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Socially constructed hierarchies of impairment: the case of Australian and Irish Workers' access to compensation
(Springer Verlag, 2017-11-27)
Objectives: Socially constructed hierarchies of impairment complicate the general disadvantage experienced by workers with disabilities. Workers with a range of abilities categorized as a disability are likely to experience ...
Accessing justice in cases of occupational bullying in Ireland
(Community Law & Mediation, 2016-07-07)
Our understanding of the nature and effect of bullying behaviour has developed dramatically over the past forty or so years. Despite this however Ireland does not have a dedicated legal remedy for workplace
bullying. ...
Multiple publication and online defamation - recent reforms in Ireland and the UK
(Masarykova Univerzita Nakladatelstvi,Masaryk University Press, 2012)
The multiple-publication rule, allowing for a new cause of action each time a defamatory statement is published, has applied to non-internet publications for well over a century. Its application to online publications ...
Algorithmic governance: Developing a research agenda through the power of collective intelligence
(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 ...
New ideas or false hopes? : International, European, and Irish climate change law and policy after the Paris Agreement
(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 ...
Freedom to negotiate: a proposal extricating 'capacity' from 'consent'
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-03-15)
In this paper, we seek to radically reframe the legal construct of consent from a disability perspective. Drawing on feminist scholarship and human rights standards around free and informed consent', we apply a concept of ...
State intervention in the lives of people with disabilities: the case for a disability-neutral framework
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-15)
People with disabilities continue to experience a disproportionately high level of state intervention in their private lives. Many disabled people's organisations have long sought to challenge this discriminatory approach ...
The role of regional advisory councils in the European Common Fisheries Policy: Legal constraints and future options.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2010-04)
One of the outcomes of the reform of the European common fisheries policy (CFP) in 2002 was the establishment of Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) to enable the European Commission to benefit from the knowledge and experience ...
Is it time for a World Court of Human Rights?
(The Sunday Business Post, 2011)
Can housing rights be applied to modern housing systems?
(Emerald, 2010-05)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to outline and examine the growing corpus of housing rights and assess their relevance and applicability to complex contemporary housing systems across the world.
Design/methodo ...