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Research Students

There are currently over 40 PhD students within the School. There is also a visiting researcher option within the School which has enhanced the Schools’ research programme.

Meet some of our students below:

Alessandra Accogli
Supervisor: Amrei Muller
Research Area:
Climate Change and Environmental Law, Human Rights
Somsubhra Banerjee (European Research Council Scholar)
Research Area: Constitutional law
Supervisor: Prof Eoin Carolan
Richard Bunworth
Research Area: EU Competition Law
Supervisor: Dr Mary Catherine Lucey
Lynn Clarke-Hearty (UCD Sutherland School of Law Doctoral Scholarship)
Supervisor: Dr Deirdre Healy, Associate Professor UCD
Research Area: Criminology & Criminal Justice
  Sonya Cotton (ERC project PROPERTY[IN]JUSTICE)
Supervisor: Amy Strecker 
Research Area: Legal geography/anthropology, TWAIL, decolonisation, legal personhood 
Baha Ebdeir
Supervisors: Prof Aisling Swaine and Dr Suzanne Egan
Research Area: Transitional Justice, Conflict-Related Violence against Women, Feminist Legal Theory 
Stephanie FitzPatrick
Supervisor: Prof Laurent Pech
Research Area: EU Rule of Law 
  Sharon Galantino (UCD-Roma Tre University Doctoral Scholar)
Supervisor: Dr TJ McIntyre
Research Area: Platform governance 
Sergey Katsuba
Supervisors: Dr Sara Benedi Lahuerta, Dr Alexander Kondakov (School of Sociology)
Research Area: Authoritarian Politics, Human Rights Law, Socio-Legal Research, LGBTQ Rights
Benedetta Lobina
Supervisor: Prof Laurent Pech
Research Area: EU Law, Rule of Law
Calum MacLaren
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Jackson
Research Area: Climate Law, Environmental Law
Rosemary Mangan
Supervisor: Professor Ian O'Donnell 
Research Area: Homicide, Victimology, Criminal Law, Criminal Justice
  Alacoque McAlpine 
Supervisor: Dr Sara Benedí Lahuerta
Research Area: EU Law, Labour Law in Supply Chains
Candice Meera Maharaj
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Jackson
Research Area: Environmental Law, Constitutional Law
 
Amy Ní Ghiolla
Supervisor: Dr Marie Luce-Paris
Research Area: Constitutional law and the Housing Crisis
Giulio Ravot
Supervisor: Prof Brian Hutchinson
Research Area: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)  
  Orlaith Rice
Supervisor: Prof Eoin Carolan
Research Area: Crime, Migration, Democratic Decay, Populism 
  Demian Iglesias Seifert (European Research Council Scholar)
Supervisor: Prof Eoin Carolan
Research Area: Comparative Constitutional Law, Public Policy
Zhiyi Yin
Supervisor: Prof Imelda Maher
Research Area: International Competition Law
 

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University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.