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LawPod
by Queen's University - School of Law
LawPod is a weekly podcast based in the Law School at Queen’s University Belfast. We provide a platform to explore law and legal research in an engaging and scholarly way.
Episodes
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Breaking into Northern Ireland's Legal Market: How to Win a Training Contract
What does Northern Ireland's legal market really look like, and what does it take to land a training contract? Host Sophia Kang is joined by Deirdre Timoney, Placement and Employability Officer at the School of Law, and Marie McKeown, Head of HR at Carson McDowell. Deirdre describes a market that...
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Number 51
In this deeply moving testimonial, author Marie Therese Rogers, whose memoir The Sins of the Mother chronicles her life story, reflects on a childhood shaped by adoption, institutional care, secrecy, and a lifelong search for answers. Born in the early 1950s to an unmarried mother in County...
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Humanitarian Forensics and the Disappeared: Oran Finegan on Dignity, Trust, and Accountability
LawPod host Dr Lauren Dempster speaks with Oran Finegan, director of Forensic Action International, about his 25+ years as a forensic specialist in humanitarian and human rights work across 50+ global contexts with agencies including the United Nations (UN), The International Committee of the Red...
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From Copyright Infringement to Superintelligence: The Legal and Philosophical Future of AI
What happens when the law meets a general-purpose cultural machine? In this episode, hosts Matteo Iuorio and Sofia Debernardi sit down with intellectual property expert Professor Giancarlo Frosio to unpack the massive legal battleground surrounding generative AI. We start with the immediate legal...
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Punishment, Politics, and Legal Plunder: Joshua Page on the Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice
In this episode of LawPod, Dr Alessandro Corda is joined by Professor Joshua Page (University of Minnesota) for an in‑depth conversation tracing his intellectual journey through the sociology of punishment and the politics of criminal justice in the United States. The discussion is structured...
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The Duty to Assist: Law, Risk and Responsibility
What does the law expect us to do when another person is in immediate danger? And what happens when someone steps in to help — but is injured in the process? In this episode of LawPod, Dr Rosie Cowan and student host Eva Richards speak with Eoin Campbell, a Queen’s graduate and lecturer in legal...
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Digital Investigations Lab (Part 2)
Learning, Trauma, and Truth: A Student Perspective on Digital Investigations What does it mean to learn law by documenting real harm in real time? In Part 2 of this two‑episode LawPod series, host Eva Richards is joined by Kenzie Brodie and Briana Mallon, postgraduate students at Queen's…
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Digital Investigations Lab (Part 1)
Open Source Investigations, AI, and Accountability in Conflict What happens when war crimes are filmed in real time — but truth itself becomes contested? In this episode of LawPod, host Eva Richards is joined by Professor Luke Moffett and PhD researcher Lydia Millar, manager of QUB Law’s Digital...
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Adoptee Rights and Access to Records in Northern Ireland (Part II)
Dr Alice Diver hosts a follow‑up LawPod conversation with Sharon, Maeve, and Brigid from Adopt NI, continuing the discussion on adoptee rights, truth recovery, and Northern Ireland’s forthcoming redress legislation. Building on Episode 1, the guests analyse how the draft bill fails to reflect the...
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Inside QUB Law’s Student Skills Assistants Programme
Dr Nora Burns speaks with PhD students and long-serving Student Skills Assistants (SSAs) Seanin Little and Aislinn Fanning about the Student Skills Assistants Programme at Queen's University Belfast Law School, launched in November 2021 as a COVID-19 response to support undergraduates' transition...
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Don’t Look Down: Dr Evelyn Collins CBE on Equality, Leadership and Careers in Law
In this International Women's Day special, LLM student Sofia Debernardi speaks with Dr Evelyn Collins CBE, former Chief Executive of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and Honorary Professor at Queen's University Belfast. Across a remarkable career spanning more than 30 years, Dr…
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Womens Aid – Frontline Support to Legislative Change with Sonya McMullen
In this powerful and wide-ranging conversation, LawPod host Justine Van Essen speaks with Sonya McMullan, who has worked with Women’s Aid for almost 30 years, combining frontline expertise with sustained policy advocacy to influence major legislative change in Northern Ireland. The episode…
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Adoptee Rights and Access to Records in Northern Ireland
Dr Alice Diver hosts LawPod with fellow adult adoptees Anita, Richard/Michael, and Michelle to discuss adoptee rights amid Northern Ireland law reform and truth recovery processes. They describe meeting through an Adopt NI peer support group and how reports on institutional abuse prompted them to...
