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Dr. Diarmuid Phelan

Dr. Diarmuid Phelan

Associate Professor, Law

Biography

Diarmuid Rossa Phelan BCL (NUI) LLM (BERKELEY), BL (Kings Inns), Ph D (EUROPEAN UNIV INST FLORENCE), MA (Dub iuris officio), BL (Inns of Court of Northern Ireland), Attorney (NEW YORK), F.T.C.D.. He is a fellow of Trinity College and formerly a fellow of the European Law Institute. He was elected a member of the Board of Trinity College (2014-2018, 2018-2022) and was Chair of the Fellows of Trinity College 2015-2018. He teaches in the fields of European Union Law, Jurisprudence, and Lawyering Skills, and accepts research students in these areas. Internationally he has been a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg, Humboldt University, the China-EU School of Law, the University of Zurich (2014), and Notre Dame Law School (2015), Senior Emile Noel Fellow at New York University Law School (2016), visiting fellow at Brasenose College Oxford (2014), Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence), fellow of the European Law Institute, visiting scholar the University of California at Berkeley and at McGill University. He has worked as a référendaire in the Court of Justice, as a member of the Joint Managerial Committee of the China - EU School of Law (http://en.cesl.edu.cn/) and as the lead on European Commission project for postgraduate EU study in Georgia. He trained in the US law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed and is a Senior Counsel at the Bar of Ireland. He is admitted to the bars of England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and New York. He has acted as counsel in a wide variety of reported cases at every level in the Irish Courts and at the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe, with a particular focus on pro bono publico litigation.

Research Expertise

European Union Law, Jurisprudence, Philosophy and Epistemology of Law, Competition and Regulatory Law, , Public International Law, Constitutional and Administrative Theory

  • Title
    Visiting Professorship
    Summary
    Funding Agency
    University of Zurich
    Date From
    20-AUG-2014
    Date To
    03-OCT-2014
  • Title
    Visiting Professorship
    Summary
    Funding Agency
    University of Notre Dame
    Date From
    02-MAR-2015
    Date To
    20-APR-2018
  • Title
    Fundamental Rights and The Rule of Law in a Digital Future
    Summary
    Lead PI for Postrgraduate Scholarship award to PhD supervisee
    Funding Agency
    Irish Research Council
    Date From
    01-OCT-2018
    Date To
    30-SEP-2020
  • Title
    Towards a China-EU Investment Treaty
    Summary
    International interdisciplinary collaboration with academics, diplomats, economists and business on EU china collaboration
    Funding Agency
    China EU School of Law (CESL)
    Date From
    01-JAN-2014
    Date To
    31-JAN-2014
  • Title
    Visiting Professorships & Fellowships Benefaction Fund 2013/3014
    Summary
    Funding Agency
    Faculty Of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    Date From
    01-JAN-2013
    Date To
    31-DEC-2013
  • Title
    See entry under research tags
    Summary
  • Title
    The China-EU Investment Agreement: Challenges, Themes, and Impacts
    Summary
    Part of the EU China Law School flagship Rule of Law project sponsored by the European Commission in conjunction with the PR China
    Funding Agency
    China European Commission School of Law
    Date From
    26-MAY-2015
    Date To
    29-FEB-2016
  • Title
    The Constitutional Boundaries of Fiscal Federalism in the European Union
    Summary
    Lead PI for Postrgraduate Scholarship award to PhD supervisee
    Funding Agency
    Irish Research Council
    Date From
    01-OCT-2014
    Date To
    30-SEP-2016

Recognition

  • Foundation Robert Schuman Scholar (Oxford)
  • University Colours Award (University College Dublin)
  • Entrance Scholarship (Bar of Ireland)
  • Visiting Fellowship Brasenose College Oxford
  • Baring Senior Scholar (Hertford College Oxford)
  • Senior Counsel by letter patent of Government of Ireland
  • Scholarship ricercatore (European University Institute)
  • Kennedy Scholar (UC Berkeley)
  • Senior Emile Noel Fellowship New York University
  • Canadian Faculty Research Award (McGill University)
  • The Bar of the State of New York
  • The Law Library
  • The Honorable Society of the King's Inns
  • Lincolns Inn
  • The European Law Institute
  • External Examiner to PhDs in University College Dublin and Bangor University 2010, 2016, 2017
  • Senior Counsel at the Bar of Ireland 2008 to date
  • External Examiner to the Honourable Society of the King's Inns 2015-2019
  • Member of the Program Council of the Forum Prawnice 2019-2020
  • Member of the Joint Managerial Committee of the Euro China Law School 2017-2019
  • EU Commission Lead Expert in the creation and supervision of interdisciplinary structured PHD in European Studies in Tblisi State University 2014-2019
  • Representation of TCD at China-Europe Law School (cesl.edu.cn) General Assemblies since 2008 in Hamburg, Beijing, Paris, Brussels, Lund, Manchester, Krakow, Budapest, and Vienna. 2012-2019
  • Editor of the Irish Journal of European Law 2015 to date
  • Occasional Peer Reviewer for Law Journals e.g. European Journal of International Law, Dublin University Law Journal