File relating to visit made by Kevin Boyle to Japan in Apr 2001. Documents include TS text of talk, with manuscript annotation, delivered by Kevin Boyle at "APHRC Talk", Osaka, Japan and entitled "Universal Justice for Crimes Against Humanity" (Apr 2001); TS text of talk, with manuscript annotation by Kevin Boyle and entitled "The Bankovic Case", noted as being un-revised and not for circulation. A talk delivered by Boyle to Essex University Graduate Human Rights Students".; itineraries of Kevin Boyle's and Joan Boyle's visit to Japan, including Kevin's speaking and meeting engagements; Schedule of conference on Freedom of Information and civil society in Asia (Tokyo, Japan, 13-14 Apr 2001); Letter from Kevin Boyle to Yumi Morita, Public Information and International Division, Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo, asking if it is possible for Boyle to visit and meet with officials in the Japanese Bar (2 Mar 2001); Fax letters from Morita to Boyle making arrangements for visit and meetings with Boyle (7-16 Mar 2001); Email correspondence and press news of related human rights events in Indonesia and elsewhere, between Kevin Boyle and Eugenio J G de Aragao (28 Mar 2001); Business cards of people Boyle met while working in Japan.
File of documents regarding the 1987 Patrick MacGill Summer School at Glenties, Co. Donegal, at which Kevin Boyle presented a paper on "Fifty Years of the Irish Constitution - Anything to Celebrate?" File also includes programme from the summer school, p
File includes A4 notepad of notes and writings handwritten by Kevin Boyle on the topic of sentencing reform. The notepad is interspersed with printed pages of research material. Other printed items include research papers on sentencing, details of historical cases where sentencing was an issue and challenged in Irish courts and letter from Tom Hadden to Kevin Boyle (18 Apr 1988) discussing in detail sentencing and cases and the idea of a book on this matter.
File of research documents on juries in Ireland. Includes pages of manuscript research notes, not written by Kevin Boyle but in someone else's hand, press cuttings from Irish newspapers and other printed research documents such as from academic books and journals.
File relating to study of Irish constitutional law, including a reprint from 'Studies' journal, "The Development of Supreme Judicature in Ireland' (1912); manuscript research notes written by Kevin Boyle on comparative Constitutional Law and copy of the report of the Committee on the Constitution, December 1967. Includes copy of "Government of Ireland Act, 1920". Also includes offprint of article by Kevin Boyle entitled "The Irish Constitution and the Rights of the Individual", published in Études Irlandaises, Dec 1988.
File of documents including a paper "Extradition and Terrorism - the Irish Position, written by Kevin Boyle, noted as being a Chatham House Paper, June 1979; Also includes letters between Kevin Boyle and others such as Chief Justice Thomas F. O'Higgins and Prof. Andreas Lowenfeld, New York University School of Law, NY, and discussing how the paper and research by Lowenfeld was of much interest to Justice O'Higgins who was engaged in a 'crucial case' on extradition in Ireland and mention is made to the 'McGlinchey case, (Mar - Apr 1984) Includes press cutting on coverage of Des O'Malley, Leader of the Progressive Democrats, who cites Kevin Boyle in commenting on extradition matters in Ireland. (13 May 1990) Attached is text of speech delivered by O'Malley as presidential address and as Minister for Industry and Commerce to the Progressive Democrats fifth annual conference held at Leisureland, Salthill, Galway. (12 May 1990)
File includes text of remarks made by Kevin Boyle, Prof. of Law, University College Galway, at the incorporated Law Society Seminar on the Criminal Justice Bill at Blackhall Place, 26 Nov 1983 and with manuscript annotation by Boyle; further manuscript page of notes by Boyle; a manuscript letter to Boyle from Jerome Tierney, writing in agreement with Boyle's comments on the Criminal Justice Bill which Boyle made in a letter to the Irish Times; copy of letter written by Boyle and as printed by the Irish Times and further press comments and cuttings of coverage of the Bill.
Typescript Constitution of the Irish Society of Criminology and a further document being "Towards a Policy on Criminological Research". Also a letter to Boyle from the Society updating Boyle that the Constitution was adopted. (No date)
File relating to the Advocates Society Spring Conference in Ireland, of which Kevin Boyle was an invited participant. Includes programmes and details of the conference and the society as well as letters between Boyle and the conference organisers on what is required of Boyle.
File of documents relating to the Establishment of a Human Rights Commission for Ireland, with a document plan with detailed annotation by Boyle, a copy of submission on the Commission from Pavee Point group, press cuttings of coverage and a brochure entitled "Northern Ireland Peace Process - The Making of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998".