Law and Human Rights

Law and Human Rights

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- Dr Eoin Daly   eoin.daly@universityofgalway.ie 

Referendums, constitutional law, political systems. Dr Daly has also written for The Conversation

- Professor Shane Darcy   shane.darcy@universityofgalway.ie 

International courts, international crimes, laws of war, armed conflict, business and human rights

- Larry Donnelly   larry.donnelly@universityofgalway.ie 

US politics, current affairs and law in the United States

- Dr Diarmuid Griffin   diarmuid.griffin@universityofgalway.ie 

Sentencing, criminal law, criminal justice, and criminology 

- Professor Padraic Kenna   padraic.kenna@universityofgalway.ie 

Housing law, housing rights , property law and EU housing 

- Dr Rónán Kennedy   ronan.m.kennedy@universityofgalway.ie 

Information technology law, artificial intelligence regulation, legal technology, environmental law. Dr Kennedy has written a number of articles for The Conversation 

- Dr Orla Lenihan   orla.lenihan@universityofgalway.ie  

Corporate governance, finance and sustainability 

- Professor Siobhán Mullally   siobhan.mullally@universityofgalway.ie 

Human Rights, international law, migration, rights of refugees, asylum, trafficking, asylum, gender equality and women’s rights, and United Nations’

- Professor Ray Murphy   ray.murphy@universityofgalway.ie 

Peace operations, international humanitarian law/armed conflict, Middle East affairs, and human rights

- Professor Donncha O'Connell   donncha.oconnell@universityofgalway.ie 

Constitutional law, European human rights, public interest law, policing, Offences Against the State Acts

- Dr Maeve O'Rourke   maeve.orourke@universityofgalway.ie 

Human rights, human rights and the care of older people, institutional abuse and redress for survivors, Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes, public inquiries 

- Dr Ciara Smyth   ciara.m.smyth@universityofgalway.ie 

Immigration and asylum law (international, EU and Irish) and its implications for human rights. Dr Smyth has also written for The Conversation