Foreword to the Seventeenth Edition

• Author: Dr Maria Cahill
• Pages: 6-6

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FOREWORD TO THE SEVENTEENTH EDITION

On behalf of the Dean, Professor Ursula Kilkelly, and on behalf of the School of Law

at University College Cork, I warmly congratulate Shay Buckley and the members of

the Editorial Board who have prepared the 17th Edition of the Cork Online Law Review

and who have thereby increased yet again the contribution that COLR has made to

legal scholarship in and beyond the shores of our small jurisdiction.

The academic contribution that COLR makes is dependent, first and foremost, on the

intellectual ambition of the authors who submit their work to COLR. The collection of

articles that makes up this volume is particularly impressive and it is right that the

authors’ efforts, made during long, solitary hours of research and writing should be

celebrated through the publication of this impressive volume.

COLR’s academic contribution is also dependent on the professionalism and hard

work of the members of the Editorial Board. It is due to the consistently high standards

that are applied in the editorial process that COLR attracts such a rich blend of authors

– from students in the final years of an undergraduate degrees to scholars who are

already enjoying considerable professional success as legal academics.

Over the past 17 years, COLR has succeeded in accomplishing an almost impossible

task: the creation of a layered and vibrant forum for academic legal debate of which

the Law School is immeasurably proud.

Dr Maria Cahill

7th March 2018