Dr Sinéad Ring

Biography
Dr Ring's research explores legal and institutional responses to sexual violence. Dr Ring is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and is lead author (with Kate Gleeson and Kim Stevenson) of Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia (Routledge, 2022). The monograph has been described by the Head of Abuse Law at Slater and Gordon, Richard Scorer, as "a key text for academics and practitioners in this field."
Dr Ring is a member of the editorial board of Social and Legal Studies.
In 2020 she was appointed by the Minister for Justice for a statutory five year term to the Judicial Council's Sentencing Guidelines and Information Committee.
In 2019 Dr Ring co-authored the Framework for Consent in Irish Higher Education Institutions. https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/678fee-framework-for-consent-in-higher-education-institutions-safe which sets out a new vision of how Irish HEIs can combat sexual violence and harassment against students. Dr Ring continues this work with the Higher Education Authority and at Maynooth University where she chairs the University's Consent Framework Implementation Group.
Dr Ring is a graduate of University College Cork (first class honours BCL (Law and German), LLM (Criminal Justice) and PhD. Her doctoral studies were funded by the Irish Research Council. Prior to joining Maynooth, Dr Ring was a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Graduate Studies at Kent Law School in Canterbury, UK. She has also taught law at NUI Galway and University College Cork, and has held visiting positions at Osgoode Hall, Harvard Law School, Melbourne Law School and University of Technology, Sydney.
Dr Ring has supervised numerous students to completion and is currently supervising two PhD students:
Chloë Cass, "Left Out in the Cold: The Vulnerable Plaintiff in the Civil System"
and
Kate Duffy, "Ireland's Surveillance Society: How Surveillance Practices Contributed to the Gendered Oppression of Irish Women." (With Dr Ciara Bracken-Roche).
Dr Ring welcomes potential research students in sexual violence and the law; law and gender; feminist legal studies; criminal law; the law of evidence and criminal justice.
Dr Ring teaches The Law of Evidence, Criminal Law, Gender Sexuality and Law. At the postgraduate level she has designed the first and only Master's course on questions of justice for historical gendered human rights abuses; State Responses to Historical Gendered Violence is available to all MA and LLM students.
She is happy to answer media queries about criminal law and evidence, criminal justice and sexual violence. Dr Ring tweets regularly about these issues @sineadring.
Dr Ring is a member of the editorial board of Social and Legal Studies.
In 2020 she was appointed by the Minister for Justice for a statutory five year term to the Judicial Council's Sentencing Guidelines and Information Committee.
In 2019 Dr Ring co-authored the Framework for Consent in Irish Higher Education Institutions. https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/678fee-framework-for-consent-in-higher-education-institutions-safe which sets out a new vision of how Irish HEIs can combat sexual violence and harassment against students. Dr Ring continues this work with the Higher Education Authority and at Maynooth University where she chairs the University's Consent Framework Implementation Group.
Dr Ring is a graduate of University College Cork (first class honours BCL (Law and German), LLM (Criminal Justice) and PhD. Her doctoral studies were funded by the Irish Research Council. Prior to joining Maynooth, Dr Ring was a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Graduate Studies at Kent Law School in Canterbury, UK. She has also taught law at NUI Galway and University College Cork, and has held visiting positions at Osgoode Hall, Harvard Law School, Melbourne Law School and University of Technology, Sydney.
Dr Ring has supervised numerous students to completion and is currently supervising two PhD students:
Chloë Cass, "Left Out in the Cold: The Vulnerable Plaintiff in the Civil System"
and
Kate Duffy, "Ireland's Surveillance Society: How Surveillance Practices Contributed to the Gendered Oppression of Irish Women." (With Dr Ciara Bracken-Roche).
Dr Ring welcomes potential research students in sexual violence and the law; law and gender; feminist legal studies; criminal law; the law of evidence and criminal justice.
