Irish Research Council awards funding to Dr Laura Cahillane

Congratulations to Dr Laura Cahillane, Associate Professor in the School of Law, who has been awarded a New Foundations Grant by the Irish Research Council for a project on Judicial Selection procedures.

The Trust for Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties are the charity partners for this project. It seeks to examine international best practice on judicial appointment structures, in order to provide recommendations on the processes which will need to be put in place with the passage of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill.

Dr Cahillane previously gave her opinion on this Bill in an article for the Irish Times and has been consulted by RTÉ and Oireachtas TV on her opinions of the Supreme Court approval process. She is one of 56 researchers from all disciplines across the country to have been awarded funding under the scheme. More information on other projects being funded is available on the IRC website.