Biography

Caoimhin MacMaolain B.C.L. (N.U.I.) Ll. M. (N.U.I.) Ph.D. (D.C.U.) started his lecturing career at Dublin City University where he taught Company, Commercial and E.U. Law.He has come to T.C.D. from Exeter University, where he lectured in European Union Law and International Trade Law, and supervised doctoral students in the areas of E.C. Substantive Law and International Trade Regulation. Caoimhin's research interests are in the areas of European Union Law and InternationalFood law, and Regulation, and he has published in several of the main journals in these fields, including the European Law Review and the Common Market Law Review.

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Professional Qualifications

• Ph.D., Dublin City University;
• LL.M., University College Dublin;
• BCL, University College Dubli

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Representations

• Examiner LL.B. University of London, Company Law and European Union Law
• Society of Legal Scholars, Convenor for Ireland, 2006 - present.
• Member of the UK Association of European Lawyers
• Co-editor of Dublin University Law Journal, 2006 - present

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Administrative Functions

College Tutor

Awards and Honours

 

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Education Details

 

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Employment Details

• Lecturer in Law, Trinity College Dublin; October 2005 - to date
  • Lecturer in EU Law and International Trade Law
• Jean Monnet Chair EU Law, University of Exeter; June 2002 - September 2005
  • Lecturer in EU Law and International Trade Law.
    
  • Director, Centre for European Legal Studies.
    
  • Director Postgraduate Studies.
    
  • Director LL.M. European Union Law.
    
  • Ph.D. Supervision: LL.M. Dissertation Supervision.
    
• Lecturer in Law, University of Northampton; September 2000 - May 2002
  • Lecturer in Company Law, Commercial Law and Jurisprudence.
    
  • Module coordinator LL.M. Research. Methods and
  • Dissertations.
    
  • Student Law Society coordinator.
    
• Postdoctoral fellow, Dublin City University; March 2000 - August 2000
  • Medical Law Research.

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Publications

Books

• MacMaoláin C, EU Food Law: protecting consumers and health in a common market, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007, 290pp.

Book Chapter

• MacMaoláin C, "Securing Safety, Controlling Crises: Development and Misapplication of Food Law in the European Union" in, editor(s)Antoniadis, Schutze, Spaventa , The European Union and Global Emergencies: A Law and Policy Analysis, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011, pp193 - 205, [MacMaolain]

Journal articles

• MacMaolain C, "Ramifications of the EU/IMF Loan to Ireland for the Financial Services Sector and for Irish Law and Society", European Public Law, 17, (3), 2011, p387 - 399 2011
• MacMaolain C, "Compensating for employment training costs: Olympique Lyonnais Sasp v Olivier Bernard and Newcastle United FC", Employment Law Review, 2010, p62 - 67 2010
• MacMaolain C, "Placing limitations on acceptable acts of ageism: The significance of the decision in Andersen", Employment Law Review, 2010, p69 - 74 2010
• MacMaolain C, "Clarifying pay entitlements during maternity leave: The decisions in Gassmayr and Parviainen", Employment Law Review, 2, 2010, p84 - 88
• MacMaoláin, C, "Out with the old: Court of Justice seeks to clarify when dismissal based on age may be legitimate", Employment Law Review, 1, (1), 2009, p62 - 67
• MacMaoláin, C, "Engaging employees in collective redundancy negotiations: the recent decision in Akavan v Fujitsu", Employment Law Review, 1, (2), 2009, p140 - 145
• MacMaoláin, C, "Access to legal traineeships in other Member States: significance of the decision in Pesla", Employment Law Review, 1, (3), 2009, p234 - 237
• MacMaoláin, C, Difficult derogations, non-standardisation and the phantom 'rule of reason': the negative impact of free movement law and policy on the quality and nutritional value of food in the EU, European Journal of Consumer Law, (1), 2009, p125 - 147
  
