Legal Reform - conferences and good articles

[Brendan Burgess]

The Law Society in UCD will be debating the bill next Wednesday

Wednesday - Were having the Lawsoc Legal Services Reform Debate, with speakers such as Michael McDowell SC, Fergal Keane - RTE Drivetime, Declan Purcell - former chairman of the competition authority! Taking place at 7pm Theatre O

 

[Brendan Burgess]

The UCD Centre for Regulation is holding a conference on 25th November

Details: http://www.ucd.ie/reggov/newsevents/body,106249,en.html

AT €375 it's very expensive.


11.30 KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Lawyers, Markets and the State
Lynn Mather, Professor of Law & Political Science,
State University of New York at Buffalo

12.00 - 13.15 INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES FOR
REGULATION AND SELF-REGULATION
The Global Context of Legal Services
Regulation
John Flood,Westminster, Professor of Law &
Sociology, University of Westminster
Mega- or Meta-Regulation for the Legal
Profession?
Colin Scott, Dean of Law and Professor of EU
Regulation & Governance, University College Dublin
Discussant: Kevin O’Higgins, Deputy President,
Law Society

13.15 - 14.15 Lunch

14.15- 15.30 COMPETITION AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE
LEGAL PROFESSION
The Competition Authority Report on
Competition in Professional Services:
Solicitors and Barristers
Isolde Goggin, Chair, Competition Authority
Dragging the Irish Legal Profession into the
21st Century
Sandeep Gopalan, Professor of Law and Head of the
Department of Law at the National University of
Ireland, Maynooth
Discussant: Michael Collins, SC

15.30 - 16.45 REGULATING THE EDUCATION AND
TRAINING OF LAWYERS
2020 Vision? Thinking about the role of
education and training in regulating a liberalised
legal services market
Julian Webb, Professor of Legal Education,
University of Warwick
Universities and legal education: training for
the professions, or educating for society?
Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Principal and
Vice-Chancellor of Robert Gordon University,
Aberdeen, Scotland
Discussant: Emer Hunt, Consultant,
Tax Department, Matheson Ormsby Prentice

16.45 CONFERENCE CLOSE & RECEPTION