Foreword to the Twelfth Edition

• Author: Ursula Kilkelly
• Position: Professor
• Pages: 6-7

[2013] COLR

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FOREWORD TO THE TWELFTH EDITION

It gives me great pleasure to introduce the 12th Edition of the Cork Online Law

Review, UCC’s student-run law journal. The journal is an excellent and enduring

initiative by the UCC Law Society, of which the Faculty of Law is very proud. It

represents the student contribution to the Faculty’s excellent research profile and it

reflects our shared commitment to engaging with the many complex and

contemporary issues affecting law and society. The range of subjects addressed in

this year’s journal is consistent with the variety of areas in which the Faculty of Law

has expertise. From tax law to penal reform, from assisted suicide to artist’s royalties

this edition of the journal is a particularly rich source of legal information and

analysis and it addresses pertinent issues of concern to the lawyers of today and

tomorrow, in Ireland and around the world. It will, I believe, make an important

contribution to legal scholarship and to our understanding and awareness of the

issues that it considers.

The authorship of this wide range of articles is also varied – it includes

undergraduate law students, those pursuing doctoral studies and those embarking

on or involved in careers in legal practice. Again, this diversity is important to show

that as scholars of the law we are all connected, regardless of our geographical

location, our institutional affiliation or our academic or professional perspectives.

As is always the case, the preparation of the journal is a collaborative effort. Steered

with great skill by the Editor-in-Chief John Casey, the editorial board has worked

exceptionally hard to select and edit the chosen pieces for publication. My colleague

Dr Fiona Donson played a particularly valuable role in supporting the work of the