UCC School of Law

Professor Áine Ryall speaks with Attracta Uí Bhroin, Environmental Law Officer, Irish Environmental Network and Vice-President, European Environmental Bureau. Attracta Uí Bhroin participated in this podcast in a personal capacity.

Professor Áine Ryall speaks with Judge Anthony M Collins, Judge of the General Court of the European Union. Judge Collins participated in this podcast in a personal capacity.

Professor Áine Ryall speaks with Leo Flynn, Legal Advisor in the Legal Service of the European Commission. Leo Flynn participated in this podcast in a personal capacity.

Captain Brian Fitzgerald, Operations Branch Commander of the Irish Naval Service, describes some of the complex jurisdictional, political, and legal challenges faced by the Naval Service while rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean during Operation Sophia. Looking toward the future, he also sketches out some of the complicated scenarios the Naval Service might have to address following Brexit.

Speaking after a recent Centre for Law and the Environment's seminar exploring recent developments in European Union Environmental Law, Dr Fred Logue describes how he worked with Friends of the Irish Environment and Right to Know to access environmental information from public authorities through litigation.

Robert Schwartz, Phyllis W. Beck Chair in Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law, talks Professor Ursula Kilkelly through the history of Juvenile Law Center, describing how the center evolved from representing individual children and young people to become a national advocacy organisation fighting to better the lives of thousands.

Ahead of delivering the 11th Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights Distinguished Lecture at UCC, Professor Rhona Smith sat down with Dr Dug Cubie to discuss her role and the human rights situation in Cambodia.

Emanating from their contributions in a recently published collection of essays titled, Creating Corporate Sustainability Gender as an Agent for Change, Professor Irene Lynch Fannon (co-editor of the volume) and Dr Catherine O'Sullivan talk to Michael Boland about the role of women and gender equality, corporate power, and sustainability.

Dr Mary Tumelty discusses some of the findings of the Scally Report and the need for genuine apologies in cases of medical negligence

Jane attended the Justice Conference in Dublin during early September, where she spoke with Oonagh McPhillips, Deputy Secretary General in the Department of Justice and Equality, Inge Philips-Bryan, Partner, Deloitte Netherlands, Michael Donnellan, Director General of the Irish Prison Service, Tom Gash, Author and Managing Director, Leapwise, Caroline Counihan, Legal Director, Rape Crises Network...

Deirdre Kelleher, a recent graduate of the LLM in Child and Family Law, describes the rights of cohabitants in Ireland under the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010.

Steven Caruana tells Jane why he believes  OPCAT ratification and detention inspection with a preventive focus is an opportunity worth seizing for Ireland.

In the lead up to the referendum on the 8th amendment, Jane spoke with Rachel O'Sullivan, writer, mother and activist, about child protection issues and how the graphic imagery/slogans on No campaign posters put her in an impossible position as a parent when trying to explain the complexities of abortion to her young children.

Dr Dug Cubie tells Jane how the Irish Research Council funded International Disaster Law Project aims to develop a collaborative research agenda between academics and practitioners in order to strengthen global networks working on international disaster law.

Jane takes the Law and Justice podcast off campus and speaks with Suzy Byrne about her life-long fascination with politics, activism, disability, blogging and her thoughts about Ireland's recent (though tardy) ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCPRD).

Jane speaks with Professor Fiona de Londras, UCC School of Law graduate and Deputy Head of Birmingham Law School, about her and Mairead Enright's new book "Repealing the 8th - Reforming Irish Abortion Law".

Professor Owen McIntyre discusses transboundary water resources ahead of the Law and the Environment Conference at UCC.

In this episode, Professor Jonathan Todres discusses his work on children's literature, human rights, morality and the lessons that people big and small can learn from legendary writers like Dr Seuss.

Before presenting his paper at a recent seminar titled "Electronic Monitoring in Ireland: Shaping what we do and who we are", Dr Darius Whelan spoke with Jane Mulcahy about the monitoring of smartphones in the workplace and the use of CCTV by employers.

Jane Mulcahy speaks with Dr Vicky Conway and Cathleen O'Toole about the work of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland and how it is engaging with communities throughout Ireland.

This week, Jane Mulcahy speaks with Dr Amanullah De Sondy from the Study of Religions Department at UCC about contemporary Islam, Dr Vicky Conway and Cathleen O'Toole, member and chair of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland respectively, discuss the Commission, and Dr Dug Cubie details international disaster law.

Michael Prendergast is a UCC School of Law graduate who is documenting the experiences of refugees fleeing the Syrian Conflict with the UN Refugee Agency

On our first podcast of 2018, Jane Mulcahy speaks with Anne Marie Crean about Reclaiming Self, an organisation which provides opportunity and support to those who have experienced systematic, institutional state abuse,  the environment to openly discuss their past, develop self-reclamation and seek support in a non-intrusive, survivor-orientated atmosphere via various educational, emotional and so...

On our final podcast of 2017, Jane Mulcahy speaks with Dr Louise Crowley about UCC's Bystander Intervention programme and Dr Sharon Lambert from the School of Applied Psychology discusses Adverse Childhood Experiences, their impacts & the need for trauma-informed practice to improve lives & outcomes.

On the 6th instalment of our podcast, Jane Mulcahy speaks with mental health experts; Dr. Harry Gijbels, Dr. Liam MacGabhann and Kirsten MacLean at the Critical Voices Network Ireland conference held at UCC between November 15/16. Shay Buckley, Editor-in-Chief of the Cork Online Law Review, also dropped into studio to talk about one of Ireland's leading online law journals.