Women Changing Law, Changing Society Seminar on women’s rights and legal change

Friday, May 08, 2015

Women Changing Law, Changing Society, a Seminar on women’s rights and legal change is part of the CICL ‘Changing Ireland, Changing Law’ research project

The seminar will focus on legal cases which have brought about social change for women in Ireland. Speakers will explore both the experience of taking such cases, and the impact that these cases have had.

This is the first in a series of seminars being organised by Prof. Ivana Bacik (Law School, TCD) and Dr. Mary Rogan (DIT Law) in partnership with the Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA), the National Women’s Council (NWCI), the Gay & Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) and the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI).

This seminar series aims to explore the relationship between legal action and social change, and to promote debate on how public interest litigation has influenced or contributed to social change in Ireland, on a range of issues. The seminar series forms part of a joint DIT/TCD legal research project entitled ‘Changing Ireland, Changing Law’ (CICL) funded by the Irish Research Council, along with additional contribution from the Trinity College Dublin Equality Fund and Arts & Social Sciences Benefactions Fund.

Speakers: Máirín de Burca (feminist activist, litigant in 1975 De Burca case);
Professor Aileen McColgan (King’s College London);
Orla O’Connor (NWCI);
Mary O’Toole SC;
Professor Yvonne Scannell (TCD);
Dr. Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington (to be confirmed).

The seminar will begin at 11am promptly. Registration and tea/coffee from 10.30am.
Lunch will be provided at 1pm.
Attendance is free, but places are limited. To register for a place, please RSVP to: cicl@tcd.ie
Twitter: @CICL15

*Venue is on Pearse street side of TCD campus: see map here

Starts: 8 May 2015 11:00
Ends: 8 May 2015 13:00
Location: Trinity College Dublin,Room 2.03, Áras an Phiarsaigh