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Adjunct Professors

Name	Project

Mr Jeffrey Wool, J.D. (Columbia 1988), is the secretary general of the Aviation Working Group. He acts in that capacity on secondment from Watson Farley & Williams LLP, where he is senior global advisor based in their New York and London offices. He is also president of the UNIDROIT Foundation. He has a parallel academic background. He was professor of global business law at the University of Washington School of Law from 2011-2019, co-founding and co-directing its global business law institute and developing and teaching new courses on transnational commercial law, comparative commercial law, and international business compliance. He was a senior research fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and an affiliate member of the law faculty, University of Oxford from 2011 - 2023. He taught transnational commercial law jointly with prof. Roy Goode at Oxford from 1995 – 1998. He most recently taught comparative and transnational commercial law at Hebrew University (2024).

Adjunct Assistant Professors

Name	Adjunct Assistant Professor - Modules	E-Mail: (@tcd.ie)
Ms Samantha Arnold	Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law	saarnold@tcd.ie
William Binchy	African Human Rights, Chinese Legal System in Comparative Perspective and Globalisation and the Law	wbinchy@tcd.ie
Dr Alan Brady	Judicial Review and Human Rights: Theory and Practice and Foundations of Law	alan.brady@tcd.ie
Dr Val Corbett	MSc Law and Finance Dissertation	corbetav@tcd.ie
Mr Naoise Gaffney	Patent Law, Copyright Law, Trademark Law	naoise.gaffney@tcd.ie
Mr Glen Gibbons	Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Property Disputes	gibbonsg@tcd.ie
Mr TP Kennedy	International Economic Law and International Trade Law	kennedtp@tcd.ie
Dr Ewa Komorek	EU Aviation Law, International Aviation Law, EU Digital Single Market (Media and content regulation), Regulation of Cyberspeech, Dissertation Group	komoree@tcd.ie
Mr Donald MacLean	EU Financial Services Law x 2, Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance, Dissertation Group	macleada@tcd.ie
Mr Christopher McMahon	EU State Aid Law	cmcmaho9@tcd.ie
Mr Barry Mansfield	Principles of Commercial Arbitration	mansfieb@tcd.ie
Ms Gráinne Mullan	International and European Human Rights Law	gmullan@tcd.ie
Ms Sara-Jane O'Brien	International Business Tax Law	obries73@tcd.ie
Mr Eoin O'Connor	National Security Law	oconne22@tcd.ie
Dr Gemma O'Farrell	European Trademark and Design Law	gofarre@tcd.ie
Mr Colin Smith	International Humanitarian Law, International and European Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, Asylum Law, Anti-trafficking Law	colin.smith@tcd.ie
Dr Rachel Widdis	Business and Human Rights	rachel.widdis@tcd.ie

Val Corbett, BCL (NUI); LLM (NUI); PhD (Dub); is Head of Programmes at LawSchool.ie. His main teaching interests are in the areas of tort law, contract law, and employment law. He is the author of Tort Law (3rd ed) (Round Hall, 2019) and co-author of Employment Law in Ireland (2nd ed) (Clarus Press, 2022) with Neville Cox and Mark Connaughton. Val leads a Dissertation Group on the School of Law's MSc Finance and Law and also teaches Company & Business Law for the Trinity Business School.

Mr Naoise Gaffney, M.A. (Dub), M.Sc. (Dub), M.Sc (QMUL) is a patent attorney registered to practice before the European Patent Office, the UK Intellectual Property Office, the US Patent and Trademark Office and the Irish Patents Office. He is also a trademark attorney registered to practice before the EU Intellectual Property Office. He is Head of Patent Development at Intellectual Ventures, owner of one of the world’s largest patent portfolios. Prior to this, he spent a number of years in private practice, working for patent law firms in Ireland, Australia and Japan. He is chair of the IP Committee at Ibec, Ireland’s foremost business lobby, and founder of Start-Ed, an educational initiative that organizes free legal workshops for startups and entrepreneurs.

