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Legal Tech Ireland 2025 Schedule

Legal Tech Ireland 2025

Impacts, Policies and Pathways

Monday 7 April 2025, BizHub, Cairnes Building, University of Galway & online

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Provisional Schedule

08.30 Registration

09.30 Welcome (Dr. Alison Sheridan, Head of Department of Business & Management, Technological University of the Shannon Midlands & Prof. Alma McCarthy, Executive Dean of the College of Business, Public Policy and Law, University of Galway)

09.40 Keynote address: ‘AI and Legal Practice: The End, or a Beginning?’ (Ms Justice Nuala Jackson, High Court of Ireland)

10.00 Panel Discussion: “Legal Tech in Ireland in 2025: What is the State of Play?” (Gerard Groarke BL; Daniel Lucey, McCann FitzGerald; Caroline Malone, Briefed; Alison Hough, TUS Midlands Department of Business & Management; moderated by Dr. Abigail Rekas, University of Galway School of Law)

10.45 Hackathon launch (Dr Raja Singaram, School of Business and Economics, University of Galway)

11.00 Break

11.15 LLM in Law and Digital Innovation launch (Prof. Martin Hogg, University of Galway School of Law)

11.25 Panel Discussion: “Teaching with Technology” (Andy Unger and Lucia Otoyo, Law Division and Computer Science and Informatics Division, London South Bank University)

12.10 “Judging with Technology” and the new Centre for Legal Technology at UU (John Keers BL & Dr. John McCord, Ulster University School of Law)

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Academic Panels

Legal Technology (Deloitte Room) (Chair: Dr. Rónán Kennedy, University of Galway)	Technology and the Law (Collaboration Room) (Chair: Dr. Abigail Rekas, University of Galway)
Adrian Aronsson-Storrier, Lewis Silkin Ireland LLP: ‘Developments in Legal Practice – adopting generative AI Legal Tech’	Tara Kerins Aylmer, Trinity College Dublin: ‘Regulatory Rationales in the Face of Emerging Technologies – A Systemic Review’
Cécile Harrault, Queen’s University Belfast: ‘The Automation of Free Speech Governance – Can AI Be a Fair Legal Arbiter?’	Dr. Emer Shannon, Atlantic Technological University Donegal: ‘Victims of Image-Based Sexual Abuse in Ireland: Do they have a suitable legal or technological response today?’ (online)
Lunfeng He, University of Galway: ‘Constitutional Analysis of Automated Environmental Enforcement’	Dr. Adam Buick, Centre for Legal Technology, Ulster University: ‘Copyright and the AI Act: Assessing the impact of the draft Code of Practice and template for summary of training data’
Jennifer Waters, University College Dublin: ‘Using Legal Analytics in Ireland: Performance, Philosophy, and Accountability in Legal Technologies’	Brendan Guildea BL, University of Sunderland: ‘DORA, Commercial Data & Cyber Security: Causes, Consequences & Liability arising from the July 2024 CrowdStrike Outage’
RaisuL Islam Sourav, University of Galway: ‘Judging by Robo-Judges and the Risk to Justice: Independence at Stake’	Obele Tom-George Akinniranye, TUS Athlone: ‘The EU AI Act as a Blueprint for Responsible AI Regulation’

15.00 Hackathon presentations (Judges: Dr. Neil Ferguson, IdeasLab and Dr. Pearce Clancy, Irish Centre for Human Rights)

15.45 Break

16.00 Roundtable Discussion: “What next for the Irish legal tech community?” (Facilitator: Alison Hough, TUS Midlands Department of Business & Management)

16.30 Hackathon results

16.45 Concluding remarks (Goldah Nekesa Matete, BABL AI)

17.00 Close

General Information:

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