Perhaps the most challenging aspect of the prosecution’s task in a rape trial is proving that consent was absent. Despite the centrality of consent, the concept is not legislatively defined in Irish law. In this respect ...

In April 2007, Ireland’s first Regional Writing Centre at the University of Limerick was launched. This chapter outlines the various international, European, national, regional, and institutional winds to which the ...

This article presents quantitative and qualitative accounts of relational discourses in a random sample of approximately 4100 texts written by Irish young people (aged 10-12 and 14-17 years). The existence of such discourses ...

The European Union's policy in relation to China was outlined in the Commission document A Long Term Policy for Europe China Relations published in 1995. These goals related to • engaging China further on the world ...

The appropriateness or otherwise of the law governing entry into marriage in England and Wales has come under ever increasing scrutiny in recent times. Much of this focus arises, in particular, from concerns over the ...

Since 1979 there has been a marked increase in literary production from Mauritius, primarily in French, and Mauritian authors have been gaining in popularity amongst a French-speaking readership. Yet, within the context ...

This thesis studies the consideration requirement for verbally-made contract variations in Irish construction contracts, and proposes how this specific circumstance can be best served by the law of contract. Construction ...

After Francisco Franco‘s dictatorship (1939-75) a new chapter in the history of Spain opened. The end of the regimen and the subsequent process of democratisation implied obvious changes in the political and social arena, ...

The significance of corpora, and corpus-based research, for second language teaching and learning has, to an extent at least, become axiomatic; however, progress continues and is required in relation to how insights ...

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