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On the 22nd of May the Centre hosted a webinar on our LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy programme. Professor Eilionóir Flynn, Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy and Established Chair in the School of Law was joined by Thokozani Soko to discuss entry requirements, modules, the student experience and much more. This unique LLM is an innovative and internationally focused programme dealing with the process of law reform in the field of disability. Each year two students from this LLM are selected to participate in a prestigious internship with the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The webinar is now available to watch back for anyone who missed the live session: click here You can find out more about the LLM at this link: Click here

The Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP) at University of Galway is pleased to announce the return of our International Disability Law Summer School from Monday 17th to Friday 21st of June, 2024. This year’s event will again follow a hybrid approach, enabling speakers and delegates to participate in-person or online. Our theme this year is ‘Gender and Disability Justice.’ To register for the event: click here

The Centre is delighted to announce a new research project on Representative Advocacy for Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Ireland which has been commissioned by Inclusion Ireland.    

The final report and the full range of knowledge products from the research project 'Closing the Justice Gap for Women with Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities' is now available on the UN Women website. In 2022, UN Women launched the Closing the Justice Gap project, which included legal needs surveys in Nepal, Fiji, the Philippines, and Indonesia, of women with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. We worked on this project with colleagues in Irish Centre for Human Rights and also worked closely with individuals with disabilities and their representative organisations across each of the countries represented. You can find out more about the project, its findings and access the materials at the following link: click here