Corporate Law, Governance and Capital Markets
Trinity College Law School
Welcome
Members contribute to international peer reviewed scholarly publications; organise and participate in national and international conferences, seminars and workshops; make submissions to national and EU consultations; participate in expert working groups and international research networks; act on editorial boards of leading scholarly journals; and contribute to public policy development on the national and international stage. They develop and promote innovative curriculum, teaching methodologies and teaching materials in this field and play a leading role in promoting research at doctoral level in the School. The Group also provides a forum for developing research ideas and projects and encouraging and engaging in collaborative research.
Convenor
Professor Blanaid Clarke, McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law
Professor Blanaid Clarke
McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law, Law
Biography
Blanaid holds the McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law at Trinity College Dublin where she lectures in: Corporate Governance in the EU; Contract Law; Company Law; and Responsible Business, Ethics and ESG. She is Convenor of the School"s Corporate Law, Governance and Capital Markets Research Group and Director of the LLM Programmes in the Law School.
Her research interests include: governance (corporate governance, fund governance and central bank governance); ethics; financial services law; securities law; and takeover law and she has published extensively in these areas.
Blanaid is the Irish representative on the OECD Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority's Shareholder Transactions Working Group (previously the Takeover Bids Network).
She is Deputy Chairman of the Irish Banking Culture Board and works with the Irish Takeover Panel. She is also a member of the Institute of Banker's Certified Investment Fund Director Institute Advisory Committee.
Blanaid is a Vice President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute and Deputy Chair of the Royal Irish Academy's Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee. She is a member of: the European Model Company Act Group and the University of Oslo's Sustainability Law Research Group.
Previously, she was also a member of: the IMF's Safeguards Assessments - 2022 External Expert Panel (2021-2022), the Irish Central Bank Commission (2010-2018); the European Securities and Markets Authority's Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (2018-2020); the European Commission's Informal Expert Group on Company Law (2014-2018); and the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law (2010-2011). She was on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Law and was one of the editors of Palmer's Company Law and (2009-2021) and Legal Studies (2011-2016).
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
B.Clarke & A.Egli, Governance Challenges for the Boards of Investment Funds and Fund Managers: Evidence from Ireland, School of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper Series Paper N0. 13/2023, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 2023
Sustainable Finance: Country Report Ireland (forthcoming) in, editor(s)Jens Ekkenga and Martin Winner , Sustainable Finance in Europe, 2023, [Felix E Mezzanotte (with Blanaid Clarke)]
Blanaid Clarke, Purpose,Values and Governance in Big Tech Companies, Bond Law Review, 34, (2), 2022, p35 - 67
The Market for Corporate Control in the EU in, editor(s)H.Birkmose, M.Neville and K.Engsig Sørensen , Instruments of EU Corporate Governance, The Netherlands, Kluwer Law International B.V., 2022, pp285 - 308, [Blanaid Clarke]
Company Law Legal Systems - Ireland in, editor(s)D.Busch, C.Gortos and G.Mc Meel , Liability of Financial Supervisors and Resolution Authorities, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp321 - 348, [Blanaid Clarke]
Cultural Reforms in Irish Banks - A Pandemic Report Card in, editor(s)C. Gortsos and G. Ringe , Financial Stability amidst the Pandemic Crisis: On Top of the Wave, Frankfurt, European Banking Institute, 2021, pp404 - 434, [B. Clarke]
Senior Executive Accountability in the Financial Services Sector - An Irish Case Study in, editor(s)Ronald J. Gilson, Mats Isaksson, Erik Lidman Johan Munck and Erik Sjöman , Festschrift in honour of Rolf Skog , Sweeden, Norstedts Juridik, 2021, pp311 - 329, [B. Clarke]
B. Clarke, Senior Executive Accountability and Responsibility in Financial Institutions, The Irish Jurist, 66, 2021, p74-100
The Role of the Central Bank of Ireland as an Independent Financial Regulator in, D.Farrell and N. Hardiman , Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp683 - 701, [B. Clarke]
CRD IV - The EU's response to corporate governance failings in credit institutions" in, editor(s)D Cash and R Goddard , Regulation and the Global Financial Crisis: Impact, Regulatory Responses, and Beyond , Routledge, 2020, pp190-209 , [B. Clarke]
"Cultural reforms in Irish banks. Walking the walk during the COVID-19 pandemic in, editor(s)C. Gortsos and G. Ringe , Pandemic Crisis and Financial Stability, Frankfurt, European Banking Institute, 2020, pp127-154 , [B. Clarke]
Regulation of AIFMs and AIFs in Ireland in, editor(s)D.Zetzsche , The AIFM Directive- European Regulation of Alternative Investment Funds, Kluwer Law International, 2020, pp911-924 , [B.Clarke (and M.White) ]
Ireland in, S. Allegrezza , The Enforcement Dimension of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, Milano, Wolters Kluwer, 2020, pp341 - 380, [B.Clarke]
Rachael Walsh and Sarah Hamill (chapter authors) Deirdre Ahern and Suryapratim Roy (report editors), Policy Responses to Covid-19 In Ireland: Supporting Individuals, Communities, Businesses, and the Economy, COVID-19 Legal Observatory, Trinity College Dublin, December, 2020, p1 - 108
Worker rights under the Cross-border Mergers Directive 2005/56/EC: an Introduction in, Jan Cremers and Sigurt Vitols , Exercising voice across borders: workers' rights under the EU Cross-border Mergers Directive, Belgium , ETUI, 2019, pp29-44 , [B Clarke]
Unmasking directors and shareholders to prevent the abuse of companies in, editor(s)H. Birkmose, M. Neville and K. Engsig Sørensen , Abuse of companies , The Netherlands, Wolters Kluwer , 2019, pp209-230 , [B Clarke]
The EU as norm creator for sustainable corporate groups? in, editor(s)B Sjåfjell and C Bruner , Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp190 - 203, [B Clarke and L Anderson]
Ireland in, Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, Federico M Mucciarelli, Edmund-Philipp Schuster and Mathias Siems , 'The Private International Law of Companies in Europe, UK , Hart, 2019, pp461-488 , [B. Clarke and D Kenny]
B Clarke (with S. Griffith and D Awrey), Resolving the Crisis in U.S. Merger Regulation: A Transatlantic Alternative to the Perpetual Litigation Machine , 2018
B Clarke (with S. Griffith and D Awrey),, Resolving the Crisis in U.S. Merger Regulation, Yale Journal on Regulation , 35, (1), 2018, p1 - 65
Governance aspects of mutual funds in Ireland in, editor(s)W Birdthistle and J Morley , Research Handbook on the Regulation of Mutual Funds, UK and USA, Elgar, 2018, pp360 - 381, [B Clarke (and M White) ]
A Transatlantic Perspective on Shareholder Litigation in Public Takeovers in, editor(s)S.Griffith, J.Erickson, D. H. Webber, and V. Winship (eds) , Elgar, 415-438 (November 2018) , Research Handbook On Representative Shareholder Litigation, UK, Elgar, 2018, pp415 - 438, [B Clarke (with D Awrey)]
