Browsing School of Law (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Kennedy, Rónán"
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Access to Justice under Irish Environmental Impact Assessment Law: Case C-427/07 Commission v Ireland European Court of Justice (Second Chamber), 16 July 2009 [2010] Env LR 8
Kennedy, Rónán (SAGE Publications, 2010-05)Ireland was recently found not to have fully implemented Directive 85/337 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (the EIA Directive) and Directive 2003/35 (the Århus ... -
Access to justice under the Århus Convention and Irish judicial review
Kennedy, Rónán (SAGE Publications, 2008)The case of Sweetman v An Bord Pleanála, decided in the High Court of Ireland in April 2007, raises a number of interesting issues regarding the scope of Directive 2003/35/EC on public participation in respect of the ... -
Algorithmic governance: Developing a research agenda through the power of collective intelligence
Danaher, John; Hogan, Michael J.; Noone, Chris; Kennedy, Rónán; Behan, Anthony; De Paor, Aisling; Felzmann, Heike; Haklay, Muki; Khoo, Su-Ming; Morison, John; Murphy, Maria Helen; O'Brolchain, Niall; Schafer, Burkhard; Kalpana, Shankar (SAGE Publications, 2017-09-19)We are living in an algorithmic age where mathematics and computer science are coming together in powerful new ways to influence, shape and guide our behaviour and the governance of our societies. As these algorithmic ... -
Algorithms and the rule of law
Kennedy, Rónán (Cambridge University Press, 2017-10-05)In this short article Ronan Kennedy explores fundamental issues surrounding the use of algorithms in the context of the rule of law in our society. He states, The issues that are buried in these systems should be a matter ... -
Algorithms and the rule of law
Kennedy, Rónán (Society for Computers and Law, 2017-04)[No abstract available] -
Charging for public participation: fees for submissions or observations on Environmental Impact Assessment
Kennedy, Rónán (SAGE Publications, 2007)In case C-216/05, Commission v Ireland, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Irish legislation which required the payment of a fee by those making submissions regarding an environmental impact assessment (EIA) ... -
Climate change law and policy after Copenhagen
Kennedy, Rónán (Round Hall, 2010)This article deals with recent developments in climate change law and policy. It examines the likely future developments in international negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol; briefly summarises climate ... -
Climate Change Law and Policy in Ireland
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De-camouflaging chameleons: Requiring transparency for consumer protection in the Internet of Things
Kennedy, Rónán (Queen's University Belfast, School of Law, 2019)Information and communications technology (ICT) and the development of the so-called ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) provide new and valuable affordances to businesses and consumers. The use of sensors, software, and interconnectivity ... -
E-regulation and the rule of law: smart government, institutional information infrastructures, and fundamental values
Kennedy, Rónán (IOS Press, 2016-02-15)Information and communications technology (ICT) is increasingly used in bureaucratic and regulatory processes. With the development of the Internet of Things , some researchers speak enthusiastically of the birth of the ... -
An expanded definition of environmental information? Minch v Commissioner for Environmental Information [2016] IEHC 91
Kennedy, Rónán (SAGE Publications, 2016)A recent Irish High Court decision has overturned a decision of the Commissioner for Environmental Information not to grant access to a report on broadband networking infrastructure on the grounds that the document sought ... -
Extra-judicial Comment by Judges
Kennedy, Rónán (Judicial Studies Institute, 2005)This article looks at recent occasions where extrajudicial speech has been the subject of public comment in Ireland. It then examines case law from other jurisdictions, focusing on examples from common law countries and ... -
A Flood of Light: Comments on the Interpretation Act 2005
Kennedy, Rónán; Donlan, Seán (Judicial Studies Institute, 2006)The Interpretation Act 2005 consolidates previous legislation and contains some new provisions inspired by a Law Reform Commission report. These may bring about a subtle but significant change in the methods of statutory ... -
The Irish national climate change strategy: new laws, future policies?
Kennedy, Rónán (Round Hall, 2009)This paper is an overview of climate change law and policy in Ireland. It sketches the background to the international agreements covering climate change emissions. It also gives a brief summary of relevant European ... -
The judiciary in public debates: the sound of silence?
Kennedy, Rónán (Sweet & Maxwell/Round Hall, 2011)The judiciary's approach to communicating with the public it serves has to change. If it does not--if our voice remains silent in debates on public policy, and we become irrelevant to the process--we have only ourselves to blame. -
Law in Virtual Worlds
Kennedy, Rónán (Journal of Internet Law, 2009-04)This article considers the application of real-world law to virtual worlds, new shared spaces that are being created on the Internet. These computer-mediated environments are often fantastic places where magic works, people ... -
New ideas or false hopes? : International, European, and Irish climate change law and policy after the Paris Agreement
Kennedy, Rónán (Round Hall, 2016)This article is an overview and summary of recent developments in international, European and Irish climate change law and policy. It places the recently-concluded Paris Agreement in the context of the US-China Deal on ... -
No three strikes for Ireland (yet): EU Copyright Law and individual liability in recent internet filesharing litigation
Kennedy, Rónán (Wolters Kluwer, 2011)This article is a summary of recent Irish cases involving peer-to-peer file-sharing. These cases are another step in the ongoing development of this fast-changing area of the law, and raise some interesting questions about ... -
Possible Irish responses to climate change
Kennedy, Rónán (Kluwer Law International, 2008)Climate change is becoming a very important political, social and economic issue. Recent weeks have seen the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report, with predictions of ... -
Regulating intersectional activity: privacy and energy efficiency, laws and technology
Brown, Abbe; Kennedy, Rónán (Taylor & Francis, 2017-09-10)Using a case study, this article explores the extent to which one area of law (privacy and data protection) can intersect with, and be challenged by, proposals by delivery of another goal greater energy efficiency. The ...