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Developments in the Law on Imprisonment
(2025)Over the past fifteen years, the contours of prison law have become much more defined and we now have answers to some fundamental questions about legal liability arising of of prison conditions. To mention just one, it ... -
Introduction: Law As Data, Data As Law
(2024)The datafication of law is requiring a reconsideration of approaches to legal research and education. The academy is in an uncomfortable place, with new disciplines claiming to have analytical tools to offer and to be ... -
Governance Challenges for the Boards of Investment Funds and Fund Managers: Evidence from Ireland, School of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper Series Paper N0. 13/2023
(2023)This Report presents insight into the views and expectations of investment fund professionals, identifying current practices and key challenges to good governance of funds and fund managers in Ireland. It also suggests ... -
Common knowledge? Awareness of national and international oversight bodies among incarcerated individuals in Spain
(2025)Oversight bodies are recognised as important resources to prevent ill-treatment in places where individuals are deprived of their freedom. Despite this recognition, and the existence of such bodies at both national and ... -
All Work and No Fair Play? The Right to Fair Procedures in Employment Disciplinary Proceedings
(2023)Glover v BLN Ltd established that the constitutional right to fair procedures can be relied on by employees directly against their employers during the course of disciplinary proceedings. In the almost 50 years since ... -
Bring your whole self into work, keep your whole self out
(2025)The theme of this special issue assumes a dichotomy between employees’ free speech and employers’ business interests. It comes as no surprise to labour lawyers to find the interests of employees and employers in tension, ... -
The New Anticipatory Governance Culture for Innovation: Regulatory Foresight, Regulatory Experimentation and Regulatory Learning
(2025)With the rapid pace of technological innovation, traditional methods of policy formation and legislating are becoming conspicuously anachronistic. The need for regulatory choices to be made to counter the deadening effect ... -
Maria Grazia Porcedda, The GDPR as a cyber risk management system: the ECJ cautiously tackles data breaches in the NAP case
(European Law Blog, 2024)When the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency (Natsionalna agentsia za prihodite or the ‘NAP’) suffered a malicious data leak in 2019, it joined the growing ranks of organizations affected by cyberattacks. With security ... -
The European Union's Forced Labour Regulation: Putting the `Brussels Effect' to work for international labour standards
(2023)In September 2022, the Commission adopted a proposal for a Regulation on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market. This arises in a context of rising concern over many years about breaches of workers’ ... -
Ireland
(Hart Publishing, 2024)As readers will be aware, Directive 2022/2041/EU on adequate minimum wages in the European Union ‘sets a dual goal’: ‘improving the adequacy of statutory minimum wages as well as the promotion of collective bargaining’.2 ... -
The Irish prison system
(2024)Ireland obtained independence from the United Kingdom, and commenced administering its own prison system, in 1922. At that stage, prisons in Ireland were managed by the General Prisons Board, an agency which was governed ... -
Le système pénitentiaire irlandais
(2024)L'Irlande a obtenu son indépendance du Royaume-Uni et a commencé à administrer son propre système carcéral en 1922. À cette époque, les prisons en Irlande étaient gérées par le General Prisons Board ou Conseil général ... -
The Speinshart Recommendations on Generative AI and the EU AI Act
(Speinshart Reports, 2023)The Speinshart Recommendation on Generative AI and the EU AI Act INTRODUCTION Recent technological advancements have brought about a significant qualitative transformation in the realm of technology, particularly in the ... -
The Ransomware Attack Against the Irish Health Service Executive: What Role for the Law in the Face of Growing Cyber Insecurity?
(European Law Blog, 2023)In May 2021, the Republic of Ireland underwent a cyber crisis within a health crisis. In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ireland’s Health Service Executive suffered a catastrophic cybersecurity attack reputed to ... -
Language Use and Language Learning in Northern Ireland: Building Linguistic Capacity for Reconciliation / Úsáid Teanga agus Foghlaim Teanga I dTuaisceart Éireann: Cumas Teanga a Fhorbairt don Athmhuintearas
(2022)This report outlines some central concerns raised by the text of the Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) , 2022, (as introduced) and which were identified by participants in the final workshop of the New Foundations ... -
Reflections and Recommendations on the Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill 2022 / Machnaimh agus Moltá ar an mBille Féiniúlachta agus Teanga (Tuaisceart Éireann) 2022
(2023)The 2022 Bill represents a ‘first generation’ piece of minority language legislation in that it neither seeks to impose strict, rights-based standards nor punitive deterrent sanctions. In this respect, the legislation ... -
An Interactive Relationship: Equality, Ireland, and EU Law
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Three Binaries in People v Arctic Oil
(University of Groningen Press, 2022)In People v Arctic Oil, courts in Norway considered the question of whether the constitutional right to environment entails a duty of care on the state for curtailing emissions from oil exports. The cause of action was ... -
Leaving the Union: Constitutionalising Secession Rights in the United Kingdom
(2022)Among the many consequences of Brexit has been increased territorial tension within the United Kingdom (UK). This article assesses whether the four constituent units of the UK have a right to secede. Exploring the legislative ...
