Celebrating the Successes of our LL.M And MSc Law and Finance Students

We are thrilled to celebrate the remarkable successes of our LLM and MSc Law and Finance students this year. Many of our talented students have achieved academic excellence prior to attending Trinity College, securing prestigious scholarships to support their postgraduate studies with us. These scholarships have been awarded from a number of bodies within the University and also from external organisations. These scholarships are highly competitive, underscoring the outstanding accomplishment of our students.

Here we celebrate the recipients of scholarships provided by the University and other scholarships closely-linked to our LLM and MSc Law and Finance programmes:

• LL.M Constantia Maxwell Scholarship for LL.M - Higor Siqueira
• MSc Law and Finance Scholarship - Luca Holesovsky, Michael Ludden
• Trinity Claddagh Scholarship Programme (China) – Ming Yi
• Trinity European Excellence Award - Charlotte Fuchs, Pauline Grotz, Šimon Chvojka
• Trinity Foundation Scholarship - Rhianna Dorrian, Shu Yao Lu
• Trinity Global Excellence Postgraduate Scholarships - Arwa Basem Alsharqi, Claudia Silva Battagin, Taniya Singh, Megha Jaiswal
• Ireland Fellows Programme - Nu Thanh Binh Ton

In addition to the above scholarships, we are delighted to celebrate the achievements of students who obtained funding independently through external organisations in their home countries:

• Germany - Julian Bernek, Ludwig Bicker, Rebekka Brockhöft, Fabian Eichmeier, Annemarie de Wall, Charlotte Fuchs
• Slovenia - Jure Bergant
• Turkey - Müge Kahveci

Successes During Academic Year 2023/24

In addition our LL.M and MSc Law and Finance students’ dedication within the classroom, we are proud to witness our students' active engagement in various extracurricular activities during their studies this academic year.

Congratulations to LL.M students published in Volume XXVII of the Trinity College Law Review:

• Pauline Grotz’s paper “Product Liability for Warning Defects in Common Law, the EU, and the US‘ also won the TCLR 'Matheson Prize for Best Commercial Article”.
• Tara Kerins Aylmer wrote on “The EU Needs to Be Blunt: The Issue with The Lack of a Declared Right to Refuse Cookies”. She also presented this paper at the Trinity College Law Student Colloquium 2024, where it won the best paper in the EU section and the best paper at the colloquium overall.

Additionally, we express our gratitude to everyone involved in organising the Trinity College Law Student Colloquium, an annual student-led event now in its 16th year. The Colloquium is Ireland’s leading student conference and welcomes applications from undergraduate and postgraduate students from Trinity and other universities as well as recent graduates in practice. Particular thanks are noted to LL.M student Cormac Donnelly who acted at Chair for the Colloquium in 2023/24.

Lastly, we congratulate LL.M (International and Comparative Law) students Juliette Lartigau, Emma Scalzo and Sara Vogd Sanchez on their placement as Runners-Up in Corn Adomnáin International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Competition 2024. The Corn Adomnáin is an IHL competition organised by the Irish Red Cross for those with an interest in this area of law. Eight teams from seven institutions took part in the event hosted by DCU. The top two teams ultimately competed in a final moot court styled on the International Criminal Court. Trinity’s team acted as prosecutors and came second in the day’s proceedings which took place in front of an esteemed judging panel. Thanks to the team for their hard work in representing the School of Law on such important, topical issues and well done on your success and to their mooting coach and LL.M graduate, Atalie Graham.