Briefs

A round-up of today's other stories in brief

A round-up of today's other stories in brief

Extradition law

The Irish Centre for European Law will hold a conference on EU-US extradition and the European Arrest Warrant on Tuesday June 19th in Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club, Dublin 2.

Speakers include DPP Claire Loftus and Catherine Heard, head of policy at Fair Trials International. See icel.ie.

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Disability summer school

The Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway is holding its third summer school from June 18th to 23rd on how to use the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

It will be directed by Prof Gerard Quinn of the CDLP and Prof Michael Stein of the Harvard Project on Disability.

Information: nuigalway.ie/cdlp/ summer_school/2012/welcome.html

Debt settlement

The Irish Women Lawyers Association will host a seminar on debt settlement with emphasis on the Personal Insolvency Bill, in the Millstream Common Room, University of Limerick on June 14th at 6 pm.

The speaker will be Yvonne Bogdanovic MABS NEC, who is based in Limerick.

Registration on events@iwla.ie or at 087-948 0388

Offshore regulation

The School of Law at NUI Galway is co-organising with five specialist institutes in the US, Canada and Asia an international conference on regulation of offshore industries in the light of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The conference will take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from June 20th to 22nd. Registration at continentalshelfconference.ca/.