Tag: MLAT

  • Irish Radio Interviews On The Belfast Project Case

    [box type=”alert”]Update: The recording of the interview is apparently no longer available on the RTÉ website. Sorry![/box] My interview with Fran McNulty of RTÉ Radio 1 on the Belfast Project case is now available. The interview begins at 21:15 in the clip. It’s preceded by an interview with Prof. Mary Daly of University College, Dublin……

  • Upcoming Belfast Project Hearing

    When I was in law school, Judge William G. Young, one of my favorite federal judges, would hold court occasionally in the moot courtroom in Austin Hall. And by “hold court” I don’t mean that he regaled the law students with war stories from his favorite cases. I mean that he literally held court. Lawyers……

  • The Belfast Project: Who Promised Confidentiality?

    The Boston College Subpoena blog has posted the transcript of a radio interview with Anthony McIntyre, one of the forces behind Project Belfast and one of the unsuccessful intervenors in the proceedings here in Boston aimed at quashing the government’s subpoena to Boston College. The interview addresses one of the questions I’ve long had about……

  • Judge Young Rules Against BC In The Project Belfast Case

    We have been closely following the Boston College Project Belfast case. If you haven’t been following, this is the case in which the government, at the request of the UK authorities, issued a subpoena to Boston College’s Project Belfast for oral histories that BC researchers took from participants in the Northern Ireland conflict. The researchers……

  • Update on the Belfast Project Case: The Proposed Intervenors’ New Brief

    We return today to the Belfast Project saga. If you haven’t been following this, the case involves a request by the government of the UK for judicial assistance under the US/UK mutual legal assistance treaty for issuance of a subpoena to obtain oral histories that participants in the Northern Ireland conflict gave to researchers at……