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Dr David Capper in a fascinating conversation with Dr Lauren Dempster about the potential developments in third-party litigation funding in Ireland, the UK and further afield.

​Daniela is a second-year PhD student in Law at Queen's University Belfast (UK), a scholar of the AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium's doctoral training programme (UK), and a qualified lawyer in Colombia. Her PhD project analyses the impact of legal narratives of criminalisation and victimisation of sexual violence on the recognition of the victim status of combatants who suffered this form of violence within their own armed group. Daniela holds a Master in Law (LLM) with distinction from Queen's University Belfast and a first-class (equivalent) undergraduate degree in law with a minor in criminal law from Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). She has engaged in conducting academic research on international criminal law, sexual and gender-based violence, transitional justice in the contexts of Latin America (particularly Colombia) and Northern Ireland, international human rights law, non-state armed groups, modern slavery, colonialism and green criminology. She has published academic papers on international criminal law, human rights and postcolonialism. She has participated in the drafting of amicus curiae briefs for the International Criminal Court Office of Victims and the ICC Appeals Chamber in the cases of Laurent Gbagbo and Bosco Ntganda, and the situation in Afghanistan. She has participated in the drafting of consultation reports for the UN Special Rapporteur on transitional justice measures and colonial contexts and the report for the Northern Irish Department of Justice on the modern slavery strategy 2021-22. In this episode we discuss Daniela's PhD research on Colombian transitional justice narratives of criminalisation and victimhood in the context of sexual violence within armed groups. Orcid profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8534-4931 Twitter profile: @Daniela_suarezv

Former students Kiera Vinall and Jack Meek share their experience of applying for the Bar in England and Wales. Jack Meek, Barrister at Government Legal Department and Bar Council Social Mobility Advocate 2021/2022 Kiera Vinall, Bar student, Lincoln’s Inn Scholar and future pupil barrister at Government Legal Department

LawPod Publicist David O'Sullivan is joined by Employability and Placement Officer Deirdre Timoney to discuss how to distinguish yourself as a law student.

LawPod Publicist David O'Sullivan is joined by Careers Consultant Terry O'Hanlon to discuss how to use QUB services to maximise your employability while studying.

PhD researcher Samantha Hopkins talks to Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden about her achievements as a woman in law and her role as a legal changemaker. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/anne-marie-mcalinden

​The new Head of School of Law, Professor Joan Loughrey, joins Tamara & Ruby for a special International Women's Day episode, where we discuss her plans for QUB law students and gender diversity in the profession! Tune in to hear us discuss gender diversity in law, as well as Professor Loughrey's professional journey to date and her future plans for QUB law students. Tamara Duncan and Ruby Sturgeon - Interviewers

​​LawPodder ​Kavina Rajendran talks to Professor Julie Suk from the Fordham School of Law about the jurisprudence of quotas and the evolving discourse surrounding its consequences transnationally. They discuss Professor Suk's 2014 paper, Quotas and Consequences: A Transnational Evaluation. The episode explores the US jurisprudence surrounding quotas and the evolving discourse surrounding the consequences of quotas in countries such as Germany and Chile.

​In this episode, Ruby Sturgeon is joined by Sara Fegan and Rosalie Rothwell from Allen & Overy to discuss its graduate recruitment opportunities and annual intake for up to 25 legal professionals. With the application deadline of the 4th March 2022 fast approaching, they provide top tips for successful applications and insight into the workings of commercial practice. Allen & Overy- www.allenandovery.com.Participants​Sara Fegan - Senior Associate Solicitor at Allen & Overy Rosalie Rothwell - Legal Professional at Allen & Overy Ruby Sturgeon- LLB Law Student at Queen's University Belfast

​Discussion of adoptee 'othering' in literature and law: personal accounts, Frankenstein's creature, and Ireland's latest attempt at enabling access to birth records. Alice Diver (Lecturer, School of Law, QUB) in conversation with Professor Emily Hipchen (Editor of Adoption & Culture (adoptionandculture.org), Director of Nonfiction Writing, Senior Lecturer in English, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island ) about some of the themes underpinning her recent publication, “Monstrous Othering”: The Gothic Nature of Origin-Tracing in Law and Literature" (November, 2021). The session opens with a brief discussion of their own respective experiences as 'mother and baby home' adoptees in the U.S. and Canada in the 1960's, before turning to an analysis of how the particular adoptee brand of 'fearful otherness' is often represented -and indeed perpetuated - in certain works of fiction e.g. Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights', and Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go.' In respect of achieving meaningful reform to law and policy, language is key. Ireland's controversial Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022 - currently being debated - has similarly served to highlight how certain lingering biases of mistrust still attach to the adoptees' need to search for origins and (potentially uncomfortable) familial truths. Discriminatory barriers to accessing one's own information - and to achieving some form of contact with genetic relatives - still exist: the use of labels also continues to matter, as the recent controversy over the use of the term 'birth mother' within the legislation (since amended to 'mother') also evidenced. Links: Insta @adoptionandculture https://ohiostatepress.org/AdoptionCulture.html @emilyhipchen link to book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-01071-7