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Shows Dr Eugene McNulty with colleagues from UCC and the University of Macerata

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Research News - Dr Eugene McNulty
In association with the Irish Network for the Legal Humanities, Professor Eugene McNulty has been working with colleagues from the University of Macerata (Italy) and UCC on a legal humanities research project.

The project, entitled ‘Law / Art / Humanities: Methodology of Creative Connections’, is the result of close work with UCC’s Dr Adam Hanna. Prof McNulty’s work on the project has been centred on the close imbrication of the literary and legal imaginations, and on the ways in which literary theory may also speak (sometimes directly, sometimes more obliquely) to the central concerns of legal philosophy and jurisprudence. 

To celebrate the conclusion of the project, and to launch the resultant book (Law Art Humanities: Creative Connections Methodology, Ariana Alpini (ed.), (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, forthcoming 2024)) DCU’s School of English hosted colleagues from the University of Macerata and UCC on 26th April for a symposium. This event centred on a presentation of the design principles that shaped this interdisciplinary project and the outcomes that resulted from it.