Dr. Ailbhe O'Neill
Ussher Assistant Professor, Law
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
Peer-Reviewed Publications
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 - 5
Ailbhe O'Neill, Open Justice Revisited - Gilchrist and Rogers v. Sunday Newspapers Ltd., Irish Supreme Court Review, 1, 2019, p1-18
Ailbhe O'Neill Eoin Carolan, Media Law in Ireland, 2nd, Ireland, Bloomsbury, 2019, 1-623pp
Ailbhe O'Neill, The Principle of Open Justice, Irish Supreme Court Review, Trinity College, 6 October, 2018, TCD Law School
O'Neill, When do Clubs Die?, Dublin University Law Journal, 38, (1), 2015, p208 - 218
Ailbhe O'Neill, "Subordinated creditors in times of crisis - the Irish approach" , Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation , 30, (5), 2015, p296 - 299
National Reporter, European Insolvency Law - The Heidelberg-Luxembourg-Vienna Report , 2014
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]
Ailbhe O'Neill, . "Defamation by Hyperlink and the Publication Rule" , Dublin University Law Journal, 35, 2012, p317-
Ailbbhe O'Neill, "Reporting allegations: Reynolds privilege revisited in the UK Supreme Court" , Irish Jurist, 2012, p185-
Ailbhe O'Neill, . "Fair Procedures - An Inviolable Right?" , Dublin University Law Journal, 33, 2011, p319 - 338
Ailbhe O'Neill, Rescuing the Law of Torts, Irish Jurist, 2011, 2011
Ailbhe O'Neill, On-line Piracy and the Responsibilities of Internet Service Providers in Ireland, Entertainment Law Review, 2011, p89-
McCann Courtney , Companies Acts 1963-2010, Dublin, Tottel, 2010
Ailbhe O'Neill and Eoin Carolan, Media Law in Ireland, First, Dublin, Bloomsbury , 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]
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]
O'Neill, Invalidity and Retrospectivity under the Irish and Canadian Constitutions, Forum Constitutionnel, 2007, p147-
O'Neill , The Constitutional Rights of Companies, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2007, 300pp
O'Neill, The Constitutional Rights of Companies, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2007
O'Neill, Part 40 of the U.K. Companies Act 2006: Disqualification Orders go Global, International Company and Commercial Law Review , 2007, p166-
O'Neill, Unjust Enrichment and Restitution of Tax Paid under a Mistake of Law, Irish Tax Review, 2007, p66-
O'Neill, Relieving Directors: The Irish Approach, Company Lawyer, 2007, p116-
O'Neill, Corporate Reputation in the House of Lords, Company Layer, 28(3), 2007, p76-
Ailbhe O'Neill, The Right to Silence and the Company, Irish Jurist, 2005, p111-
Ailbhe O'Neill, Corporate Freedom of Expression", Dublin University Law Journal, 27, 2005, p185-
Ailbhe O'Neill, The Rule against Double Jeopardy and the Company and Some Thoughts on Interpretive Seepage, Irish Criminal Law Journal, 2005
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
O'Neill Ailbhe, The Right of Publicity - Privacy reimagined for a public world, Irish Jurist, 2019, p195 - 197
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 School
Ailbhe O'Neill, Developments in Banking and Financial Regulation, Recent Developments in Public Law, UCD, 11 June , 2018, UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies, 5pp
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 Ireland
Flynn, Roderick, Media Pluralism Monitor, 2016, Florence, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, EUI, May, 2017
Flynn, Roderick, Media Pluralism Monitor, 2015, Florence, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, EUI, May, 2016
Ailbhe O'Neill, "Pillar A of the Companies Bill 2011 - the role of the company secretary", Irish Business Law Quarterly, 2012, 2012, p3-
Researcher, Report of the Working Group on a Court of Appeal, Ireland, Courts Service, 2009
O'Neill, Reform of the Derivative Suit, New Law Journal, 2007, p356-
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-
O'Neill, Breach of the Peace as an Offence at Common Law, Journal of Criminal Law, 71, 2007, p21-
Ailbhe O'Neill, Section 12(1) of the Companies Act 1990 as a Weapon of Mass Discovery, Commercial Law Practitioner, 13, (3), 2006, p81-
Ailbhe O'Neill, Cross-Border Insolvency in the Supreme Court - Some (Euro) Food for Thought, Commercial Law Practitioner, May, 2005
Research Expertise
Description
Company Law - particularly Corporate Governance and Corporate Insolvency and Rescue. Constitutional Law - Irish and Comparative. The European Convention on Human Rights.Recognition
Representations
Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute
Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians Research Ethics Committee
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
Awards and Honours
Entrance Exhibition Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Scholarship
Kingsmill Moore Memorial Prize for 1st place in Junior Sophister Year
Henry Hamilton Hunter Memorial Prize 1st place in Senior Sophister Year
W.M. Tapp Studentship in Law Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Honorary Senior Scholarship Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Memberships
The Law Library, Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7