• Irish financial regulatory enforcement: reforming the criminal law and administrative sanction interplay strategy 

  Elder, Shaun (University of Limerick, 2014)

  The empirical genesis for this novel inter-disciplinary dissertation was the devastating global financial crisis. A separate and simultaneous Irish crisis was located in the banking sector. The financial market domain, ...
• The devil in the detail: property division under British Columbia' s Family Law Act 2011 

  O'Sullivan, Kathryn (2016)

  Family law in British Columbia, Canada has witnessed significant change in the last 5-6 years. Family property law, in particular, has seen drastic reform. One of the most significant changes which has arisen in the ...
• Preparing technical communication students to function as user advocates in a self-service society 

  Cleary, Yvonne; Flammia, Madelyn (SAGE Publications, 2012)

  The self-service nature of today's society means that technical communicators are needed more than ever before since users may find themselves struggling to make sense of online documentation with minimal support from the ...
• Processes of transmission in Irish traditional music: approaching a virtual orality 

  Ward, Francis (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This thesis charts the changing transmission processes in Irish traditional music through the medium of the Internet, and documents the emergence of a virtual orality within this arena of transmission. It accomplishes ...
• Generating states: exploring the kinaesthetic and energetic relationship between the moving body-mind and environment, through the lens of a dancer, a choreographer and a performer 

  Vaughan, Mairéad (University of Limerick, 2016)

  My dance practice research examines and reflects on what I experience as a deep symbiotic relationship between the body-mind and environment, through the creation of two original choreographic works. This mixed-mode ...
• The neoliberalisation of cultural production: an ethnography of professional Irish traditional music 

  O'Brien Bernini, Leah Marie (University of Limerick, 2016)

  Through the theoretical lenses of agency, autonomy, resistance, and resilience, this ethnographic study reveals how professional musicians and cultural workers experience the neoliberalisation of cultural production in ...
• Constructing community: the symbols of social power in competitive clogging in the Intermountain West of the United States 

  Larsen, Gary J (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This study, one of the few academic analyses of the socio-cultural aspects of contemporary competitive clogging, briefly summarises the history of group clogging from its rural beginnings in the Southeastern Appalachian ...
• Reconciling Ireland’s bail laws with traditional Irish constitutional values 

  Doran, Kate (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Bail is a device which provides for the pre-trial release of a criminal defendant after security has been taken for the defendant’s future appearance at trial. Ireland has traditionally adopted a liberal approach to bail. ...
• Human rights and conflict in Northern Ireland 

  Grech, Omar (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This study seeks to answer two related research questions: (i) the extent to which, and ways in which, human rights influenced the Northern Ireland conflict in its various phases (pre-conflict, during conflict and ...
• Community of practice and professionalization perspectives on technical communication in Ireland 

  Cleary, Yvonne (IEEE Computer Society, 2016)

  Research problem: In Ireland, technical communication has developed as an academic and occupational field since the late 20th century. Research on the field in Ireland is limited. Research questions: (1) To what extent ...
• The principle of ne bis in idem in criminal proceedings 

  Coffey, Gerard (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Limited, 2008)

  With the continued expansion of the European Union and the free movement of persons, there is potential for increased cross-border crime and the associated difficulties with concurrent prosecutorial jurisdictions for the ...
• The victim of crime and the criminal justice process 

  Coffey, Gerard (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Ireland Ltd.,, 2006)

  The victim of crime1 is not an active participant per se in the criminal justice system. The victim is effectively a third party whose input to the criminal justice process is confined to that of being an informant2 and ...
• Post-acquittal retrial for serious criminal offences 

  Coffey, Gerard (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Ireland Ltd.,, 2009)

  The common law principle against double jeopardy is a proscription against retrials for the same criminal offence following a trial on the merits by a court of competent criminal jurisdiction.1 The Minister for Justice, ...
• The influence of double jeopardy on the sentencing process 

  Coffey, Gerard (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Ireland Ltd, 2006)

  Double jeopardy jurisprudence evolved in the common law in response to the inherent deficiencies in medieval criminal procedure and the draconian punishments imposed on defendants. This common law principle proscribes ...
• Electronic monitoring of offenders in the administration of criminal justice 

  Coffey, Gerard (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Ireland Ltd, 2006)

  The commission of criminal offences has conventionally been responded to by the criminal justice system with the imposition of punishment in the form of a term of imprisonment, which may be accompanied by a pecuniary ...
• Codifying the meaning of 'intention' in the criminal law 

  Coffey, Gerard (Sage Publications, 2009)

  What constitutes an intention to commit a criminal offence has proven to be a notoriously difficult concept to define.1 The issue as to whether the accused intended the consequences of the prohibited act or omission ...
• Low-flying drones and ownership of airspace in Ireland 

  O'Sullivan, Kathryn (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Ireland Ltd.,, 2016)

  The legal questions in relation to the ownership of the sky in which drones are operating must, as a priority, be addressed. Does a landowner, for example, have a right to exclude the use of drones over their property ...
• Ancillary relief and private ordering: the vulnerability of financially weaker spouses 

  O'Sullivan, Kathryn (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Ireland Ltd, 2016)

  This article briefly considers the difficulties inherent in the Irish ancillary relief scheme and highlights the vulnerability of financially weaker spouses, particularly women, at the point of divorce. The article calls ...
• Political attention in the Council of the European Union: a new dataset of working party meetings, 1995 2014 

  Häge, Frank M (SAGE Publications, 2016)

  Little firm knowledge exists about the allocation of the Council's political attention across policy areas and over time. This article presents a new dataset of the date, duration, and policy coding of ...
• 'Til death do us part' : surviving spouses, civil partners & provision on intestacy in Ireland 

  O'Sullivan, Kathryn (Taylor and Francis, 2016)

                             The Succession Act 1965 brought, it was said, a revolutionary change in the law of succession to Ireland (Re Urquhart [1974] IR 197 at 208). However, despite the enormous impact it has ...

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