Venue: ÁRAS MOYOLA, North Campus, NUI Galway
CONFERENCE AGENDA
Friday, 26 April
2:00-2:30 PM: Welcome and Registration
2:30-4:15 PM: Opening Plenary Session Panel
Chair: Noeline Blackwell, Director-General, FLAC
2:30-2:40 PM: Introductory Comments: Larry Donnelly, NUI Galway
2:40-3:10 PM: Setting the Landscape: Existing Clinical Programmes at Irish Law Schools (various participants)
3:10-4:15 PM: Keynote Address (Q&A to follow): Kevin Kerrigan, Executive Dean, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University
4:15-4:30 PM: Short Break
4:30-6:30 PM: Plenary Session Panel II
Chair: Larry Donnelly, NUI Galway
Dr. Liam Thornton, UCD: “Building a Culture of Clinical Legal Education in Ireland”
David Fennelly, TCD: “Learning How to Learn from Experience: Exploring the Educational Added Value of Clinical Legal Education”
Dr. Cliodhna Murphy, DCU: “Building Sustainable Approaches to Clinical Legal Education in Ireland: Integrating Clinical Methods into the Law School Experience”
Kieran Durcan, University of Lincoln: “Developing a Law Clinic: Serving What Interests?”
7:30 PM: Conference Dinner (Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Campus)
Saturday, 27 April
9:30-11:30 AM: Plenary Session Panel III
Chair: Dr. Liam Thornton, UCD
Ilana Buschkin, NUI Maynooth: “Integrating Skills-Based Education into the Irish Legal Curriculum: Developments at NUI Maynooth”
Dr. Mary Rogan, DIT, and Liam Herrick, IPRT: “Community-based Learning and Prison Research”
Dr. Eimear Spain, UL: “Teaching Legal Writing Using the Web: Possibilities and Practicalities”