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Competition for films on human rights
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is asking Irish filmmakers, including directors, producers and scriptwriters, to submit a short film on a human rights issue for its inaugural Human Rights Film School Competition.
The competition is open to both amateur and professional film-writers, and the closing date for entries is April 17th next. A jury including filmmakers Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan and Rebecca Millar will choose the winning film at the screening in the summer of 2009.
The winner will receive a place in the 2009 Summer School on Cinema and Human Rights in Venice, a three-week crash course on filmmaking for social change, which runs alongside the Venice Biennale and Film Festival from August 27th to September 16th. The school is led by documentary maker Nick Danziger.
New book on children’s rights
Child law expert Ursula Kilkelly, senior lecturer in law in UCC, has just published Children’s Rights in Ireland: Law, Policy and Practice.
The book is written from an international perspective, with an awareness of developments in other jurisdictions.
Lessons to be learned from international law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, are considered.
The 570-page volume is published in hardback by Tottel, and costs €150.
Martin to launch lecturer’s work
Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin will tonight launch Protecting Civilians: The Obligations of Peacekeepers by UCC law lecturer Dr Siobhán Wills at 7pm in the college staff common room.
The book is published by Oxford University Press.
Repeat honour for Irish law firm
McCann FitzGerald was last week awarded Irish Law Firm of the Year by the International Financial Law Review at a ceremony in London.
The award is presented annually and McCann FitzGerald has won it three times in the last six years.