Foreword

• Author: Mary Mcaleese
• Position: President of Ireland
• Pages: 5-5

FOREWORD

Over

the past

four

years,

the

Trinity

College

Law

Review

has

become

essential

reading

material, not

just

for

students

of

the

Law, but

also

for

many

in

the

wider

legal

community.

Great

credit

is

due

to

the

student

editorial

team

for

putting

together such

a

wide-ranging

and

topical

collection

of

articles for

this

year's

volume.

In

recent

years,

young

people

have faced

increasing

pressure

to compete

and

succeed

academically,

and

students

of

the

law

are no

exception.

First,

they

must

achieve

an

ever

higher

tally

of

points

to

study

their

chosen

discipline,

and

then

enter

the

treadmill

of

passing

examinations,

achieving

qualifications

and

ultimately finding

work.

It

is

a

system

that

has been

tried

and

tested

over

the

years,

but

there

is

a

danger that

it

can

lead to

an

overly

narrow

focus

of

study

and

intellectual

exploration.

The

world

around

is

changing.

New

fields

are

constantly

opening

up

in

business,

competition,

public

affairs,

electronic commerce,

human

rights

and

ethics.

The

law

as

a

profession

must

take

account

of

such

developments,

and

that

is

why

this

publication

is

of

such

value.

With

articles

ranging

from

American

Constitutional Jurisprudence to

the

enforcement

of

European

Competition

Law and

the interaction

of

human

rights

law

with traditional

Hindu Law

in

modem

India,

this

Review

addresses

a

broad spectrum

of

highly

relevant

issues

for

the

legal

profession today

and

in

the future.

I

warmly

welcome

this

publication

and

congratulate the editorial

team

and

contributors

on

their

achievement.

Mary McAleese

President

of

Ireland