Blanaid Clarke, Individual Accountability in Irish Credit Institutions - Lessons to be Learned from the UK's Senior Managers Regime , Common Law World Review , 47, (1), 2018, p35 - 52
Banking Regulation in, editor(s)W.Roche, P.O'Connell and A.Prothero , Austerity and Recovery in Ireland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp107 - 123, [B. Clarke]
"EU Takeover Regulation as a Means of Safeguarding the Interests of Employees: Re-opening Pandora's Box" chapter in Helmut Siekmann (editor) , in, editor(s)Helmut Siekmann , Festschrift for Theodor Baums zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, Germany, Mohr Siebeck, 2017, pp215 - 235, [Blanaid Clarke]
National Implementation in the EU: Ireland in, editor(s)G.Moss, B.Wessels and M.Haentjens , EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency (Second Edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp349 - 363, [Blanaid Clarke]
Ireland in, editor(s)D Busch and C Van Dam , A Bank's Duty of Care, England, Hart/Bloomsbury, 2017, pp285 - 327, [Blanaid Clarke]
The Duties of Parent Companies in, H. Søndergaard Birkmose , Shareholders' Duties in Europe, Netherlands, Kluwer Law International, 2017, pp229 - 254, [B. Clarke ]
B. Clarke, Duty of Care, Skill and Diligence - from Warm Baths to Hot Water, The Irish Jurist, LVI, 2016, p139 - 160
The Role of Employees in the Takeover Bids Directive in, editor(s)Cremers J and Vitols S. , Takeovers with or without worker voice: worker rights under the EU Directive on Takeover Bids, Brussels, ETUI, 2016, pp33 - 49, [Blanaid Clarke]
Blanaid Clarke (and Gail Henderson), Directors as guardians of the Public Interest, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 16, (1), 2016, p187 - 220
"Deposit Guarantee Schemes" in, editor(s)M.Haentjens and B.Wessels , Research Handbook on Crisis Management in the Banking Sector, Research Handbooks in Financial Law series. , UK, Edward Elgar Publishing , 2015, pp345 - 365, [Blanaid Clarke]
"The role of board directors in promoting environmental sustainability" in, editor(s)B.J. Richardson and B. Sjåfjell , Company Law and Sustainability , UK, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp148 - 174, [Blanaid Clarke]
Blanaid Clarke, Irish Company Law as a Means of Furthering the Climate Change Agenda, International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal , 11, (3), 2015, p104 - 139
Blanaid Clarke & Gail Henderson, "Are Public Interest Directors a Good Idea? Lessons from the Irish Banking Crisis" (September 15, 2015). UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11/2015. , 2015
Takeovers Regulation in, editor(s)Geoffrey Morse (Co-ordinating Editor) , Palmers Company Law , London, Thompson Sweet & Maxwell, 2014, pp12065 - 12125, [B. Clarke]
Blanaid Clarke, The EU's Shareholder Empowerment Model in the Context of the Sustainable Companies Agenda, European Company Law , 2, 2014, p103-
B. Clarke, The Market for Corporate Control: New Insights from the Financial Crisis in Ireland" , Seattle University Law Review , 36, 2013, p63-
Blanaid Clarke, "The Takeovers' Directive - A Meaningful Contribution to Stakeholders Rights in Europe" , International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, 10, (1), 2013, p80 - 97
Deirdre Ahern and Blanaid Clarke, Listed Companies' Engagement with Diversity: A Multi-Jurisdictional Study of Annual Report Disclosures, 2013
Blanaid Clarke (with J. Antunes, T. Baums et al) , "Response to the European Commission's Action Plan on Company Law and Corporate Governance" , European Company and Financial Law Review, 10, 2013, p304 - 327
"Ireland: Crisis in the Banking System" in, editor(s)S. Konzelmann and M. Fovargue-Davies , Banking Systems in the Crisis: The Faces of Liberal Capitalism , London, Routledge, 2012, pp107 - 133, [B. Clarke and N. Hardiman ]
B.Clarke, Irish Company Law Mapping Paper, University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2012-35. , 2012
Liability of Asset Managers in Ireland in, editor(s)D. Busch and D. DeMott , Liability of Asset Mangers , Oxford University Press, 2012, pp369 - 409, [B. Clarke and A. Bates ]
B.Clarke and N.Hardiman, Crisis in the Irish Banking System (February 1, 2012). UCD Geary Institute Discussion Paper Series WP2012/03, UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 02/2012 , 2012
Legal Studies, UK, Wylie, [Co- editor], 2011-2018
B.Clarke, "Directors' Duties During an Offer Period - Lessons from the Cadbury PLC Takeover" UCD Law Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No.44/2011 , 2011
Corporate Law Scholarship in Ireland in, editor(s)J. Schweppe and T. Mohr , Thirty Years of Legal Scholarship: The Irish Association of Law Teachers , Dublin, Roundhall Press, 2011, [B.Clarke]
B.Clarke, Reviewing Takeover Regulation in the Wake of the Cadbury Acquisition: Regulation in a Twirl , Journal of Business Law, 2011, p298-
Where Was The 'Market For Corporate Control' When We Needed It? in, editor(s)W. Sun , Corporate Governance and the Global Financial Crisis: International Perspectives , Cambridge University Press, 2011, [B. Clarke ]
B.Clarke, Lessons Learned - The Corporate Governance Code For Credit Institutions And Insurance Undertakings, Dublin University Law Journal , 33, 2011, p172-
The EU Takeovers Directive - A Shareholder Or Stakeholder Model?" in, editor(s)P. Zumbansen and C. Williams , The Embedded Firm: Labour, Corporate Governance And Finance Capitalism , Cambridge University Press , 2011, [. B. Clarke ]
B.Clarke, Reinforcing the Market for Corporate Control, European Business Law Review, 2011, p517-
Journal of Business Law , UK, Sweet&Maxwell, [eds.], 2010-2018
Corporate Governance in Banks of Ireland in, editor(s)A. Kostyuk, F. Takeda, and K. Hosono , Anti-Crisis Paradigms of Corporate Governance in Banks: A New Institutional Outlook , Kiev, Virtus Interpress, 2010, [T. Lynn, R. Sharma and B. Clarke ]
B.Clarke, "Reinforcing the Market for Corporate Control" UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 39/2010, 2010
B.Clarke, Directors' Duties in a Changing World: Lessons from the Cadbury Plc Takeover, European Company Law , 7, 2010, p204-
B.Clarke and T.Lynn, "The Irish Corporate Governance System" UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 38/2010, 2010
Corporate Governance" An Oxymoron? - The Role Of Corporate Governance in the Current Banking Crisis in, editor(s)I. Mcneill and J. O'Brien , The Future Of Financial Regulation , Hart Publishing, 2010, [B. Clarke]
Corporate Governance Regulation and Board Decision Making During Takeovers in, editor(s)A. Thankom and J. Turner , Corporate Governance and Development , Edward Elgar, 2009, [B. Clarke]
B.Clarke, Insider Dealing: Getting Under the Skin of Fyffes Plc v DCC Plc & Others, Journal of Business Law , 2009, p68-
B.Clarke, The Takeovers Directive - Is a Little Regulation Better Than No Regulation?, European Law Journal , 15, (2), 2009, p174-
B.Clarke, "Where was the 'Market for Corporate Control' when we Needed it?" UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23/2009, 2009
The Relationship between Corporate Governance and Takeovers in Ireland in, editor(s)R. Keane and A. O'Neill , Corporate Governance - An Irish Perspective , Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2009, pp50 - 66, [B. Clarke]
B. Clarke, Contract Cases and Materials , 4th Edition, Gill & Macmillan, 2008
Inside Information and the Market Abuse Directive in, editor(s)P. Ali and G. Gregoriou , Insider Trading: Regulation and Analysis , London, CRC Press, 2008, [B. Clarke]
