Professor Gráinne de Búrca (pictured above left) will deliver the first annual lecture in memory of Arthur Browne (pictured above right) next Friday 13 May 2016, at midday, in the Davis Lecture Theatre, Room 2043 Arts Building (map here) on the topic

Is EU Anti-Discrimination Law in Decline?

Professor Gráinne de Búrca (pictured above left) is the Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law in New York University School of Law, Faculty Director of the Hauser Global Law School, and Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice. Prior to joining NYU in 2011, she held tenured posts as professor at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, and at the European University Institute in Florence. Before that, she was Fellow of Somerville College and lecturer in law at Oxford University from 1990-1998. She was deputy director of the Center for European and Comparative law at Oxford University, and co-director of the Academy of European Law at the EUI in Florence.

Arthur Browne (1756-1805) (pictured above right) was a leading Irish lawyer, academic, and politician, at the end of the eighteenth century. He was devoted to civil liberties, to the reform of Parliament, and to the relief of Roman Catholics from legal oppressions.…

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Prof Deirdre Curtin (Professor of European Union Law, European University Institute, Florence; pictured left) will deliver the Irish Society for European Law‘s 13th Annual Brian Walsh Memorial Lecture on the above topic.

It will take place at 6:30pm, tomorrow, Thursday, 26 November 2015, in the Bar Council of Ireland Distillery Building, 145–151 Church Street, Dublin 7 (map here), and it will be chaired by the Hon Mr Justice Frank Clarke (Judge of the Supreme Court). CPD points will be available. Registration is required.…

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I recently blogged here about the speech Lord Neuberger, President of the UK Supreme Court, delivered to the DU Law Society on Friday, 6 March 2015. The full text of his speech is now available here (pdf) so you can judge for yourself how accurate my notes are.

Two forthcoming events relating to Magna Carta are of Irish relevance. First, my TCD colleague Peter Crooks will deliver a paper on “Magna Carta in Ireland” to the Magna Carta Conference, which will be held in King’s College London and the British Library, from 17-19 June 2015. Second, an exhibition on Magna Carta is coming soon to Christ Church cathedral, Dublin. I am sure I will return to both of these events on the blog in due course. Meanwhile, I notice that Lord Neuberger has returned to the topic, in a speech entitled “Magna Carta and the Holy Grail”, which he delivered in Lincoln’s Inn, London, on 12 May 2015. It is available here (pdf); a flavour (with added links):

16. … One school sees what happened at Runnymede [where Magna Carta was signed and sealed by King John on 12 June 1215] as little more than a dramatic moment of history which has captured the public imagination [see, for example, the memorial at Runnymede, pictured above left], and which only has symbolic importance due to the subsequent accidents of history.

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To mark the recent appointment of The Honourable Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Judge of the Supreme Court (pictured left), to the position of President of the Irish Society of European Law, he will give an inaurgural lecture on

The Long Arm of European Law.

How the reach of Union Law has extended and why the non-specialist should pay attention

in the Atrium, Distillery Building, 145-151 Church Street, Dublin 7, on Thursday, 7 May 2015, at 6:30pm. The event will be chaired by the Mr Justice Nial Fennelly, Judge of the Supreme Court (2000-2014) and Advocate General at the European Court of Justice (1995-2000).

This lecture is open to all and free of charge to ISEL members (there is a €30 charge for non-ISEL members). Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, so registration is necessary. CPD points are available for this event. There will be a drinks reception in the Atrium after the lecture.…

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Professor John Naughton will deliver a public lecture on

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

in the Trinity Long Room Hub (map here), on Wednesday, 29 April 2015, at 4:00pm.

The Internet as it is today is not the network we fondly imagined we would get. This lecture traces the evolution of the Net from its early days, outlines the forces that have shaped it and argues that we need to rethink both our attitudes to it and our public discourse about it. We need, in other words, to Get Real about the Net.

Professor John Naughton (pictured left) is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. He is also: Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University; Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge; and the Technology columnist of the Observer. His current research is on the implications for democracy of digital technology and his latest book, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: what you really need to know about the Internet, is published by Quercus Books. He blogs at Memex 1.1 and tweets at @jjn1

The public lecture is organised in Trinity College Dublin to co-incide with Tech Week 2105 by the Privacy & Ethics Working Group of the ADAPT Centre Centre for Digital Content Technology, the School of Law, the School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, and the Confederal School of Religions, Theology and Peace Studies.…

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