News and announcements
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…
Read MoreIALT 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.…
Read MoreSpring 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…
Read MoreALT Annual Seminar 26/27 June – Community and Purpose in the Law School – Call for Papers
The UK Association of Law Teachers’ Annual Seminar will be hosted by Queen’s University Belfast this year, on 26-27 June. The theme is Community and Purpose in the Law School. Information on the event and the call for papers is attached (Call for Papers ALT Annual Seminar QUB 2024). Deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th…
Read MoreTUS : 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…
Read MoreConstitutional 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…
Read MoreKevin 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…
Read MoreCall 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…
Read MoreSpring 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…
Read MoreIALT Spring Discourse and Networking Event 2022: In Conversation with the Chief Justices on the Island
The Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT) invites you to join us on May 24th at 5pm at King’s Inns in Dublin for our event on the theme of ‘Judicial Dialogue Across the Islands’. We will be joined by the Chief Justice of Ireland Donal O’Donnell and the Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland Dame Siobhan…
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