B.Clarke, Takeover Regulation- Through the Regulatory Looking Glass, German Law Journal , 8, 2007, p381-
The Market for Corporate Control and the Implications of the Takeover Directive (2004/25) in, P.Ali and G. Gregoriou , International Corporate Governance after Sarbanes-Oxley , New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, 2006, [B. Clarke]
B.Clarke, Articles 9 and 11 of the Takeover Directive (2004/25) and the Market for Corporate Control , Journal of Business Law , 2006, p355-
B.Clarke, European Takeover Regulation and Directive 2004/25/EC, The Company and Securities Law Journal , 24, 2006, p93-
B.Clarke, Regulating Poison Pill Devices, Journal of Corporate Law Studies , 4, 2004, p51-
Cross Border Mergers in Company Law: Removing the Final Barriers - Ireland in, International Federation of European Law XX Congress, Reports and Conclusions , London, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2002, [B. Clarke and G. Fitzgerald]
Accommodating the Special Needs of the Financial Markets - R v Panel on Takeovers and Mergers; Ex Parte Datafin plc in, editor(s)E. O'Dell , Leading Cases of the Twentieth Century, Roundhall Sweet & Maxwell, 2000, [B. Clarke]
B.Clarke, European Takeover Regulation - The Latest Draft of the 13th Company Law Directive, European Business Law Review , 10, 1999, p482-
B. Clarke, Takeovers and Mergers Law in Ireland , Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell, 1999
B.Clarke, The Draft 13th Directive and Employees - an Irish Law Perspective, European Business Law Review , 9, 1998
B.Clarke, Corporate Responsibility in Light of the Separation of Ownership and Control, Dublin University Law Journal , 19, 1997, p50-
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
B.Clarke, Mutual Fund Governance in Practice: A Purposive and Values-Based Approach ?, Sustainable Capitalism and the Corporation, Monash University Campus, Prato, Florence, 22 July 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, Comparative Takeovers and Securities Law Australia, Ireland and the US, 14 July 2023, In:Sustainable Capitalism and the Corporation, 2023, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin
B.Clarke, The Mutual Fund Board: a Lynchpin or a Weak Link in the Drive for Sustainable Investments, International Conference on Sustainability and Supply Chains in the Face of the Climate Crisis, University Carlos III, Madrid, 3 November 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, The Twitter Acquisition through the Prism of the Irish Takeover Panel Rules, Comparative Takeovers and Securities Law Australia, Ireland and the US, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 14 July 2023, 2023, TCD, Monash University and Vanderbilt University
B.Clarke, Panel Participant, Navigating a complex regulatory environment-the Fund Director"s perspective, Institute of Bankers and IQ-EQ, Dublin, 30 March 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, Board Profiles, Skills and Qualifications, Seventh Central Bank High-Level Governance Forum: Sound Board Oversight, Key Enablers of Good Governance, and Developments in Digitalization and Central Bank Digital Currencies, Dubai, 1 May 2023, 2023, International Monetary Fund in collaboration with Hawkamah, the Institute of Governance
B.Clarke, Making Individual Accountability Work " The Challenge for Industry and Regulators (Panel Discussant), Central Bank of Ireland, Financial System Conference: Achieving Good Outcomes in an Uncertain World, Dublin, 8 November 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, Investment Fund Governance Survey, Certified Investment Fund Director Annual Seminar 2023, Dublin, 29 September 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, The new Individual Accountability Framework (Panel Discussant), The new Individual Accountability Framework in Financial Services Ireland, UCD, 10 November 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, Individual Accountability in the Financial Services Sector -The Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022, Enhancing Accountability in Corporate and Financial Governance,, Monash University Campus, Prato, Florence, 10 October 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, Governance and Culture in the Banking Sector, Banking Union after Next Generation EU, DCU Brexit Institute, 3 November 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, The Continued Use of the UK Corporate Governance Code for Irish Listed Companies, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 17 November 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, Evolving Challenges for Governance over Alternative Investments - Panel Participant, Certified Investment Fund Director Annual Conference, Dublin, 30 September 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, Director Accountability and Ireland's new Individual Accountability Framework, Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law, 26 October 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, Individual Accountability in the Financial Services Sector: An Irish Case Study, Conference on Contemporary Corporate Governance Corporate Governance Forum, Stockholm, 31 May 2022, 2022
B. Clarke, "The Special Purpose of Big Tech Companies", Corporate Purpose Conference, Online, University of Oslo, 16 April 2021, 2021
B.Clarke, Independent Investment Fund Directors " an Irish Case Study, UCL Centre for Ethics and Law and Institute of Directors Centre for Corporate Governance (Online), 12 October 2021, 2021
B.Clarke, "Irish Banking Culture Board", NY Fed Supervisors" Roundtable, NY Online, 19 April 2021, 2021
B.Clarke, Collective Accountability (Keynote Address), Society of Legal Scholars of UK and Ireland, Durham University (Online), 2 September 2021, 2021
B.Clarke, The Financial Crisis: Corporate Law and Corporate Governance (Keynote Address), Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Cork, 20 November 2021, 2021
B Clarke, Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions: the Role of Culture, European Banking Institute Annual Conference,, Frankfurt, 22 February 2019, 2019, EBI
B.Clarke, The Irish Banking Culture Board, Innovation and other Contemporary Pivotal Issues in Financial Markets Law and Company Law - Selected National, International, European and Comparative Views, Sapienza University of Rome , 13 December 2019, 2019, Dr. Gudula Deipenbrock
B Clarke, Organisational Culture and the Role of Lawyers, Summer ELSA Law School, Trinity College Dublin , 24 July 2019, 2019
B Clarke, Organisational Culture: What Happens When No One is Looking?, TCD Law School's Lecture Series, TCD, 20 March 2019, 2019
B Clarke, Good Information Driving Good Decision Making - Board Engagement and Information Asymmetry, Supporting the Agenda for Good Governance of State Boards, Dublin, 16 May 2019, 2019, Public Affairs Ireland
B Clarke, "Individual Accountability for Regulatory Breaches: the Irish Experience", Regulation of the Banking Sector: Challenges and Emerging Issues conference, University of Bristol , 11 May 2018, 2018
B Clarke, "Brexit, financial services and contract continuity" , TRiSS - IIEA 'Bitesize' workshop series, Aspects of Brexit, TCD, 20 September 2018, 2018, TRiSS - IIEA
B.Clarke, The Role of law in fostering individual accountability within banks , Toward an integrated enforcement of banking regulation: the case of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, University of Luxembourg, 29 November 2018, 2018
B.Clarke, Board Culture and Behaviour , Culture, Diversity and the Way Forward for Corporate Governance in Ireland , Trinity College Dublin, 25 October 2018, 2018, Central Bank and Trinity Law School
