University of Limerick Law Society
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| University of Limerick Law Society | |
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| An Cumann Dlí Ollscoil Luimnigh | |
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| Motto: | Eagna Chun Gnímh (wisdom in action) |
| Established: | 2004 |
| President: | Adrian O'Higgins |
| Location: | Limerick, Ireland |
| Website: | www.skynet.ie/~ullaw |
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The University of Limerick Law Society is one of the newest societies in UL. It was founded in 2004 with the aims of establishing a law society which would help students to develop a stronger interest in the subject by bringing law out of the textbooks with the help of guest speakers, moot trials and other events including the Law Ball and the annual trip to the European Court of Justice. In the academic year 07/08 the society had an active membership of over 150 students. In 2007 the Director of Public Prosecutions addressed the Society.
At present UL has approximately 600 undergraduate students studying law through one of two courses; Law and European Studies (LL.B) or Law and Accounting (BA). From September 2008 the new course of Law Plus (LL.B) will be introduced replacing Law and European Studies[1].
[edit] Committee 08/09
President: Adrian O'Higgins.
Vice President: Susan Mangan.
Secretary: Aisling Sheehy.
Treasurer: Michael O'Connor.
PRO: Allison Cavanagh.
Ents Officers: Catriona Harte and Richard Smith.
[edit] History of the School of Law at UL
The initiative for a law School started with the appointment of a lecturer in law to the European Studies School in 1974. The appointee developed a law option as part of the revised BA degree in European Studies.
As the number of specialist faculty grew, a re-organisation of the European Studies Department in 1987 created two constituent Departments: European Integration and Administration (EIA) and Languages & Social Studies within the College of Humanities. Law was located within the EIA School.
The EIA Department was subsequently divided by relocating the Law and Insurance faculty in a department of Law and Insurance. In 1992, the insurance faculty were transferred to the College of Business, thereby creating a separate Department of Law under the headship of Professor Henry Ellis. He was succeeded as Head of Department by Raymond J Friel, during 1996.
During Ray Friel's tenure, the Department was restyled the School of Law and introduced a number of new academic programmes, including the LL.B (Evening) and the LL.B (Graduate Programme) and the LL.M in European and Comparative Law. International links became a strong focus for the Law School, establishing active faculty and student exchanges with the University of Victoria, Canada and the University of Kansas, USA. Research output increased dramatically and an Advisory Board of eminent jurists and externals was established. The core undergraduate programme was restyled an LL.B in Law and European Studies. After serving two full terms as Head of the School, Raymond Friel stepped down and was succeeded by Paul McCutcheon.
Paul McCutcheon served for five years as Head of the School from 2002 until 2007. During this period, student numbers, particularly post-graduates, increased dramatically and the Law School engaged in numerous funded projects, including those for the Judicial Studies Institute and the Revenue Commissioners. Both research centres, the Centre for Criminal Justice and the International Commercial and Economic Law Research Group continued to flourish with impressive research output. Moreover, the Law School's interaction with the wider community expanded through the introduction of Continuing Professional Education. In addition, the expansion of our international network of partner law schools continued with the addition of the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
In May 2007 Professor McCutcheon was appointed Vice President Academic and Registrar of the University. He was succeeded in June 2007 by Raymond J. Friel.[2]
