Dr Liam Thornton before Oireachtas Committee
(opens in a new window)Dr Liam Thornton, assistant professor in law, UCD Sutherland School of Law provided evidence to the (opens in a new window)Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality on the system of direct provision recently. Liam’s evidence, based on (opens in a new window)his legal analysis, noted that the system of direct provision remains a significant violation of fundamental human rights for international protection applicants across a range of different legal rights norms: privacy, right to family life, right to work and a right to an adequate standard of living. You can access Liam’s opening statement to the Oireachtas Committee (opens in a new window)here, his full submission (opens in a new window)here, and watch back the proceedings (opens in a new window)here (from minute ’55).
In UCD, Liam teaches a range of law modules, and in Semester II of 2019/2020 will offer a new law module to stage three law students, LAW37600 Migration Law. Details on this course are available (opens in a new window)here.