Biography

Ailbhe O’Neill LL.B, LL.M (Cantab), Ph.D, Barrister-at-Law completed her doctoral thesis on “The Rights of Companies Under the Irish Constitution: A Philosophical and Comparative Analysis.” She lectures Corporate Governance and Taxation Law on the LL.B Programme and Corporate Insolvency Law on the LL.M Programme. A regular contributor to the Commercial Law Practitioner, her interest areas include company law and corporate governance. She has also published a number of articles in the areas of criminal and constitutional law.

 

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Professional Qualifications

• Degree of Barrister-at-Law, The Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin 

 

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Representations

• Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute 2005
• Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians Research Ethics Committee
• The Royal College of Physicians Ethics Committee
• The European Corporate Governance Institute

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Administrative Functions

• Assistant Director of the LL.M. Programme 2006-2007
• Co-Ordinator of the Senior Freshman Mooting Programme 2002-2005

 

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Awards and Honours

• IRCHSS, Government of Ireland Scholarship, 2001
• Honorary Senior Scholarship, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, 2001 
• W.M. Tapp Studentship in Law, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, 2000
• Henry Hamilton Hunter Memorial Prize for first place in LL.B Senior Sophister Year, 2000
• Kingsmill Moore Memorial Prize for first place in LL.B Junior Sophister Year, 1999
• Trinity College Scholarship, 1998
• Trinity College Entrance Exhibition, 1996

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Education Details

Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin (2006)
LL.M., Cambridge University (2001)
LL.B., Trinity College Dublin (2000)

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Employment Details

• Lecturer in Media Law, Corporate Governance and Corporate Insolvency Law, LL.M Programme (2006-)
• Modular Degree Co-ordinator, The Honorable Society of the King's Inns (2008- 2011)
• Barrister-at-Law
• Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (2002-2005)
• Occasional lecturer in Taxation Law  (2002/2003)
• Tutor in Commercial Law (2001/2002)

 

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Memberships /Associations

Editor, Irish Business Law Quarterly

Assistant Examiner, Law Society (FE1 Constitutional Law)

External Examiner, Portobello College

Company Law Correspondent for the Commercial Law Practitioner

Modular Degree Co-ordinator for the Honorable Society of the King's Inns

Member, Royal College of Physicians Ethics Committee

 

Previous:

Researcher to the Working Group on a Court of Appeal

The European Corporate Governance Institute

Research Associate for the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS).

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Selected Publications

• "Rescuing the Law of Torts" [20011] Irish Jurist [2011]

• McCann Courtney, Companies Acts 1963-2010, Dublin, Tottel 2010

• "On-line Piracy and the Responsibilites of Internet Service Providers in Ireland" [2011], Entertainment law Review, 89.

• "Media Coverate of Political Affairs in Ireland" (subject to peer review) [2011] Journal of Media Law

• Media Law in Ireland, (Bloomsbury Professional 2010), (co-author).

• Corporate Governance and Regulation:An Irish Perspective (Thomson Round Hall 2009), (co-editor and contributor).

• "Property Rights and the Power of Eminent Domain" in Carolan and Doyle eds., The Constitution at 70 (Thomson Round Hall) 2008).

• The Constitutional Rights of Companies, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2007.

• "Part 40 of the U.K. Companies Act 2006: Disqualification Orders go Global", International Company and Commercial Law Review, 2007, 166.

• "Relieving Directors: The Irish Approach", Company Law, 2007, 115.

• "Corporate Reputation in the House of Lords" (2007) 28(3) Company Lawyer 76.

• "Breach of the Peace as an Offence at Common Law", Journal of Criminal Law, 71 2007.

• "The effect of finding that Legislation is unconstitutional - the approach of the Irish Supreme Courtf" (2007) Common Law Review 220.

• "Part 40 of the U.K. Companies Act 2006: Disqualification Orders go Global", (2007) International Company and Commercial Law Review, 166.

• Unjust Enrichment and Restitution of Tax Paid Under a Mistake of Law", Irish Tax Review, 2007, 66.

• "Invalidity and Retrospectivity Under the Irish and Canadian Constitutions", Forum Constitutionnel, 2007, 147.

• "Reform of the Derivative Suit", New Law Journal, 2007, 356.

• "Section 12(1) of the Companies Act 1990 as a Weapon of Mass Discovery", Commercial Law Practitioner, 13, 3, 2006.

• “Corporate Freedom of Expression” (2005) 27 D.U.L.J. 185.

• “The Rule against Double Jeopardy and the Company and Some Thoughts on Interpretive Seepage” (2005) I.C.L.J. ( July, 2005).

• “Cross-Border Insolvency in the Supreme Court – Some (Euro) Food for Thought?” (2005) C.L.P. (May, 2005).

• “The Right to Silence and the Company” (2005) Irish Jurist (forthcoming July, 2005).

• “The Path not Taken – The Global Approach to the Free Movement of Persons” (2000) 3 T.C.L.R. 111.

 

 

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