IALT Annual Conference, 2024, Maynooth

Dear all, We’re getting ready to welcome you all to the annual conference, hosted in Maynooth this year. The IALT programme 2024 is packed full of approximately 80 papers from speakers across the island, GB and beyond. The Book of Abstracts is available now.  A couple of minor changes have been introduced to the programme. The AGM will…

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IALT updates & Call for Papers for Annual Conference

Dear all, Call for Papers for the annual conference (15-16 November) is on the Events page https://www.ialt.ie/annual-conference/. Extended until 27th September   Matheson PhD scholarship applications – now closed and decisions will be communicated by the end of the month.   The website was out of commission recently and still needs to be somewhat updated.…

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Spring Discourse 2024 – Hate Speech and Crime – 19th April

  IALT Spring Discourse: Hate Speech and Crime 19th April, 4-6 pm, Ulster University. Sponsored by the School of Law, Ulster University N.B. Attendance is free, but please book to reserve a place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ialt-spring-discourse-hate-speech-and-crime-tickets-869214001477?aff=oddtdtcreator. This link will be updated with information as we draw closer to the date. The 2024 IALT Spring Discourse will take place at Ulster…

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TUS : Legal Technology and the Rule of Law Conference

  The IALT received in a notice about an event on Legal Technology and the Rule of Law to be hosted in TUS Athlone on 12th February 2024: https://lawtechschool.wordpress.com/2023/12/16/legal-tech-and-the-rule-of-law-conference/.  Presentations will be in-person, but attendance can be in-person or online.   It brings together a range of expert academics from the UK and Ireland like…

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Constitutional amendment 2024- imminent deadline

The deadline for voting on the resolution for the IALT constitutional amendment is fast approaching: please ensure that you have submitted your votes by 5pm Irish time on 10th January 2024. This is a key part of the constitutional amendment process. Click here for the details of the Resolution , Annex to the Resolution with proposed amendments, Constitutional…

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Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship

The Irish Association of Law Teachers awards the Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship every two years. At the annual conference in 2021 the prize was awarded to Professor Catherine O’Rourke for her book Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. The prize will next be awarded at the annual conference…

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Call for Papers Annual Conference 2022

Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, 2022 The annual conference of the IALT will take place at Queen’s University Belfast from Friday 11th – Saturday 12th  November 2022. The theme of this year’s conference is Law’s Capacity for Shaping the World: Inclusion, Exclusion and Omission. It is intended that the conference will be…

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Spring Discourse 2022

On 24th May 2022, the association met for its annual Spring Discourse in the splendid surroundings of King’s Inns, Dublin. The theme of the discourse was Judicial Dialogue Across the Islands. The association was honoured to be joined by the Chief Justice of Ireland Mr Justice Donal O’Donnell and the Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland…

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