Griffith College Dublin

Mr Justice Frank Clarke joins the Griffith College School of Law as Judge in Residence

Mr. Justice Frank Clarke of the High Court has joined Griffith College School of Law as Judge in Residence for the current academic year.
During the course of his residency in the School of law, Mr Justice Frank Clarke will deliver a short programme of lectures to the student body, will engage with academic staff and will sit on the Supervisory Board of the Irish Innocence Project at Griffith College.
Mr. Justice Clarke was most recently Chairman of the Lisbon Treaty Referendum Commission and has enjoyed a high profile career as a barrister. He was Chairman of the Bar Council from 1993-1995.
In practice, he dealt in Commercial, Constitutional and Family Law. He has been external counsel to the Laffoy Inquiry on child abuse and has represented the Flood Tribunal in its case against Mr Liam Lawlor. He was part of the Anti-Amendment Campaign during the original abortion referendum in 1983 and strongly supported the referendum on divorce in 1986.

Deputy Head of the Law School
Siobhán Leonard
LLB, LLM in EU Law, PGCE, Solicitor

Siobhán is a qualified solicitor (in Northern Ireland & England and Wales) holding LLB and LLM (European Law), degrees from Queens University Belfast and UCD respectively. She also completed the Post Graduate Certificate in Further and Higher Education at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Consultant Director of Professional Law
Dr. Brian Foley
LL.B(TCD), BL, Ph.D(TCD)

Dr Brian Foley is a barrister and author of Deference and the Presumption of Constitutionality and co-author of The Judge’s Charge in Criminal Trials. He studied law in Trinity College Dublin and graduated top of his class with a first class honours and was awarded a Gold Medal receiving both the The Honorable TC Kingsmill Moore Prize and the The Henry Hamilton Hunter Prize. He then took the Barrister-at-Law degree at the King Inns with a first class honours and was awarded the Societies Exhibition. He also holds a Ph.D from Trinity College Dublin. He is currently the consultant director of the professional law school and teaches contract on the FE1 preparatory course. He practices in the areas of commercial law and public interest law.
room D206
phone 01-415 0465
mobile 085-1483709
email brian.foley@gcd.ie

Dean of Law
David Langwallner
B.A., LL.M (Lond.), LL.M (Harvard), BL

Mr. Langwallner is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin Law School. He won The Henry Hunter Hamilton Memorial Prize for Law and The Kingsmill Moore Memorial Prize for History.
In 1990 he completed an LL.M (Lond.) with merit. He subsequently attended the Honorable Society of King's Inns, Dublin and was called to the Irish Bar in 1991. He was also called to the Bar of England & Wales in 1993. He was awarded LL.M from Harvard in 1998. David was a Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University from 1999 to 2000.
Presently David also lectures in constitutional law and jurisprudence at The King's Inns and tutors  administrative law and judicial review.
David is a Tribunal Member of The Garda Disciplinary Tribunal - Appointed by The Minister for Justice July 2007 and is involved in a training project of the Garda higher level management in Human Rights Law. He is also a member of 12 Grays Inns Square Chambers of Mark Littman QC in London.

Publications and Conference Papers
2007: December 13th 2007 Paper delivered to Irish Jurisprudence Society: The Absurdity of Historical Interpretation and Originalism in Constitutional Interpretation.? 2008- Published in The Independent Law Journal.
2007- Volume 2 Issue 4- Irish Business Law Quarterly - The Scope of Patent Infringement in Irish Law after Ranbaxy:
2007- Volume 2 Issue 2- Irish Business Law Quarterly - The Availability of the Parody defence to Copyright Infringement in Irish Law.
2007-Conference Paper on The Constitution at 70 at Trinity College Dublin. Separation of Powers and The Failure to vindicate the rights of the individual
2007 - Volume 2 Issue 1- Irish Business Law Quarterly - Article on Originality in Copyright Law after Feist and CCH Canadian.
2005 - Dublin University Law Journal - Expanded Book Review on Western Jurisprudence. The review touches on many crucial aspects of Constitutional theory and Jurisprudential interpretation. (Ed: Tim Murphy).
2004 - Dublin University Law Journal - Book Review on Binchy and Byrne: Annual Review of Irish Law.
2004 - Independent Law Review - Article on The Lawyer in Cinema.
2004 - Independent Law Review - Inaugural issue Modest proposals for Constitutional Interpretation.

