Biography

John Cotter BCL, LLB (Hons) (NUI-UCC), Barrister-at-Law (King's Inns) completed a BCL (Law and German) degree at University College Cork in 2004. He spent the academic year of 2002/03 at Universität Konstanz, Germany. He subsequently received a first class honours LLB degree from University College Cork in 2005, before being called to the Bar of Ireland in 2006, having graduated from King’s Inns with merit.

John worked as a Research Assistant at the Office of the Attorney General on the Statute Law Revision Project in 2006-2007. He practiced at the Irish bar from 2007 to 2011. He lectured and tutored part-time at Dublin City University from 2009-2012, lecturing Advanced European Union Law, Advanced Tort Law, Advanced Contract Law and Introduction to Law as well as tutoring Jurisprudence.

John is currently reading for a PhD in Trinity College Dublin entitled: “Steadying Factors in the Decision-Making Processes of the Court of Justice of the EU in Article 267 TFEU Preliminary References: Why the Decisions of the Court are Reckonable”.

He is presently a Visiting Scholar at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany and from January-July 2012 was a Visiting Scholar at Universität Rostock, Germany.

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Professional Qualifications

Barrister-at-Law (King’s Inns) (2006)

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Awards

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Research Interests

• EU Law
• The Court of Justice of the EU
• Legal Theory
• American Legal Realism

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Education Details

• BCL (Law and German) (NUI – UCC) (2004)
• LLB (NUI – UCC) (2005)

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Employment Details

• Lecturer and Tutor in Law (Part-Time) Dublin City University,
  September 2010 – January 2012
• Barrister-at-Law, The Law Library,
  October 2007 – October 2011
• Research Assistant, Statute Law Revision Project @ the Office of the Attorney General of Ireland,
  September 2006 – September 2007

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Memberships /Associations /Publications

• Society of Legal Scholars

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Publications

• Cotter, J., “The German Federal Constitutional Court and Welfare Benefits for Asylum Seekers: Consequences for the Direct Provision and Dispersal Scheme in Ireland?” (2013) Irish Law Times (forthcoming in two parts, January 2013)

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