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Dr. Ailbhe O'Neill

Dr. Ailbhe O'Neill

Ussher Assistant Professor, Law

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Biography

Ailbhe O'Neill completed her LL.B at Trinity College Dublin where she was elected to scholarship. After graduating first in her year she attended Cambridge university where she completed an LL.M as an awardee of the WM Tapp Studentship in Law. She completed her doctoral thesis in Trinity on "The Rights of Companies Under the Irish Constitution: A Philosophical and Comparative Analysis." (published by Thomson Round Hall in 2005). She lectures Corporate Governance and Media Law on the LL.B Programme. She has published widely in these areas both domestically and internationally and is co-author of Media Law in Ireland (Bloomsbury, 2011). Her research interests include Corporate Governance, Media Law, Constitutional Law and Bank Resolution. A practising barrister, she has advised on and acted in relation to a broad range of legislation connected with the banking crisis in Ireland including the Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Act 2008, the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009, the Central Bank Reform Act 2010, the Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Act 2010 and the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 and was appointed as legal advisor to the Commission of Investigation into the Causes of the Banking Crisis in 2011.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Rights and Freedoms in the Domestic Context - Fair Procedures in Difficult Times in, editor(s)Ferarri and O'Dowd , 75 Years of the Constitution of Ireland: An Irish-Italian Dialogue, Italy and Ireland, Clarus Press , 2014, pp17 , [Ailbhe O'Neill]Book Chapter, 2014
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, . "Fair Procedures - An Inviolable Right?" , Dublin University Law Journal, 33, 2011, p319 - 338Journal Article, 2011
  • National Reporter, European Insolvency Law - The Heidelberg-Luxembourg-Vienna Report , 2014Report, 2014
  • O'Neill, When do Clubs Die?, Dublin University Law Journal, 38, (1), 2015, p208 - 218Journal Article, 2015
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, Open Justice Revisited - Gilchrist and Rogers v. Sunday Newspapers Ltd., Irish Supreme Court Review, 1, 2019, p1-18Journal Article, 2019
  • Ailbhe O'Neill Eoin Carolan, Media Law in Ireland, 2nd, Ireland, Bloomsbury, 2019, 1-623ppBook, 2019
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, Budgetary Procedures Under the Irish Constitution, Special section: "The medium-term constitutional implications of the Eurozone crisis in countries under financial assistance" (Quaderni costituzionali) , (1), 2019, p1 - 5Journal Article, 2019
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, The Principle of Open Justice, Irish Supreme Court Review, Trinity College, 6 October, 2018, TCD Law SchoolInvited Talk, 2018
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, Corporate Freedom of Expression", Dublin University Law Journal, 27, 2005, p185-Journal Article, 2005
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, The Right to Silence and the Company, Irish Jurist, 2005, p111-Journal Article, 2005
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, The Rule against Double Jeopardy and the Company and Some Thoughts on Interpretive Seepage, Irish Criminal Law Journal, 2005Journal Article, 2005
  • O'Neill, The Constitutional Rights of Companies, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2007Book, 2007
  • O'Neill, Unjust Enrichment and Restitution of Tax Paid under a Mistake of Law, Irish Tax Review, 2007, p66-Journal Article, 2007
  • O'Neill, Relieving Directors: The Irish Approach, Company Lawyer, 2007, p116-Journal Article, 2007
  • O'Neill, Corporate Reputation in the House of Lords, Company Layer, 28(3), 2007, p76-Journal Article, 2007
  • O'Neill, Part 40 of the U.K. Companies Act 2006: Disqualification Orders go Global, International Company and Commercial Law Review , 2007, p166-Journal Article, 2007
  • O'Neill, Invalidity and Retrospectivity under the Irish and Canadian Constitutions, Forum Constitutionnel, 2007, p147-Journal Article, 2007
  • O'Neill , The Constitutional Rights of Companies, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2007, 300ppBook, 2007
  • Property Rights and the Power of Eminent Domain in, editor(s)Oran Doyle , The Constitution at 70, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2008, [Ailbhe O'Neill]Book Chapter, 2008
  • Ailbhe O'Neill and Eoin Carolan, Media Law in Ireland, First, Dublin, Bloomsbury , 2010Book, 2010