room D206
phone 01 4163326
mobile 087-3002531
email david.langwallner@gcd.ie

Kate Kelly
BA (NUI), LLB (NUI), MSc (Edinburgh)

Kate has tutored Criminal Law in the University of Edinburgh and NUI Galway. She also lectured Criminology on the Lothian Equal Access Programme for Schools which aims to support talented young people in Edinburgh and the Lothians, providing them with information and encouragement to apply to higher education. Kate has also published in the Irish Business Law Quarterly. Kate joined the Law School in 2007 and is currently a lecturer in the Law of Torts and Criminal Law.

Room: D205
Email: kate.kelly@gcd.ie
Phone: 416 3368

Ross Alyward
LL.B.(Dub), M.Litt(Dub), Dip.Arb., Attorney-at-Law (New York), BL

Ross, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, is a qualified New York Attorney and Barrister. Ross was called to the Irish Bar in 2007 having been awarded the James Murnaghan Memorial Prize. He enjoys a broad practice but is a recognised expert in matters of family and child law. He is the author of the book Prenuptial Agreements (Thomson Round Hall, Dublin, 2006), and contributed to the leading text Divorce: Practice and Procedure (Thomson Round Hall, Dublin, 2007). Ross also updates the Family Law Practitioner (Thomson Round Hall, Dublin). He was appointed by the Minister for Justice in 2007 to partake in a special study group to report on the status of prenuptial agreements in Ireland which published its report in April 2007 to widespread acclaim. He also acts as research assistant to the Special Rapporteur for Children and has contributed to the annual reports in this regard as published by the Office for the Minister for Children. Ross is a full time member of the faculty at Griffith College Dublin and lectures in the Law of Trusts and Family Law, and also in the Law of Equity and Trusts on the FE1 preparatory course.

Room D206
Email ross.aylward@gcd.ie

Roderic O'Gorman
LLB(TCD), LLM(European Law)(LSE)

Roderic has been a full time member of the Law School since 2007 and has taught EU Law, Constitutional Law, Family Law and EU Internal Market Law. Prior to joining Griffith, Roderic worked for two years as academic coordinator of the Legal Education for All Project (LEAP), an EU funded initiative. Roderic has published and presented papers on his key areas of interest and he is currently undertaking a PhD in Trinity College looking at social rights and citizenship under EU law.

James Buckley is a practising barrister and mediator, and a graduate of
Trinity College Dublin

Room D206 
Email james.buckley@gcd.ie

Dr. Cian Carroll 
LL.B (TCD), LL.M (Cambridge), BL, Ph.D Law (Cambridge) Lecturer in Law  

Cian Carroll is a practising barrister. He has first class honours degrees in law from Trinity College Dublin (LL.B.) and Cambridge University (LL.M), was called to the Bar in 2003, and completed a Ph.D. (Law) at Cambridge University in 2005. His doctoral dissertation focussed on issues of theory and justice in the allocation of taxing rights between sovereign states under international law.
Cian was a lecturer in the Faculty of Law in NUI Galway for a number of years, where he taught EU law, planning law, environmental Law and EC merger control law. He has also worked as an international tax advisor in London for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Chown Dewhurst and in Vienna as a Marie Curie Research Fellow for the European Commission.
His areas of research interest include company law, public law, EC law, and income and company taxation. At present he is completing a book with Stephen Dodd BL on the National Asset Management Agency. The book will be published in May of this year by Thomson Round Hall.
Cian lectures in law at Griffith College where he has taught a wide range of subjects including EC law, company law, equity and trusts, and administrative law and judicial review. He currently lectures in planning and development law, administrative law and judicial review, and company law.