Dr Ring teaches The Law of Evidence, Criminal Law, Gender Sexuality and Law. At the postgraduate level she has designed the first and only Master's course on questions of justice for historical gendered human rights abuses; State Responses to Historical Gendered Violence is available to all MA and LLM students.
She is happy to answer media queries about criminal law and evidence, criminal justice and sexual violence. Dr Ring tweets regularly about these issues @sineadring.
Research Interests
Sinéad’s research explores how law creates social, cultural and political meanings about historical child sexual abuse for victim-survivors, perpetrators, institutional actors, and society. Using insights from psychology, political theory and criminology, her work unpacks law’s discursive power (in civil and criminal law and in commissions of inquiry), and imagines better legal responses to historical child sexual abuse. Sinéad’s research on historical child sexual abuse has been funded by the Irish Research Council and the Socio Legal Studies Association. She has published in numerous international journals including The International Journal of Evidence and Proof and Social and Legal Studiesand edited collections.
Sinéad is also interested in legal responses to sexual violence against adults. The first strand of this work is around the role of law in the production of knowledge about sexual violence. She has published on the admission of counselling and therapeutic records in rape trials, and on the notion of consent to sexual intercourse in Irish law. The second strand of this work relates to the role of employment and anti-discrimination law in combatting sexual misconduct in higher education. At the University of Kent Sinéad was instrumental in the design of institution-wide policies on responding to and preventing sexual violence against students, and in successfully bidding for Higher Education Funding Council for England funds to support implementation of these polices. In November 2018 Sinéad was appointed by Minister for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor, T.D. to the Expert Advisory Group on Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutions. The group’s report, Safe, Respectful, Supportive and Positive. Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutionswas published in April 2019 and is available online here. The Report provides a framework for sectoral change to foster positive institutional cultures of respect, dignity and integrity that are effective in tackling sexual misconduct. Sinéad is an editorial board member of feminists@law, an online open access journal of feminist legal scholarship (available online here).
Sinéad is happy to supervise research students working in the following areas: institutional violence and the State; sexual violence and the law; law and gender; feminist legal studies; criminal law; evidence law and criminal justice.
Sinéad is also interested in legal responses to sexual violence against adults. The first strand of this work is around the role of law in the production of knowledge about sexual violence. She has published on the admission of counselling and therapeutic records in rape trials, and on the notion of consent to sexual intercourse in Irish law. The second strand of this work relates to the role of employment and anti-discrimination law in combatting sexual misconduct in higher education. At the University of Kent Sinéad was instrumental in the design of institution-wide policies on responding to and preventing sexual violence against students, and in successfully bidding for Higher Education Funding Council for England funds to support implementation of these polices. In November 2018 Sinéad was appointed by Minister for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor, T.D. to the Expert Advisory Group on Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutions. The group’s report, Safe, Respectful, Supportive and Positive. Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutionswas published in April 2019 and is available online here. The Report provides a framework for sectoral change to foster positive institutional cultures of respect, dignity and integrity that are effective in tackling sexual misconduct. Sinéad is an editorial board member of feminists@law, an online open access journal of feminist legal scholarship (available online here).
Sinéad is happy to supervise research students working in the following areas: institutional violence and the State; sexual violence and the law; law and gender; feminist legal studies; criminal law; evidence law and criminal justice.
