Biography

Ivana Bacik LLB LLM (LOND), FTCD (2005) Barrister-at-Law. Ivana Bacik is the Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology (1996), a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a practising Barrister. Ivana is Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning in the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. She has a Law degree from Trinity College Dublin and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. She practises as a barrister, and teaches courses in Criminal law; Criminology and Penology; and Feminist Theory and Law at Trinity. Her research interests include criminal law and criminology, constitutional law, feminist theories and law, human rights and equality issues in law. Ivana Bacik was elected to the Seanad in 2007.

 

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Professional Qualifications

• Degree of Barrister-at-Law, The Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin, 1994
• Degree of Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, London, 1992

 

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Representations

• Independent Senator (Dublin University Constituent), Seanad Eireann
• Editor, Irish Criminal Law Journal, 1997 – 2000

 

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Administrative Functions

• Head of School (acting), 2010-2011
• Director of Teaching and Learning (Undergraduate) - 2007-09
• College Tutor;
• Member, College Equality Committee and Student Health Committe

 

 

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Awards and Honours

• Provost's Teaching Award, 2006
• Middle Temple Pupillage Award, 1992
• Middle Temple Major Benefactors Award, 1991
• London School of Economics Bursary & Maintenance Award,1990
• British Academy Studentship Award to L.S.E., 1990
• Trinity College Dublin Entrance Exhibitionship and Sizarship, 1985

 

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Education Details

• LLB, University of Dublin – 1989
• LLM (LOND), 1991
• Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple, London, 1992)
• Barrister-at-Law (King’s Inns, Dublin, 1994

 

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Employment Details

• Practising Barrister – to date
• Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology, Trinity College, 1996 - date
• Temporary Full-Time Lecturer, Law School, Trinity College Dublin, 1995 - 1996
• Lecturer (full-time permanent), National College of Industrial Relations Dublin, 1993 - 1995
• Part-time Lecturer, University of North London, 1991 - 1993
• Part-time Seminar Tutor, University of Kent, 1992 – 1993
• Pupil Barrister, London, 1992 - 199

 

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Memberships /Associations

 

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Publications

Books

I.C. Bacik, Prostitution, forthcoming.

I.C. Bacik and L. Heffernan, Criminal Law and Procedure: Current Issues and Emerging Trends, Dublin, First Law, 2009, 1 -178pp.

I.C. Bacik, Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the Twenty-First Century, 2004, Published by O’Brien Press, Dublin.

Gender InJustice. Co-author with Costello, C. and Drew, E., 2003, Published by Trinity College Law School (Funding from Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and British Council), 1 - 431 pp.

Towards a Culture of Human Rights in Ireland. Co-author with Livingstone, S., (2001), Published by Cork University Press.

Crime and Poverty in Ireland. Co-editor with O'Connell, M., 1998, Round Hall.

The Legal Process and Victims of Rape. Co-author with Maunsell, C. and Gogan, S., 1998, Published by Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (Funded by EU Grotius Project).

Abortion and the Law. Co-author with Kingston, J. and Whelan, A., 1997, Round Hall/Sweet & Maxwell.

Books Chapter

Recent Developments in the Law on Search Warrants, in editors I.C. Bacik and L. Heffernan, Criminal Law and Procedure: Current Issues and Emerging Trends, Dublin, First Law, 2009, pp 35-52.

Future Directions for the Constitution in, editor(s) Doyle, Oran and Carolan, Eoin, The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2008, pp135-146.

'Law in a Republic' in editor(s) Jones M (ed), The Republic : Essays form the Thomas Davis Lecture Series, 2005, Published by Mercier Press, 2005, pp 102-118.

'Immigration and Citizenship Law: Implications of the Referendum Proposal' in, editor(s) Trinity College Law School, The Citizenship Referendum: Implications for the Constitution and Human Rights, 2004, Dublin, TCD Law School, pp. 34-47

‘Criminal Law’, Kilkelly, U. (ed), ECHR and Irish Law, 2004, Bristol: Jordan Publishing.

‘Harassment’ in Costello, C. and Barry, E. (eds), Equality in Diversity: the New Equality Directives. Dublin, 2003, Published by the Irish Centre for European Law.

'Women and the Criminal Justice System', O’Mahony, P. (ed), Criminal Justice in Ireland. Dublin, 2002, IPA.

'Legal Status of Pupils in the European Union: The Situation in Ireland', in editor(s) De Groof J and Penneman, H. (eds), The Legal Status of Pupils in Europe, 1998, London, Kluwer International.

'Combating Discrimination: the affirmative action approach' in editor(s) Byrne, R and Duncan, W (eds), Developments in Discrimination Law in Ireland and Europe, 1997, Dublin, the Irish Centre for European Law.

Article

'Breaking the Language Barrier" Access to Justice in New Ireland", Judicial Studies Institute Journal, 2, 2007, p109-

'Struggling with Juggling: Gender and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Professions', 2006, Women's Studies International Forum, 29 2006, 136, 146, 2006.

'Gender InJustice', Law Society Gazette, 98 (6), 2004, Law Society Gazette, p16-16.

'Gender InJustice - Women's Lawyers', Bar Review, 8 (6), 2003, Bar Review

‘Free Speech, the Common Good and the Rights Debate’, Republic, 2003,

"'If it Ain't Broke?" A Critical View of the Law reform Commission Consultation paper on Homicide: Mental Element in Murder', Irish Criminal Law Journal, 12, 2002, p.6-9

'Sentencing Practice in Ireland: A Focus on the Concepts of Minimum and Mandatory Sentencing' in, editor(s) Binchy, W, and Sarkin, J (eds), Human Rights, the Citizens and the State: South African and Irish Approaches, 2001, Dublin, Roundhall.

'Incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights - What Effect will it have on Innocence, Silence and Legal Representation in Irish Criminal Law?', Irish Criminal Law Journal, 11, 2001, p 14-17.

'Case and Comment: DPP v FINN, 2001, Irish Criminal Law Journal, 11 p 22.

'Harassment', Employment Law Today, (2001) 1, p 32-42.

‘Rape and the Law: the Quest for a Best-Practice Rape Law Model’, (2000) 4 Irish Journal of Feminist Studies 17-30.

‘The Sex Offenders Bill 2000’, (2000) 5 (7) Bar Review 387-90.

'Law Reform Commission Consultation Paper on Homicide: The Mental Element in Murder', 2000, Dublin University Law Journal, 22 p. 264-269.

'Reflections on the Operationof the Bail Act 1997', (2000) Practice and Procedure, p 3-5.

Bacik I, Kelly, A, O'Connell, M and Sinclair H 'Crime and Poverty in Dublin: an analysis of the association between community deprivation, District Court appearance and sentence severity, 1997, Irish Criminal Law Journal, 7 p 104-133.

'Abortion: Conflicting Rights, Duties and Arguments', 1997, Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland p 83-84.

'Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997', 1997, Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated, p 26-01 - 260-08.

'The Bail Act 1997', 1997, Practice and Procedure 3, p7-9.

'Crime and Poverty in Dublin: an analysis of the association between community deprivation, District Court appearance and sentence severity', co-author with Bacik, I., Kelly, A., O'Connell, M. and Sinclair, H., 1997, Crime and Poverty in Ireland, and in (1997) 7 Irish Criminal Law Journal 104-133.

 

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Postgraduate Research Students

Student	Thesis	Degree
David Hughes	Codification of Ireland's Criminal Law: the German Model as a Prototyp	M.Litt
Mary Rogan	Prison Policy in Ireland Since 1922	Ph.D.

 

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Links

• Women in Law Project (Gender InJustice Report)

 

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