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Dr. Sarah Arduin
Assistant Professor, Law

Biography

Sarah Arduin is the Matheson Assistant Professor in EU Law in the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a French law degree from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and is a graduate of the LLM and PhD programmes at Trinity College Dublin.

Her current research focuses on EU risk regulation and she has published in the European Journal of Risk Regulation, Modern Law Review, Law & Policy, and Oxford Review of Education, amongst others.

Sarah teaches EU Law and International and EU Environmental Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She also supervises dissertations on Law and Happiness at undergraduate level.

Sarah welcomes expressions of interest in PhD supervision and post-doctoral research in her areas of teaching and research interests.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

The right to education, well-being, and choice in, editor(s)Michael A. Stein and Malcolm Langford , Disability Social Rights, CUP, 2025, pp31 , [Sarah Arduin] Book Chapter, 2025

Disability and Inclusion in, editor(s)Louis Tay and Beth McCuskey , The Oxford Handbook on Well-being in Higher Education, OUP, 2025, [Sarah Arduin] Book Chapter, 2025

Arduin, Precautionary Principle and Impact Assessment: The Case of School Closures during the Pandemic in Ireland, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2024, p1 - 17 Journal Article, 2024

Arduin, Book review, John Kay and Mervyn King, Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an Unknowable Future, London: The Bridge Street Press, 2020, Modern Law Review, 84, (3), 2021 Journal Article, 2021

Sarah Arduin, Taking meta-regulation to the United Nations human rights regime: the case of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Law and Policy, 41, (4), 2019, p10.1111/lapo.12136 Journal Article, 2019

The Expressive Dimension of Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in, editor(s)De Beco, G., Lord, J. and Quinlivan, S. , The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp10.1017/9781316392881.007 , [Sarah Arduin] Book Chapter, 2019

Article 3: General Principles in, editor(s)Ilias Bantekas, Michael Stein, and Dimitris Anastasiou , The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp10.1093/law/9780198810667.003. , [Sarah Arduin] Book Chapter, 2018

Sarah Arduin, A review of the values that underpin the structure of an education system and its approach to disability and inclusion, Oxford Review of Education, 41, (1), 2015, p10.1080/03054985.2015.1006614 Journal Article, 2015

Sarah Arduin, Can Ireland endorse a human rights-based approach to special education?, Dublin University Law Journal, 36, 2013, p93 - 126 Journal Article, 2013

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Sarah Arduin, Precautionary Principle, Regulatory Impact Analysis, and Judicial Review, IALT Annual Conference 2023: Ireland in the EU at 50, DCU, 10-11 November 2023, 2023 Conference Paper, 2023

Sarah Arduin, Nudging within the Constraints of Administrative Law, 12th Annual Workshop on Economics, Psychology and Public Policy, ESRI, 29.11.2019, 2019 Conference Paper, 2019

Sarah Arduin, A regulatory framework for nudging, IAREP (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology) and SABE (Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics) Annual Conference, Croke Park, Dublin, 2-4.09.2019, 2019 Conference Paper, 2019

Sarah Arduin, The preservation of choice when regulating epistemic uncertainty, Annual Workshop on Economics, Psychology, and Policy in Ireland, UCD Geary Institute , 30.11.2018, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

Sarah Arduin, Choice architecture and the UN CRPD, Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, Queen Mary University of London, 6.09.2018, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

Research Expertise

Description

Sarah is interested in the relationship between law and decision-making under uncertainty. She is researching in the area of EU risk regulation, with a particular focus on the precautionary principle. She is also looking at the interaction between EU law and well-being with a view to realising sustainable development goals.