Research Projects
Book
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2022 | Ring S.;Gleeson K.;Stevenson K. (2022) Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia. [DOI] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
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2022 | Sinéad Ring (2022) 'Applications to halt the trial of charges of non-recent child sexual abuse. The People (D.P.P.) v. C.Ce [2019] I.E.S.C. 94'. Irish Supreme Court Review, 3 . [Link] | |
2023 | Lynsey Black and Sinéad Ring (2023) 'Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists'. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 39 (1):17-37. [Link] [DOI] | |
2021 | Kate Gleeson; Sinéad Ring (2021) 'Confronting the past and changing the future? Public inquiries into institutional child abuse, Ireland and Australia'. Griffith Law Review, 29 (1):109-133. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Mairead Enright; Sinéad Ring (2020) 'State Legal Responses to Historical Institutional Abuse: Shame, Sovereignty, and Epistemic Injustice'. Eire-Ireland; a journal of Irish studies, 55 (1 & 2):68-100. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Sinéad Ring (2017) 'Trauma and the construction of suffering in Irish historical child sexual abuse prosecutions'. International Journal For Crime, Justice And Social Democracy, 6 (3):88-103. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Sinéad Ring (2017) 'The Victim of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in the Irish Courts 1999–2006'. Social and Legal Studies, 26 (5):562-580. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Sinéad Ring (2015) '“Sexual Offence Complainants and Credibility: Why Virginity Testing is Pointless. R v L [2015] EWCA Crim 741.”'. Journal of Criminal Law, 79 (6):385-388. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018315619268 [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Enright, M., Conway, V., De Londras, F. , Fletcher, R., McGuinness, S., Ui Chonnachtaigh, S., McDonnell, N. Murray, C., Ring, S., Donnelly, M. (2015) 'Abortion Law in Ireland: A Model for Change'. Feminists at Law, 5 (1):1-32. https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.173 [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Enright, M. ; Conway, V.; De Londras, F.; Fletcher, R.; McGuinness, S.; Ui Chonnachtaigh, S.; McDonnell, N.; Murray, C.; Ring, S. and Donnelly, M. (2015) 'General Scheme of Access to Abortion Bill”'. Feminists at Law, 5 (1):18-50. [Link] https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.174 [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Ring, Sinéad (2014) 'Analysing 'Fairness in Context' in Historic Child Sexual Abuse Prohibition Applications'. Irish Criminal Law Journal, 23 (4):132-141. [Full-Text] | |
2012 | Ring, Sinéad (2012) 'Due Process and the Admission of Expert Evidence on Recovered Memory in Historic Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Lessons from America'. International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 16 (1):66-92. https://doi.org/10.1350/ijep.2012.16.1.392 [Full-Text] | |
2009 | Ring, Sinéad (2009) 'Beyond the Reach of Justice? Complainant Delay in Historic Child Sexual Abuse Cases and the Right to a Fair Trial.”'. Judicial Studies Institute Journal, 2 :162-203. [Link] [Full-Text] |
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Máiréad Enright and Sinéad Ring (2022) 'State Legal Responses to Historical Institutional Abuse: Shame, Sovereignty and Epistemic Injustice' In: Redress: Ireland and Justice in Transition. Dublin : UCD Press. [Link] | |
2019 | Ring S.;Enright M. (2019) 'State shame, sovereignty, and legal responses to historical institutional abuse' In: Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland. | |
2018 | Sinéad Ring (2018) '‘Our most precious possession of all.’ The Survivor of Historical Child Sexual Abuse as the Ideal Victim?”' In: Revisiting the Ideal Victim Concept. Developments in Critical Victimology. Bristol : Bristol University Press. [Link] | |
2018 | Sinéad Ring (2018) 'On ‘delay’ and ‘duration’. Law’s Temporal Orders in Historical Child Sexual Abuse Cases' In: Law and Time. London : Routledge. [Link] https://www.routledge.com/Law-and-Time/Beynon-Jones-Grabham/p/book/9780367665302 | |
