Daire McCormack-George

Biography

Daire McCormack-George Dáire McCormack-George is a legal researcher specialising in European market integration. His research is supported by a Postgraduate Research Studentship. Dáire read law as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin where he was an exhibitioner, scholar and prize winner; as a graduate student at Hertford College, Oxford where he held a co-funded scholarship; and as a LERU Visiting Researcher at University College London.

‘Services’ make a substantial contribution to the growth and success of the European economy. There is an on-going demand for talent in service sectors globally, and the EU needs to meet this demand in order to sustain growth. Dáire’s research concerns the integration of service and labour markets—the apex of market integration.

Dáire has published, drafted and presented papers on labour and employment law, anti-discrimination law, Irish constitutional law and market integration. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Trinity College Law Review (Volume 19), an Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (Volumes 16 & 17) and Convenor of the tenth annual TCD Law Student Colloquium.

Back to top

Professional Qualifications

Back to top

Awards

• Postgraduate Research Studentship (2017-2020)
• Joint Faculty-College B.C.L. Scholarship (2016-2017)
• Final Round Participant, ELSA European Human Rights Moot Court Competition (2016)
• The Honourable T.C. Kingsmill Moore Prize (2015)
• Winner, Trinity FLAC Public Interest Law Moot (2015)
• Dean of Students’ Roll of Honour (2014)
• Non-Foundation Scholarship (2014)
• Entrance Exhibition (2012-2013)

Back to top

Research Interests

• Employment and Labour Law
• EU Law
• Migration Law and Policy
• Economic and Social Policy
• Jurisprudence and Political Theory

Back to top

Education Details

• Doctor in Philosophy (PhD) Candidate, University of Dublin (2017-present)
• Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.), University of Oxford (2016-2017)
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), University of Dublin (2012-2016)

Back to top

Employment Details

• Seminarist, Torts, EU law, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, 2017-
• Intern, Mason Hayes & Curran (2017)
• Research Assistant, Trinity College, Dublin (2017-present)
• Intern, Daniel Spring & Co., Solicitors (2016)
• Intern, Mercy Law Resource Centre (2015)

Back to top

Memberships /Associations /Representations

Back to top

Publications

“The Right to Work in Irish Law” (2019) 42 Dublin University Law Journal (forthcoming)

“Trade in Services, Migration and Recognition of Professional Qualifications post-Brexit” in Simon Tans (ed), Upgrading Trade in Services in EU and International Economic Law (Wolf Legal Publishers, forthcoming 2019)

Bjarney Fridriksdóttir, What Happened to Equality?: The Construction of the Right to Equal Treatment of Third-Country Nationals in European Union Law on Labour Migration (Brill/Nijhoff 2017) (2018) 55 Common Market Law Review (2018) 55 Common Market Law Review 1647

Simon Tans, Service Provision and Migration: EU and WTO Service Trade Liberalisation and Their Impact on Dutch and UK Immigration Rules (Brill/Nijhoff 2017) (2018) 9 European Labour Law Journal 218

“Recognition of Professional Qualifications Post-Brexit” (EU Law Analysis Blog, 28 June 2018)

Dáire McCormack-George, ‘Asylum Seekers gain Right to Work in Ireland’ (Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, 25 July 2017)

Paula Murphy and Dáire McCormack-George, ‘The Krazter Case: The End of the Road for the Vexatious Litigant?’ (2016) Legal-Island Labour and Superior Court Case Law Review Panel

Dáire McCormack-George, ‘Age Discrimination in European Employment Law: Problems and Potential Reforms’ (2016) 3 Student Journal of European Law 5

Dáire McCormack-George, ‘Editorial’ (2016) 19 Trinity College Law Review 1

Conor Casey and Dáire McCormack-George, ‘An Analysis of the Right to Shelter in Irish Law for Children and Adults’ (2015) 54 Irish Jurist (new series) 131

Dáire McCormack-George, ‘Sacerdotal Privilege in Irish Law’ (2015) 33 Irish Law Times (new series) 104

Back to top