My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.

Call for Interview Participants! My @researchireland.ie study exploring women’s experiences of online harassment and abuse in Irish academia is seeking insights from those impacted to help increase awareness and support. To share your story please email: [email protected]

Looking forward to this event on 11th June - hope to see some of you there! Registration link to follow soon, I understand.

'It was only when the abuse occurred at scale on the ‘main street’ of the internet that the urgent need to address it became clear.' Me in the Irish Examiner on the need for proactive regulation of AI and online abuse. @deshocks.bsky.social @nwc.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

2 year research postdoc at UCL @laws.ucl.ac.uk on data and democracy, public law focus — could focus on surveillance and/or AI issues www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Dr @ronanmkennedy.bsky.social & Dr Jorge Balmaceda recently attended an international seminar on AI Ethics in Law at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. They discussed the regulatory framework and the ethical implications of using AI in law and judicial practice. derecho.uc.cl/es/noticias/...

We have another online seminar coming up, this one for June 11, discussing whether libra.law can use AI to better connect individuals to appropriate legal assistance. The speakers are Paul Massey of Libra.law and Paul McKeown of Northumbria University. Sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/enhancing-...

Our next seminar is on "Responsible Use of Agentic AI in Justice Systems" with John Keers BL and Dr John McCord of @ulsteruni.bsky.social - Thurs 21 May, sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/responsibl...

Interested in researching AI and judicial decision making? @brianbarryirl.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin has two funded PhD vacancies (one in law, one in social sciences).

The European Data Protection Board has published a case digest (by myself) on decisions made under the one-stop-shop system which consider legitimate interest as a legal basis. www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files...

Professor Áine Ryall has been re-elected unanimously as Chair of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee. The Convention is a multilateral agreement linking the environment and human rights. She was elected Chair in 2021 and re-elected to serve a second term as Chair in Feb 2026.

🌱 Green Careers Series | Ep 8 Meet Diarmuid Torney, Director of DCU Institute for Climate & Society and DCU lead for the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water. From politics & economics to fair transitions, he explains why inclusive decision-making matters. Watch here: buff.ly/IVO4hkP

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The AI4People Summit 2025 starts tomorrow - see details at ai4people.org/advancing-et... and sign up at ai4people.org/ai4people-su...

“Bhí sé soiléir san fheachtas seo go bhfuil daoine ag tabhairt aire ar chúrsaí teanga” Sa Irish Times, míníonn an tOllamh Laura Cahillane, ó Scoil Dlí Ollscoil Luimnigh, an ról a bhí ag an nGaolainn i dtoghchán Catherine Connolly go dtí an Áras www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/scea... @ulsol.bsky.social

New article out with Katie Nolan (@katieanolan.bsky.social) and Orla Lynskey in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies: 'Digital Empire or Digital Fiefdoms? Institutional Tensions and the EU Right to Data Protection'. Open access at: doi.org/10.1017/cel.... @cambup-law.cambridge.org

We’re launching a new series on curious legal cases in Ireland. The use of Irish in court remains rare. In the 2019 Ó Cadhla case, the High Court ruled the State must make “reasonable efforts” to assign a bilingual judge when requested. Read more (in Irish): viz.legal/an37kaJQ #LegalTech

Looking forward to the launch of David Cowan's new book on law and technology at the @ials.bsky.social next month - sign up at ials.sas.ac.uk/events/law-a...

Dr Orla Kelleher of Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology calls on Ireland to show greater leadership and ambition on climate action. @maynoothlaw.bsky.social‬ @orlakelleher.bsky.social‬

I presented @futureoflawassoc.bsky.social on AI & the Future of #LegalEd abt building crucial #problemsetting skills through writing, along w Jonny Hall & @csimmonds.bsky.social (#Problembasedlearning & AI), Brian Tang (Authentic Team #Projectbasedlearning) & Samuel Dahan (No-code Legal AI Creation)

FAO any scholars interested in judicial studies - I am hoping to establish an Irish Judicial Studies Network to develop this area of legal studies in Ireland and to create opportunities for research collaboration. If interested - or if you know anyone who might be interested - please let me know!

#LegalTech #Ireland 2025 finally underway, with Ms Justice Nuala Jackson’s keynote

Last chance to register for #LegalTech #Ireland 2025 which takes place on Monday - www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

We're just a week away from #LegalTech #Ireland 2025 - check out the schedule at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub... and register for either in-person or online attendance

#LegalTech #Ireland is coming up on 7 April - the schedule is now available at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub... and there is still time to register!

