The Minister for Justice has announced the membership of Pre-nuptial Study Group, whose terms of reference will be

to study and report on the operation of the law since the introduction of divorce in 1996 with respect to pre-nuptial agreements taking into account constitutional requirements.

Quite frankly, the law in this area is seriously in need of reform. Read the rest of this entry »

… is a new Law School, a new Law School, a new Law School etc.

Congratulations to the School of Law, UCD, who have just announced that Peter Sutherland has made a sizeable and generous donation of €4m to UCD to help fund a new Law School in UCD (to replace the rather pretty, if not very efficient, buidling in the photo; see Irish Indpendent | Irish Times). Congratulations to them. Any other benefactors seeking to endow a Law School might like to consider Trinity … Come to think of it, Christmas is coming; perhas Santa might take the view that we’ve good this year. Well, maybe next year.

Update: 8 January 2007: The formal UCD press release on the announcement has just been published.

Last April, the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School hosted a Symposium on Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship. The event was podcast at the time; and the papers were made available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Now comes the news that the symposium will be published on dead trees by the Washington University Law Review. Paul Caron, of Law Professor Blogs fame, who organised the symposium, has just posted an update of his introductory paper from the symposium on SSRN to appear to appear in vol 84 of the Washington University Law Review early next year. Thanks for all of that, Paul. It provides me with just the kind of justification I need to keep going with this blog. As I say in the title, I knew this was a good idea.