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Maynooth's Research Centre for Legal History Launch
We have word of the launch of the newly established Research Centre for Legal History at the Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology at the National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square East, Dublin, on Wednesday, September 16, 10 AM - 4 PM.
10am Registration
10:10 Introductory remarks by the Chief Justice of Ireland, Donal O’Donnell
10:30-11:50
David Doyle, Maynooth University, ‘Revolting that police officers and Irishmen have to be employed in detecting such crimes': Sexual Offences against Young Boys, 1923-35’
Lynsey Black, Maynooth University, ‘Constructing Evil – The Trial of Mamie Cadden’
12:00-13:20
Sarah Hamill, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Rent Control in the 1970s and the origins of Blake v Attorney General’
Niamh Howlin, University College Dublin, ‘Legal History as a Tool for Righting Historic Wrongs?’
12:30-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45
Norma Dawson, Queen’s University Belfast, ‘Lord Talbot de Malahide (1805-1883) and the first treasure trove bill in the common law world’
Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki, ‘Writing national legal histories: why and how?’
15:45-16:00 Concluding remarks
![As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."
3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study).
Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:azpq3hfq3llpowyqpjkqwgxs/bafkreibpynfdssvr5aehvgzmcuerbo3romumydje4qsdhog7a3tnazrh2u)