Room D206
Email cian.carroll@gcd.ie

Caroline Meehan
BCL (EURO), M.Sc (Edinburgh), BL 

Caroline is a BCL (European Legal Studies) graduate of UCD and holds a Masters in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Edinburgh. She worked in one of the city?s top criminal defence firms prior to studying for the Bar. She has tutored and lectured in the Law Society, University College Dublin and in the University of Padova, Italy. While studying at the King?s Inns, she worked as a judicial researcher to judges of the Irish superior courts and was called to the Bar in 2005, where she undertook practice in a wide variety of areas, but specialising in particular in Criminal Law. Caroline is a full-time lecturer within the law faculty teaching mainly on the LLB and BAL programmes.

room D206
phone 4163313
email caroline.meenan@gcd.ie

Ciara Fitzgerald
BCL (NUI), LLM (Cambridge) BL

Ciara graduated from NUI Galway in 2003 with a Bachelors in Civil Law.
She then continued her studies at the University of Cambridge completing an LL.M. in 2004, with particular focus on criminal law and international law. Ciara has since tutored and lectured in NUI Galway and DCU. She also worked as a Legal Researcher in the Office of the Attorney General. She has published articles in a number of journals and was the editor of the Independent Law Review. She also acts as an External Examiner on the B.A. in Law in Athlone IT. Ciara lectures Contract Law and Land Law and is a practising barrister.

room D203
email ciara.fitzgerald@gcd.ie
phone 415 0417

Elaine Finneran
BCL, LLM (Criminal Justice) BL  

Elaine is a BCL (European Legal Studies) graduate of UCD and holds a first class honours LLM (Criminal Justice) from UCC. She worked with the Federal Defender Program in Chicago from 2004-2005 and was awarded the Judge William J Campbell Intern-at-Law award. Elaine completed the Barrister-at-Law degree course at the Honorable Society of King's Inns and was called to the Bar in 2007. She was the winner of Maiden's Moot Competition and the Eoin Higgins Memorial Moot Competition. She also represented the King's Inns at the University of Georgia Biennial Moot Court Competition. In recognition of her examination results at the King's Inns, Elaine was awarded the Swift McNeill Memorial Award from UCD and a Bar Council Bursary. She is a practising barrister.

Dr Sarah Fennell
LL.B(Dub), LL.M (Lond), BL, Ph.D(Dub)

Sarah Fennell graduated from Trinity College Dublin with the degree of LL.B in 2000. She completed her Barrister-at-Law degree at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns in 2002. During 2002-2003, Sarah worked as a judicial researcher in the Judges’ Library, during which time she was appointed Senior Judicial Researcher. She holds an LL.M from University College London focusing in particular on Media Law and Child Law. Sarah has tutored Constitutional and Comparative Law to undergraduate law students in Trinity College Dublin. Sarah holds a Ph.D from Trinity College Dublin. Her doctoral thesis was awarded a Government of Ireland Scholarship and is titled ‘The Public Interest Defence and Damages for Defamation: Comparative Theoretical and Constitutional Perspectives for Irish Law’. Her publications include ‘Ireland and the ECHR: Back to the Drawing Board?’ (2002) Irish Student Law Review and ‘Damages for Defamation’, (forthcoming in O’Dell, Freedom of Expression, Ashgate, 2008). She currently teaches European Union law to LL.B. students at Griffith College Dublin. Sarah also lectures Family Law in the Honorable Society of King’s Inns. She is a practising barrister.

Gráinne Gilmore
LLB (Ling Fran) (Dub), LLM (Bruges)

Gráinne Gilmore is a practising barrister. She lectured EC law, Environmental law and Constitutional law at NUI Galway between 2006 ? 2008. She also currently lectures Environmental law on the LLB programme at DIT. Gráinne graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an LL.B (Ling. Fran) in Law and French. As an undergraduate, she also studied French Law at the Universite de Paris II (Pantheon-Assas). She completed a Master of European Law (LLM) at the College of Europe (Bruges). Gráinne has also worked as a judicial extern for two US federal judges, as a trainee at the European Commission's Legal Service (Internal Market and Environment) Unit and as an electoral observer for the Rwandan 2008 legislative elections. She has published and presented papers on aspects of EU and environmental law.

