University of Galway School of Law in association with Birmingham Law School
Day One: Friday 16/2/2024
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Chair: Professor Caroline Fennell, Professor Emerita, UCC
9.30am Session 1: What principles should shape the replacement of the OASAs?
Keynote speaker:
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin MRIA KC, Regents Professor & Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy & Society at the University of Minesota and Professor of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Counter-Terrorism, Member of the International Commission of Jurists
Professor Liz Campbell, Professor & Francine V. McNiff Chair, Faculty of Law, Monash University (Zoom)
Professor Fiona de Londras, Chair of Global Legal Studies, Birmingham Law School
11.30am Session 2: Does Ireland need a non-jury court and if so, what should it look like?
Dr Cian Ó Concubhair, Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice, School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University
Dr Eoin Daly, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Galway
Dr Mark Coen, Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, UCD
***LUNCH 1-2.30pm***
2.30pm Session 3: Are special evidentiary measures required in counter-terrorist or organised crime cases and, if so, what safeguards should be in place? How should proscription be dealt with?
Dr Lawrence McNamara, Reader in Law, York Law School and Law Commission of England & Wales
Dr Katy Vaughan, Senior Lecturer, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University
Jamie McLoughlin, PhD Researcher and IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, Sutherland School of Law, UCD
Dr Alan Greene, Reader in Constitutional Law & Human Rights, Birmingham Law School
4pm Session 4: What Oversight Mechanisms should be in place for any replacement of the OASAs?
Dr Jessie Blackbourn, Associate Professor in Public Law & Human Rights, Durham Law School
Professor Donncha O’Connell, School of Law, University of Galway
Day Two: Saturday 17/2/2024
Chair: Ms Justice Iseult O’Malley, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland
10.00am Session 5: Practitioner perspectives and concluding observations
Brendan Grehan SC
Ronnie Renucci KC (Zoom)
Alice Harrison BL, Lecturer in Law, King’s Inns & School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University
Professor Claire Hamilton, Professor of Criminology & Head of Criminology, School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University