Dr Mary Dobbs is the new lecturer in Equity and Trusts at the Department of Law, Maynooth University.
Mary has worked as a senior lecturer in Queen’s University Belfast, where she specialised in environmental law & governance, agriculture and genetically modified crops - in particular within the EU, but also more broadly. Her current research includes focussing on these issues in the context of Brexit. She has published extensively in the field, engages extensively with stakeholders and through giving evidence at parliamentary inquiries, and is a member of organisations such as Brexit and Environment and the Future Earth Ireland committee in the Royal Irish Academy. Mary was part of a successful Jean Monnet Network on soft law in the EU Member States and a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on ’Tensions at the Fringes of Europe’.
She holds a PhD on the precautionary principle from UCD (2013), as well as a BCL (Law with French Law) from UCD and a certificat superieur en droit francais from Paris II (Pantheon-Assas)
She will be teaching courses on equity, trusts and environmental matters.
Mary welcomes potential research students and collaborations regarding environmental law/governance, risk regulation and related areas - including focusses on Brexit/cross-border issues.
Mary can be contacted at mary.dobbs@mu.ie.