Dr. Róisin Costello

• Róisín Á Costello, International criminal law and the role of non-state actors in preserving open source evidence, Cambridge International Law Journal , 7, (2), 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI
• Róisín Áine Costello, The Right to be Forgotten in Cases Involving Criminal Convictions: NT1 & NT2 v Google and the Information Commissioner, European Human Rights Law Review , 3, 2018, p268-Journal Article, 2018
• Róisín Á Costello, Reviving Rylands: How the Doctrine could be Used to Claim Compensation for Environmental Damage Caused by Fracking, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law , 23, (1), 2014Journal Article, 2014
• Róisín Aine Costello, Privacy Law in Ireland, 1, Dublin, Bloomsbury, 2023Book, 2023, URL
• Irish Language Rights under the 1922 Constitution: Symbolism and Substance in, editor(s)Laura Cahillane and Dónal Coffey , The 1922 Constitution, Dublin, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, [Róisín Aine Costello]Book Chapter, 2023
• Brian Merriman in, editor(s)Eric Falci , The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, [Róisín Áine Costello]Book Chapter, 2024
• Constructing a Non-Popular Populism: Freedom of Expression and Democratic Discourse Online in, editor(s)Thiago M. Moyano and Laura P. Z. Izarra , Transatlantic Crises of Democracy: Cultural Approaches, Sao Paulo, University of São Paulo Press, 2023, pp230 - 254, [Róisín Áine Costello]Book Chapter, 2023
• The Brussels Effect: Regulatory Standard-Setting and Constitutional Conflicts in Post-Brexit Privacy Law in, editor(s)Róisín Á Costello, Edoardo Celeste, Edina Harbinja, Napoleon Xanthoulis , Data Protection After Brexit: Reflections from the UK and Ireland, London, Hart, 2023, [Róisín Áine Costello]Book Chapter, 2023
• Róisín Áine Costello, Law and Literature: The Irish Case, Review of Law and Literature: The Irish Case, by Adam Hanna and Eugene McNulty , Estudios Irlandeses, (18), 2023, p250-308Review, 2023
• Róisín Áine Costello, Faux Ami? Interrogating the Normative Coherence of `Digital Constitutionalism, Global Constitutionalism, 12, (2), 2023, p326 - 349Journal Article, 2023
• Róisín Áine Costello, Citizenship, Identity and Veiling, Journal of Law and Religion, 38, (1), 2023, p81 - 107Journal Article, 2023
• Róisín Áine Costello, Adam Hanna and Eugene McNulty, Lost in Translation: Courtroom Interpretation and the Right to a Fair Trial in DPP v HM and BO [2021] IECA 315, The Irish Jurist, 68, (1), 2022, p130 - 139Journal Article, 2022
• Róisín Áine Costello, Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland", Review of Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland", by Adam Hanna , Irish Studies Review, 30, (4), 2022, p130 - 139, p511-513Review, 2022
• Róisín Áine Costello, Adam Hanna, To be British, Irish, or both: Understanding Language Rights as a Tool for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Irish Studies in International Affairs , 33, (2), 2022, p1 - 22Journal Article, 2022
• Róisín Áine Costello, Adam Hanna, Genetic Data and The Right to Privacy: Towards a Relational Theory of Privacy?, Human Rights Law Review , 22, (a), 2022, p1-Journal Article, 2022
• Róisín Áine Costello, Adam Hanna, The ECtHR Decision in Volodina: Intimate Images, Domestic Violence and the Positive Obligations of Member States under Article 8 ECHR, European Data Protection Law Review , 4, (7), 2021, p614 - 617Journal Article, 2021
• Róisín Áine Costello, Adam Hanna, The Barbarian and the Cart: Citizenship, Law and Language in Macaronic Verse, Law & Humanities, 15, (2), 2021, p219 - 230Journal Article, 2021
• Róisín Áine Costello, Adam Hanna, Laws Governing Data Retention in Graham Dwyer v Commissioner of An Garda Síochána, Irish Journal of European Law, 23, (1), 2021, p119 - 132Journal Article, 2021
• Róisín Áine Costello, Adam Hanna, Conflicts Between Intellectual Property and Consumer Property Rights in the Digital Market, European Journal of Law and Technology , 11, (1), 2020, p1 - 24Journal Article, 2020
• Róisín Áine Costello, Adam Hanna, The Impacts of AdTech on Privacy Rights and the Rule of Law, Technology Regulation , 2, (1), 2020, p11 - 29Journal Article, 2020
• Róisín Áine Costello, Adam Hanna, Courtroom Dialogues and Feminist Legal Theory in Irish literature, Irish Studies Review , 28, (3), 2020, p370 - 384Journal Article, 2020, DOI
• Róisín Áine Costello, Law, Policy and the Internet, Review of Law, Policy and the Internet, by Lilian Edwards , International Journal of Law and Information Technology , 27, (2), 2019, p134 - 142, p204-208Review, 2019
• Róisín Áine Costello, Remedies for Breach of Privacy, Review of Remedies for Breach of Privacy, by Jason Varuhas , SCRIPTed, 16, (1), 2019, p134 - 142, p78-63Review, 2019
