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Regulating Emerging Technologies: A Challenge for Law, a Challenge for Ethics, a Challenge for Everyone

4 March, 2015

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Professor Roger Brownsword will deliver a public lecture on

Regulating Emerging Technologies: A Challenge for Law, a Challenge for Ethics, a Challenge for Everyone

in the Trinity Long Room Hub, on Wednesday 11 March 2015 at 6:30pm.

In this public lecture, organised by the Confederal School of Religions, Peace Studies and Theology, the School of Law, and the Ethics and Privacy Working Group of the ADAPT centre, at Trinity College Dublin, Professor Brownsword will consider the regulation of emerging technologies. In particular, they are not easily regulated: getting the regulatory environment right is a considerable challenge. Legal frameworks tend to lose connection with their technological targets; even when connected, laws are often relatively ineffective; and ethicists are unable to agree on the interpretation and application of respect for human rights and human dignity as the measure of regulatory legitimacy. At the same time, new technologies insinuate themselves into the regulatory environment as tools that promise greater effectiveness. In a context of rapid technological change coupled with deep regulatory uncertainty, it will be suggested that the priorities are to safeguard the integrity of the infrastructure for human life, to preserve the conditions in which communities with moral aspirations may flourish, and to encourage broader and more inclusive debates about the social licence to be given to modern technologies.…

What does the Internet say about you? Data Privacy Day event in TCD

21 January, 201521 January, 2015

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To mark Data Protection Day on Wednesday 28 January 2015, the Information Compliance Office in Trinity College Dublin have teamed up with the Science Gallery to find out: What does the Internet say about you? They have organised a Panel Discussion hosted by Newstalk‘s Jessica Kelly, where Ireland’s leading voices on data protection will discuss

Online Privacy – What does the Internet say about you

It will be held on Wednesday 28 Jan 2015 at 6:00pm in the JM Synge Lecture Theatre, Room 2039, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin (map here). The speakers include:

Sinéad McSweeney, Director of Public Policy, Twitter;
Jeanne Kelly, Partner, Mason Hayes & Curran Solicitors;
Conor Flynn, ISAS Ltd; and
Eoin O’Dell, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. My provisional working title is:

What the Internet knows about you, and do you have the right to make it forget?

The world wide web is now more than 25 years old; it is transforming how we live and how we think about ourselves and our identities; and the law is struggling to catch up. Vint Cerf, a pioneer of the internet and now Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, recently told a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hearing that “privacy may be an anomaly” (pdf) in the age of social media, and this poses profound challenges for our legal, philosophical and ethical conceptions of privacy.…

The Ethics of Security and Surveillance Technologies

15 January, 201522 January, 2015

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Professor Hille Haker will deliver a public lecture on

The Ethics of Security and Surveillance Technologies

in the Trinity Long Room Hub, on Thursday 22 January 2015, at 18:30. In this public lecture, organised by the Confederal School of Religions, Peace Studies and Theology at Trinity College Dublin, and the Ethics and Privacy Working Group of the ADAPT centre at TCD, Prof Haker will outline her thoughts on the ethics of surveillance technologies. In particular, she will address the key questions:

Security and freedom: do we need both?
And can we enjoy both without the pursuit of one jeopardising the other?

Prof Haker is a member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), which advises the European Commission on ethical issues. On 20 May 2014, the EGE submitted to the Commission their Opinion no 28 on “Ethics of Information and Communication Technologies”. In an era where rapid advances in telecommunications and computing have enabled the data of billions of citizens around the globe to be tracked and scrutinized on an unprecedented scale, the Opinion aims to provide a reference point for the Commission regarding the ethics of security and surveillance measures.

Building upon the Opinion, in this lecture, Prof Haker considers the tensions between security and freedom.…

Privacy from Birth to Death and Beyond

30 January, 201331 January, 2013

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The image on the left is a detail from a poster advertising a symposium on Friday 8 March 2013 in NUI Galway on:

Privacy from Birth to Death and Beyond: European and American Perspectives

The exciting line-up of speakers includes:

José Maria Baño (José María Baño León Abogados, Madrid) “Case C-131/12 Google Spain, SL, and Google Inc v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos and The Right to be Forgotten”

Prof Joshua Fairfield (Washington and Lee University School of Law) “Do-Not-Track as Default: Transaction Costs in US Consumer Privacy”

Damien McCallig (NUI Galway School of Law) “Privacy on and after death”

Dr Sharon McLaughlin (Letterkenny Institute of Technology) “Children & Privacy: Protection v Participation – A Tangled Web”

Paul Lambert (Merrion Legal Solicitors) “Privacy issues in practice: A Litigation Light on Norwich, Abuse, Cyberbullying, Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection Concerns”

Dr Ciara Hackett (Queens University Belfast) Rapporteur’s Report

The symposium is organised by the LLM in Public Law and the LLM in Law, Technology and Governance at the School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway. You can register online. CPD certificates (4 hours) can be provided.…

This House would see Unseen University Run By Witches!