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AI, Accountability, and Civilian Harm
In this episode, Mae Thompson speaks with Prof Luke Moffett, Dr Jessica Dorsey, and Chris Rogers about how artificial intelligence is already reshaping military decision making and what that means for civilian harm, accountability, and redress. The guests distinguish AI‑enabled decision support...
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From Obligation to Opportunity: Rethinking the UK’s Approach to Civilian Harm
In this episode, Mae Thompson speaks with Dr Kaleigh Heard, Dr Haim Abraham, and Dr Conall Mallory about how the UK could strengthen its approach to civilian harm mitigation and redress at a moment of global uncertainty. Reflecting on the rollback of civilian protection measures in the US and...
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Corporate Governance and Board Diversity: Navigating Inclusion and Equality with Karen McShane
Host Dr Ciara Hackett, SWAN Champion at the School of Law, discusses corporate governance and board diversity with a focus on gender and sexuality. Special guests include Karen McShane, an experienced civil engineer and transport planner, and Dr Ciaràn O'Kelly, a scholar on accountability and...
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Civilian Harm: Tracking, Investigating, and Acknowledging the Impact of Military Operations
In this episode, hosted by Mae Thompson from Ceasefire, panellists Dr Elizabeth Stubbins Bates, Mark Lattimer, Executive Director, Ceasefire and Dr Conall Mallory, Director, QUB Human Rights Centre, discuss the UK's approach to addressing civilian harm caused by military operations. They explore...
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Episode 9 - Gina Cabarcas Macia On Records And Transitional Justice In Colombia
In this episode of Part 3, Julia Viebach speaks with Gina Cabarcas Maciá, co-founder and director of the Political and Criminal Justice Lab in Bogota, about the vital role of records in Colombia's transitional justice process. With over 50 years of armed conflict and multiple transitional justice...
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Episode 8: Amr Khito, Alan Woo, Prisons Museum
This episode introduces the accountability project ISIS Prisons Museum. In her conversation, Dagmar Hovestädt explores the origins and methodology of this long-term investigation with its co-director Amr Khito and web developer Alan Woo. The team behind the ISIS Prisons Museum, for short IPM,...
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Seeds, Science, and Law: How Intellectual Property Shapes Our Food Future
What happens when the law meets the natural world? In this episode of LawPod, Dr Jocelyn Bosse joins Dr Ciarán O'Kelly to explore the fascinating intersection of intellectual property rights, biodiversity, and food security. Fresh from being awarded the prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship,...
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Episode 7 - Nataliia Gladkova On The Ukrainian Archive
In this opening episode of Part 3, Ulrike Lühe talks to Nataliia Gladkova about preserving digital evidence of human rights violations in Ukraine. Nataliia is the Ukrainian Archive Program Manager at Mnemonic, where she oversees the collection and verification of over 7.6 million open-source...
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Student Wellbeing and Belonging in Legal Education: Insights from Professor Lydia Bleasdale
In this episode of LawPod, Professor Lydia Bleasdale from the University of Leeds joins Dr Norah Burns to share her journey and insights in the field of legal education. Professor Bleasdale talks about her unexpected path to studying law, the impact of inspiring mentors, and her work as the...
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Episode 6 – Ahmed Abofoul On The Difficulties Of Preserving Evidence Under Occupation
This episode invites you to a conversation Ulrike Lühe has with Ahmed Abofoul, international human rights lawyer at the Palestinian NGO Al-Haq. Speaking from his deep experience documenting grave violations against Palestinians under Israeli occupation, Ahmed reveals the challenges and stakes of...
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Transforming Legal Education: A Conversation with Professor Warren Barr
In this episode of Law Pod, host Kenneth Elo interviews Professor Warren Barr, the new head of the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast. Professor Barr shares insights into his career journey, which spans nearly three decades and includes leadership roles at major UK law schools such as...
