Provisional Timetable
Friday
25th April 2003
17.00-18.00
REGISTRATION
18.30-20.00
BUFFET
20.00-21.30 INAUGURAL ADDRESS –
The Hon Chief Justice Ronan Keane,
The Minister for Justice Michael McDowell, SC, TD
22.00
OPTIONAL WALKING TOUR OF GALWAY
“Evolution and an alternative account of how the common law has progressed”
Prof Allan C Hutchinson, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
“Looking at the Future of Common Law from Continental Civil Law Europe”,
Dr Wahe H Balekjian, University of Glasgow.
“Development of the Common Law in the USA”,
Prof
Caroline Forder, University of Maastricht
Prof
Mavis McLean, Pembroke College Oxford
Prof Nigel Lowe, Cardiff University
“The Unbearable Depth of European Consumer Law”
Paolisa
Nebbia, University of Southampton
“Emerging Advances in Abuse of Dominance Jurisprudence”
Dermot
Cahill, University College Dublin
“Country-of-origin regulation and the Internet Service Provider – the position in the EU after the E-Commerce Directive”
Derek Martin, Leeds Metropolitan University
10.30-11.00
COFFEE
“Better Regulation Agenda – For More Coherent and Accessible Statute Law”,
“Presumption of Crown/State immunity from the operation of statutes, from a perspective on the presumption’s historical heritage and form the perspective of possible change”
Dr
Steven Churches, University of Adelaide
“Corpses and the Common Law: Property Rights, Statutory Rights and Human Rights”
Dr
Heather Conway, Queen’s University, Belfast
“At last, libel reform: a new defamation law for the new millennium”,
“Third Party Effect and the Duty of Care: Shaping the Development of Tort Law in a Human Rights Era”
Colm O’Cinneide, University College London
“Common Law protection of trademarks; the continuing relevance of the law of passing off”
Máire
NÍ Shúilleabháin, University College Dublin
“The Children’s Hearing System and the European Convention on Human Rights”
“Family Law and State Intervention in the UK after the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998”
Christopher JS Gale, Leeds Metropolitan
University
“No Man is an Island: The Influence of International Human Rights Law on Domestic Human Rights Adjudication”
Vivienne
O’Connor, National University of Ireland, Galway
12.30-13.30
LUNCH
“Harry Wellington’s Theory of a Common Law Approach to Constitutional Interpretation – Irish Perspectives”
Dr Gerard Quinn, National University of Ireland, Galway
“Law and Literature Topic”
Andrew
Beck, BL
“The Demise of the Common Law Tradition in Employment Law”
Sam
Middlemiss, Robert Gordon University
“Teaching the Common Law Through French”
“Learning, Knowledge and Skills in Law Teaching”
Maria O’Neill Taplin, Waterford Institute of Technology
“If Common Law is at the Crossroads, Where does that leave Equity?: Rescission in Equity Revisited”
“The Bastion Falls. The European Union and the Law of Property?”
Gerwyn
Griffiths, University of Glamorgan
“An Irish Solution to an African Problem? Women and Family Land in Uganda”
Ambreena
Manji, University of Warwick
15.00
VISIT TO THE ARAN ISLANDS or TIME TO EXPLORE GALWAY
20.00 ANNUAL DINNER (Drinks sponsored by Butterworths)
Sunday
27th April 2003
“The South African Bill of Rights, the common law and the question of constitutional remedies”
“Conflict Between Customary Law and Human Rights in the South-West Pacific”
Jennifer Corrin Care – TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
Prof William Schabas, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway
“Disabilities”
FURTHER COMMON LAW PERSPECTIVES
“Uncommon Commonalities: Common Law and US Federal Regulatory Law”,
Dr Michael P Malloy, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
“Where the common law is going from a civil law viewpoint”
11.30-13.00 International Law
“The Common Law and National Sovereignty”
Alun
Preece, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
“Alien Torts Claims Act and holding multinational corporations accountable for human rights violations”
Daniel
Aguirre, National University of Ireland, Galway
“Doing Justice:
Rehabilitation of Sex Offenders in the Jurisprudence of the Court of Criminal
Appeal”
“A ‘Commonplace’ Theory of Medical Law”
John Harrington, University of Warwick
13.00-14.00
LUNCH
14.30
- 15.30 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Hotel rates to delegates (based on Bed & Breakfast): €140 per night.
A list of alternative hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation is available on request.