When AI eats its own tail, it damages the environment. My new piece, Clean Data: Recursion as Pollution in Environmental AI (scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/881/) is out from Oxford University Press, with great editors @joshgellers.bsky.social and @spillteori.bsky.social. #OUP #AIethics #newoil

Registration is now open for Legal Tech Ireland 2025, co-organised with @letsopenculture.bsky.social and Alison Hough of TUS Midlands and taking place in @uniofgalway.bsky.social on Monday 7 April - sign up at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

Today is the last day to submit a paper for the #LegalTech #Ireland conference in @universityofgalway.bsky.social - for details, see www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

We have just extended the deadline for the "Legal Tech Ireland: Impacts, Policies and Pathways" conference, which takes place on 7 April. Abstracts due by 18 March, by email to me. Details at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

A reminder that the closing date for paper submissions for Legal Tech Ireland is Monday 10th - email me your abstracts! More details at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

Check out Sinéad Mercier's brilliant chapter on the 'placelessness' of energy law in Ireland!

The deadline for paper submissions for #LegalTech #Ireland 2025 is coming up fast. Abstracts are due by the 10th. More details at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

My new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' is now available in the US and globally with @politybooks.bsky.social The book charts how digital and AI interventions in humanitarian settings harm some of the world's most marginalized people www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Join us for a timely in-person seminar 'Transatlantic Perspectives on Legislating AI'. Speakers: Prof. Woodrow Hartzog, Prof. Barry C Smith, Dr. Anna-Maria Sichani 🗓️19 February 2025, 5:30pm-7:00pm, in-person at IALS Book your place now!👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...

Webinar 12-1pm today (Jan 23rd) "Ireland’s scientific and legal responsibilities on climate change." Speakers: Prof. Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social Dr. Andrew Jackson, UCD Oisín Coghlan, Friends of the Earth Rose Wall, CLM. ⬇️ Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We've migrated our company account away from Twitter. If you are in the legal world on here a follow would be most appreciated: 🙏 @vizlegal.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking about Ireland’s Climate Justice Obligations this Thursday from 12-1pm (free webinar) alongside @kevinclimate.bsky.social @oisinc.bsky.social & Rose Wall of Community Law & Mediation. Registration here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations is now online and shortly in print, with a chapter on the Irish situation by @mariamurphy.bsky.social and myself. If you don't have access and would like a preprint of the Irish chapter then drop me a line at [email protected].

If you are interested in the cross-disciplinary challenges of "Law as Data, Data as Law", have a look at the new symposium in Law, Technology and Humans co-edited by myself and Dr Brian Barry of Trinity College Dublin: tinyurl.com/lthj140

The Irish Centre for Human Rights is hiring! We are currently advertising a permanent lecturer post with an emphasis on human rights and climate/environment (climate justice, conflict and peacebuilding, minority rights, indigenous peoples). More info at: www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/

It's been 15 minutes since I posted about my books, so it's GIVEAWAY TIME!!! If you want a FREE copy of my new @routledgelit.bsky.social collection (with @drmitchtravis.bsky.social & Kieran Tranter) Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary, like & reskeet this - winner chosen at random on 5 January. 1/2

This is an exceptionally good piece. A must-read for anyone with any interest in AI.

Brian Barry of @tcddublin.bsky.social (who doesn't seem to be here yet) and I have just finished editing a symposium on "Law as Data, Data as Law" in the Law, Technology and Humans journal (also not here yet, as far as I can see) - open access at lthj.qut.edu.au/issue/view/140

Are you working on: 1. Dystopia/utopia, climate change & law. 2. Law & sci-fi. 3. Patriarchy/capitalism & the limits of law. 4. Alternative history & law. 5. Legal progress/regression? Then submit an abstract to our #SLSA2025 stream, 'The Law(s) of the Future! 🧵 www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...

We have a call for papers open for a legal technology conference examining the innovation ecosystems across the island of Ireland, taking place in Galway in April next year: www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

Conference alert and Call for Papers - Legal Tech Ireland: Impacts Policies and Pathways www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

I am co-organising "Legal Tech Ireland: Impacts, Policies and Pathways" with Alison Hough and Abigail Rekas (event 7 April 2025, proposals due 10 March 2025) - Call for Papers at www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

Hi, If you "self-host" (i.e. install and manage your own internet services -- at least that's my definition; I know others would quibble), please take this survey: selfh.st/survey/2024/ Thanks.

It has taken a lot of work and very intensive collaboration between a very diverse team across a range of disciplines (and time zones!) to write this white paper on #AIethics but I am very glad to see that it has finally been published: ai4people.org/the-new-ai4p...

Call for Papers for special issue of Law, Technology and Humans on "Law as Data, Data as Law" in association with IFLA – for details see lthj.qut.edu.au/LawAsData