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Episode 5: Marija Ristic On The Power Of Digital Evidence
The next episode in the series “Can the record be trusted?” explores the prospects and challenges of human rights documentation and archives in the digital age, with speakers from an international expert workshop that took place at Queens University Belfast in November 2024. In this episode…
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Beyond Consent: Rape Law Reform in Academia and the Courtroom
In this episode of LawPod, Dr Eithne Dowds, a senior lecturer in law at Queen’s University Belfast, is joined by Professor Julia Quilter from the University of Wollongong, Australia. They discuss Professor Quilter's research on rape law reform and intoxication evidence in rape trials and compare...
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Episode 4 Raji Abdul Salam On Turning Records Into Evidence
In this episode, Dr Ulrike Lühe speaks with Raji Abdul Salam, Chief Legal Data Archive Analyst at the Reckoning Project. In this conversation, Raji reveals how analysing thousands of testimonies uncovered the systematic genocide against Yazidi people—patterns invisible in individual cases. The...
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Episode 3: Robert Petit – Managing Evidence For Future Accountability In Syria
The 3-part series “Can the record be trusted?” explores the prospects and challenges of human rights documentation and archives in the digital age, with speakers from an international expert workshop that took place at Queens University Belfast in November 2024. In this episode, Dagmar Hovestädt...
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Episode 2: Trudy Huskamp Peterson – The Challenge Of Preserving Transitional Archives
The 3-part series “Can the record be trusted?” explores the prospects and challenges of human rights documentation and archives in the digital age, with speakers from an international expert workshop that took place at Queen's University Belfast in November 2024. In this episode, Dagmar Hovestädt...
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Episode 1: Babacar Ndaye – Building Digital Archives at the UN
The 3-part series “Can the record be trusted?” explores the prospects and challenges of human rights documentation and archives in the digital age, with speakers from an international expert workshop that took place at Queens University Belfast in November 2024. In this opening episode, Dr Julia...
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The Dutch Approach to Civilian Harm Accountability
In the third episode of the mini-series on Civilian Harm in Conflict, host Mae Thompson is joined by Erin Bijl (PAX, Dutch NGO) and Major Steven van de Put (Royal Netherlands Air Force, former student) to explore the Dutch approach to accountability for civilian harm. This episode delves into the...
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River Faughan: The Struggle for Legal Personhood
In this special episode Katie O’Doherty delves into the illegal waste dumping scandal at the Mobuoy dump near the River Faughan in Northern Ireland, a scandal described by Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir as a "sophisticated and deliberate environmental crime of unprecedented scale”. It explores...
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Civilian Harm in Yemen
In the second episode of the mini-series on Civilian Harm in Conflict, host Mae Thompson from Ceasefire, the Center for Civilian Rights, explores the issues of civillian harm and reparations for victims of military actions in Yemen. The discussion features insights from Bonyan Gamal, a lawyer…
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Innovation in the High Street with Philip Armstrong
In this special episode of QUB LawPod, host Taylor Montgomery interviews Philip Armstrong, a solicitor, founder of Armstrong Solicitors and Chair of the Law Society of Northern Ireland's Conveyancing and Property Committee. Philip shares his journey from a non-legal family background to founding…
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Interview with Professor Máximo Sozzo: Decolonising Criminology and Penal Policy in Argentina
In this episode of LawPod, hosts Alessandro Corda and Teresa Degenhardt interview Professor Máximo Sozzo, a distinguished academic in criminology from The National University of the Littoral in Argentina. Professor Sozzo discusses his educational background, influences, and extensive work in the...
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Uncovering the Past with Shari Eppel
In this episode, clinical psychologist and forensic anthropologist Dr Shari Eppel discusses her work finding, exhuming and identifying the remains of the disappeared of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Dr Beatrice Canossi and Dr Lauren Dempster speak to Shari about how she became involved in efforts to...
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Navigating Sport and The Law with Professor Jack Anderson
LawPod host Maddy Kowalenko discusses the intricate relationship between sport and the law with Professor Jack Anderson. A distinguished scholar in sports law, Professor Anderson explores topics such as safeguarding athletes, financial sustainability in professional sports, the rise of esports,...
