Biography

Diarmuid Rossa Phelan BCL (NUI) LLM (BERKELEY) Ph D (EUROPEAN UNIV INST FLORENCE), Barrister-at-Law, Attorney (NEW YORK). Diarmuid Rossa Phelan is a practising barrister and lectures in Competition Law, Jurisprudence, and European Community Law.

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Professional Qualifications

• BCL (NUI)
• LLM (BERKELEY)
• Ph D, (EUROPEAN UNIV INST FLORENCE)
• BL, (HON SOCIETY OF THE KING'S INNS)
• DALF (Min for Education, Paris)
• MA (Dub)

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Representations

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Administrative Functions

• Director of the Euro-China Law School.

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Awards and Honours

International

• Foundation Robert Schuman Scholar (Paris)
• Baring Senior Scholar (University of Oxford)
• Canadian Faculty Research Award
• Kennedy Scholar

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Education Details

• European University Institute
• University of Oxford (Hertford College)
• French Ministry of National Education
• The Honorable Society of the King's Inns
• Lincoln's Inn London
• Bar of the State of New York
• University of California at Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall)
• University College Dublin

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Employment Details

• Jean Monnet Lecturer and later Lecturer in Law/Assistant Professor; Law School, Trinity College Dublin; 1994 to date
• Senior Counsel; 2008 to date, Barrister-at-Law; 1994-2008 pro bono publico actions, commercial and private clients, State and semi-State Departments and Officers, in the Superior Courts in Ireland, in the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxemburg, and in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and in Committees and Tribunals of Inquiry established by the Irish Parliament Dublin 1994 to 2008
• Jean Monet Fellow; European University Institute 1999
• Legal Secretary; Cabinet of AG Fennelly and Murray, J. Court of Justice (Luxembourg);

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Memberships /Associations /Publications

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Publications

Book

• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, Authority and Interpretaton in Law, Four Courts Press, 2000
  2000
• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, Revolt or Revolution: At the Constitutional Boundaries of the European Community, Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell, 1997
• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa with Rudden, B., Basic Community Cases, 2nd, Oxford,, 1997

Book Chapter

• with J.L. Murray, Chief Justice, "Der Schutz der sozialen Grundrechte in der Rechtsordnung Irlands" in Soziale Grundrechte in Europea Nach Lissabon (Nomos, 2010), pp325-390, Ed. J. Iliopoulos-Strangas
• The Effect of Complexity of Law on Litigation Strategy in, editor(s)Masson, Antoine; Shariff, Mary J , Legal Strategies - How Corporations Use Law to Improve Performance, Berlin, Springer, 2010, pp335 - 351, [Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa]
• Contributor to Good Faith in Contract in the European Community, (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Eds. R. Zimmerman & S. Whittaker
• The Context of Ratification in, Amsterdam: What the Treaty means, Institute of European Affairs, 1998, [ - ]

Journal Article

• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, “Lawyering Skills Education in the Irish University” (2010) 3 Phoenix Law Review 295
  
• Kees Jan Kuilwijk and Diarmuid Rossa Phelan, On the tax-deductibility of fines for EC competition law infringements, European Competition Law Review, 31, (3), 2010, p131 - 138
• "Reflectins on Lies in a Mirror", Dublin University Law Journal, 20, 1, 2008
• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, Right to Life v Trade in Services: the Normative Shaping of EC Law, Modern Law Review, 55, (670)
• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, National Constitutional Law and European Integration: FIDE Report, Irish Journal of European Law, 24, 1997
  
• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, Case C-75/92 Gao Yao, Common Market Law Review, 149, 1996
  
• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, Necessitated by the Obligations of Membership? Article 29.4.5E of the Constitution, Irish Law Times, 272, 1993
  
• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, Between the Single Market and the European Union, PS: Political Science and Politics, 732, 1993
  

Working Paper

• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, The Application of United States and European Community Domestic Trade Laws to the Imports of Nonmarket Economy GATT Contracting Partis - A Time for Change, EUI/Law 1992/28 (Florence, 1992).

Invited Talk

• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, The Relationship between the EU and its nation-states, Does Europe Need a Constitution?, Philip Morris Institute, London, 1996, Philip, Morris Institute
  

Non Peer Reviewed Publications

• Journal Article
• Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa, Popular Sovereignty and Natural Law, 86 Studies , 215, 1997

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Postgraduate Research Students

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Links

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