B.Clarke, Insights into Changing Bank Culture and Behaviour , Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets Law and Company Law - Legal Challenges of Digitalisation - Fintech, Insurtech and other Developments, Berlin, 16 November 2018, 2018
B Clarke, "Regulation of Takeovers in Ireland and the UK" , Oceans Apart: Corporate and Securities Litigation and Regulation in Comparative Perspective conference,, MCCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 26 April 2018, 2018, Trinity College Dublin, Oxford University and Fordham University
B Clarke, Public Interest Directors and Corporate Governance Reform in the UK, Centre for Law Markets and Regulation , University of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 November 2017, 2017, Law School, UNSW
Blanaid Clarke, Holding Individuals Responsible for Regulatory Breaches in Banks", Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets Law and Company Law - National, International, European and Comparative Perspectives Conference , Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 15 December 2017, 2017
Blanaid Clarke, Autonomy and Accountability - performance, rules and trust , The Road to Better Governance in Organisations: Principles, Rules or Values , Dublin, 16 March 2017, 2017, Institute of Public Administration
B Clarke, The Meaning of "Impact" and "Engagement", ERC Research Impact Day, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 6 November 2017, 2017, Accounting for Social Change Research Group, QUT
Blanaid Clarke, Public Interest Directors - Update, Vanderbilt-Ghent Symposium on Corporate Law and Financial Regulation , University of Ghent, 23 May 2017, 2017
Blanaid Clarke, Early Intervention Measures under CRD IV, the SSM and SRM regulations (conditions for the application of both) and the early intervention phase under the SRM regulation , Reflections on Competent authorities' Measures in EU Banking Law ( organised by Malta Financial Services Authority and European Banking Institute), Malta, 9 June 2017, 2017
Blanaid Clarke, Shareholders Rights Directive II (2017/828/EC) amending Directive 2007/36/EC as regards the encouragement of long-term engagement, Regulatory Update, McCann FitzGerald Solicitors, Dublin, 28 June 2017, 2017, McCann FitzGerald Solicitors
Blanaid Clarke, "Implications of Brexit on the Financial Services Sector" , The legal implications of a potential Brexit , Dublin, 5 May 2016, 2016, Irish Centre for European Law and IBEC
Blanaid Clarke, The Takeovers Directive: An Overview, The Takeovers Directive: Ten years On, Trinity Long Room Hub, 22 April 2016, 2016
Blanaid Clarke, "Datafin Revisited: Judicial Review During a Takeover Bid", Centre for European Legal Studies and the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law Seminar Series,, University of Cambridge , 4 November 2015, 2015
Blanaid Clarke, "The Role of Culture in Good Corporate Governance" , CUCC Annual Conference; Compliance Through Communication, , Trinity College Dublin , 18 August 2015, 2015
Blanaid Clarke, "The Duty of Parent Companies" , 11th Nordic Company Law Conference on Shareholders' Duties , University of Aarhus, Denmark , 10 November 2015, 2015
Blanaid Clarke, "Company Formation" , European Model Companies Act Conference, Vienna , 10/11 September 2015, 2015
Blanaid Clarke, "Shareholders as Guardians of Long Term Growth - Is EU Faith Misguided?" , . Presentation to Corporate and Securities Panel "Improving Approaches and Substance", 2014 Massey Prize Symposium, , University of Texas , 26 September , 2014, University of Texas
Blanaid Clarke, "Board Directors: What can we expect of them?" , ERC Lessons in the Management of 'People Risk' Seminar Series, Dublin, 26 March, 2014
Blanaid Clarke, "The Role of Audit Committees in Good Governance of Central Banks" , High Level Forum on Central Bank Governance- Audit Oversight and Assurance Mechanisms , Dubai, UAE, 9 December , 2014, Hawkamah and the IMF
Blanaid Clarke, Jose Antunes et al,, Response to the European Commission's Action Plan on Company Law and Corporate Governance , 2014
Blanaid Clarke, "The Role of Diversity in Good Governance" , Assistant Secretary Network Annual Conference, Farmleigh, Dublin , 4 May , 2014, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Blanaid Clarke, "Judicial Review" , Conference of International Takeover Regulators, London, 22 May , 2014
Blanaid Clarke, "Corporate Governance under the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation" , McCann FitzGerald Presentation , Dublin, 8 May , 2014
Blanaid Clarke, "The Takeover Directive - from a stakeholder rights perspective" , GOODCORP meeting organised by the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels and the University of Oslo , Brussels, (17 September 2013), 2013
Blanaid Clarke (with D. Ahern) , Can a 'Comply or Explain' Approach Inspire an Effective Commitment to Board Diversity? , the 12th European Corporate Governance and Company Law Conference, Dublin , 16 May 2013, 2013
Blanaid Clarke, "Gender Diversity on European Company Boards' , ERA Annual Conference on European Company Law,, Triers, Germany, 26 September 2013, 2013
B.Clarke, The Takeovers Directive Report 2012, Post-crisis Trajectories of European Corporate Governance: Dealing with the Present and Shaping the Future, University of Leeds , 21 September 2012, 2012
B.Clarke, Regulating risk management at listed companies: panacea or bitter pill?, ERA Annual Conference on European Company Law 2012, Trier, 27 September 2012, 2012
B. Clarke (with J. Antunes, T. Baums et al), Report of the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law , Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1851654, European Commission Internal Market and Services, April, 2011
Palmer's Company Law, Sweet & Maxwell, [eds.], 2009-2018
Research Expertise
Description
Blanaid's research interests include company law, corporate governance, fund governance, ethics & responsible business, accountability, capital markets law and takeover law.News and Events
Professor Blanaid Clarke, McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law is appointed to the Irish Banking Culture Board
On 15 April 2019, the Irish Banking Culture (IBCB) appointed Professor Blanaid Clarke, McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law to its Board. Today the Irish Banking Culture Board (IBCB) was officially launched following an in-depth public and stakeholder consultation and a separate bank employee culture survey, which were undertaken to inform the IBCB’s establishment.
Conference: Addressing the Global Challenge of Responsive FinTech Regulation, Friday, 8 March 2019
Call for Papers - Addressing the Global Challenge of Responsive FinTech Regulation, Friday 8 March 2019, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Further information available here.
Guest Seminar: Professor David Kinley from the University of Sydney School of Law. Professor Kinley will be speaking about his recent book on human rights law and corporate finance - ‘Necessary Evil’ – OUP, 2018. Friday, 20 July 2018 at 1 pm
Inaugural Lecture in the Distinguished Visitor Public Lecture Series “Corporate Governance of Risk-Taking in Systemically Important Financial Firms” by Professor Steven L. Schwarcz, Duke University School of Law on Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Guest Seminar: "Criminalising Failure: Towards a New Model of Corporate Criminal Liability", Monday, 22 January 2018 by Professor Liz Campbell from Durham University on Monday 22rd January 2018 at 1pm.
