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Dr. Sarah Arduin

Dr. Sarah Arduin

Matheson Assistant Professor in EU Law, Law

Biography

Sarah Arduin is the Matheson Assistant Professor in European Union Law in the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a French law degree from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and is a graduate of the LLM and PhD programmes at Trinity College Dublin. Her current research focuses on EU risk regulation and she has published in the European Journal of Risk Regulation, Modern Law Review, Law & Policy, and Oxford Review of Education, amongst others. Sarah teaches EU Law and International and EU Environmental Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She also supervises dissertations on Law and Happiness at undergraduate level. Sarah welcomes expressions of interest in PhD supervision and post-doctoral research in her areas of teaching and research interests.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • The Expressive Dimension of Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in, editor(s)De Beco, G., Lord, J. and Quinlivan, S. , The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp10.1017/9781316392881.007 , [Sarah Arduin]Book Chapter, 2019
  • Article 3: General Principles in, editor(s)Ilias Bantekas, Michael Stein, and Dimitris Anastasiou , The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp10.1093/law/9780198810667.003. , [Sarah Arduin]Book Chapter, 2018
  • Sarah Arduin, A review of the values that underpin the structure of an education system and its approach to disability and inclusion, Oxford Review of Education, 41, (1), 2015, p10.1080/03054985.2015.1006614Journal Article, 2015
  • Sarah Arduin, Can Ireland endorse a human rights-based approach to special education?, Dublin University Law Journal, 36, 2013, p93 - 126Journal Article, 2013
  • Sarah Arduin, Taking meta-regulation to the United Nations human rights regime: the case of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Law and Policy, 41, (4), 2019, p10.1111/lapo.12136Journal Article, 2019
  • Arduin, Book review, John Kay and Mervyn King, Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an Unknowable Future, London: The Bridge Street Press, 2020, Modern Law Review, 84, (3), 2021Journal Article, 2021
  • The right to education, well-being, and choice in, editor(s)Michael A. Stein and Malcolm Langford , Disability Social Rights, CUP, 2025, pp31 , [Sarah Arduin]Book Chapter, 2025
  • Disability and Inclusion in, editor(s)Louis Tay and Beth McCuskey , The Oxford Handbook on Well-being in Higher Education, OUP, 2025, [Sarah Arduin]Book Chapter, 2025
  • Arduin, Precautionary Principle and Impact Assessment: The Case of School Closures during the Pandemic in Ireland, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2024, p1 - 17Journal Article, 2024
  • Sarah Arduin, The preservation of choice when regulating epistemic uncertainty, Annual Workshop on Economics, Psychology, and Policy in Ireland, UCD Geary Institute , 30.11.2018, 2018Conference Paper
  • Sarah Arduin, Choice architecture and the UN CRPD, Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, Queen Mary University of London, 6.09.2018, 2018Conference Paper
  • Sarah Arduin, A regulatory framework for nudging, IAREP (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology) and SABE (Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics) Annual Conference, Croke Park, Dublin, 2-4.09.2019, 2019Conference Paper
  • Sarah Arduin, Nudging within the Constraints of Administrative Law, 12th Annual Workshop on Economics, Psychology and Public Policy, ESRI, 29.11.2019, 2019Conference Paper
  • Sarah Arduin, Precautionary Principle, Regulatory Impact Analysis, and Judicial Review, IALT Annual Conference 2023: Ireland in the EU at 50, DCU, 10-11 November 2023, 2023Conference Paper

Research Expertise

Sarah is interested in the relationship between law and decision-making under uncertainty. She is researching in the area of EU risk regulation, with a particular focus on the precautionary principle. She is also looking at the interaction between EU law and well-being with a view to realising sustainable development goals.

Education, Law and legal studies,