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Addressing Civilian Harm: Accountability and Redress
This podcast is the first in a series of episode on Civilian Harm in Conflict - hosted by Mae Thompson, advocacy officer at Ceasefire. The podcast is an output of the AHRC funded 'Reparations during Armed Conflict' project with Queen's University Belfast, University College London and Ceasefire,...
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Navigating Law School: Insights from Student Ambassadors
In this episode of LawPod, your host Kenneth Elo sits down with three dynamic second-year law students at Queen’s University Belfast to explore the world of student ambassador programs—what they are, how to land one, and why they’re such a powerful addition to any law student’s journey. Anjana...
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Human Rights in Conflict: A Conversation with Brian Dooley
This episode of LawPod, hosted by law student Alexandra Morar, marks the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Alexandra speaks with Brian Dooley, Senior Advisor at Human Rights First and Honorary Professor at Queen’s, who recently returned from Ukraine. Brian shares his…
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Women in Law: A Celebration of Support and Empowerment
In this special International Women's Day episode of LawPod, host Katie O'Doherty interviews Olivia Ferran and Jenna Mullan, co-chairs of Queen's University's Women in Law Society. They discuss their society's mission to support female law students through informative events, mentoring programs,...
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Empowering Safety: The Rise of Walkie Talkie Girlies at Queen’s
In this special International Women's Day episode of LawPod, host Ellie Blair sits down with Aisling Cannon and Shauna McKey, members of the Walkie Talkie Girlies society. Founded in November 2023 at Queen's University, the society aims to improve women's safety by organising group walks,...
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Critical and Emerging Directions in International Justice – Astrid Reisinger-Coracini
In this episode, Dr. Yassin Brunger converses with Dr. Astrid Reisinger-Coracini (University of Vienna) about the challenges and implications surrounding the crime of aggression in international law. Dr. Coracini, a member of the Austrian delegation at the International Criminal Court Assembly of...
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Critical and Emerging Directions in International Justice - Priya Pillai
In this special episode of LawPod, Dr. Yassin Brunger (Queen’s University Belfast) interviews Dr. Priya Pillai, Executive Director of the Asia Justice Coalition, on the challenges and prospects of international criminal justice in Asia. They discuss the anniversary of Myanmar's military offensive...
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Insight into the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC): Interview with John Curtis and Johanna Higgins
In this episode of LawPod, hosts Kane Miller and Ella Murphy, both law students, interview Northern Ireland Commissioner Johanna Higgins and John Curtis, in-house counsel at the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). They discuss their backgrounds and roles at the CCRC, explaining how the...
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The Global Impact and Complexities of Intercountry Adoption
In this episode of LawPod, Dr Alice Diver from the School of Law converses with Kyung-eun Lee, director of Human Rights Beyond Borders, about the multifaceted issues surrounding intercountry adoption. They discuss the truth recovery process in Northern Ireland, the historical and ongoing human...
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Dr. Clara Rigoni – Honour-Based Violence and Forced Marriages
In this episode, Dr. Alessandro Corda and Dr. Elizabeth Agnew sit down with Dr. Clara Rigoni, Maître Assistante at the Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), to discuss her book Honour-Based Violence and Forced Marriages: Community...
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Don’t Forget Us Here: An Interview with Mansoor Adayfi
In this episode, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Professor of Law at Queen's University, Belfast, and former UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights, interviews Mansoor Adayfi, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay. They discuss Mansoor's experiences at Guantanamo, his work as an author and...
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Amitav Ghosh’s 2024 Seamus Deane Lecture: The Nutmeg’s Curse and Our Ecological Crisis
In the 2024 Seamus Deane lecture, acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh, hosted by Field Day, the Derry Playhouse, and the School of Law, explores themes from his book 'The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.' Ghosh places colonialism, the ecological, and cultural legacies of the West at…
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From Taylor Swift to Oasis: Battling Bots and Ticket Touts with Katherine Pittalis
In this episode, host and PhD candidate, Niharika Salar discusses the challenges of buying concert tickets at face value in the digital age. Joined by PhD researcher Katherine Pittalis from Queen's Law School, the conversation explores ticketing bots, dynamic pricing, and the broader impacts on...
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