Academic Members
Deirdre Ahern
Professor Deirdre Ahern
Professor in, Law
Biography
Professor Deirdre Ahern LLB (Hons) (Dub), MA (Jure Officii) (Dub), LLM (Commercial Law) (Cantab), PhD (Dub), FTCD, FRSA, Solicitor (Law Society of Ireland), Dip (E-Commerce Regulation) (Law Society of Ireland).
Deirdre is Director of the Technologies, Law and Society Research Group at Trinity College Dublin. She is a Fellow of the Information Society Law Centre at the University of Milan and a member of the global Quantum Humanities Network hosted by Innsbruck Quantum Ethics Lab. Her research agenda engages with the societal and legal expectations of companies and their directors including the ethical and regulatory challenges presented by globalisation and new technologies including quantum technologies. She is an expert on corporate governance and global regulatory approaches to new technologies including AI.
As an appointed member of Ireland's AI Advisory Council Deirdre is providing advice to the Government on AI issues. A member of Ireland's Company Law Review Group 2022-2026 and an appointed member of the European Commission's Informal Company Law and Corporate Governance Expert Group for 2020-2024, Deirdre works nationally and internationally on policy development and provides consultancy on policy and legal reform.
She has published widely including in the Law Quarterly Review, the Modern Law Review, the Journal of Business Law, the European Company and Financial Law Review and the European Business and Organization Law Review. Her current research projects are (1) Determining The Future of Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI and Regulation: A Comparative Transnational Context and (2) Constructing Regulatory Approaches for New Technologies and The Changing Face of Directors' Duties in the EU: Making Companies Responsible for Sustainability and Human Rights across Global Supply Chains.
Deirdre has a track record of publishing cutting-edge transformative work which is well cited in academic, policy, judicial and legal practice contexts. Professor Ahern was elected to Fellowship of Trinity College in 2012 on the basis of her contribution to scholarship. In 2022 Professor Ahern was appointed to membership of the Royal Irish Academy's Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee. She sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Law and the Law and Financial Markets Review and is a contributing editor to Gore-Browne on Companies.
Professor Ahern welcomes expressions of interest in PhD supervision and post-doctoral research from excellent applicants in the following areas: legal and ethical aspects of Quantum Technologies; regulating AI including Generative AI; regulatory sandboxes; the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
Access to publications: via Google Scholar and Researchgate.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Deirdre Ahern, 'Op-Ed, 'Fanning Case Heralds a 'New Frontier of AI-related Libel Law'', The Irish Times, 25 January 2024, The Irish Times, 2024, -
Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and AI: Are we Ready for Robots in the Boardroom? in, editor(s)Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan , The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, 2024, pp409-430 , [Deirdre Ahern]
Deirdre Ahern, The Future is Green: Reflections on the Impact of EU Obligations on Sustainability Reporting and Due Diligence on Companies, The Future is Green: Reflections on the Impact of EU Obligations in Sustainability Reporting and Due Diligence on Companies, University of Florence, 10 April 2024, 2024, University of Florence
Deirdre Ahern, Eoin O'Dell, Mina Hosseini, Maria Fitzpatrick, Daryl Lim, Regulating in an Uncertain Future - AI and Beyond, Competition Law: Regulating Tech Platforms & Data, Trinity Long Room Hub, 18 April 2024, 2024, Boston College Law School
Deirdre Ahern, The New Anticipatory Governance Culture for Innovation: Regulatory Foresight, Regulatory Experimentation and Regulatory Learning, European Business Organization Law Review, 2024
Deirdre Ahern, Current Legal Issues Presented by Artificial Intelligence: The Fundamental Rights Interface, Current Legal Issues Presented by Artificial Intelligence: The Fundamental Rights Interface, Department of Law, University of Florence, 10 April 2024, 2024, Professor Elena Urso
The Informal Company Law and Corporate Governance Expert Group, Report on Cross-border Use of Company Information, Brussels, European Commission, 2023, 1-26
Deirdre Ahern, The EU Sustainability Reporting Ripple and What it Means for SMEs, Corporations and Sustainability: Fresh Perspectives, European University Institute, 21 November 2023, 2023, The Finance, Innovation and Regulation Working Group, EUI, 1-13pp
Company Law Review Group, Report on the Director's Compliance Statement, 2023, Company Law Review Group, December, 2023, 219
Deirdre Ahern, How should the EU Regulate Generative AI?, The Challenges and Opportunities of Generative AI and the AI Act, Speinshart Abbey, Germany, 26-28 June, 2023, Professor Udo Faisal
Corporate Law and Statutory Liability in, editor(s)Martin Petrin and Christian Witting , Research Handbook on Corporate Liability, United KIngdom, Edward Elgar, 2023, pp62 - 82, [Deirdre Ahern]
D. Ahern, I. Bratko, S. Das et al, The Speinshart Recommendations on Generative AI and the EU AI Act, Speinshart Reports, 2023
The Sustainability Reporting Ripple: Direct and Indirect Implications of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive for SME Actors in, editor(s)Alessio Bartolacelli , The Prism of Sustainability, Macerata, Italy, University of Macerata, 2023, pp1 - 21, [Deirdre Ahern]
Informal Company Law and Corporate Governance Expert Group, Report on Transparency of Company Data, Brussels, European Commission, 2023, 1-25
'The Role of Sectoral Regulators and other State Actors in Formulating Novel and Alternative Pro-Competition Mechanisms In Fintech' in, Konstantinos Stylianou, Marios Iacovides, and Bjorn Lundqvist , Fintech Competition: Law, Policy, and Market Organisation, United KIngdom, Hart-Bloomsbury, 2023, pp307-330 , [Deirdre Ahern]
Deirdre Ahern, I fought the law and AI won: Regulation, Law, Copyright and Human Rights in the Face of Generative AI, Surfing the Fringe of AI, Imperial College London, 31 October 2023, 2023, Professor Udo Faisal
Deirdre Ahern, What is the Board's Role in Governing the Business Use of AI?, What is the Board's Role in Governing the Business Use of AI?, Webinar, 11 May 2023, 2023, The Sustainability Board Report
Deirdre Ahern, Governing Artificial Intelligence: Designing Legal and Regulatory Responses, 3 June 2022, In:Governing Artificial Intelligence: Designing Legal and Regulatory Responses, 2022, Trinity Long Room Hub
The Informal Company Law Expert Group, Report on Virtual Shareholder Meetings and Efficient Shareholder Communication, Brussels, European Commission, 2022, p1 - 29
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, United Kingdom, Lexis Nexis UK, 2022, [Deirdre Ahern]
"The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Corporate Law and Corporate Governance" in, editor(s)Philip Morgan and Ernest Lim , The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, [Ahern, Deirdre]
International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, 15, 2, (2022), 9 - 112p, Tineke Lambooy, Deirdre Ahern and Diletta Lenzi, [eds.]
