Dr Orla Kelleher has been appointed as a new Assistant Professor in Law at the School of Law and Criminology.
Orla specialises in climate change, environmental, and human rights law. Her current research focuses on environmental rights, climate litigation, climate justice and just transitions. Orla was awarded her Ph.D. without corrections from UCD Sutherland School of Law in March 2022. Her Ph.D. examined the impact of climate change on legal reasoning in rights-based systemic climate change litigation in European countries. Her Ph.D. was awarded dual research scholarships: an IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate scholarship (2019-2021) and a UCD School of Law Doctoral Scholarship (2017-2019). Her work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Environmental Law, the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, and the Review of European Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL).
Prior to joining Maynooth, Orla lectured at the University of Limerick. She holds a Ph.D. from UCD, an LL.M. from the College of Europe (Bruges) and a BCL (Law and French) from UCC. Orla is also a non-practising barrister, having been called to the Irish Bar in 2020.
Orla will be lecturing on the Introduction to Law, Tort Law and Environmental Law courses and will be introducing a module in Climate Law.
You can contact Orla by email at: Orla.Kelleher@mu.ie.