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Trinity College Dublin

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
SCHOOL OF LAW

DAITHI MAC SITHIGH

 

Daithi Mac Sithigh

Ph.D. Candidate

c/o Law School
House 39
Trinity College, Dublin 2

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(01) 677 0449

macsithd (@tcd.ie)

Thesis:

The relationship between new technologies and the regulation/governance of international media

Supervisor: Dr. Eoin O'Dell
Areas of Interest: Cyberlaw, media regulation, Internet governance, theoretical approaches to law and technology, intellectual property, communication and speech rights, international law. 

[ Biography ] [ Professional Qualifications ] [ Awards and Honours ] [ Education Details ]

[ Employment Details ] [ Selected Publications ] [ Links ]

 

Last Modified 13 October, 2008 by Catherine Finnegan

Biography 

Daithí Mac Síthigh is a Scholar and graduate of TCD.  He also spent a year at Osgoode Hall law school in Toronto, Ontario where he specialised in the law of communications and technology.  After completing an LL.B. in 2004, he was elected to student representative positions locally and then nationally, and returned to the Law School in 2006 to commence postgraduate research.  Daithí will be teaching on the European Media Regulation (LLM) course in 2007, and also gives tutorials in Constitutional Law II.  He remains involved in higher education policy through his position in ESIB, the European network of national unions of students, with a focus on the Bologna Process in European higher education. 

Daithí’s blog, which covers cyberlaw and other topics, can be found at http://www.lexferenda.com

Research Interests

Cyberlaw, media regulation, Internet governance, theoretical approaches to law and technology, intellectual property, communication and speech rights, international law.

Awards and Honours

Foundation Scholar of Trinity College Dublin

John Graham Fellowship in Communications Law, Osgoode Hall Law School

Education Details

LL.B. (Dubl.), 2004

PG Cert (Open), 2006

Employment Details

Library assistant, Trinity College Library (2006-present)

Education Officer, Union of Students in Ireland (2005)

Education Officer, TCD Students’ Union (2004/5).

Selected Publications

Type

Reference

Year

Status

Paper

Multilingualism.com: Internationalisation of Domain Names and the Embedding of Online Language Rights [paper delivered at International Academy of Linguistic Law 10th annual conference, Galway]

2006

Conference paper, forthcoming in proceedings

Paper

Web Media: Without Frontiers, Without Borders or Without Law? [paper delivered at University Association of Contemporary European Studies 36th annual conference, Limerick]

2006

Conference paper

Article

The Academic Values of the European University and Its Contemporary Relevance

2006

Forthcoming, Higher Education in Europe

 

Links

http://www.lexferenda.com