Rachel Widdis (Article One) and Deirdre Ahern (School of Law), Responsible Business Conduct, Innovation, and AI, 12 September 2022, In:Responsible Buiness Conduct, Innovation, and AI, 2022, Trinity College Dublin
Management of a Company in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, United Kingdom, Lexis Nexis UK, 2022, [Deirdre Ahern]
Law and Financial Markets Review, United Kingdom, Taylor and Francis, [eds.], 2021
Management of a Company in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, United Kingdom, Lexis Nexis UK, 2021, [Deirdre Ahern]
Deirdre Ahern, Regulatory Law and Regulatory Friction as FinTech Disenablers: Calibrating an EU Policy Response to the Adaptive Regulatory Sandbox in Member States, European Business Organization Law Review, 22, 2021, p395 - 432
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, United Kingdom, Lexis Nexis UK, 2021, [Deirdre Ahern]
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2020, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Ahern, Deirdre, A New Vista to Transform Sustainable Investment Decisions: Mobilising New Technologies to Bridge Global Regulatory Gaps , Regulating Business in Times of Turbulence, Istanbul, 15 October 2020, 2020
Management of a Company in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2020, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Rachael Walsh and Sarah Hamill (chapter authors) Deirdre Ahern and Suryapratim Roy (report editors), Policy Responses to Covid-19 In Ireland: Supporting Individuals, Communities, Businesses, and the Economy, COVID-19 Legal Observatory, Trinity College Dublin, December, 2020, p1 - 108
Ahern, Deirdre, Regulators Nurturing FinTech: Global Evolution of the Regulatory Sandbox as Opportunity-based Regulation, 2020
Ahern. Deirdre and Jain, Tanusree, When Tokens Matters: A Critical Perspective on Tokenism and Women on Corporate Boards, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Vancouver, 7 November 2020, 2020
Ahern, Deirdre (in conjunction with European Banking Institute), Addressing the Global Challenge of Responsive FinTech RegulationFinTech, 8 March 2019, 2019, Trinity College Dublin
Jain, T.; Sharma, K. & Ahern, D. , Crossing borders: The impact of western gender diversity laws in non-western corporate boards, International Association for Business and Society, San Diego, USA, 2019
Management of a Company in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, 2019, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Deirdre Ahern, Regulators Nurturing FinTech Innovation: Global Evolution of The Regulatory Sandbox as Opportunity-Based Regulation, Indian Journal of Law and Technology, 15, (2), 2019, p345 - 378
"Majority Rule and Minority Protections: Theoretical Frameworks and National Practice in the Shadow of the EU: The Case of Ireland" in, editor(s)A.J. Viera Gonzalez and C. Teichmann , Conflicts of Interest between Majorities and Minorities in the EU Member States Private Company Law, Spain, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2019, pp117 - 169, [Deirdre Ahern]
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2019, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Ahern, Deirdre, Opportunity-based Regulation: The Function of the Regulatory Sandbox for FinTech, Addressing the Global Challenge of Responsive FinTech regulation, Trinity College Dublin, 8 March 2019, 2019
Deirdre Ahern, Regulatory Arbitrage in a FinTech World: Devising an Optimal EU Regulatory Response to Crowdlending, Journal of Business Law, (3), 2018, p193 - 214
Deirdre Ahern, Regulatory Arbitrage in a FinTech World: Devising an Optimal EU Regulatory Response to Crowdlending European Banking Institute Working Paper Series No.24, 2018
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2018, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Irish Business Law Review, Dublin, Clarus Press, [eds.], 2018-2018
Deirdre Ahern, The Mythical Value of Voice and Stewardship in the EU Directive On Long-Term Shareholder Engagement: Rights Do Not An Engaged Shareholder Make, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 20, 2018, 88 - 115
Deirdre Ahern, "The Mythical Value of Voice and Stewardship in the EU Directive On Long-Term Shareholder Engagement: Rights Do Not An Engaged Shareholder Make" Working Paper No.32 Stanford-Vienna EU Law Working Paper Series.32 , 2018
Ahern, Deirdre, "The United Nations HeForShe project: Leveraging the modelling power of university champions' shared transformative gender commitments to drive sectoral buy-in, 10th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Trinity College Dublin, 20 August 2018, 2018
Management of a Company in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2018, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Management of a Company in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2017, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Irish Business Law Review, Dublin, Clarus Press, [eds.], 2017-2017
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2017, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2016, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Deirdre Ahern, Turning Up the Heat? EU Sustainability Goals and the Role of Reporting under the Non-Financial Reporting Directive, European Company and Financial Law Review, 13, (4), 2016, p599 - 630
Management of a Company in, editor(s)Alisatair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2016, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Ahern, Deirdre, What to Do? Public Interest Director Appointments in Nationalised Banks: A Post-Financial Crisis Review of Role Delineation and Fiduciary Duties, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Oxford University, 6 September 2016, 2016
Irish Business Law Review, Dublin, Clarus Press, [eds.], 2016-2016
Ahern, Deirdre, The EU, Close Corporations and Member State Sovereignty: Too Close for Comfort? Reflections on the Evolving Societas Unius Personae Proposal, Irish Business Law Review, 3, (1), 2016, p21 - 35
The Societas Unius Personae: Using the Single-Member Company as a Vehicle for EU Private Company Law Reform, Some Critical Reflections on Regulatory Approach in, editor(s)A.J. Viera Gonzalez and C. Teichmann , Private Companies in Europe: the Societas Personae (SUP) and the Recent Developments in the EU Member States, Navarra, Spain, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2016, pp55 - 87, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Irish Business Law Review, Ireland, Clarus Press, [eds.], 2015-2015
Ahern, Deirdre, Rethinking the Foundations of Directors' Duties to Incorporate Public Interest Considerations", , Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, NUIG, Galway, 27-29 November 2015, 2015
Close Corporations: A Common Law World Perspective: the Case of Ireland in, editor(s)Jorge Viera Gonzales and Christoph Teichmann , Private Company Law Reform: The Race of Flexibility, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2015, pp243 - 283, [Deirdre Ahern]
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, LexisNexis UK, 2015, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Ahern, Deirdre (as Director of the Irish Corporate Law Forum), Preparing Private Companies for the Companies Bill: New Company Forms and Company Constitutions, 7 February 2014, 2014, Dublin Castle
Deirdre Ahern, "Codification of Company Law: Taking Stock of the Companies Act 2006", Statute Law Review, 35, (1), 2014, p1 - 14
