Niall J. Cavanagh, BSc. (Hons), CEng MIEI, BL, Assistant Commissioner (Senior Legal Adviser) in the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
Niall qualified with a degree in Computer Science in Queen’s University of Belfast in 1991, then worked within international telecommunications companies as a Systems Manager, developer, Business Analyst and Programme Manager for 12 years. During that time, he was enrolled as a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Institute of Ireland (now Engineering Ireland).
He was called to the Bar of Ireland in 2005 and practised as a Barrister at Law in the Eastern Circuit and Dublin until 2017.
In December 2017, he joined the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland as an Assistant Commissioner, in the role of Senior Legal Adviser.
Dr David Fennelly, LL.B.(Ling.Franc., Dubl.), LL.M.(NYU), Ph.D.(Dubl.), Barrister-at-Law, Assistant Professor in Law in the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin
David Fennelly is assistant professor at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, where he co-teaches Data Protection: Law, Policy and Practice on the LLM Programme. David is also a practising barrister and regularly appears in proceedings, including in the field of data protection, before the Irish and European courts. He is also a member of the Government Data Forum.
https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=fenneld
Dr Eoin O’Dell, BCL (NUI), BCL (Oxon), PhD (Cantab), MA (jo) (Dubl), LLM (a e Oxon) (Dubl), Barrister (Kings Inns), FTCD, Associate Professor of Law in Trinity College Dublin.
Eoin O’Dell is an Associate Professor in the Law School at Trinity College Dublin. He researches and publishes primarily in the fields of freedom of expression, and private and commercial law - and especially where they overlap in IP, IT and cyberlaw.
He has been Chair of the Fellows in Trinity College Dublin, President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, a Member of the Council and Executive of the Society of Legal Scholars in the UK and Ireland, and Editor of the Dublin University Law Journal.
He has a diverse range of experience, which includes: chairing Copyright Review Group which presented its final report to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in October 2013; he was a member of the Government Data Forum, established by the Minister of State with responsibility for Data Protection to advise Government on the challenges that arise from the growth in the digital economy; and he is also Legal Advisor to the Digital Repository Ireland.
https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=odelle
http://dri.ie/dri-team/eoin-odell
http://www.cearta.ie
Dr Andelka M. Phillips, LLB/BA, BA(Hons), LLM(First Class Honours) (Auckland), DPhil (Oxon) Ussher Assistant Professor in IT Law in the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin
Andelka M. Phillips is the Ussher Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law in the Law School at Trinity College Dublin, where she is also the convenor of Technology, Law and Society Research Group. She is also a Research Associate with the University of Oxford’s Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) Centre.
Her recent research has focussed on the regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests and she is currently working on a book, entitled Buying Your Self on the Internet: Wrap Contracts and Personal Genomics to be published by Edinburgh University Press as part of its Future Law series. She is also co-editing with Professor Jonathan Herring and Dr Thana Campos Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law, which will be published as part of Oxford University Press' Philosophical Foundations of Law series.
www.andelkamphillips.com
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