• Róisín Áine Costello, What"s Left in the Sieve: The Law as History Maker in the Modern State, Law and Humanities Workshop, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2022, 2022Conference Paper, 2022
• Róisín Áine Costello, Political Economy in European Law and Policy, Society of Legal Scholars, , Durham, United Kingdom, 2021, 2021Conference Paper, 2021
• Róisín Áine Costello, Smart borders, vulnerable subjects: migrant experiences in liminal spaces, Out of Bounds: Borders in Crisis , Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, Trinity College Dublin, 2021, 2021Conference Paper, 2021
• Roisin Aine Costello, Citizen Datafication as a Condition of Access to Public Services: the Poverty of Privacy Rights in the EU, Data & Disorder Conference, Oxford Internet Institute & LSE Alan Turing Institute , 2019, 2019Conference Paper, 2019
• Róisín Áine Costello, The Need for a Constitutional Prohibition on Unreasonable Search and Seizure in a Digital Age," Building a 21st Century Bill of Rights, WG Hart Legal Workshop, IALS, London, 2018, 2018Conference Paper, 2018
• Róisín Áine Costello, EU Accession to the ECHR: Data Protection in the Caselaw of the ECtHR and its Impacts for the Charter of Fundamental Rights, EU Accession to the ECHR, University of Liverpool, 2023, 2023Invited Talk, 2023
• Róisín Áine Costello, Symbolism and Substance: Irish Language Rights in the 1922 Constitution, The Centenary of the 1922 Constitution, Dublin, 2022, 2022Invited Talk, 2022
• Róisín Áine Costello, The Expanding Scope of Privacy in European Law: Relational, Social, Contextual, Common Market Law Review Annual Conference,, Dublin, 2022, 2022Invited Talk, 2022
• Róisín Áine Costello, Data Protection and Audio-Visual Recording of Police Interviews under the Law Enforcement Directive, Data Protection Concerns for Law Enforcement, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2022, 2022Invited Talk, 2022
• Róisín Áine Costello, The CJEU Decision in GD v Ireland: Consequences for National and EU Law, Annual Data Protection Conference, Irish Centre for European Law , 2022, 2022Invited Talk, 2022
• Róisín Áine Costello, Mixed Data and Data Protection Following Recent CJEU Decisions, Annual Data Protection Conference, Irish Centre for European Law , 2023, 2023Invited Talk, 2023
• Non-Material Damages under Article 82 GDPR in, editor(s)Róisín Á Costello and Mark Leiser , Critical Reflections on the EU"s Data Protection Regime, Oxford, Hart, 2024, [Róisín Á Costello]Book Chapter, 2024
• Irish Language Rights and the Courts of Justice Act 1924 in, editor(s)Niamh Howlin , The Courts of Justice Act 1924, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2024, [Róisín Á Costello and Judge Úna Ní Raifeartaigh]Book Chapter, 2024, URL
• Róisín Á Costello, Subjectivity, Complicity and the Colonial Force of Law in the Courtroom of Katie Kitamura"s Intimacies, Law and Literature, 2023Journal Article, 2023
• Róisín Á Costello, The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 and compliance with the European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
• Róisín Á Costello, Law in Irish Literature: Critical Approaches to Institutions, Power and Identity, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024Book, 2024
• Róisín Á Costello, McGee v Attorney General: The Beginning (and the End?) of Patriarchal Privacy in Irish Law, Dublin University Law Journal, 2024Journal Article, 2024
• Róisín Á Costello, A Computer"s Body and Its Soul: Search and Seizure of Digital Devices Following DPP v Quirke, The Irish Jurist, 2024Journal Article, 2024
• Róisín Á Costello, The Test in Kelly v Hennessy and Article 82(1) GDPR, Irish Judicial Studies Journal, 8, (2), 2024, p22-Journal Article, 2024
• Róisín Á Costello and Liz Heffernan, Subsequent Legal Developments and Admissibility of Evidence: DPP v Smyth [2024] IESC 22, Irish Supreme Court Review, 2025Journal Article, 2025
• Róisín Á Costello, Anglophone Presumptions in the Courtrooms of Wales and the Republic of Ireland: Some Initial Thoughts on Achieving Language-neutral Courtrooms, Revista de Llengua i Dret, 2025Journal Article, 2025, TARA - Full Text
• Róisín Áine Costello, Complicity and the Colonial Force of Law in the Courtroom of Katie Kitamura"s Intimacies, Law & Literature, 36, (1), 2023, p87 - 114, p87-114Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Róisín Áine Costello, Law, Policy and the Internet, by Lilian Edwards, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 27, (2), 2019, p204 - 207, p204-207Journal Article, 2019, DOI
• Róisín Á Costello, Unreasonable and Impracticable: Interrogating the scope of the State"s duty to facilitate legal proceedings in the Irish language, Just. Journal of Language Rights & Minorities, 2026Journal Article, 2026
• Roisin A Costello, Ireland (mostly) at The Bar, Dublin University Law Journal, 2026Journal Article, 2026