9 November, 20129 November, 2012

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The above image is a poster (pdf here and here) for a public debate next Monday evening which is hosted by School of English, Trinity College Dublin, in association with Lively Conversation Debate Topics. On the night, staff and students of Trinity College Dublin will debate the motion

That This House Would See Unseen University Run by Witches

Ably Adjudicated by Professor Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE, Blackboard Monitor, the debate will be held at 6:30pm, next Monday, 12th November 2012, in Quek Hall, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Pearse Street, Dublin 2 (map here).

There are 300 seats in the lecture theatre, and they will be filled on a first come, first seated, basis.…

What does Equal Access to the Printed Word Mean in the Electronic Age?

27 September, 20125 November, 2012

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Among many of its other activities and events, the Centre for Disability Law & Policy at NUI Galway (CDL&P) hosts an annual lecture series on the theme of Disability in the World. It has co-organised this year’s lecture with the National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI), as an Inaugural Lecture in Honour of Christine Murphy-Whyte (bio here: .doc), on the topic

What does Equal Access to the Printed Word Mean in the Electronic Age? The Worldwide Process of Copyright Reform & Disability – the debate at the UN World Intellectual Property Organization.

It will be held in the Phelan Room of the National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (map), at 6:00pm on Monday 8 October 2012.

The event will be chaired by Desmond Kenny, CEO of the NCBI; there will be a welcome from Dr Maurice Manning, Chancellor of the NUI; and Prof Gerard Quinn, Director of the CDL&P, NUIG, will introduce the keynote speaker:

Professor Justin Hughes, Cardozo Law School, New York, USA, and Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property.

There will be brief responses from me, Samantha Holman, Executive Director of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency, Eithne Fitzgerald, Head of Policy and Research at the National Disability Authority, and Abigail Rekas, EU Marie Curie Fellow at the CDL&P, NUIG, who has written a significant post on the Human Rights in Ireland blog, explaining the importance of the event (re-blogged here):*

Access to Books for Persons with Disabilities

… Accessible publishing historically has been an expensive proposition, performed by non-profit charitable organizations.

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IALT Annual Conference

14 September, 20125 November, 2012

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The Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT) Annual Conference will be held on 16-18 November 2012 at the Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, Killiney, Dublin.

The theme of the conference is

Legal Scholarship and Judicial Reasoning: A Mutual Interaction.

I have explored this theme here in previous posts discussing papers by Judge Bryan McMahon and Lord Neuberger, so I am greatly looking forward to the conference. The IALT Kevin Boyle Book Prize will be awarded on the first night (Friday 16 November), and the AGM of the IALT will take place following lunch on Sunday (18 November).

Call for Papers
The call for papers for the conference is now open, and abstracts (maximum 300 words) are invited on any area of law. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please email your abstract to the President of the IALT, my TCD colleague Prof Deirdre Ahern, before Friday 19 October 2012, providing the following information: name, institutional affiliation, whether or not you are a member of the IALT, email address and contact phone number.

Conference Registration
All those attending the conference, including speakers, must pay the conference fee and make their own accommodation arrangements – the IALT has negotiated a preferential room rate at the hotel.…

IALT Seminar and Book Prize

25 April, 20124 March, 2013

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The Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT) Spring Seminar will take place on Thursday 26 April 2012 next at 6.30pm in the IIIS Seminar Room, Room C6.002, 6th Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin (map here). Professor William Binchy, Regius Professor of Laws, Trinity College and Professor David Gwynn Morgan, Professor Emeritus of Law, UCC will discuss

Law Reform and Social Transition.

A reception will follow and all are welcome; if you are interested in attending, please email the IALT in advance.

In related news, nominations for the 2012 Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship are now open and will close on 30 April 2012. This prize is awarded to a member of the IALT who has published a book in the twenty four months preceding the closing date that is deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to the understanding of law. The prize will be awarded at the IALT annual conference in Dublin in November.…