2017 | Eilionóir Flynn and Sinéad Ring (2017) 'DPP v C. A Feminist Judgment on Consent in Rape Law' In: Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments. Judges' Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity. London : Bloomsbury. [Link] |
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2014 | Sinéad Ring (2014) 'The Pernicious Nature of Rape Myths and how they continue to Affect Rape Prosecutions' Feminists at Law, 4 (1) . [Link] https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.103 | |
2009 | Sinéad Ring (2009) 'Justice Denied? An Analysis of the Difficulties facing Applicants for Prohibition in Delayed Prosecutions for Child Sexual Abuse' First Law Criminal Law Online, . [Link] | |
2006 | Sinéad Ring (2006) 'Collateral Challenges to a Declaration of Unconstitutionality: A v Governor of Arbour Hill Prison [2006] IESC 45”' Schools of tomorrow, 14 :245-254. [Full-Text] |
Published Report
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Tony McMahon and Sinéad Ring (2020) Irish Universities Association Guidance for Universities. How to Respond to Alleged Staff or Student or University Related Sexual Misconduct. Irish Universities Association, . [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | A. Looney, T. Browne, S. Cahill, L. Crowley, D. McLean, A. Power, P. MacNeela, S. Ring, C. Saidléar, (2019) Safe Respectful, Supportive and Positive. Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutions. Government of Ireland, . [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | His Honour P. Rook (Chair); A. Rafferty; I. Bing; A. Rothwell; C. Yates; C. Rose; D. Calvert-Smith, D.; G. Akerman; J. Faure Walker; L. Tapper; L. Orrett; M. Lamb; N. Barnard; N. Lankey; P. Carter; V. Baird; S. Ring; T. Dempster, T.; V. Dow; T. Desai, T. (Rapporteur) (2019) Prosecuting Sexual Offences. JUSTICE, . [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2006 | Sinéad Ring (2006) Prosecution Appeals and Pre-Trial Hearings (LRC 81-2006). Law Reform Commission, . https://publications.lawreform.ie/Portal/External/en-GB/RecordView/Index/36050 [Full-Text] | |
2004 | Glen Gibbons and Sinead Ring (2004) A Fiscal Prosecutor and a Revenue Court (LRC 2004). Law Reform Commission, . https://publications.lawreform.ie/Portal/External/en-GB/RecordView/Index/35306 [Full-Text] |
Conference Publication
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2009 | Sinéad Ring (2009) Perspectives on Sex Offending: the Victim and the Offender Allegations of Sex Offending and the Rights of the Accused [Link] |
Conference Contribution
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2018 | Sinéad Ring (2018) Dublin Honours Magdalenes Event at Mansion House Dublin Mansion House, . | |
2023 | Sinéad Ring (2023) Taking Survivors Seriously: What Practitioners can Learn from the Law's Engagement with Adults Reporting Childhood Sexual Abuse International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Online international webinar, . | |
2021 | Sinéad Ring (2021) Current Developments in the law and policy on sexual violence Presentation to Irish Prison Service Smithfield, . | |
2021 | Sinéad Ring (2021) Reflections on Irish Universities' Implemention of the Consent Framework Invited keynote for event on the National Consent Framework organised by NUIG Vice President for Equality Diversity and Inclusion Prof Ann Scott NUI Galway, . | |
2020 | Sinéad Ring (2020) Legal Responses to Historical Child Sexual Abuse International Women's Day Spotlight on Gender, Feminist and Sexuality Research at Maynooth University Maynooth University, . | |
2019 | Sinéad Ring (2019) Public Lecture to Celebrate 20 Anniversary of Brussels School of International Studies Stealthing and the Criminal Law Brussels School of International Studies, . | |
2018 | Máiréad Enright and Sinéad Ring (2018) Exploring the notion of shame in legal and political responses to historical gender based violence.” NUI Galway Research Seminar Series NUI Galway, . | |
2016 | Sinead Ring (2016) State Complicity in Historic Child Sexual Abuse in Ireland University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Law Seminar Series Sydney Australia, . | |
