We have another online seminar coming up, this one for June 11, discussing whether libra.law can use AI to better connect individuals to appropriate legal assistance. The speakers are Paul Massey of Libra.law and Paul McKeown of Northumbria University. Sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/enhancing-...
Our next seminar is on "Responsible Use of Agentic AI in Justice Systems" with John Keers BL and Dr John McCord of @ulsteruni.bsky.social - Thurs 21 May, sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/responsibl...
Interested in researching AI and judicial decision making? @brianbarryirl.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin has two funded PhD vacancies (one in law, one in social sciences).
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The European Data Protection Board has published a case digest (by myself) on decisions made under the one-stop-shop system which consider legitimate interest as a legal basis. www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files...
Professor Áine Ryall has been re-elected unanimously as Chair of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee.
The Convention is a multilateral agreement linking the environment and human rights.
She was elected Chair in 2021 and re-elected to serve a second term as Chair in Feb 2026.
🌱 Green Careers Series | Ep 8
Meet Diarmuid Torney, Director of DCU Institute for Climate & Society and DCU lead for the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.
From politics & economics to fair transitions, he explains why inclusive decision-making matters.
Watch here: buff.ly/IVO4hkP
Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The AI4People Summit 2025 starts tomorrow - see details at ai4people.org/advancing-et... and sign up at ai4people.org/ai4people-su...
President-elect of Ireland Catherine Connolly. She is standing at a podium with microphones. The wooden podium says 'Caisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath. Dublin Castle'. She has short grey hair. She is dressed in a navy top and blazer with a silver necklace.
“Bhí sé soiléir san fheachtas seo go bhfuil daoine ag tabhairt aire ar chúrsaí teanga”
Sa Irish Times, míníonn an tOllamh Laura Cahillane, ó Scoil Dlí Ollscoil Luimnigh, an ról a bhí ag an nGaolainn i dtoghchán Catherine Connolly go dtí an Áras
www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/scea...
@ulsol.bsky.social
Abstract: The EU has been represented as a singular ‘Digital Empire’ speaking with one voice on matters of EU digital regulation. Closer examination of discrete areas of EU digital regulation reveals a more nuanced picture suggesting clear institutional divergence between the EU institutions regarding the substantive protection afforded by EU law. A detailed analysis of EU data protection adequacy decisions brings to the surface intra-EU tensions concerning the substance of core EU fundamental rights. This analysis reveals that the EU Commission has taken on a more prominent role in adequacy decision-making since the entry into force of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation at the expense of other relevant stakeholders. Furthermore, the Commission’s decisional practice does not align fully with the stance of the Court of Justice on the right to data protection. New sites of intra-EU human rights tensions are therefore uncovered with consequences for the legitimacy of the EU as a digital regulator and the role of the Commission as a guardian of the treaties.Keywords: digital regulation; fundamental rights; data protection; institutional balance; judicial review; data adequacy; EU Commission
New article out with Katie Nolan (@katieanolan.bsky.social) and Orla Lynskey in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies: 'Digital Empire or Digital Fiefdoms? Institutional Tensions and the EU Right to Data Protection'.
Open access at: doi.org/10.1017/cel....
@cambup-law.cambridge.org
We’re launching a new series on curious legal cases in Ireland.
The use of Irish in court remains rare. In the 2019 Ó Cadhla case, the High Court ruled the State must make “reasonable efforts” to assign a bilingual judge when requested.
Read more (in Irish): viz.legal/an37kaJQ
#LegalTech
Looking forward to the launch of David Cowan's new book on law and technology at the @ials.bsky.social next month - sign up at ials.sas.ac.uk/events/law-a...
Dr Orla Kelleher of Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology calls on Ireland to show greater leadership and ambition on climate action. @maynoothlaw.bsky.social @orlakelleher.bsky.social
I presented @futureoflawassoc.bsky.social on AI & the Future of #LegalEd abt building crucial #problemsetting skills through writing, along w Jonny Hall & @csimmonds.bsky.social (#Problembasedlearning & AI), Brian Tang (Authentic Team #Projectbasedlearning) & Samuel Dahan (No-code Legal AI Creation)
Where did the shirt come from? I need one of those.
FAO any scholars interested in judicial studies - I am hoping to establish an Irish Judicial Studies Network to develop this area of legal studies in Ireland and to create opportunities for research collaboration. If interested - or if you know anyone who might be interested - please let me know!
Ms Justice Jackson giving her keynote speech at Legal Tech Ireland 2025.
#LegalTech #Ireland 2025 finally underway, with Ms Justice Nuala Jackson’s keynote
Last chance to register for #LegalTech #Ireland 2025 which takes place on Monday - www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
We're just a week away from #LegalTech #Ireland 2025 - check out the schedule at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub... and register for either in-person or online attendance
#LegalTech #Ireland is coming up on 7 April - the schedule is now available at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub... and there is still time to register!
When AI eats its own tail, it damages the environment. My new piece, Clean Data: Recursion as Pollution in Environmental AI (scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/881/) is out from Oxford University Press, with great editors @joshgellers.bsky.social and @spillteori.bsky.social. #OUP #AIethics #newoil
Registration is now open for Legal Tech Ireland 2025, co-organised with @letsopenculture.bsky.social and Alison Hough of TUS Midlands and taking place in @uniofgalway.bsky.social on Monday 7 April - sign up at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
Today is the last day to submit a paper for the #LegalTech #Ireland conference in @universityofgalway.bsky.social - for details, see www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
We have just extended the deadline for the "Legal Tech Ireland: Impacts, Policies and Pathways" conference, which takes place on 7 April. Abstracts due by 18 March, by email to me. Details at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
A reminder that the closing date for paper submissions for Legal Tech Ireland is Monday 10th - email me your abstracts! More details at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
Check out Sinéad Mercier's brilliant chapter on the 'placelessness' of energy law in Ireland!
The deadline for paper submissions for #LegalTech #Ireland 2025 is coming up fast. Abstracts are due by the 10th. More details at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...
My new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' is now available in the US and globally with @politybooks.bsky.social The book charts how digital and AI interventions in humanitarian settings harm some of the world's most marginalized people www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