• Róisín Á Costello, A Dyadic Future: The Rule of Law in the European Union, UACES Annual Conference, University of Bath, 2018, 2018Conference Paper
• Róisín Á Costello, Fade to Black: the declining influence of the common law and its implications for the rule of law in Europe, ICON-S Great Britain and Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, 2017, 2017Conference Paper
• Maria Grazia Porcedda, with David Fennelly and Róisín A Costello, Data Protection and the COVID-19 Pandemic, https://www.tcd.ie/law/2020.21, Ireland, Covid-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory, Trinity College Dublin, 2021Report
• Róisín Áine Costello, Brittle Constitutionalism in the European Legal Order: Re-embedding the Social and Economic Aspects of the European Union"s Constitutional Identity, 1, Bologna, Italy, 2022Book
• Róisín Áine Costello, The Official Languages Act: More than Performative Allegiance in Public Spaces?, The Legal Status of Irish, Trinity College Centre for Constitutional Law & Governance, Dublin, 2021, 2021Conference Paper
• Róisín Áine Costello , World Bank Report on Women, Business and the Law , Irish Centre for European Law, The World Bank, 2016Report
• Róisín Áine Costello, World Bank Report Women, Business and the Law , Irish Centre for European Law, 2017Report
• Róisín Áine Costello, World Bank Report on Women, Business and the Law, Irish Centre for European Law, 2018Report
• Róisín Áine Costello, World Bank Report on Women, Business and the Law, Irish Centre for European Law, 2019Report
• Róisín Áine Costello, World Bank Report on Women, Business and the Law, Irish Centre for European Law, 2020Report
• Róisín Áine Costello, World Bank Report on Women, Business and the Law, Irish Centre for European Law, 2021Report
• Róisín Áine Costello, World Bank Report on Women, Business and the Law, Irish Centre for European Law, 2022Report
• Róisín Áine Costello, Language Use and Language Learning in Northern Ireland: Building Linguistic Capacity for Reconciliation / Úsáid Teanga agus Foghlaim Teanga I dTuaisceart Éireann: Cumas Teanga a Fhorbairt don Athmhuintearas , 2022, 2022Report, TARA - Full Text
• Róisín Áine Costello, Reflections and Recommendations on the Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill 2022 / Machnaimh agus Moltaí ar an mBille Féiniúlachta agus Teanga (Tuaisceart Éireann) 2022, 2022, 2023Report, TARA - Full Text
• Róisín Áine Costello, The Decision in Quirke v DPP: Dividing A Computer's Body and its Soul, UCD Public Law Conference, University College Dublin, 2023, 2023Invited Talk
• Róisín Á Costello, To what extent can cyber evidence repositories, and digital and open-source evidence, facilitate the work of the OTP, and the ICC more generally?, International Criminal Court Forum/UCLA, 2019, 2019Report
• Róisín Áine Costello, Mionteangacha agus léirmhíniú reachtúil i R on the application of Driver v Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council [2020] EWCA Civ 1759, Cumann Barra na Gaeilge: Ceardlann Forbairt Gairmiúil, An Leabharlann Dlí, 25 September 2023, 2023Invited Talk
• Róisín Á Costello, Critical Reflections on the EU's Data Protection Regime, Oxford, Hart, 2024Book

