World Bar Conference to be held in IrelandDublin and Belfast are to host an international conference for barristers this summer. The fourth World Bar Conference will be addressed by President Mary McAleese, Attorney General Paul Gallagher SC and former US senator George Mitchell as well as top human rights experts from around the world.
It is being organised by the International Council of Advocates and Barristers. Other speakers will include journalist Robert Fisk, US attorney Pierce O'Donnell, Justice Kate O'Regan of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights organisation Liberty.
Colm Ó Cinnéide, senior lecturer in law at University College London, is expected to speak, as is Beatrice Mtetwa, president of the Zimbabwe Law Society, Prof Monica McWilliams, chief commissioner with the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, and Justice Ruth McColl, judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal.
The four-day conference will begin in Dublin on June 27th with a reception in the National Gallery. On Saturday sessions will be held at Dublin Castle and the Mansion House before moving to the Queen's University in Belfast on Sunday. The event will close on Monday after sessions in the Waterfront Hall and a dinner at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
Hugh Mohan SC, joint chair of the conference, said the event has proven very successful in attracting legal experts from around the world.
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A masters degree in criminology and criminal justice has just been announced by UCD. The course is aimed at social workers, psychologists, probation officers, police, prison officers, youth workers, those engaged in research and policy work in the public sector and anyone with an interest in crime. It is an interdisciplinary course, with modules on offer from across the university. Two options each semester will be taught within the school of law, including prisons and penal policy, communities, crime and consequences; crime and society and advanced criminological theory. In addition, courses such as punishment and violence, crime and punishment and crime, law and social control will be available from the schools of history and archives, philosophy and sociology.