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Data Protection and European Developments: a German View

19 March, 201319 March, 2013
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Heinrich Wolff, via the IIIS websiteThe Irish Society of Comparative Law, in conjunction with the School of Law, Trinity College, and the Institute for International Integration Studies in Trinity College Dublin, is hosting a public lecture entitled:

Data Protection and European Developments: a German View

by Professor Heinrich Wolff (pictured left), Professor for Public Law at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Integration Studies in Trinity College Dublin.

The event will be chaired by Mr Paul Lambert, of Merrion Legal Solicitors and NUIG, author of Data Protection Law in Ireland (Clarus Press, 2013); and it will take place at 7pm, on Wednesday 20 March 2013, in the IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building (map here), Trinity College Dublin.

The theme of this timely lecture is data protection and European developments from a German perspective; and it will be divided into parts:

– the basics of the data protection law,
– a description of European data protection and its reform, and
– an evaluation of the reform from the German perspective.

This event is free and all are very welcome to attend. Annual membership of the Irish Society for Comparative Law is available for €50.…

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Irish Law Journal, volume 2

11 March, 201311 March, 2013
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Irish Law Journal logoLate to this, with apologies, I am told that the Irish Law Journal is still (just about) accepting submissions (email here) for its second edition. Submissions should be no more then 25,000 words in length, on any matter of law. According to its submissions page:

The Irish Law Journal strives to publish novel scholarship that will have an immediate and lasting impact on the legal community in Ireland and abroad. We invite articles from academics, professionals and students of law or related disciplines. Case comments and book reviews will also be accepted. While each issue might have articles focused on Irish law, the journal’s remit is international and we welcome submissions on all areas of the law irrespective of national boundaries.

I think that this is an excellent endeavour, adding to the range of journals available in Ireland. They largely fall into two parts: student run for student publication, and more professional or academic for professional or academic publication. The Irish Law Journal crosses this divide: it is student-run and student-edited, but seeking to publish professional and academic pieces. Not only will such a journal publish valuable new legal research, it will also help in the development of law students.…

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Men of letters

31 August, 20127 November, 2012
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Campanile, Front Square, TCDTwo letters in the Irish Times can speak for themselves.




This is the first:

Sir, – I read that Trinity College Dublin plans to pilot a radical new approach where student interviews, personal statements and teacher references are used for college entry to law, starting in 2014, (Home News, August 21st).

While Trinity College has always enjoyed imitating the Oxbridge universities, this development should concern all citizens who value equality and indeed equality of access.

Whatever one may say about the CAO system, it is not open to the type of manipulation that I am certain will happen once the ridiculous “personal statement, teacher references, etc” are included in the entry selection process.

Clearly the thin end of the wedge, this development should be seen in the context of the introduction of the HPat exam, namely another attempt by the professional classes to reduce competition for college places for their privately schooled sons and daughters.

As Winston Churchill might have said, the CAO points systems is the worst system for college entrance, except for all the other entry systems that have been tried from time to time. Shameful. – Yours, etc,

CATHAL O’SULLIVAN,

Leinster Road, West,
Rathmines,
Dublin 6.

This is the second:

Sir, – Further to Cathal O’Sullivan’s recent letter (August 24th), I would like to reassure your readers that my colleagues and I at Trinity Law School are acutely aware of the challenges involved in attempting to formulate an alternative university entry system to the existing CAO route.

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A New Yorker Lawyer Joke, for back-to-school week

26 August, 201218 August, 2012
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New Yorker Cartoon, from New Yorker site.

Image: In a classroom full of pupils and their lawyers, one child responds to his teacher:

Caption: Miss Finch, my attorney has advised me that I’m not obligated to address the question of what I did on my summer vacation. Nonetheless, I would like to respond.…

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Claud Cockburn on journalism

14 August, 20121 March, 2013
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… remember that there is one golden rule for success in journalism: libel someone famous early in your career.

via memex.naughtons.org

… believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

via wikiquote

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Beatson LJ: congratulations!

27 July, 20127 November, 2012
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Jack Beatson, via the TelegraphThis post is just a quick note to congratulate Jack Beatson (pictured left) on his elevation to the Court of Appeal in London. Before he became a judge, Jack was Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College, and in that capacity he supervised my PhD thesis. (Adopting a line I saw elsewhere, we both survived).

I’m delighted to learn today that, in the formal wording of such announcements, the Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of The Honourable Mr Justice Beatson as a Lord Justice of Appeal to fill a forthcoming vacancy in the Court of Appeal. In Debrett’s, he lists his recreations as “trying to relax”. I fear he might not have much time for that in his new role.

Congratulations, Jack!…

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Today

13 April, 201216 April, 2012
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Messiah.jpg


As I explained for this date last year, I spent lunch-time listening to Our Lady’s Choral Society‘s annual performance of highlights from Handel’s Messiah on the site on Fishamble Street, Dublin, on which it had its world première on this day in 1742. The image above is a photo of the performance (click on it for a larger image). Unusually for Dublin, and thankfully, the rain stayed away! Update: here’s a report in the Irish Times and another in the Irish Independent.

And the performance was great, especially the audience-participation “Hallelujah Chorus” encore. I’m looking forward to next year already. …

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#CRC12 Paper: The questions

21 March, 20127 November, 2012
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#CRC12logosmallAt the end of each of its chapters, the Copyright Review Committee‘s Consultation Paper poses questions based on the analysis in the relevant chapter on which further responses are sought (update: you can download a pdf of the Paper here (via DJEI) or here (from this site)). The questions are presented here by chapter. If you want the questions based on a particular chapter, click on the “questions” link after the chapter name immediately below. If you want the full list, just keep reading this post.

  • Chapter 2 – The Intersection of Innovation and Copyright in the Submissions (questions)
  • Chapter 3 – Copyright Council of Ireland (questions)
  • Chapter 4 – Rights-holders (questions)
  • Chapter 5 – Collecting Societies (questions)
  • Chapter 6 – Intermediaries (questions)
  • Chapter 7 – Users (questions)
  • Chapter 8 – Entrepreneurs (questions)
  • Chapter 9 – Heritage institutions (questions)
  • Chapter 10 – Fair Use (questions)
  • Final questions in the Paper (questions)
  • Additional questions in the online questionnaire (questions)
  • How to make a submission.
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