Dr David Doyle Joins Maynooth University Department of Law

Monday, February 1, 2016 - 09:30

Maynooth University Department of Law is very pleased to welcome Dr David Doyle.

Dr. David Doyle joined the Department of Law in October 2015. David read History and Politics at University College Dublin where he graduated with BA and MA degrees, before completing his doctorate and a Bachelor of Laws degree (with first class honours) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. A previous recipient of an IRCHSS doctoral scholarship, his PhD thesis, Sexual Crime and the Formulation of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1935, investigated the incidence and prosecution of reported sexual crime against children in the formative years of the Irish state and provides a critical analysis of the law governing child sexual abuse in twentieth century Ireland. In 2010, David returned to UCD where was awarded a highly competitive IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011), an IRC New Ideas Award (2011), an IRC New Foundations Award (2012) and an IRC Research and Networking Grant (2012) to further his research on capital punishment in twentieth century Ireland. In 2013, David was awarded a prestigious IRC (Marie-Curie Co-Fund) International Career Development Fellowship, which was hosted by the Centre for Criminology at the Oxford Faculty of Law. His research and teaching interests include criminology and criminal justice, intellectual property law, legal history and prison law, and he welcomes research proposals in these areas.

David's research interests include capital punishment, corporate manslaughter, criminal justice history, human trafficking and sexual offences. He is currently in the process of completing a book on capital punishment in post-independence Ireland.