Name: Jennifer Schweppe
Position: Lecturer
Email: jennifer.schweppe@ul.ie
Phone: +353-61-213150
Fax: +353-61-202417
Office: FG002
Description:
Having graduated with a BCL from UCD, Jennifer was awarded an Open Post Graduate Scholarship while completing her research LL.M. She was then awarded an internship with the Federal Defender Programme in Chicago, after which she worked as a legal researcher in the Office of the Attorney General. Ongraduating from her LL.M, she worked as a legal researcher for the Law Reform Commission. She was the principal researcher for the Consultation Paper on Law and the Elderly (2003) and for the Consultation Paper on Prosecution Appeals from Unduly Lenient Sentences in the District Court (2004). Her research interests lie in the areas of criminal procedure, sentencing, abortion law and medical consent. She recently completed a Graduate Diploma in Academic Practice at the University of Limerick, and is currently undertaking a PhD at Trinity College Dublin on Sentencing Race Crimes. She is the current President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers.
Teaching
Jennifer teaches Public Law to undergraduate day students, Criminal Law to undergraduate evening students and Criminal Justice Processes and Sentencing to the LL.M in Human Rights in Criminal Justice.
Administration
Acting Course Director, LLM in Human Rights in Criminal Justice
Chairperson, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee www.ul.ie/researchethics
Publications
Books
The Unborn Child, Article 40.3.3° and Abortion in Ireland: 25 Years of Protection? (2008, The Liffey Press) (Editor)
Selected Journal Articles
"Best to Agree to Disagree? Parental Discord, Children's Rights and the Question of Immunisation" (2008) 37(2) CLWR 147
"Peer Observation: Reflecting on a Mirror of Your Teaching" (2007) 4(2) European Journal of Legal Education 181 (with S. Eaton)
"Article 42A.5 - A Comment" (2007) 17(4) ICLJ 1
"Revisiting Article 40.3.3: Part Two: Pregnant Women and Unborn Children: An Irreconcilable Conflict?" (2006) 1 IJFL 19
"Revisiting Article 40.3.3: Part One: Third Party Foetal Assault" (2005) 4 IJFL 19.
"What's in a Word?: The Definition of a "Sentence" in the Law Reform Commission's Consultation Paper on Prosecution Appeals from Unduly Lenient Sentences in the District Court" (2005) 15(3) ICLJ 24
"Mothers, Fathers, Children and the Unborn: The Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution Bill"[2001] ISLR 136
"Combating Racism through the Criminal Law" (2007) 14 Spectrum 9.
Chapters in Books:
"The Law Reform Commission's Proposals on Legal Capacity of the Older Person" in O'Dell (Editor) Older People in Modern Ireland: Essays on Law and Policy (Firstlaw 2006)at pages104-131.
"Minor's Consent to Medical Treatment" in Law Society of Ireland Law Reform Committee Child Law (Law Society 2006) at pages 186-208.
Selected Conference Papers Delivered
"'Outing' the Hidden Curriculum: The Impact of ECTS on Law Teaching" Legal Education Symposium, University College Dublin, 13 March 2009
"State Responses to Miscarriages of Justice" Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, University of Limerick, Limerick, 28 February 2009 (With Vicky Conway)
"Innocent Ireland? Examining the Possibility of Introducing an Innocence Project to the University of Limerick" at International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Annual Conference, UCC 15 July 2008
"Best to Agree to Disagree? Parental Discord, Children's Rights and the Question of Immunisation" Annual Conference Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) in Durham 10-11 September 2007.
"Sentencing Race Crimes" (with G. Coffey) at the Law and Society Association's Annual Conference Law and Society in the 21st Century Berlin 25 July 2007.
"Race Hate and the Criminal Law: An Irish Perspective" International Academy of Law and Mental Health's 30th International Congress Padua 25-30 July 2007.
"In Utero Drug Exposure: Whose Right? Whose Responsibility?" Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference (SLSA) Liverpool 30th March - 1 April 2005.
"The Codification of the Law on Homicide and the Problem with Domestic Violence" Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT) in Letterkenny 18th - 20th March 2005.