Mr Glen Gibbons, is a Senior Counsel and member of the Inner Bar with significant experience of Intellectual Property and EU law litigation before the Irish courts. He is a graduate of the University of Galway (with degrees in Law and Economics), University of Cambridge (LL.M.) and the Honorable Society of King's Inns. Glen is also the author of Gibbons on Trade Marks Law (3rd ed, Clarus Press).

Mr TP Kennedy, is Director of Education at the Law Society of Ireland. He is also an external examiner for the Institute of Professional Legal Education in Queens University, Belfast. He is a solicitor and before joining the Law Society was a lecturer in law in the University of Leeds and was in private practice for a number of years with one of Ireland’s largest law firms. He has co-written a textbook on European Law for Oxford University Press and contributed articles on issues of international and European law to a variety of legal publications. He is the advisory editor to the Hibernian Law Journal.

Dr Ewa Komorek, LL.B (Warsaw 2002), LL.M (Amsterdam, 2003), PhD (Trinity College Dublin, 2008) lectures four modules on the LL.M programme: International Aviation Law, EU Aviation Law, EU Digital Single Market (Media and content regulation) and Regulation of Cyber-speech. She formerly worked for the European Commission’s DG Competition (Media Unit) and in the EU and 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, as well as the research assistant for the Sales Law Review Group in the Irish Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. She was the country correspondent for Ireland for the 2012 update of the 2004 EMR study for the European Parliament entitled “The information of the citizen in the EU: obligations for the media and the Institutions concerning the citizen’s right to be fully and objectively informed”. Her areas of expertise include law of the European Union, media law, human rights, with particular emphasis on freedom of expression, competition law, aviation law and consumer law.

Mr 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 was the head of Primary Markets in the Securities and Markets Directorate of the Central Bank of Ireland responsible for the interpretation and implementation of, and compliance with, EU and national legislation and Central Bank of Ireland policy with regard to the prospectus, transparency and short selling regimes. He has twenty years of previous experience at firms in the financial services industry in New York, including Credit Suisse, Credit Agricole, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Sidley Austin LLP.

Mr 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.

Ms Gráinne Mullan is a practising barrister specialising in the areas of public and constitutional law, extradition and mutual assistance, and human rights law. She lectures Human Rights Law on the LL.M programme. Her research interests are in the areas of human rights law, particularly the law of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Ms Sarah-Jane O'Brien is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin (Law and French, 2015), the Honorable Society of King’s Inns (Barrister-at-Law, 2016), and Oxford University (MSc Taxation, 2020). In 2020, she was awarded the Irish Tax Institute Hunt Scholarship to complete the Chartered Tax Advisor examinations. She is a practising barrister in the Law Library in Dublin and has taught in the TCD Law School since 2020. For the academic year 2021-2022 she will lecture International Business Tax Law and also lead a Dissertation Group on the LLM programme. Sara-Jane is a committee member of the Irish Society for European Law and a case note editor for the Irish Journal for European Law.

Mr Colin Smith, LL.B. (Dub), M.Litt. (Dub), B.L. Colin Smith is a barrister practising in the field of human rights law. He specialises in asylum and immigration law and in cases involving trafficking in human beings. He has worked in Chambers at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown and in the War Crimes Division of the Office of the Prosecutor at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. He frequently advises government agencies, international organisations and NGOs on human rights and humanitarian law matters.

Dr Rachel Widdis, LL.B (TCD), LL.M. (Human Rights), MBS (UCD), PhD (TCD, 2021), lectures in Business and Human Rights on the LL.M. Formerly worked in Structured Finance in ABN-AMRO Luxembourg, EMEA Business Development in Paris and as a Financial Analyst in Citigroup in London and New York. Rachel's PhD focuses on the development of transnational civil litigation concerning parent company duty of care for adverse impacts on human rights. Recent research includes regulation of Human Rights Due Diligence, and Access to Remedy relating to business and human rights in Ireland.

