The Horgan Case 9th November 2005

Paul Callan SC addressed the Society on the case of Horgan v. An Taoiseach. Mr. Callan was a Senior Counsel in the case, which concerned the use of Shannon Airport by military aircraft travelling to the war zone in Iraq and the implications of this use for Irish constitutional law and military neutrality. The event was preceded by the Society's AGM.


Seán Lester 2005: Lawless World 27th June 2005

Philippe Sands QC, Professor of Law at University College London, delivered ISIL's inaugural Seán Lester Lecture on the topic of 'Lawless World: International Law after 9/11 and Iraq'. Prof. Sands discussed political issues surrounding the process the led to the war in Iraq. The event was chaired by Patrick Gageby SC.


Conference: Refugee Law in the Age of Globalisation 26th April 2005

ISIL held a one-day conference on refugee law in Trinity College Dublin. Amongst the contributors were Fergus Ryan of Dublin Institute of Technology, who spoke on the difficulty of establishing refugee status in Irish law, Guglielmo Verdirame of Cambridge University, who spoke about the problems of the UNHCR in Africa, and Guy Goodwin-Gill, of the University of Oxford, who spoke on the challenges of maintaining refugee protection in the modern world.