Róisín is an EU lawyer and researches and works on EU law with a particular focus on privacy and data protection law and EU constitutionalism, including the intersectional of constitutionalism and digital technologies. Róisín's research in EU law has been funded by the IRC and ESRC. The second strand of Róisín's research focuses on minority language rights, with a particular focus on regional and minority languages, and language rights more generally in Ireland and the European Union. Róisín's research has afforded particular attention to the rights of minority language speakers in courtroom settings, and the role of courtroom interpretation in the right to a fair hearing. Róisín has received funding from the SLS, SLSA, The Arts and Humanities Research Council,and the Irish Research Council & The Department of Foreign Affairs for research projects related to her research in minority language rights. Róisín is also interested in the intersection of law and the humanities - in particular the portrayal of law and lawyers in literature and what this can tell us about the impacts of law on identity, language and expression.

• Title

  Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law in a Digital Future
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Irish Research Council
  Date From

  2018
  Date To

  2020
• Title

  Building a Cross-border Data Protection Network
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Economic & Social Research Council/Irish Research Council
  Date From

  2020
  Date To

  2022
• Title

  Court Interpretation in Wales and the Republic of Ireland
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Arts and Humanities Research Council
  Date From

  2023
  Date To

  2025
• Title

  Supporting Irish Language Use on a Cross-Community Basis"
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Irish Research Council & The Department of Foreign Affairs
  Date From

  2021
  Date To

  2022
• Title

  International Student Scholarship
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Georgetown Law
  Date From

  2014
  Date To

  2015
• Title

  DEMCONEX Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence
  Summary

  The DEMCONEX Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence for Freedom of Expression and Democratic Resilience in Europe"s Digital Age will examine how freedom of expression and its regulation supports the ability of citizens to participate in political processes and contribute to Europe"s democratic project and will provide a wider umbrella for promoting EU Studies at TCD. The JMCE has 3 complementary, integrated strands - Research: The JMCE will facilitate interdisciplinary research including the production of: a monograph examining the development of freedom of expression and its association with political participation; articles and book chapters on topics such as participatory democracy, de-platforming, regulation of social media platforms, and EU law in national constitutional courts; and conference papers and participation. Teaching: The JMCE will lead an ambitious expansion of teaching and the promotion of excellence in EU studies teaching. It will deliver two new modules on freedom of expression and democratic participation, integrate materials on freedom of expression, constitutionalism and democratic theory into existing modules and deliver seminars to students in universities outside the EU. Events: The JMCE will host events including an annual Public Lecture series, two interdisciplinary seminar series and a multi-day international conference. Connecting theory and practice, the events will reach students and key stakeholders including government and civil society. The JMCE represents a consolidation and an ambitious expansion in events, teaching and research on EU Studies at TCD, and will lay the groundwork for future ERASMUS+ activities. It will also provide support to capitalise on the `competitive advantage" that Dublin now enjoys as a centre for EU studies as a result of its position as the capital city of the only English-speaking Member State, and the jurisdiction where many digital undertakings central to this research are located and regulated.
  Funding Agency

  Erasmus+
• Title

  Court Interpretation in Wales and the Republic of Ireland
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  SLSA
• Title

  The Legal Future of the Irish Language
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Society of Legal Scholars
  Date From

  2020
  Date To

  2021

Law and legal studies, Other social sciences,

• International Student Scholarship (Georgetown Law) 2014-2015
• Fellow of International Economic Law (Georgetown Law) 2014-2015

• Incorporated Council of Law Reporting of Ireland Present
• Director and Board Member of the Irish Centre for European Law Present
• Board Member of the Irish Supreme Court Review Present
• Ordinary Member Socio-Legal Studies Association Present
• Ordinary Member Society of Legal Scholars Present
• Ordinary Member Council of European Studies Present