2015 | Sinead Ring (2015) Researching Child Sexual Abuse in the Archives”, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland, 11 November, 2015. chives”, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Irelan School of Law and Government, Dublin City University Dublin City University, . | |
2015 | Sinéad Ring (2015) Is Redemption Possible Here? Developing an Ethics of Memory for Historical Childhood Sexual Abuse in ireland Melbourne Law School Research Series Melbourne, Australia, . | |
2023 | Sinéad Ring (2023) Conference on Redress for Child Abuse Association of Personal Injury Lawyers London, . | |
2013 | Sinéad Ring (2013) North South Criminology Conference Trauma in Historical Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions University College Cork, . | |
2018 | Sinéad Ring (2018) The 20th Century as the Children's Century Historical Child Sexual Abuse and Trauma and the Nation's Duty to Remember University of Warwick, . | |
2018 | Sinéad Ring (2018) Understanding New Rape Cultures Universities Efforts to end Sexual Violence against Students University College Dublin, . | |
2015 | Sinéad Ring (2015) Expert Evidence under the Microscope Trauma as a Legal Category University of Southampton, . | |
2019 | Sinéad Ring (2019) Launch of UCC Bystander Intervention Programme Launch of UCC Bystander Intervention programme University College Cork, . | |
2022 | Sinéad Ring (2022) Christie's Ideal Victim and The Survivor of Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse Lecture to Critical Victimology MA University of Limerick, 29/11/2022-29/11/2022. | |
2020 | Sinéad Ring (2020) Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment in Irish Universities University of Birmingham Gender Research Group Virtual, . | |
2020 | Sinéad Ring (2020) Effective Procedures for Reporting and Investigating Reports of Sexual Misconduct against Students Panel Discussion - Consent at Maynooth University. Virtual Panel with Students Virtual, . | |
2020 | Sinéad Ring (2020) Discussant Maynooth University International Women's Day Event. Meet the Silence Breaker Laura Madden Maynooth University, 05/03/2020-. | |
2019 | Sinéad Ring (2019) Child Abuse Inquiries- Law, Justice, Records and the Creation of Public History Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference Limerick, 22/11/2019-24/11/2019. | |
2018 | Sinead Ring (2018) Resisting the Harms of ‘Innocence’ through Memories: an alternative histo- ry of child sexual abuse in Ireland Irish Conference of Historians. Sex Sexuality and Reproduction. Historical Perspectives University College Cork, 26/04/2018-28/04/2018. | |
2018 | Sinéad Ring (2018) #MeToo and the Rape Shield in Evidence Law Dublin City University International Workshop on Law of Evidence and Criminal Procedure Dublin City University, . | |
2018 | Máiread Enright and Sinéad Ring (2018) “Shame, Sovereignty and Irish Legal Responses to Historical State Violence” Boston College International Conference on Transitional Justice, Truth-telling, and the Legacy of Institutional Abus Boston, USA, . | |
2017 | Sinead Ring (2017) “Historical Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Nation's Duty to Remember: Reflections from Ireland. Conference: Is there a Democratic Deficit in Archives? Northumbria University: Archival Accountability Gap- Is Is There a Democratic Deficit in Archives? Northumbria University, 24/01/2017-26/01/2017. [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Sinéad Ring and Clíona Saidléar (2016) Rape survivors access to abortion Abortion: the unfinished revolution Belfast, . | |
2016 | Sinéad Ring and Gethin Rees (2016) The Co-Production and Destabilisation of Rape Trauma Syndrome Institute for Advanced Legal Studies Workshop. Valuing Expertise: Legal, Normative and Social Dimensions Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, 20/09/2016-20/09/2016. | |
2016 | Sinéad Ring and Clíona Saidléar (2016) “Access to Abortion and the Needs of Survivors of Sexual Violence in Ireland” University of Ulster: Abortion and Reproductive Justice - the Unfinished Revolution II University of Ulster, 02/06/2016-02/06/2016. | |
