, 2013
Date: 28th July, 2013
The Irish Association of Law Teachers' Annual Spring Seminar will take place in the Upper Lecture of the Honorable Society of the King's Inns, Dublin on Friday 24th May 2013 commencing at 6.30pm.
The spring semianr will hear contributions from the Rt Honorable the Baroness Hale of Richmond, Dr Bláthna Ruane SC, and Professor Colin Scott.
This year’s seminar will focus on the public role of the judiciary in contemporary society. While court sittings have been open to the public and written judgments have been officially reported for centuries, recent years have seen increased efforts to communicate the work of judges to the public, through for example the preparation of summaries of judgments for the press, the broadcasting of hearings of the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom and a steady increase in the number and range of extra-curial addresses by serving judges. We hope that the seminar will offer members of the association a forum in which to discuss and reflect on these important developments.
About the Speakers
The Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond
Lady Hale is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and worked as a legal academic at the University of Manchester from 1966 to 1984. She was subsequently appointed as a member of the Law Commission of England and Wales. She has held full-time judicial office since her appointement as a judge of the High Court in England in 1994. In 2004 she became the first woman to appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
Dr Bláthna Ruane SC
Dr Bláthan Runae is a practicing barrister who has a published widely on constitutional law in Ireland and has a particualr interest in the study of the indepedence of the judiciary. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, she served as a member of the Constitutional Review Group.
Professor Colin Scott
Professor Colin Scott is Dean of Law and Professor of EU Regulation and Governance at the School of Law, University College Dublin.
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