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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Edwin Albas (European Research Council PhD Scholar) Supervisor: Suzanne Kingston Research Area: European Environmental Law |
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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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Sarah Balto (Saudi Government Scholar) Supervisor: John O'Dowd Research Area: International Human Rights |
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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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Mícheál Callaghan (European Research Council PhD Scholar) Supervisor: Suzanne Kingston Research Area: Environmental 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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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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Supervisors: Eoin Carolan and Gavin Barrett Research area: Constitutional Law and Deliberative Democracy |
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Orla Kelleher (IRC Scholar ) Supervisor: Andrew Jackson Research Area: Climate Change Law |
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Supervisor: Cliona Kelly Research Area: Intellectual Property Law |
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Supervisor: Richard Collins Research Area: International Legal theory |
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Shizhu Liang Supervisor: Brian Hutchinson Research Area: Arbitration |
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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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Jaime 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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Michael McNamara Research Area: Irish Criminal Law |
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Supervisor: Ian O'Donnell Research Area: Criminal Justice History |
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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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Lauren OConnell (School of Law Doctoral Scholar) Supervisor: Deirdre Healy Research Area: Criminal law/criminology |
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Tony O'Donnell Supervisor: Eoin Carolan Research Area: Governance in Policing |
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Supervisor: Marie-Luce Paris Research Area: EU Law and Governance with Politics and International Relations |
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Aphrodite Papachristodoulou (NUI E J Phelan Fellow in International Law/ A.G. Leventis Foundation Grant Holder) Supervisor: Richard Collins Research Area: Migration and Refugee Law, Maritime Law |
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Orlaith Rice Supervisor: Research Area: Populism and constitutionalism in Europe |
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Demian Iglesias Seifert Supervisor: Eoin Carolan Research Area: Comparative Constitutional Law |
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Olufunmilola Sodipo (School of Law Doctoral Scholar) Supervisor: Brian Hutchinson Research Area: International Investment Law |
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Alexandru Soptica (Matheson Doctoral Scholar) Supervisor: Mary Catherine Lucey Research Area: EU Competition Law and EU Private International Law/EU PIL |
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Neza Subic (School of Law Doctoral Scholar) Supervisor: Marie-Luce Paris Research Area: European Union Law |
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Research Area: Legal Procedure & Constitutional Law |
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Ellis Witcher (School of Law Doctoral Scholar) Supervisor: Richard Collins Research Area: International Criminal Law |
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Supervisor: Noel McGrath Research Area: Company law and comparative study |