Paul Gunning
B.Corp.Law(NUI), LL.B.(NUI), LL.M (Leiden), BL

Paul graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2003 with the degrees of Bachelor of Corporate Law (B. Corp. Law) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Paul also obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Leiden in 2005 and the degree of Barrister-at-Law (King's Inns) in 2007. Since graduating from NUIG Paul has worked as a legal adviser for an international pharmaceutical company, the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of Foreign Affairs. Paul has previously taught at DCU, Trinity College, UCD and has published articles in journals such as the Hibernian Law Journal, and the Irish Criminal Law Journal. Paul is also a practising barrister.

Michael Flynn
LL.B, BA (Japanese & Economics), MBA

Michael has a degree in Law from the University of Queensland, Australia and a BA in Economics and Japanese which he undertook at UQ and Sophia University, Tokyo. With an MBA from Trinity College Dublin he has been involved in the management at CEO and MD level of a number of start-up companies as well as subsidiaries of multi-nationals in Asia-Pacific and Europe. He lectures in Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management and International Business.

Emma Keane
B.C.L., LLM

Emma lectures Human Rights Law, at Griffith College and she is a practising barrister at the Irish Bar. Emma has also several publications and worked on the editing team of the ‘Competition and Market Regulation Update’ She is also a member of the ‘Irish Society for European Law’

John Smith
LL.B.(Dub.), BL

John is a Practising Barrister since being called to the bar in 1996, he received a LL.B from Trinity College Dublin. From 1993 until 2006 he worked as a journalist and columnist with the Sunday Independent. He has practised in many areas of law and has published a number of papers in the Bar Review.
John lectuers in Criminal Law in the Preparatory Course for the Law Society of Ireland‘s FE1 examination.

email john.smith@gcd.ie

Caren Geoghegan
BCL(UCD), BL, LL.M (Cambridge)

Caren Geoghegan is a practising barrister. She graduated from UCD with first class honours in the BCL. She attended the Honorable Society of Kings Inns and was called to the Bar in 2005. She then studied at the University of Cambridge and achieved first class honours in the LLM (Commercial). In 2006 she started work in the Law Reform Commission and was one of the principal legal researchers on the Commission‘s Consultation Paper on Statute Law Restatement. She has tutored in UCD in Constitutional and Criminal Law. She currently lectures in Griffith College on the Company Law course for the FE1 examinations.

email: caren.geoghegan@gcd.ie

Emma Callanan
B.C.L., LL.M, ACI.Arb, BL

Emma graduated with an Honours Degree at University College Dublin. She went on to complete her Masters Degree in Trinity College Dublin. She has worked with the Parliamentary Draftsman in the Attorney General’s Office and the Revenue Commissioners for the re-drafting and consolidation of Customs Law Legislation. She is a published author of many employment articles and practices in the employment law field in the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Labour Court. She is a qualified Arbitrator and Mediator. She speaks at conferences regularly in her field of expertise. She also works on editing new publications the Employment Law Reports and the Irish Times Law Reports. Emma Callanan has been lecturing in the area of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy, Criminal Law, Real Property Law and Labour law for five years to LL.B, BALWB and IILEX students. As a qualified mediator, she is also actively involved in conference work in this growth area and is acutely aware of the need for communication skills in this growing field of expertise. She has acted as advisor in many capacities to employers and management generally.

email emma.callanan@gcd.ie

Jennifer Goode
LLB(Dublin), LLM(Luxembourg), BL

Jennifer is a practising barrister. She qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 2002 with a first class honours degree in Law and French (L.L.B. {lingfranc}). She obtained a masters degree in European Community litigation in Luxembourg, after which she completed a stage in the chambers of Judge John D. Cooke at the Court of Justice of the European Communities. While studying at the King’s Inns, she worked as a judicial researcher to judges of the Irish superior courts and was called to the bar in 2005. She subsequently worked as a European competition lawyer in Brussels, for the American law firm, Latham & Watkins. Jennifer lectures on EU course for the FE1 examinations.

email: jennifer.goode@gcd.ie

Maria Oleynik

room: D204
phone: 01 416 3372
email: maria.oleynik@gcd.ie

Jill Mulhern

room: D204
phone: 01 415 0462
email: jill.mulhern@gcd.ie