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Ivana Bacik

Ivana

Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning

Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology

School of Law
Room 18, House 39
Trinity College, Dublin 2
Tel: (01) 896 2299
Fax: (01) 677 0449
Email: icbacik at tcd.ie

Areas of Interest

Criminal Law, Criminology, Constitutional law, Equality and Human Rights law, Feminist Theory and Law.

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.
  • Degree of Barrister-at-Law, The Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin, 1994
  • Degree of Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, London, 1992
  • Independent Senator (Dublin University Constituent), Seanad Eireann
  • Editor, Irish Criminal Law Journal, 1997 – 2003
  • College Tutor;
  • Member, College Equality Committee and Student Health Committee
  • 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
  • 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
  • LLB, University of Dublin – 1989
  • LLM (LOND), 1991
  • Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple, London, 1992)
  • Barrister-at-Law (King’s Inns, Dublin, 1994
  • 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 - 1993

Prostitution and the Law in Ireland, for publication in 2009.

Type

Reference

Year

Status

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

Book

Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the Twenty-First Century

2004

Published by O’Brien Press, Dublin

Chapter

‘Criminal Law’

2004

Published in

Kilkelly, U. (ed), ECHR and Irish Law. Bristol: Jordan Publishing

Chapter '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

Book

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)

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

Chapter

‘Harassment’ in Costello, C. and Barry, E. (eds), Equality in Diversity: the New Equality Directives. Dublin:

2003

Published Irish Centre for European Law

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

Article

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

2003

(2003) Republic

Article 'Feminism', Lalor, B., Encyclopaedia of Ireland 2003 Dublin, Gill & MacMillan

Chapter

'Women and the Criminal Justice System'

2002

Published in O’Mahony, P. (ed),

Criminal Justice in Ireland. Dublin: IPA

Book 'Women in Law in Ireland, (with Cathryn Costello) 2002 Bar Review 7 (4) p 4-5

Chapter

'The Practice of Sentencing in the Irish Courts'

2002

Published in O’Mahony, P. (ed),

Criminal Justice in Ireland. Dublin: IPA

Article "'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

Book

Towards a Culture of Human Rights in Ireland. Co-author with Livingstone, S.

2001

Published by Cork University Press

Chapter '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
Article 'Incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights - What Effect will it have on Innocence, Silence and Legal Representation in Irish Criminal Law?' 2001 Irish Criminal Law Journal, 11, p 14-17
Article 'Case and Comment: DPP v FINN 2001 Irish Criminal Law Journal, 11 p 22
Article 'Harassment', 2001 Employment Law Today, 1, p 32-42

Article

‘Rape and the Law: the Quest for a Best-Practice Rape Law Model’

2000

(2000) 4 Irish Journal of Feminist Studies 17-30

Article

‘The Sex Offenders Bill 2000’

2000

(2000) 5 (7) Bar Review 387-90

Article 'Law Reform Commission Consultation Paper on Homicide: The Mental Element in Murder' 2000 Dublin University Law Journal, 22 p. 264-269
Article 'Reflections on the Operationof the Bail Act 1997' 2000 Practice and Procedure, p 3-5

Article

‘Consistent Sentencing?’

1999

38 Studies, 164-174

Book

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

1998

Published by

Round Hall

Book

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)

Chapter '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
Article 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
Chapter '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, Irish Centre for European Law
Article 'Abortion: Conflicting Rights, Duties and Arguments', 1997 Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland p 83-84
Article 'Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997' 1997 Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated, p 26-01 - 260-08
Article 'The Bail Act 1997' 1997 Practice and Procedure 3, p7-9

Article

'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

Published in Crime and Poverty in Ireland, and in (1997) 7 Irish Criminal Law Journal 104-133

Book

Abortion and the Law. Co-author with Kingston, J. and Whelan, A.

1997

Published by Round Hall/Sweet & Maxwell

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.

Women in Law Project (Gender InJustice Report)

 

 

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