ICEL/EPA event. L-R: Dr Tom Ryan (EPA); Dr Áine Ryall, ICEL and UCC; The Hon Ms Justice Mary Laffoy; The Hon Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Chief Justice of Ireland; Ms Laura Burke, Director General, EPA; Dr John Temple Lang, ICEL, TCD, and Oxford University. 
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ICEL/EPA event. Ms Laura Burke, Director General, EPA. Photo Chris Bellew /Fennell Photography Copyright 2019
ICEL/EPA event. Dr Áine Ryall, ICEL and UCC.
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ICEL/EPA event. The Hon Mr Justice Franke Clarke, Chief Justice of Ireland. 
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ICEL/EPA event. Dr John Temple Lang, ICEL, TCD, and Oxford University. 
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ICEL/EPA event. Margaret Gray SC, QC, Law Library, Bar Library (Northern Ireland), and Brick Court Chambers.
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ICEL/EPA event. Dr Tom Ryan (EPA); Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Chief Justice of Ireland; Laura Burke, Director General, EPA.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL) are delighted to announce a joint conference on the theme Environmental Law Enforcement: Emerging Challenges 2019.

The conference will take place on Monday, 25 November 2019 in the Dublin Dispute Resolution Centre, Distillery Building, 145-151 Church Street from 9.30am to 5pm.

Convened by Dr Tom Ryan (EPA) and Dr Áine Ryall (ICEL), the conference will consider a number of themes including: Protecting the Natural Environment; the Role of Law in Climate Action; Emerging Issues in Environmental Law Research; and Waste Law Enforcement.

The contributors include:

The Hon Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Chief Justice; Laura Burke, Director General EPA; Dr John Temple Lang; Margaret Gray SC, QC; Prof Mark Poustie, UCC; the Hon Ms Justice Mary Laffoy; Gillian Lobo, ClientEarth; Dr Andrew Jackson, UCD; Mark Griffin, Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment; Alison Fanagan, A&L Goodbody; Tom Flynn BL; and PhD candidates Laurie O’Keefe (UCC), Sarah Enright (UCC), and Edwin Alblas.

The conference programme is available here: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5de36c72586a3bafc2af1b24b/files/5a950de0-2f53-4b1c-b491-803965905123/18.11.2019_Environmental_Law_Programme.pdf

 

Tickets for the event may be purchased here: https://ti.to/ICEL/environmental-law-enforcement-emerging-challenges

There are 5.5 CPD Points (Barristers) 3.5 General & 2 Management CPD Points (Solicitors) available for this event

Please find below a link to the book of abstracts for the conference, which summarises the contributions made by speakers: https://www.epa.ie/pubs/conferencesandevents/abstractsfromenvironmentallawenforcement2019.html