Professor Doherty, Head of the Department of Law, is currently undertaking research on different ways of regulating new forms of employment emerging through technological advance, and through the increasingly differentiated forms of employment relationship that are observable. The digitalisation of the workplace leads to both completely new phenomena, and also traditional legal challenges present in novel forms. The research looks at changing conceptions of the employment relationship, relating to workers in the ‘gig economy’, but also workers ‘on the borderline’ of employee/self-employed status; the ‘false-self-employed’, and seeks to examine legislative, and other regulatory, strategies ensure the rights of such workers are secured.
Dr David Doyle is currently in the process of completing a co-authored book on capital punishment in post-independence Ireland. He was also recently awarded an Irish Research Council New Foundations Award to seed a new study on Human Trafficking in Ireland.
Dr Delia Ferri Dr Ferri’s research is currently focusing on how the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has been implemented in the European Union and within selected EU Member States, and she is addressing how the rights of persons with disabilities are protected and promoted in Europe. Her research falls within the broader realm of European Union Law and Comparative Law.
Dr Brian Flanagan’s research centres on the prospects for an account of collective intention that coheres with our ordinary understanding of the notion.
Dr Claire Hamilton is currently writing up comparative research into counter-terrorism which was funded by the Irish Research Council New Horizons Research Project scheme.
Dr. Noelle Higgins is currently undertaking a project on cultural defences at the International Criminal Court.
Dr Louise Kennefick is currently working on a project which examines the interrelationship between social deprivation and criminal law defences within an interdisciplinary context. She is also engaged in an extensive study seeking to capture an oral history of the Irish Probation Service from the perspective of its core stakeholders, spanning the 1960s to present-day, deriving from her membership of the European Co-operation in Science and Technology (COST) Action network on Offender Supervision.
Dr Neil Maddox is studying the interaction between informal norms, such as cooperation and altruism, and how they interact with positive law in collective action settings.
Dr Clíodhna Murphy is currently working on research relating to access to labour rights for a number of different categories of domestic worker; and is also taking part in the Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project, writing the 'missing' feminist judgment in the Supreme Court decision in Lobe and Osayande v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform [2003] IESC 3.
Dr John Reynolds is currently working on projects on: states of emergency in colonial and postcolonial legal contexts; Third World Approaches to international criminal law; the political economy of socio-economic rights.
Seth Barrett Tillman is working on a critique of the normative foundations of international law. He is also completing a paper on the scope of impeachment and disqualification under U.S. constitutional law.
Professor Michael Doherty
- Employment and Labour Law
- Industrial Relations Law and Policy
- EU Law
Dr Claire Hamilton
- Penology
- Criminology
- Comparative Legal Justice
- Procedural Justice
Dr Neil Maddox
- Equity and the Law of Property and Succession
- Commercial and Banking Law
- Local Government
- Legal History
- Constitutional Law
Dr Sibo Banda
- Constitutional law
- The use of fundamental rights in private law
- Legal pluralism in the Malawi legal system
- Competing conceptions of property in the age of fundamental rights in the SADC region
Dr Brian Flanagan
- Legal and Political Theory
- Background issues in the Philosophy of Language
Dr Louise Kennefick
- Criminal Law Theory
- Criminology- Offender Supervision
- Criminal Justice
Seth Barrett Tillman
- Constitutional Law
- Statutory Interpretation
- Equity and the Law of Trusts
- Legal Writing
Dr Fergus Ryan
- Family Law
- Constitutional Law
- Migration and the Law
Dr John Reynolds
- Public International Law
- Law and Colonialism
- Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- International Criminal Law
Dr Maria Murphy
- Information Technology Law
- Human Rights Law
- Privacy Law
- The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
- European Union Law
Dr Delia Ferri
- European Union Law
- European Constitutional Law
- International and European Disability Law
- Comparative Disability Law
Dr Clíodhna Murphy
- Migration and Asylum Law
- International Human Rights Law
- Gender and Human Rights
Dr Noelle Higgins
- International Human Rights Law
- Irish Human Rights Law
- The rights of minorities and indigenous peoples
- International Criminal Law
- International Humanitarian Law
Dr David Doyle
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Intellectual Property Law
- Legal History
- Prison Law
Research Seminar Series
We are pleased to announce the new Law Department Seminar Series (LDSS) for the 2017-2018 academic year.
The LDSS, coordinated by Dr David Doyle, aims to provide a forum through which to explore different areas of law, with a view to developing new ideas. Invited scholars will discuss their academic work and share their knowledge and reflections on various different legal topics.
The seminars take place from 12.00pm - 1.30pm (approx.) on Wednesdays in LY2, Lyreen Building (unless otherwise stated), South Campus, Maynooth University. The full schedule is available below.
Attendance is welcome from University staff members and postgraduate (both taught and research) students within the Department of Law. However, we ask that you please register your attendance for each individual seminar by sending an email to law@mu.ie.
Queries regarding the LDSS can be addressed to David at david.doyle@mu.ie.
Subject to speaker consent, the lecture notes and slides may be made available to attendees.
Semester I
| Date |
Location |
Speaker |
Seminar Title |
| 8 November 2017 |
LY1 Lyreen Building |
Bruno Igwe (MU) |
'The Impact of Domestic Violence legal Regulation and Enforcement among Nigerian Immigrants in Ireland' |
| 22 November 2017 |
LY1 Lyreen Building |
Dr Deirdre Healy (UCD)
|
'The socio-cultural dimensions of desistance in Ireland' |
|
13 December 2017 |
LY1 Lyreen Building |
Dr Gerard Coffee (UL) |
'Complementarity and Ne Bis in Idem: Two streams running through the same channel?' |
Semester II
| Date |
Location |
Speaker |
Seminar Title |
| 7 February 2018 |
LY 2 Lyreen Building |
Dr Amina Adanan (MU) |
'State sovereignty and resistance to the exercise of universal jurisdiction: a case study on Belgium'. |
| 21 February 2018 |
LY 2 Lyreen Building |
Dr Padraic Kenna (NUIG) |
'Which way for property law in the EU- enter the consumer and human rights lawyer'. |
| 14 March 2018 |
LY 2 Lyreen Building |
Dr Bob Enofe |
'Transplanting International Legal Norms into Developing Countries: The Example of Cartels Criminalisation in Nigeria' |
