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Hello all

This is a little off-list, and is a shameless plug, but anyway:

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Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, I write to give you notice of our annual conference, and to ask you to consider presenting a paper at the conference.

The conference will be on the theme "The Leading Cases of the Twentieth Century", and will be held in the Killarney Park Hotel, Killarney, Co. Kerry on the weekend of 9-11 April 1999. Killarney has an airport with regular connections from Dublin and London (Stansted), so getting there should not be too much of a problem. Further information and booking forms will be available soon, and if you would like to attend, please let me know.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please let me know. We take a broad view of what constitutes a leading case, but we think that, in essence, a case will be leading if it is constitutive or emblematic of an area of the law or legal system; it need not be right, but it must represent a crucial legal development which has exercised a profound influence on the law since it was decided. We hope that the selection of cases discussed at the conference will cover many jurisdictions and legal traditions (the Common Law; the Civil Law; European law; International law) and many areas of the law, and will be relatively evenly distributed throughout the century. We hope that the papers will take a fresh look at the facts and holdings of the relevant cases, and at the consequences the cases and attendant doctrines have had. The IALT has been in contact with a leading publishing house with a view to publishing the conference papers.

Yours sincerely,

Eoin O'Dell
President, Irish Association of Law Teachers.

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List-members might forgive the plug on the grounds that there will (probably) be a paper on Sinclair v Brougham, which is a leading case in the sense described above, though the story will be of how it is a misleading case and hence of its decline. Furthermore, list-members should know that we particularly welcome leading cases from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US. So, if you want more details, want to come along, or want to present a paper, please let me know.

Best regards,

Eoin.

EOIN O'DELL
Barrister, Lecturer in Law
President, Irish Association of Law Teachers

Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland

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