• MacMaoláin, 'Waiter! There's a beetle in my soup. Yes sir, that's E120: Disparities between actual individual behaviour and regulating food labelling for the average consumer in EU Law' (2008) 45 Common Market Law Review 1-19.
• MacMaoláin, 'Eligibility criteria for protected geographical food names' (2006), 31 European Law Review 579-592
• MacMaoláin C, 'The new genetically modified food labelling requirements: finally a lasting solution?' (2003) 28 European Law Review 865-879
• MacMaoláin C, 'Using the precautionary principle to protect human health' (2003) 28 European Law Review 723-734
• MacMaoláin C, 'Reforming European Community Food Law: putting quality back on the agenda' (2003) 58 Food and Drug Law Journal 549-565
• MacMaoláin C, 'Ethical food labelling: the role of European Union freetrade in facilitating international fairtrade' (2002) 39 Common Market Law Review 295-314
• MacMaoláin C, 'Free movement of foodstuffs, quality requirements and consumer protection: have the Court and the Commission both got it wrong?' (2001) 26 European Law Review 413-428

Reviews

• Vos and Wendler (Eds), Food Safety Regulation in Europe. Intersentia: Antwerpen-Oxford, 2006. (2008) 15 Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law.
• Tridimas, The General Principles of EU Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006, (2008) 14 European Public Law.
• Pallemaerts, Toxics and Transnational Law: International and European Regulation of Toxic Substances as Legal Symbolism. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2003. (2004) 41 Common Market Law Review 1173.
• Snyder (Ed.), International Food Security and Global Legal Pluralism ˆ Sécurité Alimentaire Internationale et Pluralisme Juridique Mondial. Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2004. (2005) 30 European Law Review 596.

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Conferences

MacMaolain C, Rights in Employment Law for people suffering from neurological disorders, European Federation of Neurological Associations, HungExpo, Budapest, Hungary, Sept 2011

MacMaolain, Role of EU Law in the Irish Economic Crisis, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Cambridge, September 2011

Paper MacMaoláin, C, The application of EU Law in food safety crises , The European Union and Global Emergencies International Conference, Durham, UK, 2009, 2009

MacMaoláin, C, Communication with consumers on the composition and nutritional benefits of foodstuffs in the European Union, European Food and Feed Law Conference, Apulia, Italy, 2009, 2009 2009

MacMaoláin, Legal responses to climate change: developing a carbon label for the EU, World Bank and World Trade Organisation International Conference on Climate Change, Washington DC, USA, 2009

MacMaoláin, C, New European Union Food Labelling Rules, ERA Food Law Conference, Parma, Italy, 2008, 2008

MacMaoláin, C, The proposal for a regulation on the provision of food information to consumers: making food labels clearer and more relevant to the needs of consumers, EIPA Food Law Conference, Luxembourg, 2008

MacMaoláin, C, Labelling requirements in EU Food Law, European Institute of Public Administration Seminar, Luxembourg, 2007

MacMaoláin, Review of Human Rights and International Trade, by Cottier, Pauwelyn and Burgi , Common Market Law Review, 44, (4), 2007, p525-528 2007

MacMaoláin, C, The potential impact of EU regulations on the making of nutrition and health claims, EIPA Food Law Conference, Luxembourg, 2006

MacMaoláin, New directions in European Union law and policy on the free movement of goods, SLS EU Law section , Keele, UK, 2006

MacMaoláin C, Review of International Food Security and Global Legal Pluralism – Sécurité Alimentaire Internationale et Pluralisme Juridique Mondial, by Snyder , European Law Review, 30, (5), 2005, p596-598 2005

MacMaoláin, Protecting consumers through suitable labelling disclosures in EU Law, European Institute of Public Administration, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2004

MacMaoláin C, Review of Toxics and Transnational Law: International and European Regulation of Toxic Substances as Legal Symbolism, by Pallemaerts , Common Market Law Review, 41, (6), 2004, p1173-1176 2004

MacMaoláin, C, Contradictions in European Union Regulation on the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms on to the market, Society of Legal Scholars, Leicester, UK, 2003, 2003

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