Adjunct Staff 2013/14

Shane Costelloe B.C.L.; M.Litt.; Dip. ECHR; BL has been a practicing Barrister in Dublin for over 10 years. His areas of expertise include Criminal Law, with a special interest in the areas of proceeds of crime and seizure of assets as well as 'White-Collar' crime. He also practices extensively in the area of Child-Care Law. Mr Costelloe lectures on the Law of on the Seizure of Criminal Assets on the LL.M. degree programme.

James Gallen LL.B (TCD), LL.M. (NYU) is a graduate and Scholar of Trinity College Dublin and a graduate of New York University School of Law. He is a former Transitional Justice Scholar at New York University and has served as a Fellow at the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York and Kathmandu. Mr. Gallen is currently a PhD Candidate in the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin. His doctoral thesis examines the relationship between transitional justice, peace-building, security sector reform and economic development in international law. His research interests include human rights, international law and legal and political philosophy.

Imelda Higgins B.C.L. (NUI), LL.M. (NUI), Diploma in European Law (Bruges), Barrister-at-Law lectures in European Intellectual Property Law on the LL.M. Programme.

Shelley Horan BCL, LL.M, BL is a practicing barrister of five years standing. She graduated from University College Dublin with a BCL (Hons) in 2000, obtained an LL.M (Hons) in King’s College London in 2006 and graduated with an honours Barrister-at-Law degree from King’s Inns in 2005. Shelley is currently writing her PhD in the Legal Regulation of the Financial Markets. She is also a director of the Project Arts Centre and training to be an accredited mediator. Shelley has a general practice at the Bar but specialises in commercial and corporate law and intellectual property law. She has published a book on corporate crime, has written a number of papers, and has made contributions to seminars, especially in the area of corporate/white-collar crime.

TP Kennedy, LLB. TP Kennedy is Legal Education Co-ordinator of the Law Society of Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He lectures in Conflicts of Laws, International Law and International and Economic Law. He has practised as a litigation solicitor with McCann Fitzgerald, Dublin and lectured in law at the University of Leeds. He has written on issues in Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Poland and the USA. He edits Eurlegal – the European Law Section of the Law Society’s Gazette and is Editor in Chief of a new law review – the Hibernian Law journal.

Ewa Komorek, LLB (Warsaw), LL.M (Amsterdam), Ph.D (Trinity College Dublin) has a Law degree from University of Warsaw and an LL.M. from Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam. In 2008 she was awarded a Ph.D by the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She formerly worked for the European Commission’s DG Competition (Media Unit) and in the EU & Competition Departments of Linklaters and Hammonds law firms in Brussels. She also worked as a consultant in the EU & Competition team of A&L Goodbody Solicitors in Dublin. Her research interests include European Union law, European competition law, Media and Telecommunications law. She also worked for the Sales Law Review Group in the Irish Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Her areas of expertise include law of the European Union, media law, human rights, with particular emphasis on freedom of expression, competition law, and consumer law.

Donald A. MacLean, B.A. in Biological Sciences (University of Delaware), M.B.A. in Corporate Finance (Columbia University), J.D. (Hofstra University), LL.M. (Trinity College Dublin), Attorney at Law (New York). Don is a senior regulator in the Markets Supervision Department of the Central Bank of Ireland. He has twenty-five years of experience in the financial services industry.

Barry Mansfield undertook his BCL at University College Dublin and then completed the degree of Barrister-at-law from The Honorable Society of King’s Inns and was called to the Bar of Ireland. He subsequently received his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. He was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York and practised as an attorney with the firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in both New York and in London. He is currently a practising barrister based in Dublin.

Grainne Mullan, LL.B. (Dub.), LL.M. (Cantab.), Barrister-at-Law.  She lectures in Criminal Procedure, and in Human Rights Law on the LL.B and LL.M. programmes.  Her research interests are in the areas of criminal law and procedure and human rights, particularly the law of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Jonathan Newman LLB (DU), LLM (Cantab), BL has been a practising barrister for seven years, one of the areas in which he works being Private International Law. He lectured for several years at University College Dublin, in Private International Law, Intellectual Property Law and Commercial Law, and also teaches at the Law Society of Ireland. Previously he worked in the Law Reform Commission.

Niall O’Hanlon B.A.(Hons.)(Accounting & Finance), LL.M.(Commercial Law), Barrister-at-Law, F.C.A., A.I.T.I., was called to the Bar in 1994. He is a practising Barrister specialising in Revenue and Commercial Law. Niall has published extensively, with articles in, inter alia, The Bar Review, the Law Society’s Gazette, the Irish Law Times, Commercial Law Practitioner, and the Irish Tax Review. His research interests include Revenue Law, Corporate Governance, International Accounting Regulation, Insolvency and Intellectual Property.

Niall has served as editor of CaseLink, a law reporting service provided by the Irish Taxation Institute and he is a regular speaker at the Institute’s Breakfast Briefings presentations. He has also served as editor of both the Law Library’s judgments database and of Irish Business Law. He is an Accredited Mediator and has acted as an adjudicator under the Private Residential Tenancies Act. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and an Associate of the Irish Taxation Institute. Niall lectures on Elements of E.U. and International Tax Law and Policy on the Law School’s LL.M programme.

Julien Sterck, BCL, D.E.A., Maîtrise. Julien teaches French Constitutional Law, French Legal System and French Civil Law.

Ferdinand Prinz zur Lippe practices as Rechtsanwalt in Germany with a focus on distribution, corporate and trade, competition and cartel law. Between 2003-10 he was Director of Law and German studies at the Law School and DAAD-Fachlektor. Since 2004 he is also lecturing at the Universität der Bundeswehr (university of the German military forces). He studied law at the universities of Passau, Würzburg and Munich graduating with the Bavarian state examination and as Diplomjurist. He completed his professional training with the freestate of Bavaria as Assessor (second state examination – admission to the bar). In addition he studied political sciences, psychology and history graduating with as M.A. from the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München. He teaches on the LL.M. programme of the Law School in Advanced European Comparative Law and Legal Systems.

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