Take a look at the programme for UCC’s upcoming conference on “Rebalancing Criminal Justice in Ireland: a question of Rights”. I hope to make the trip south on June 29th for an interesting series of papers (provisional list below, with thanks to Darius). See you there?

• Joint opening, by the President of UCC, Michael Murphy and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (invited)
• Una Ni Raifteraigh ‘The ECHR: the perspective from the bar’
• James McGuill ‘The impact of recent ECHR changes on the Constitution’
• Michael Farrell ‘The Challenge of the ECHR’
• Donncha O’Connell , ‘Searching for impact after the ECHR Act 2003’
• Dr Gerard Hogan SC, ‘The Role of the Rebalancing Committee’
• Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman ‘The ECHR and implications for criminal procedure’ (invited)
• Professor Caroline Fennell, ‘Contextual change and the ECHR’

Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed yesterday that the sequel he is writing to Phantom of the Opera has had a major setback. His six-month-old kitten, Otto, jumped on to his digital Clavinova piano and deleted everything the composer had written so far.

Revenge for Cats, presumably.

The Institute for the Future of the Book notes the release of a fun tool for visualising Amazon connections. As they point out, it’s not based on citations or influences (now that would be fun!) - just on the site’s recommendations (those who bought also bought, etc). Still fun, though. Here’s a representation of Code v 2.0 - tragically (or perhaps thankfully) I have read most of the linked books…