SPEAKERS

William Binchy is Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College and is a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission.  He lectures in Medicine and the Law on the LL.M. degree programme and is co-author of the Annual Review of Irish Law and co-editor of Human Rights: The Citizen and the State: South African and Irish Perspectives.  He has represented the Commission at the United Nations in the preparation of a Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.

Neville Cox lectures in law at Trinity College Dublin and is a practising barrister.  He lectures in Medicine and the Law on the LL.M. degree programme.  His paper, “The Failure of Rights Talk in the Field of Ethics: The European Bioethics Convention” was published in Designing Life: Genetics, Procreation and Ethics, edited by Maureen Junker-Kenny.

Andrew Green is Professor of Medical Genetics in University College Dublin and Director of the National Centre for Medical Genetics. He was a member of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction, which published its Report in May 2005.

Maureen Junker-Kenny is Associate Professor of Theology at Trinity College Dublin.  She gained a PhD in 1989 at the University of Münster, and completed her Habilitation in 1996 at the University of Tübingen, on J. Habermas’s ethics of argumentation.  She has published in Fundamental Theology, foundations of philosophical and theological ethics, and bioethics, editing, e.g, Designing Life? Genetics, Procreation, and Ethics (Ashgate, 1999).  She has co-edited The Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Concilium 1998/2), The Discourse of Human Dignity (Concilium 2003/2, SCM Press 2003), and Memory, Narrativity, Self, and the Challenge to Think God.  The Reception within Theology of the Recent Work of Paul Ricoeur (LIT-Verlag, 2004).

Jane Liddy was the last Irish Member of the European Commission of Human Rights until its investigatory and decision-making functions were amalgamated with those of the European Court of Human Rights.  She served with the Commission between 1987 and 1999, latterly as President of its First Chamber.  She subsequently served as a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission until her resignation in 2004 for the purpose of devoting more time to writing projects.  Her earlier experience was in the civil service, from which she resigned in 1987 when she was Deputy Legal Adviser in the Department of Foreign Affairs.  She holds the qualifications of Barrister-at-Law and Diploma in European Law and has published in Ireland and abroad on many aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights.  Her publications include consideration of new forms of relationship and genetic history and identity arising from developments in science (Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Vol. 51 No. 3, Autumn 2000).

David McConnell BA., PhD (Caltech)., SFTCD., MRIA, FZSI, is Professor of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin and Vice Dean of Genetics and Microbiology. He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and was an Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow of the International Union Against Cancer at Harvard University.  Author of more than 100 papers in the field of molecular genetics, he pioneered the development of molecular genetics and genetic engineering in Ireland, participating in several EC biotechnology programmes. Formerly Vice Provost of Trinity College, and a member of the Irish Council for Science Technology and Innovation, he was Chairman of the Adelaide Hospital.  He is Chairman of The Irish Times Trust.

Deirdre Madden is a graduate of UCC (B.C.L. 1987; LL.M. 1988, Ph.D. 2000) and was called to the Bar in 1989. She is lecturer in Law in University College Cork. Her research interests and publications are primarily in the area of Medical Law, in particular Human Assisted Reproduction. She was appointed by the Minister for Health and Children to the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction in 2000. She is also a member of the Assisted Conception Sub-Committee of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Ireland, the Research Ethics Committee of the Irish College of General Practitioners, and the Expert Evaluation Panel on Bioethics for the European Commission. She has been the medico-legal columnist for the Irish Medical News since 1997. She is author of Medicine, Ethics and the Law, published by Butterworths in 2002.

Claudia Mazzucato is Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Milan, where she teaches penal law, criminology and juvenile justice.  She is a mediator for the Milan Office of Penal Mediation and has been appointed as expert on mediation and restorative justice for the Italian Ministry of Justice.  She also participates in international networks on mediation and restorative justice.

PROGRAMME

5:40	Registration
6:00  Prof Andrew Green	Assisted Reproduction from the Perspective of Families with Genetic Conditions
6:20 Prof David McConnell	The Embryo and Personhood: What Can We Learn from Genetics
6:40  Prof Maureen Junker-Kenny	IVF: Between Reproductive Autonomy and Children's Rights
7:00 Deirdre Madden	Surrogacy
7:20	Coffee Break
7:35 Dr. Neville Cox BL	Assisted Human Reproduction: The European Dimension
8:15 Jane Liddy	The Report of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction: A Consideration of Ethcical Reasoning
8:35 Prof William Binchy	Assisted Human Reproduction and Human Rights
8:50	Discussion and Questions
9:15	Seminar Ends

The right to rearrange and substitute lectures is reserved

RESERVATIONS

FEES*:   €75 for one

Group Rates:   €135 for 2; €190 for 3; €240 for 4; €280 for 5

Reduced Rates: €45 (for apprentice solicitors/barristers of 5 years standing or less and legal executives)

CPD Hours:      3 hours group study.  Certificates of attendance will be forwarded after the seminar.

Reservations: To reserve your place please complete and return the form to :
Catherine Finnegan, School of Law, House 39, Trinity College, Dublin 2 or by email to catherine.finnegan@tcd.ie.

* inclusive of conference materials and tea/coffee break.  All cheques should be made payable to TCD No. 1 Account

This page was last modified on 2 April 2006 by Catherine Finnegan