Professional

Name

Function

Contact

Catherine Finnegan BA, Dip Econ Sc.

School Manager

Room: 12

Telephone: 896 2367; Email: catherine.finnegan at tcd.ie

Sarah Guerin B.A International

Postgraduate Executive Officer, Postgraduate Admissions

Research Support Officer, Visiting Research Applications

Room: 01C

Telephone: Email: sguerin at tcd.ie /
law.postgraduate at tcd.ie

Jennifer Maguire Donohoe LL.B., MA

Engagement and Inclusion Officer

Room: 01A;

Telephone: 896 2772; Email: law.school at tcd.ie

Kelley McCabe M.A.jo

Postgraduate Programme Manager (Taught and Research)

Room: 01C

Telephone: 896 8449 Email: kelley.mccabe at tcd.ie /
law.postgraduate at tcd.ie

Patricia McCorry M.A. jo

(Part-Time)

Finance Officer

Research Project Appraisal/Officer

Room: Room 12,

Telephone: 896 2772 Email: mccorrp at tcd.ie /

Leslie Monfraix

Undergraduate Executive Officer

General Enquiries, Exam and Timetabling Support

Room: 01B;

Telephone: 896 1125; Email: law.school at tcd.ie

Mairead Morrissey, M.A.jo

(Job-Share)

Undergraduate Executive Officer

Student Records, Transcripts, Bar Applications, General Enquiries (excluding Admissions)

Room: 01B;

Telephone: 896 1278; Email: morrissm at tcd.ie

Reiltin O'Connor B.A, M.A.jo

Undergraduate Programme Manager

Room: 01A/O1B;

Telephone: 896 1125; Email: reiltin.oconnor at tcd.ie

Celine Walsh B.A., M.A.

(Part-Time)

Erasmus and Exchange Programme Administrator

Natalie Wynn B.A., PhD.

(Job-Share)

Undergraduate Executive Officer

Student Records, Transcripts, Bar Applications, Seminars
General Enquiries (excluding Admissions)

Room: 01B;

Telephone: 896 1278; Email: nwynn at tcd.ie

Vacant

Events and Communications Officer

Room: 01A;

Telephone: 896 2772; Email: lawevent at tcd.ie

Visiting Professors & Research Fellows

Visiting Research Scholar Applications

The School of Law welcomes applications for visiting scholars in all the areas of the School’s expertise. Details of the research interests of members of the Law School can be found: here

Short Visits

Applications for periods of up to one month are considered by the Head of School only, and must be proposed by a member of the Law School’s academic staff. These applications should be emailed to the Head of School by the proposing member of the School’s academic staff.

Longer Visits

Research visits are normally for up to three months, but longer stays will be considered. Applications for research visits of over one month are considered by the School’s Research Committee. The application form must be signed by a proposing member of the Law School’s academic staff. In all cases, the support of a member of academic staff at the Law School is required to make an application. These applications should be emailed to the Director of Research by the proposing member of the School’s academic staff.

Our Visiting Research Application Form can be accessed here. There are two annual deadlines for submission of applications: 30 September and 30 MarchVisitors who apply by September will be notified of the outcome by the end of January and visitors who apply by 30 March will be notified of the outcome by no later than the end of May. Submitted applications received by the Law School from prospective research visitors are considered by the Research Committee and Head of School between September-April each academic year. Early applications are encouraged and in any event no less than three months before arrival date to allow time for processing relevant paperwork.

*NOTE* The School of Law is unable to accept visiting applications from postgraduate research students (other than through direct participation in the LERU European Exchange Programme for participating Law Schools). For queries on LERU exchanges from other LERU universities please contact your own university and law.postgraduate@tcd.ie. Postgraduate students from non-LERU partner universities and researchers may directly apply to the Library for independent access the University's Library. The Law School has no role in relation to Library access which should be organised directly with the University's Library.