6.15pm TODAY Thu 18 Apr 2024
UCD Sutherland School of Law

John M Kelly Memorial Lecture

Judge Suzanne Kingston, “On the role of constitutional identity: Teach solais or will-o’-the-wisp?”

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👩‍⚖️📖 Presidential pardon recommended in 1882 murder case after UCD expert review

🧵 Two men hanged more than 140 years ago for murder are to receive a posthumous President of Ireland presidential pardon following a case review by UCD legal expert Dr Niamh Howlin.

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👩‍⚖️👩‍🎓 Warmest congratulations to UCD Sutherland School of Law graduate Úna ní Raifeartaigh on her election as Ireland’s new judge at the European Court of Human Rights

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New Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O'Flaherty BCL '80 recently set out his priorities for his 6-year mandate.

He told us about these last month, in a staff seminar as one of our Adjunct Professors. Last week he met ECHR CEDH President Síofra O’Leary BCL '89.

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The new justice minister is leading an unprecedented democratic experiment The Irish Times
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Finished your PhD, ready to lead your own project? Interested in my mentorship for Marie Curie Fellowship application UCD Sutherland School of Law? Please email me to discuss. Previous success with MCF with Grażyna Baranowska and her great MIRO project Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School

Deadline for applications: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) Fri 17 May 2024

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Poland's new govt takes an important step toward restoring judicial independence. If the puppet president vetoes it, Europe should understand that the rule of law is still under threat because the prior government entrenched itself to resist democratic change.

Acc to my data = total of 43 preliminary ruling requests (with 3 pending) originating from *lawful* Polish courts raising systemic #ruleoflaw issues. Total doesn't include PR requests from PiS fake 'judges' which cannot be considered 'courts' notwithstanding lenient ECJ stance

Latest ECJ PR cases re #ruleoflaw in Poland:
C-114/23 et al: All 4 requests held inadmissible
C‑647/21 & C‑648/21: For AG Collins, rules that permit non-consensual transfer of judges & unfettered removal of cases ex officio are not compatible with EU law. Important ruling to come

Convincing critique of AG Pikamäe's opinion re the first ever CJEU case re state of the #ruleoflaw & independence of the judiciary in #Croatia (another preliminary ruling case and not a Comm infringement action one may note)
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Tommaso Pavone R. Daniel Kelemen

𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! My JEPP article w/ Mauricio Mandujano Manriquez is published in open access! On the EU’s rule of law crisis, the Commission as a haphazard & often laggard “guardian of the Treaties,” & how the ECJ often had to seize the reins of leadership: doi.org/10.1080/135017…

EU interregnum year is always best time for would-be autocrats to engage in systemic constitutional capture and create irreversible facts on the ground/establish mafia state. By the time, Commission and Council might eventually think of doing something, it is too late

☄️New paper out❗️Introducing a holistic view of the Rule of Law across🇪🇺the legal orders. 'Supremacy' is NOT Rule of Law and what to do about it: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Jacob Öberg Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 Steve Peers Jakub Jaraczewski Petra Bárd CEU Democracy Institute Central European University Rule of Law in Poland JUSTICE FOR RULE OF LAW

Interesting & as it happens, this is exactly what associations of judges & prosecutors have requested the EU General Court to recognise re #ruleoflaw issues in situation where systemic deficiencies have already been recognised by EU institutions, incl. CJEU itself The Good Lobby Profs

Huge. The court's flexible approach to standing for associations will have massive repercussion for climate cases in future (many more NGO cases). The court specifically recognises the 'importance of associations to litigate issues of climate change on behalf of affected persons'

The Lady Chief Justice spoke to Joshua Rozenberg for the final episode of Law in Action. She talked about several topics including the importance of the rule of law. Listen now: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

🚨On an audio released today by her ex-husband, former justice minister Judit Varga clearly details how Hungary's public institutions charged with investigating & prosecuting corruption are under political influence.

The European Commission must take immediate action.