LawPod is a weekly podcast based in the Law School at Queen’s University Belfast. We provide a platform to explore law and legal research in an engaging and scholarly way.
LawPod
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LawPod is a weekly podcast based in the Law School at Queen’s University Belfast. We provide a platform to explore law and legal research in an engaging and scholarly way.
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July 16, 2026
Number 51
In this deeply moving testimonial, author <strong>Marie Therese Rogers</strong>, whose memoir The Sins of the Mother chronicles her life story, reflects on a childhood shaped by adoption, institutional care, secrecy, and a lifelong search for answers. Born in the early 1950s to an unmarried mother in County Donegal, Marie Therese was separated from her family shortly after birth. After a brief placement with an adoptive family, she was returned to institutional care and spent most of her childhood in <strong>Nazareth House, Belfast</strong>, where she became known not by her name, but by a number: <strong>51</strong>. Marie Therese describes growing up in a world of strict discipline, silence, and emotional deprivation. She recalls the daily routines, the lack of affection, limited education, and the psychological impact of never knowing who she was or where she came from. Her testimony offers a powerful personal insight into the experience of many children raised in religious institutions across Ireland during the twentieth century. As an adult, Marie Therese embarked on a decades-long journey to uncover the truth about her origins. Through persistent requests for records, conversations with former staff, and her own investigative efforts, she gradually pieced together fragments of her family history. Along the way, she discovered unknown siblings, met members of her birth family, and uncovered evidence that challenged what she had previously been told about her adoption. Her story speaks directly to many of the themes explored in our episodes on <strong>Adoptee Rights and Access to Records</strong>, including: <ul><li>The importance of access to birth and adoption records.</li><li>The lifelong impact of institutionalisation and family separation.</li><li>The barriers adoptees often face when seeking information about their origins.</li><li>The emotional consequences of secrecy and withheld records.</li><li>The need for recognition, accountability, and support for those affected by historical adoption practices.</li></ul><br/> Despite repeated setbacks, Marie Therese's determination to uncover her past ultimately led her to write The Sins of the Mother, ensuring that her experiences—and those of many others—would not be forgotten. <h3>Related LawPod Episodes</h3> <ul><li><strong>Adoptee Rights and Access to Records in Northern Ireland</strong><a href="https://lawpod.org/podcast/adoptee-rights-and-access-to-records-in-northern-ireland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://lawpod.org/podcast/adoptee-rights-and-access-to-records-in-northern-ireland/</a></li><li><strong>Adoptee Rights and Access to Records – Part II</strong><a href="https://lawpod.org/podcast/adoptee-rights-and-access-to-records-part-ii/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://lawpod.org/podcast/adoptee-rights-and-access-to-records-part-ii/</a></li></ul><br/> <h3>Further Reading</h3> <strong>Marie Therese Rogers Moloney, The Sins of the Mother</strong> A memoir detailing Marie Therese's experiences of adoption, institutional care, and her search for identity and belonging. <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sins-Mother-Marie-Therese-Rogers-Moloney/dp/1780730659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sins-Mother-Marie-Therese-Rogers-Moloney/dp/1780730659</a> <h3>Content Note</h3> This episode contains personal accounts relating to adoption, family separation, institutional care, emotional and physical abuse, and trauma. Some listeners may find the content distressing. Support is available through adoption and counselling services for anyone affected by the themes discussed.
June 25, 2026
Humanitarian Forensics and the Disappeared: Oran Finegan on Dignity, Trust, and Accountability
LawPod host <a href="https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/lauren-dempster/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr Lauren Dempster</a> speaks with Oran Finegan, director of <a href="https://forensicactioninternational.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forensic Action International</a>, about his 25+ years as a forensic specialist in humanitarian and human rights work across 50+ global contexts with agencies including the United Nations (UN), The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Finnegan describes beginning in Bosnia in 1998, where documenting mass atrocities underscored both the worst of humanity and the drive to return identities to the dead and support accountability. He emphasises building domestic forensic capacity, culturally and religiously sensitive practice, and trust-building through communication with families and communities, including collaboration with Islamic law scholars on field concerns like autopsy. The discussion covers applications beyond conflict, migration and climate disasters, along with risks, underfunding, and political will. Finegan outlines humanitarian forensics as integrating dignity, system strengthening, and accountability, and shares his current work on planned recovery and analysis at Tuam in Ireland following findings linked to 796 deaths and commingled infant remains.
