Date

Friday 22nd of May 2026
Time

9h00 - 17h30
Location

Neill Lecture Theatre, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Registration

To request a place, please complete submit your booking here

General enquiries or difficulties should be directed to pearce.clancy@tcd.ie.

 

Programme

09.00 - 09.30 Arrival and coffee
09.30 - 09.50 Welcoming remarks: Mike Becker (TCD) and Oran Doyle (Head of School, TCD)
09.50 - 10.30 Keynote: Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders
10.30 - 12.00

Panel 1: International Law in Europe – Chair: Christiane Ahlborn (Graz)

Federica Fazio (DCU) – Collective Defence in NATO and the EU: A Law-in-Context Analysis of Articles 5 NAT and 42(7) TEU Amid the Ukraine War

Niamh Keady-Tabbal (Maynooth) and Amanda Danson Brown (SOAS) – Representing and Resisting Pushbacks at the ECtHR: International Law and the Normalisation of EU Border Violence

Grace Barnes (Galway) – Intersectional Discrimination in the European Court of Human Rights: A Breakthrough for Disabled Women's Rights in I.C. v the Republic of Moldova

Commentators: Maeve O’Rourke (Galway) and Christiane Ahlborn (Graz)
12.00 - 12.15 Coffee break
12.15 - 13.15

Panel 2: The Question of Apartheid – Chair: Blair Sommerville (TCD)

Rania Muhareb (Maynooth) – United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies Normalise Israeli Apartheid

Erin Gaura (Galway) – Toward International Legal Reform on Gender: The Case of Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan

Commentator: John Reynolds (Maynooth)
13.15 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.45

Panel 3: Challenges in International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law – Chair: Pearce Clancy (TCD)

Bailey Chavez (DCU) – Redefining Harm in the Digital Age: The International Criminal Court and Cyber-Enabled Crimes under the Rome Statute

Commentator: Noelle Higgins (Maynooth)
15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 - 17.15

Panel 4: Political Economy Approaches to International Law – Chair: Inji Mammadli (TCD)

John Manderscheid (TCD) – A Political Economy of Ruin: Heritage Law, Cultural Genocide's Contemporary Opponents, and a Model of Complicity

Jennifer Salmon (Independant scholar) – An Empirical Analysis of Market Mechanisms under the UNFCCC: Recommendations for the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism and Beyond

Maryam Yabo (TCD) - International Climate Law's Regulatory Licensing of Green Extractivism: A TWAIL Analysis.

Commentator: Illan rua Wall (Galway)
17.15 Closing remarks: Pearce Clancy (TCD)

*The right to substitute lecturers / lectures is reserved.