2015 | Sinéad Ring (2015) The Juridification of Trauma in Delayed Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions Institute for Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton. Expert Evidence under the Microscope Institute for Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton, 22/11/2014-. | |
2015 | Sinead Ring (2015) The EU Victims' Directive and Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse University of Limerick Conference on the EU Victims' Directive University of Limerick, 11/09/2017-. | |
2011 | Sinead Ring (2011) Expert Evidence on Recovered Memory in Historic Child Sexual Abuse Cases Law and Society Association Conference San Francisco, . | |
2010 | Sinead Ring (2010) Repressed Memory Syndrome and the Role of Experts in Historic Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions Harvard Law School Graduate Workshop Boston, 09/04/2010-. | |
2010 | Sinead Ring (2010) Constitutional Due Process and Reliability Determinations Regarding Expert Testimony on Recovered Memories of Child Sexual Abuse Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference Limerick, . | |
2009 | Sinead Ring (2009) Feminist Constructions of Credibility; Is a Complainant Always a Victim? Sibéal Gender and Women's Studies Network, UCD UCD, . | |
2009 | Sinead Ring (2009) When is a Victim a Feminist's Victim? Society of Legal Scholars Conference Keele, . | |
2009 | Sinead Ring (2009) The Incorporation of Victims' Experiences in Historic Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions Socio Legal Studies Association Leicester, . | |
2008 | Sinead Ring (2008) Recalibrating the Scales of Justice North-South Criminology Conference DIT, . | |
2008 | Sinead Ring (2008) Balance, Delay and Due Process: How Balancing talk Affects Due Process in Delayed Prosecutions for Child Sexual Abuse Criminal Justice in Crisis, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, . | |
2006 | Sinead Ring (2006) Justice in Transition: Where to now for judicial sentencing discretion? European Society of Criminology Annual Conference Tuebingen, . |
Book Review
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2010 | Ring, Sinéad (2010) General Principles of Law in the Decisions of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals by Raimondo, Fabian.”. Netherlands: BREV [Link] |
Editorial
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2013 | Sarah Keenan and Sinéad Ring (2013) A Response to the LSE Event “Is Rape Different?”. ED [Link] https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.80 |
Policy Contribution
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Eileen Molloy and Sinéad Ring (2019) Submission to the Oireachtas Committee on the Retention of Records Bill 2019. POLICY [Link] | |
2020 | Sinéad Ring (2020) In-person presentation to Minister for Higher and Further Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris T.D. Developing Appropriate Policies and Procedures to Respond to Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education Institutions. POLICY | |
2019 | Máiread Enright; Maeve O'Rourke and Sinéad Ring (2019) Submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills on the Retention of Records Bill 2019. POLICY [Link] | |
2019 | C. O' Mahony, F Logue, M O'Rourke, J. Gallen, E. Daly, M. Enright, S. Ring, R. McMahon, L. Cahillane (2019) Legal Opinion. Opinion on the application of the Irish Constitution and EU General Data Protection Regulation to the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 and the Government’s ‘Options for Consideration’ dated 5th November 2019. POLICY [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Vicky Conway and Sinéad Ring (2019) Submission to Department of Justice's Review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017. POLICY | |
2016 | Enright, M. ; Conway, V.; De Londras, F.; Fletcher, R.; McGuinness, S.; Ui Chonnachtaigh, S.; McDonnell, N.; Murray, C.; Ring, S. and Donnelly, M. (2016) Submission to the Citizens’ Assembly of Ireland Regarding a Proposed Model Law on Abortion. POLICY [Link] https://2016-2018.citizensassembly.ie/en/Submissions/Eighth-Amendment-of-the-Constitution/Submissions-Received/ | |
2013 | Helen Carr, Per Laleng, Rosemary Hunter, Sinead Ring, Elaine Sherratt, Richard Warren, Lucy Welsh , Sheona York (2013) Proposed Reforms of Legal Aid in the UK. Response to Consultation by Kent Law School. Kent: POLICY [Link] |