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, Jordans, 2014, [Ahern, Deirdre]
Ahern, Deirdre (as Director of the Irish Corporate Law Forum), Duties of Directors and Secretaries under the Companies Bill, 13 October 2014, 2014, Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin
Management of a Company in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, Jordans, 2014, [Ahern, Deirdre]
C. Gerner-Beurele, P. Paech and E. Schuster, Study on Directors' Duties and Liability, 2013
Deirdre Ahern and Blanaid Clarke, Listed Companies' Engagement with Diversity: A Multi-Jurisdictional Study of Annual Report Disclosures, Ireland, Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, June 2013, 2013, p1 - 107
Directors - Appointment, Removal and Vacation of Office in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, Jordans, 2013, [Deirdre Ahern]
Ahern, Deirdre, Diversity Reporting: The Value of a Structured Reporting Protocol to Manage Annual Report Disclosures, Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Belfast, 23 November 2013, 2013
Management of a Company in, editor(s)Alistair Alcock , Gore-Browne on Companies, Bristol, Jordans, 2013, [Deirdre Ahern]
Company and Insolvency Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2012, Dublin, Round Hall, 2013, pp81 - 89, [Deirdre Ahern and Noel McGrath]
Deirdre Ahern and Blanaid Clarke, Listed Companies' Engagement with Diversity: A Multi-Jurisdictional Study of Annual Report Disclosures, 2013
Deirdre Ahern (As Council member of the Irish Association of Law Teachers), Changing Times for the Legal Professions - Re-evaluating the Role of the Law Teacher, 22-24 November 2013, 2013, Stormont Hotel, Belfast
Deirdre Ahern, "New Irish Offence of Withholding Information in relation to the Commission of a Criminal Offence", The Company Lawyer, 33, (4), 2012, p109 - 110
Deirdre Ahern, Directors' Duties, Dry Ink and the Accessibility Agenda , Law Quarterly Review, 128, 2012, p114 - 139
Company and Insolvency Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2011, Dublin, Round Hall, 2012, pp128 - 152, [Deirdre Ahern and Noel McGrath]
Ahern, Deirdre (as President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers), Legal Scholarship and Judicial Reasoning; A Mutual Interaction, 16-18 November 2012, 2012, Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, Dublin
Deirdre Ahern, Guiding Principles for Directorial Conflicts of Interest: Re Allied Business and Financial Consultants Ltd; O'Donnell v Shanahan, Modern Law Review, 74, 2011, p596 - 607
The Company Lawyer, Sweet and Maxwell, [eds.], 2011-2014
Deirdre Ahern, Nominee Directors' Duty to Promote the Success of the Company: Commercial Pragmatism and Legal Orthodoxy , Law Quarterly Review, 127, 2011, p118 - 146
Ahern, Deirdre, At Home, at Risk: Comparative Perspectives on the Regulation of Domiciliary Care Provision for the Ageing Population", Centre for Ageing and Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI) international conference, Ageing Globally - Ageing Locally, Croke Park, 2-3 November 2011, 2011
Ahern, Deirdre (as Council member of the Irish Corporate Law Forum), Added Value(s): The Role of Law in Contemporary Society, 18-20 November 2011, 2011, Athone
Ahern, Deirdre, Directors' Duties in Plain Sight: The Accessibility Agenda Delivered?, Law in Politics, Politics in Law (Society of Legal Scholars), Downing College, Cambridge University, 7 September 2011, 2011
Deirdre Ahern and Karen Maher, The Continuing Evolution of Proxy Representation, Journal of Business Law, 2, 2011, p125 - 143
Journal of Business Law, United Kingdom, Sweet and Maxwell, [eds.], 2011-2020
Deirdre Ahern, Directors' Duties: Broadening the Focus Beyond Content to Examine the Accountability Spectrum, Dublin University Law Journal, 33, 2011, p116 - 152
Deirdre Ahern, Irish Legislative Proposals for Clarification of Nominee Directors' Best Interests Duty , The Company Lawyer, 31, 2010, p291 - 297
Ahern, Deirdre, The Application of Section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 to Nominee Directors, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of Southampton, 14-16 September 2010, 2010
Deirdre Ahern, Legislating for the Duty on Directors to Avoid Conflicts of Interest and Secret Profits: The Devil in the Detail, Irish Jurist , 46, 2010, p82 - 106
D. Ahern, K. Maher, J. O'Brien, D. O'Neill, Elder financial exploitation and the responsibility of financial providers in Ireland: The contribution of the financial services ombudsman, European Geriatric Medicine, 6th Congress European Union Geriatric Medicine Society, Dublin, 2010, 1, 2010, ppA203 - A203
Deirdre Ahern, Legislating for Directors' Duty to Exercise Care, Skill and Diligence in Ireland: A Comparative Perspective, International Company and Commercial Law Review, 8, 2010, p268 - 273
Deirdre Ahern, Replacing 'Comply or Explain' with Legally Binding Corporate Governance Codes - An Appropriate Regulatory Response?, Regulation in an Age of Crisis, University College Dublin, 18 June 2010, 2010
Deirdre Ahern (As Council member of the Irish Associaton of Law Teachers), Thirty Years of Legal Scholarship: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future, 27 November 2010, 2010, Limerick
Deirdre Ahern, The Formation of Insurance Contracts and the Duty of Insurers, Commercial Law Practitioner, 16, (4), 2009, p84 - 87
Deirdre Ahern, Directors' Duties: Law and Practice, Dublin, Round Hall, 2009, 1-700pp
Deirdre Ahern, The Responsible Director in an Economic Downturn: Lessons from the Restriction Regime, Dublin University Law Journal, 31, 2009, p183 - 205
Deirdre Ahern, "Hemat v The Medical Council: the Wouters Legacy Revisited", European Competition Law Review, 6, 2007, p366 - 370
Deirdre Ahern, Martha Doyle and Virpi Timonen, Regulating home care of older people: the inevitable poor relation?, Dublin University Law Journal, 29, 2007, p374 - 396
Ahern, Kenny v Ireland ROC Ltd: Commercial Agents - Not Negotiable?, Dublin University Law Journal, 28, 2006, p296 - 316
Ahern, Directors' Compliance Statements under the Microscope, Commercial Law Practitioner, 13, 2006, p137 - 145
Healthcare Decisions: Recognising the Decision-Making Capacity of Older People to Consent to and to Decline Treatment in, editor(s)O'Dell E , Older People in Modern Ireland: Essays on Law and Policy, Dublin, First Law, 2006, [Ahern D]
Law Reform Commission, Report on Vulnerable Adults and the Law (LRC 83-2006), Ireland, 2006
Ahern, Deirdre, The Rule Against Shareholders' Recovery of Reflective Loss, Commercial Law Practitioner, 12, 2005, p163 - 168
Ahern, Deirdre, Corporate Killing in Ireland - A new Paradigm, Irish Law Times, 22, 2005, p235 - 240
Ahern, The Domain Game - introducing 'dot eu', Commercial Law Practitioner, 11, 2004, p275 - 279
Ahern, Deirdre, Corporate Killing - The Law Reform Commission's Proposals, Law in the Modern World: New Problems, New Solutions, Derry, Northern Ireland, 2-4 April 2004, 2004
Ahern, D, Unlimited Corporate Capacity - Plotting the slow demise of ultra vires, Commercial Law Practitioner, 11, 2004, p27 - 30
Law Reform Commission, Seminar Paper on Law and the Elderly, 2003
Law Reform Commission, Consultation Paper on Corporate Killing, Dublin, 2003
Ahern, Corporate Killing: The Way Forward, Irish Criminal Law Journal, 13, (3), 2003, p10 - 14
Law Reform Commission , Consultation Paper on Vulnerable Adults and the Law: Capacity, Dublin, 2003
