Truth to be Told: Understanding Truth in the Age of Post-Truth Politics is a UCD Humanities Institute public lecture series which debates the socio-political, ethical, discursive and cultural implications of truth as a common good.
LECTURE 4: Tuesday, 24 April 2018 @ 5.30pm
Humanities Institute Seminar Room H.204
Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology and Senior Lecturer and Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Truth and Politics
Senator Ivana Bacik, LLB, LLM (Lond), BL, FTCD, is Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin, a Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and a barrister. She is a Labour Party Senator for Dublin University (elected 2007, and re-elected 2011 and again in 2016), and was Deputy Leader of Seanad Eireann 2011-16. Ivana has written and published extensively on criminal law, criminology, human rights, constitutional law and related matters, and has a long track record of campaigning on civil liberties, penal reform and feminist issues. She was Editor of the Irish Criminal Law Journal from 1997-2003 and co-authored a major report on gender discrimination in the legal professions in Ireland (Gender InJustice, 2003). Her other publications include Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the Twenty-First Century (O’Brien Press, 2004); and she is co-editor (with Mary Rogan) of Legal Cases that Changed Ireland (Clarus Press, 2016).
With best wishes
Anne
Professor Anne Fuchs, FBA, MRIA
Director
Humanities Institute
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland
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