Research Students
There are currently over 40 PhD students within the School. There is also a visiting researcher option within the School which has enhanced the Schools’ research programme.
Meet some of our students below:
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Supervisor: Amrei Muller Research Area: International Climate Change and Human Rights Law |
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Somsubhra Banerjee (European Research Council Scholar) Research Area: Constitutional law Supervisor(s): Eoin Carolan |
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Rachel Claire Brady (Sutherland School of Law Scholar) Supervisor: Dr. Cliona Kelly Research Area: Intellectual property; patent law; trade mark law; bioethics; judicial decision making |
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Richard Bunworth (School of Law Doctoral Scholar) Supervisor(s): Mary Catherine Lucey Research Area: EU Competition Law |
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Andrew Condon Supervisor: Anthony Kerr Research Area: Employment Law and Industrial Relations |
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Neil Coogan (School of Law Doctoral Scholar) Supervisor: Joe McGrath Research Area: Corporate Regulatory Enforcement |
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Sonya Cotton (ERC project PROPERTY[IN]JUSTICE) Supervisor: Amy Strecker Research Area: Pluralising property: Land, legal pluralism and foreign investments in Southern Africa |
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Alison Coyne (IRC Employment-Based Scholar) Supervisor: Professor Ian O’Donnell Research Area: Criminology/Criminal Justice |
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Khaled Fouda Supervisor: Marie-Luce Paris Research Area: Comparative Constitutional Law |
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Sharon Galantino (UCD-Roma Tre University Doctoral Scholar) Supervisors: Dr TJ McIntyre, Professor Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich Research Area: Information Technology Law, Media Studies, Freedom of Expression, Privacy |
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Seána Glennon (Sutherland School of Law Scholar) Supervisors: Eoin Carolan and Gavin Barrett Research area: Constitutional Law and Deliberative Democracy |
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Supervisors: Dr Sara Benedi Lahuerta, Dr Alexander Kondakov (School of Sociology) Research Area: Institutionalized discrimination |
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Supervisor: Laurent Pech Research Area: The EU Rule of Law Crisis: Challenging the Integrity of the Integration Project |
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Supervisor: Dr Andrew Jackson Research Area: Climate Litigation |
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Supervisor: Dr Sara Benedí Lahuerta Research Area: Fashioning an Ethical Supply Chain: Supporting efforts to secure a living wage for European factory workers in the hypermobile garment industry |
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Jamie Mc Loughlin (Sutherland Scholar) Supervisor: Dr Suzanne Egan Research Area: Irish Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and Theory, International and Comparative Human Rights Law |
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Sinéad Mercier Supervisors: Dr. Amy Strecker, Dr. Andrew Jackson Research Area: Energy; climate change; spatial justice; property; critical environmental law |
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Raphael Ng’etich (European Research Council PhD Scholar) Supervisor: Amy Strecker Research Area: Land, property and spatial justice in international law |
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Supervisor: Eoin Carolan Research Area: Populism and constitutionalism in Europe |
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Demian Iglesias Seifert (European Research Council Scholar) Supervisor: Eoin Carolan Research Area: Comparative Constitutional Law |
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Supervisor: Noel McGrath Research Area: Company law and comparative study |