Biography

Sarah Fulham-McQuillan (LL.B., Dub.) is currently researching the philosophical underpinnings of causation, and its practical application to medical negligence, with a view to developing a coherent model of causation that will be theoretically sound, and practical. Having completed her LL.B. in TCD, graduating in 2011, she joined the PhD register under supervision of Prof Neville Cox. Sarah has published in the areas of medical ethics and the law, causation, and vulnerable adults and the law, and has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences. She teaches family law seminars to sophister students, and tort law seminars to the freshman class. Sarah has also been an invited guest lecturer on the undergraduate tort law and jurisprudence courses.

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Professional Qualifications

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Awards

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Research Interests

• Medical Negligence
• Tort Law
• Medical Ethics and the Law
• Jurisprudence
• Vulnerable Adults and the Law
• Family Law
• Philosophical Foundations of Common Law Doctrines.

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Education Details

• Ph.D. Candidate Trinity College Dublin (2011- present.)
  
• LL.B. Trinity College Dublin (2007 – 2011.)

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Employment Details

• Seminar tutor in Family Law (Trinity College Dublin) 2011 - present.
  
• Seminar tutor in Tort Law (Trinity College Dublin) 2012 - present.
  
• Law School Liaison Officer.
  
• Vice-chair of the Postgraduate Research Students’ Committee.
  
• Director of the San Francisco Summer Law School at Trinity College Dublin.
  
• Coach to the TCD undergraduate Moot Court team, entrants to the Oxford Price Media Law International Moot Court Competition 2013.
  
• Coach to the TCD undergraduate Moot Court team, entrants to the National University of Ireland Maynooth
• Silken Thomas Intervarsity Moot Court Competition 2012. Team member awarded “best speaker” and the team were overall winners of the competition.

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Memberships /Associations /Publications

• Member of the Irish Jurisprudence Society.
  
• Member of the Irish Association of Law Teachers.
  
• Member of the Irish Society of Comparative Law.
  
• Member of the Constitutional Law and Policy Group, TCD.
  
• Member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, UK.

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Publications

Peer-Review:
“Adult Children acting as Informal Carers: The Need for Regulation” (2012) 1 Socio-Legal Studies Review (forthcoming).

Student Peer-Review:
“Hypothesising a Hypothetical on a Probable Basis: Can this be Factual Cause in Medical Negligence?” (2012) 15 Trinity College Law Review 15.

Winner of the Reddy Charlton prize for “best article” as chosen by Professor William Binchy, Regius Professor of Laws, Trinity College Dublin.

“When the Chips are Down, Who has a Stake in Your Kidney? A new approach to organ procurement in Ireland” (2011) 1 King’s Inns Student Law Review 33.

Conference Presentations:
“Medical Negligence Litigation: A Risky Game of Chance?” Selected to present at the Irish Association of Law Teachers, “Legal Scholarship and Judicial Reasoning: A Mutual Interaction” 32nd Annual Conference, Killiney, Dublin, November 2012.

Invited lecture to undergraduate students from around Ireland on behalf of DCU and the Dublin Region Higher Education Alliance, at the “Research Matters”, National Undergraduate Research Workshop, NUI Maynooth, November 2012.

“Loss of Chance in Medical Negligence: Hypothetically Probable or Possible?” Selected to present at The Society of Legal Scholars, 103rd Annual Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, September 2012.

“The Dominance of Policy in Medical Negligence Causation; Society’s Influence or an Influence on Society?” Paper presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Association, 22nd Annual Conference, De Montfort University Law School, Leicester, England, April 2012.

“No Donor is an Island; Law’s Role in Supporting Society to Improve Organ Donation”. Paper presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Association, 22nd Annual Conference, De Montfort University Law School, Leicester, England, April 2012.

“Hypothesising a Hypothetical on a Probable Basis; Can This Be Factual Cause in Medical Negligence Litigation?” Paper presented at the Irish Society of Comparative Law, 4th Annual Conference, University College Cork, March 2012.

“Case without a Cause? Relevance of the “but for” test in Medical Negligence Litigation”. Paper presented at the Trinity College Law Colloquium, Law School, Trinity College Dublin, February 2012.

“Who has a stake in your kidney? The role of law in procuring organs – a new approach for Ireland”. Paper presented at the “Added Value(s) – The Role of Law in Contemporary Society” Irish Association of Law Teachers, 31st Annual Conference, Athlone, November 2011.

“Who has a stake in your kidney? A new approach to procuring organs in Ireland”. Paper presented at the “Research in the Real World” Undergraduate Research Conference, Dublin Region Higher Education Alliance, The Helix, Dublin City University, October 2011.

“It’s my Kidney, and I’ll Donate if I Want to!” Paper presented at the “Rethinking Law” Trinity College Law Colloquium, Law School, Trinity College Dublin, February 2011.

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