  • Taming Directors in, editor(s)Ronan Keane and Ailbhe O'Neill , Corporate Governance and Regulation in Ireland, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2009, [Ailbhe O'Neill]Book Chapter, 2009
  • McCann Courtney , Companies Acts 1963-2010, Dublin, Tottel, 2010Book, 2010
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, On-line Piracy and the Responsibilities of Internet Service Providers in Ireland, Entertainment Law Review, 2011, p89-Journal Article, 2011
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, Rescuing the Law of Torts, Irish Jurist, 2011, 2011Journal Article, 2011
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, "Subordinated creditors in times of crisis - the Irish approach" , Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation , 30, (5), 2015, p296 - 299Journal Article, 2015
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, . "Defamation by Hyperlink and the Publication Rule" , Dublin University Law Journal, 35, 2012, p317-Journal Article, 2012
  • Ailbbhe O'Neill, "Reporting allegations: Reynolds privilege revisited in the UK Supreme Court" , Irish Jurist, 2012, p185-Journal Article, 2012
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, "Pillar A of the Companies Bill 2011 - the role of the company secretary", Irish Business Law Quarterly, 2012, 2012, p3-Journal Article
  • Researcher, Report of the Working Group on a Court of Appeal, Ireland, Courts Service, 2009Report
  • Flynn, Roderick, Media Pluralism Monitor, 2015, Florence, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, EUI, May, 2016Report
  • Flynn, Roderick, Media Pluralism Monitor, 2016, Florence, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, EUI, May, 2017Report
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, Developments in Banking and Financial Regulation, Recent Developments in Public Law, UCD, 11 June , 2018, UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies, 5ppInvited Talk
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, Reflections on Referenda in Ireland - Response, The Role of Referendums in the UK Constitutional Order: Comparative Perspectives , Durham University, 31 January , 2019, Durham Law SchoolInvited Talk
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, Administrative Sanctions Procedure - INBS Inquiry, Training for Enforcement Unity Central Bank of Ireland, Central Bank of Ireland, 14 September, 2018, Central Bank of IrelandInvited Talk
  • O'Neill Ailbhe, The Right of Publicity - Privacy reimagined for a public world, Irish Jurist, 2019, p195 - 197Review Article
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, Section 12(1) of the Companies Act 1990 as a Weapon of Mass Discovery, Commercial Law Practitioner, 13, (3), 2006, p81-Journal Article
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, Cross-Border Insolvency in the Supreme Court - Some (Euro) Food for Thought, Commercial Law Practitioner, May, 2005Journal Article
  • O'Neill, Breach of the Peace as an Offence at Common Law, Journal of Criminal Law, 71, 2007, p21-Journal Article
  • O'Neill, Reform of the Derivative Suit, New Law Journal, 2007, p356-Journal Article
  • Ailbhe O'Neill, "The effect of a finding that legislation is unconstitutional - the approach of the Irish Supreme Court", Common Law World Review, 2007, p220-Journal Article

Research Expertise

Company Law - particularly Corporate Governance and Corporate Insolvency and Rescue. Constitutional Law - Irish and Comparative. The European Convention on Human Rights.

Recognition

  • Henry Hamilton Hunter Memorial Prize 1st place in Senior Sophister Year 2000
  • Honorary Senior Scholarship Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 2001
  • Kingsmill Moore Memorial Prize for 1st place in Junior Sophister Year 1999
  • Entrance Exhibition Trinity College Dublin 1996
  • W.M. Tapp Studentship in Law Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 2000
  • Trinity College Scholarship 1998
  • The Law Library, Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
  • The Royal College of Physicians Ethics Committee The European Corporate Governance Institute Research Associate of the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)
  • Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute 2005
  • The Royal College of Physicians Ethics Committee The European Corporate Governance Institute Research Associate of the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)
  • Media Pluralism Monitor - National Expert for Ireland
  • Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians Research Ethics Committee
  • Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute 2005
  • Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians Research Ethics Committee
  • Media Pluralism Monitor - National Expert for Ireland