May 20, 2026
From Copyright Infringement to Superintelligence: The Legal and Philosophical Future of AI
What happens when the law meets a general-purpose cultural machine? In this episode, hosts Matteo Iuorio and Sofia Debernardi sit down with intellectual property expert Professor <a href="https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/giancarlo-frosio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Giancarlo Frosio</a> to unpack the massive legal battleground surrounding generative AI. We start with the immediate legal technicalities—separating the liability of tech companies training models from the liability of users prompting them—before sliding into the gripping, high-stakes philosophical landscape of what happens to human labor, law, and purpose as we race toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and superintelligence. <h3>Key Takeaways</h3> <ul><li><b>The Two Legal Battlegrounds:</b>Copyright issues with AI are split into two distinct phases: the<b>Training Stage</b>(ingesting data to extract patterns) and the<b>Output Stage</b>(whether an AI-generated result is "substantially similar" to a protected work).</li><li><b>Strict Liability & The Neutral Tool Dilemma:</b>Copyright is a strict liability offense. Professor Frosio shares his perspective that AI labs are placing "neutral, general-purpose tools" on the market. Therefore, legal liability for an infringing output should ideally sit with the user prompting it—provided the developer implemented standard safeguards.</li><li><b>The Geopolitical AI Arms Race:</b>Stricter text and data-mining copyright regulations in regions like Europe can function as a bottleneck for local tech development, inadvertently pushing the dominance of the AI "arms race" exclusively toward the US and China.</li><li><b>The Looming Threat to Purpose:</b>As the operational capabilities of AI shift from narrow tasks to holistic human replication (AGI) and beyond (superintelligence), society faces a massive conundrum: if artificial entities can outperform human intellectual labor completely, what is left for humanity's sense of purpose?</li></ul><br/> <h3>Terminology Glossary</h3> <blockquote><b>LLM (Large Language Model):</b> <i>Note: Mentioned contextually as "LMS" during the interview recording.</i> These are AI programs trained on vast amounts of text data to understand, summarize, generate, and predict new content. <b>Substantial Similarity:</b> A fundamental legal doctrine used by courts to determine if an unauthorized reproduction has taken too much protectable expression from an original copyrighted work. <b>AGI vs. Superintelligence:</b> Narrow AI handles specific single tasks. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) can holistically apply knowledge to any task like a human. Superintelligence refers to a theoretical future entity whose collective intellect far surpasses the capacity of the human brain.</blockquote> <h3>References & Links to Explore</h3> <ul><li>Learn more about Professor Frosio's work and research at the<a href="https://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/giptech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global Intellectual Property and Technology Centre (GIP Tech)</a>.</li><li>Check out the landmark pending litigation referenced in the episode:<a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Getty-Images-v-Stability-AI.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Getty Images v. Stability AI</a>in the UK.</li><li>Learn about the European Union's framework discussed by reading the official documentation on the<a href="https://artificialintelligenceact.eu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act)</a>.</li><li>To explore the philosophical warnings mentioned by the "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton on AGI and systemic alignment risks, check out his<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDE9DjpcSdI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nobel Prize lectures</a>and r<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUGHMx7iAxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ecent AI safety advocacy</a>.</li><li>Read up on the historic sci-fi themes referenced at the end of the episode via Isaac Asimov’s classic<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(novel_series)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Foundation Series</a>.</li></ul><br/>
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