CCJHR 9th Annual PhD Symposium
Rights in Conflict: Socio-Legal and Critical Approaches to Human Rights
8th- 9th June 2015
Timetable
Monday 8th June 2015
9.30 – 10.00
Registration (tea/coffee on arrival) (Student Common Room, Áras na Laoi)
10.00 – 11.00 Welcome: (Moot Court Room)
Prof Siobhán Mullally
Key Note Address (1): (Moot Court Room)
Prof Illan Rua Wall, 'Against Commitment: Human Rights as Strategy'
11.00 - 12.45 Parallel Session A
12.45 - 1.30
Stream 1
Stream 2
Victims’ Rights in Conflict
ECHR
(Moot Court Room)
(AL 1.64)
Lunch (Student Common Room, Áras na Laoi)
1.30 - 2.30
Roundtable: Research Impact: Case Studies (Moot Court Room)
2.30 - 4.15
Parallel Session B
Stream 3
Stream 4
Rights and the Criminal Trial
Reflections on Rights and Critical
Perspectives
(AL 1.64)
(Moot Court Room)
4.15 - 4.30
Coffee Break (Student Common Room, Áras na Laoi)
4.30 - 5.50
Session C
Stream 5
Limitations of Rights
(Moot Court Room)
6.00 - 7.30
Keynote Address (2): (West Wing W5, UCC)
Prof Kieran McEvoy, 'Republicanism, Human Rights and the ending of the Armed
Struggle'
7.30
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Reception
CCJHR 9th Annual PhD Symposium
Rights in Conflict: Socio-Legal and Critical Approaches to Human Rights
8th- 9th June 2015
Tuesday 9th June 2015
10.00 – 10.30 Registration (Student Common Room, Áras na Laoi)
10.30 – 11.30 Key Note Address (3): (Moot Court Room)
Dr Liz Campbell, 'Corruption by Organised Crime: Response through Law'
11.30 - 1.15
Parallel Session D
Stream 6
Stream 7
Constitutions and Citizens
Crime Theory
(AL G02)
(Moot Court Room)
1.15 - 1.45
Lunch (Student Common Room, Áras na Laoi)
1.45 - 3.30
Parallel Session E
Stream 8
Stream 9
Rights in a Digital Age
Parents and Children
(AL G02)
(Moot Court Room)
3.30 - 3.45
Coffee Break (Student Common Room, Áras na Laoi)
3.45 - 5.30
Session F
Stream 10
State, Gender and Rights
(Moot Court Room)
5.30 - 5.35
Conference Close (Moot Court Room)
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CCJHR 9th Annual PhD Symposium
Rights in Conflict: Socio-Legal and Critical Approaches to Human Rights
8th- 9th June 2015
Monday 8th June 2015
Parallel Session A
Stream 1: Victims’ Rights in Conflict
Venue: Moot Court Room
Chair: Dr Fiona Donson
Sonja Heppner
Trinity College Dublin
“Arbitral Justice for Victims of Human Rights Violations”
Alan Cusack
University College Cork
“Victim Participation in Criminal Proceedings: Growing Tension in the Adversarial Paradigm and the
Slow Decline of Due Process”
Aoife Whitford
University College Cork
“An Irish perspective on the use of Offender Reparation Panels- meeting the needs of victims,
offenders and communities?”