Invited Seminars
Magazine Article
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2017 | Sinéad Ring, De Elizabeth (2017) Switzerland Court determined 'stealthing' is not rape. [Magazine Article] [Link] |
Magazine Article
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2020 | Sinéad Ring and Lisa Connell (2020) Dáil Passes controversial bill sealing Mother and Baby Homes records for 30 years. MGZN [Link] |
Blog
Year | Publication | |
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2015 | Sinéad Ring (2015) The Irish Marriage Referendum. BLOG [Link] | |
2018 | Sinéad Ring (2018) Disclosure failures erode confidence in criminal justice. BLOG [Link] | |
2015 | Sinead Ring (2015) Idealism, Nationalism and the Betrayal of Irish Children. BLOG [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Sinead Ring (2013) Proposed Reforms of Legal Aid in the UK. BLOG [Link] | |
2010 | Sinéad Ring (2010) New Garda Sex Offences Unit to be Established. BLOG [Link] | |
2010 | Sinéad Ring (2010) Cardinal Brady and the Civil Action Taken by alleged victim of Brendan Smyth. BLOG [Link] | |
2010 | Sinéad Ring (2010) HSE Dublin North East Region and complaints of child abuse. BLOG [Link] | |
2010 | Sinéad Ring (2010) Carlin v DPP: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Decision (not) to Prosecute. BLOG [Link] | |
2009 | Sinéad Ring (2009) The Safety of Sex Workers. BLOG [Link] | |
2009 | Sinéad Ring (2009) Implementation of the Ryan Report and Children in Care. BLOG [Link] | |
2009 | Sinéad Ring (2009) LRC Report on Criminal Defences. BLOG [Link] |
Newspaper Articles
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Sinéad Ring, Cate McCurry (2022) Consent Defence in Rape will be Changed. NEWSA https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/irish-daily-mirror/20220813/282209424635901 | |
2021 | Sinéad Ring, (2021) We can't say it is too difficult. Could criminal investigations into Ireland's mother and baby homes happen?. NEWSA [Link] | |
2020 | Sinéad Ring, Kara Fox (2020) reland’s mother and baby home survivors have spent decades fighting for the truth. They can finally see an end in sight. NEWSA https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/30/europe/ireland-mother-baby-homes-commission-intl/index.html | |
2019 | Sinéad Ring, Lizzie Deane (2019) Abused All Over Again. NEWSA [Link] | |
2017 | Sinéad Ring, Noel Baker (2017) Ireland tolerated abuse of children says expert. NEWSA [Link] | |
2010 | Sinead Ring (2010) Representations of Justice in Sexual Abuse Cases. London: NEWSA [Link] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/may/11/guidance-trial-judges-sexual-abuse-cases |
Radio Presentation
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | Sinéad Ring (2016) Sexual Consent and the Law. RADIO [Link] | |
2019 | Sinéad Ring (2019) Morning Ireland Interview: Committee to discuss proposed legislation on records of redress bodies. Dublin: RADIO [Link] | |
2019 | Sinead Ring (2019) Today with Seán O'Rourke: Retention of Records. Dublin: RADIO [Link] | |
2018 | Sinéad Ring (2018) The Abortion Referendum in Ireland. Kent: RADIO |
Video recording / TV
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2011 | Sinéad Ring (2011) The Criminal Law (Defence of the Dwelling) Bill. VID [Link] |
Podcast
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2020 | Vicky Conway, Osgur Breatnach, Sinéad Ring (2020) Policed in Ireland The Sallins Train Robbery. Dublin: PODCAST [Link] |
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Committees
Education
Teaching Interests
Sinéad teaches Criminal Law I and II , The Law of Evidence, State Responses to Historical Gendered Violence, Gender Sexuality and Law (Undergrad and Postgraduate courses).
She is happy to supervise research students working in the following areas: institutional violence and the State; sexual violence and the law; law and gender; feminist legal studies; criminal law; evidence law and criminal justice.
She is happy to supervise research students working in the following areas: institutional violence and the State; sexual violence and the law; law and gender; feminist legal studies; criminal law; evidence law and criminal justice.