Elena Butti
University of Oxford
“Between Legal Rights and Lived Experiences: Children in Transitional Justice”
Stream 2: ECHR
Venue: AL. 1.64
Chair: Dr Cathal Curran
Thomas Raine
University of Glasgow
“Conflict or Collaboration? The Role of Parliament and the Courts under the UK Human Rights Act”
Samantha Williams
University College Cork
“Political Denialism and the Human Rights Act: The UK’s relationship to the ECHR”
Norah Burns
Trinity College Dublin
“A Move Towards Substantive Equality: The Roma Educational Segregation Cases before the
European Court of Human Rights”
Parallel Session B
Stream 3: Rights and the Criminal Trial
Venue: AL. 1.64
Chair: TBC
Eimear Moroney
University College Cork
“Correlations: Forensic Evidence and the Right to a Fair Trial”
Kevin Sweeney
University of Limerick
“The Right to Silence: adverse inferences and the return to the ‘accused speaks’”
Sarah Bryan O’Sullivan
Trinity College Dublin
“Personal Cross-Examination by the Defendant in Sexual Offence Trials- Protecting the Complainant
and Upholding the Defendant’s Right to a Fair Trial”
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CCJHR 9th Annual PhD Symposium
Rights in Conflict: Socio-Legal and Critical Approaches to Human Rights
8th- 9th June 2015
Stream 4: Reflections on Rights and Critical Perspectives
Venue: Moot Court Room
Chair: Professor Siobhán Mullally
Ira Greenberg
University College Cork
“The Ethics of Asymmetric Conflict: Parsing the Claims in Gaza”
Seán Butler
University College Cork
“Protecting Human Rights by Force: The Politico-Legal Context of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’
Doctrine”
Ian Turner
University of Central Lancashire
“Human Rights, Positive Obligations and the Development of a Right to Security”
Florence Anaedozie
Maynooth University
“Has Systemic Grand Corruption shaped Boko Haram’s Terrorist Landscape in Nigeria?”
Session C
Stream 5: Limitations of Rights
Venue: Moot Court Room
Chair: TBC
Seán Whittaker
University College Cork
“Access to Environmental Information in England: How Best to Balance Competing Rights?”
Paul Lynch
Trinity College Dublin
“Public Protest: an amphitheatre for freedom of expression or a prelude to deprivation of liberty?”
Zhilong Guo
University of Glasgow
“Social Life, Rights and Moral Limits of Criminal Law”
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CCJHR 9th Annual PhD Symposium
Rights in Conflict: Socio-Legal and Critical Approaches to Human Rights
8th- 9th June 2015
Tuesday 9th June 2015
Parallel Session D
Stream 6: Constitutions and Citizens
Venue: AL G02
Chair: TBC
Rola Abu Zeid-O’Neill
University College Cork
“Palestinian Minority Citizens of Israel: Citizenship on Question”
Blazej Kaucz
University College Cork
“Problems associated with the comparison of the constitutions situated in two different legal
frameworks (common law and continental law)”
Pothitou Theodoti- Eirini University College Cork
“The Right to Education and its Protection under the Greek Constitution: the case of Nikolaos
Romanos”
Stream 7: Crime Theory
Venue: Moot Court Room
Chair: Alan Cusack
Nóra Ní Loinsigh
Trinity College Dublin
“Property offences and inequality: conflicts between protecting property and addressing inequality in
a consumerist society”
Corsino San Miguel
University of Glasgow
“Institutionalizing Criminal Responsibility”
Eoin Guilfoyle
University of Limerick
“Community Service Orders: Understanding the Past to illuminate the present”
Susan Crean
University of Limerick
“Career Criminals have rights too”
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CCJHR 9th Annual PhD Symposium
Rights in Conflict: Socio-Legal and Critical Approaches to Human Rights
8th- 9th June 2015
Parallel Session E
Stream 8: Rights in a Digital Age
Venue: AL G02
Chair: Dr Carole Deschamps
Carol Lynch
University of Limerick
“An Examination of the Existing Irish Criminal Legal Responses to Cyberbullying”
Orla Egan
University College Cork
“Copyright v Community Access”
Camille Maye
Trinity College Dublin
“Human Rights: the price to pay for national security?”
Stream 9: Parents and Children
Venue: Moot Court Room
Chair: TBC
Sarah Robinson
University College Cork
“Legislative Lacuna: Invisible Mothers”
Alexandros Stylianidis
University of Vienna
“Tension between children’s and parents’ rights within education”
Ben Mitchell
Trinity College Dublin
“Social class inequality in school: a constitutional problem?”
Caroline Somers
University College Cork
“Conflicting Rights in Neonatal End-of-Life Care: A Luhmannian Approach”
Session F
Stream 10: State, Gender and Rights
Venue: Moot Court Room
Chair: Dr Claire Murray
Aengus Carroll
University College Cork
"Coming Out Alive: a perspective on the UN Human Rights Council’s current sexual orientation and
human rights activity"
Sandra Duffy
University College Cork
"Effecting Change: Foy, advocacy, and the power of 'cause lawyering’"
Nusha Yonkova
University College Dublin
“Gender-sensitive approach to protection and assistance of trafficked persons: a comparative study
of Ireland, Bulgaria, UK and Croatia”
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