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Deirdre Ahern, Regulatory Sandboxes under the EU AI Act: Opportunities and Challenges, Milan Information Society Law Center Conference, University of Milan, 11-12 June, 2024, Information Society Law Center, University of Milan
Deirdre Ahern, Sustainability Reporting: the New Directive and Its Impact on SMEs, The Prism of Sustainability: Multidisciplinary profiles; law, economics and ethics, University of Macerata, 30-31 March, 2023, Professor Alessio Bartolacelli
Deirdre Ahern, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: A Proposal in Flux, Annual Company Law and Corporate Governance Conference, Trier, 9-10 March 2023, 2023
Deirdre Ahern, Eoin O'Dell, Elspeth Payne, Frances Haugen The Facebook Whistleblower, 21 March 2022, In:Frances Haugen The Facebook Whistleblower, 2022, Trinity Long Room Hub
Deirdre Ahern, Upending Corporate Purpose in the EU: Board Responsibility for Sustainability and Human Rights across Global Supply Chains, New Capitalism? A Transatlantic Perspective, Harvard Law School, 3-5 October, 2022, Harvard & Complutense Law Schools
Deirdre Ahern, Sustainability as Socially Responsible Business Practice: The Role of Company Law and Corporate Governance, ERA Annual Confernce on European Company Law and Corporate Governance 2022, Trier, 2022
Deirdre Ahern, Groups of Companies in EU Company Laws: An Irish Perspective, SYMPOSIUM for the presentation of the book "Company Laws of the European Union" edited by Andrea Vicari and Alexander Schall (Beck, 2020), University of Milan, 29 April , 2022, Professor Andrea Vicari and Professor Alexander Schall
Deirdre Ahern, "The Board and Sustainability Performance: The Changing Face of Directors' Duties in the EU: Is there an Expectations Gap?" , Corporate Sustainability - Supporting Green Policy in Corporate Strategy , The Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin, 20 October , 2022, Public Affairs Ireland
Deirdre Ahern, Enforcement and Liability Mechanisms for Environmental and Human Rights' Duties and Options for Member States , Sustainability in Corporate Law, Leuphana University, Germany, 18 November, 2022, Professors Alexander Schall and Axel Halfmeier
Ahern, Deirdre, Closing Keynote: The Impact of Blockchain and DLT Technologies on Company Law, International Congress on Digitalization and DLT in Company Law, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 29-30 October 2021, 2021, Faculty of Law, University of Zaragoza
Deirdre Ahern, Regulatory Lag, Regulatory Friction and Regulatory Transition as FinTech Disenablers: The Regulatory Sandbox Phenomenon in Member States and the EU's Experimental Governance Dilemma , Law School Workshop, Trinity College Dublin, 24 March , 2021, School of Law
Deirdre Ahern, Corporate Governance Reconceived: The New Era of Stakeholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance Reconceived: The New Era of Stakeholder Capitalism, Centre for Commercial Law, Edinburgh University, 17 March , 2021, Centre for Commercial Law, Edinburgh University
Ahern, Deirdre, The Future of Annual General Meetings, Virtualisation and Corporate Accountability, The Future of Annual General Meetings, Virtualisation and Corporate Accountability, University College London, 22 September, 2020, University College London
Deirdre Ahern, Pandemic Has Opened a Vast Policy Vacuum, The Irish Times, 10 December, 2020, p12 - 12
Ahern, Deirdre, Directors' Duty of Care and Harnessing the Potential for AI to Enhance Boardroom Dynamics, Artificial Intelligence and Private Law, National University of Singapore, 27 August 2020, 2020, National University of Singapore
Ahern, Deirdre, (Panel Chair) Women in Leadership , Hearing Women's Voices: Irish Federation of University Women Annual Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 19 October 2019, 2019, Trinity Women Graduates / Irish Federation of University Women
Ahern. Deirdre and Jain, Tanusree, Using Mandatory Quotas to Address Gender Imbalances In The Boardroom: Some Evidence From East And West, Hearing Women's Voices: Irish Federation of University Women Annual Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 19 October 2019, 2019, Trinity Women Graduates / Irish Federation of University Women
Ahern, Deirdre, Regulatory Influences and Listed Companies Engagement with Diversity in their Annual Reports, Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards: Listed Companies' Self-Reporting on Diversity in their Annual Reports , The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 2019
Ahern, Deirdre, Keynote: Sustainable Governance into the Future and the Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Annual Conference of the Chartered Governance Institute of the UK and Ireland, Dublin Castle, 16 May 2019, 2019, the Chartered Governance Institute of the UK and Ireland
Ahern, Deirdre, The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Governance of Companies, Corporate Law and Finance Summer School, Trinity College Dublin, 23 July 2019, 2019, European Law Students Association
Ahern, Deirdre, (Panellist) Culture, Diversity and Evidence from the Field, Culture, Diversity and the Way Forward for Corporate Governance in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, 25 October 2018, 2018, Central Bank of Ireland & Trinity College Dublin
Deirdre, Equal in Name: The Limits of Law, Then and Now, Me Too, Then and Now, Trinity Long Room Hub, 7 March , 2018, Trinity Long Room Hub
Ahern, Deirdre, With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Can Existing Duties on Directors as Fiduciary Agents Suitably Moderate the Social Controversies Associated with Commercialisation of Synthetic Biology?, Regulating the Corporation and New Morally Significant Technologies, Newcastle University, 12 June 2018, 2018, Sarah Morley and David Lawrence
Ahern, Deirdre, An Examination of Shareholder Protection, Conflicts of Interests between Majorities and Minorities in Private Companies, Madrid, 15 June 2018, 2018, Close Corporations in Europe Working Group
Ahern, Deirdre, (Panel Chair) Mergers and Acquisition Regulation in the UK and Ireland, Oceans Apart: Corporate and Securities Regulation in Comparative Perspective, McCann FitzGerald, 12 April 2018, 2018, Trinity College Dublin / McCann FitzGerald
Deirdre Ahern, Conceptualising Overreach in the English Corporate Opportunities Doctrine, Travers Smith Lecture, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 7 November , 2017, University of Cambridge
Ahern, Deirdre, Encouraging Socially Responsible Corporations: Will the Non-Financial Reporting Directive Help? , Corporate and Finance Law Summer School, National College of Ireland, 14 August 2017, 2017, European Law Students Association
Ahern, Deirdre, Realising the Leadership Potential of Women in Business: Are Quotas Really the Answer?, Graduate Women International Third Triennial, Cape Town Convention Centre, 24 August 2016, 2016
Nominee Directors, Section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 and Divided Loyalties: A Story of Legal Lag, Herbert Smith Freehills, 20 October , 2016, Herbert Smith Freehills
Deirdre Ahern, Mandating Sustainability Reporting: The Non-Financial Reporting Directive as a Regulatory Tool to Enhance Corporate Engagement with the EU Sustainability Agenda, Constructing Regulatory, Reporting and Accreditation Tools for Corporate Social Respnsibility, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 17 September 2015, 2015
Ahern, Deirdre, Mandating Sustainability Reporting: The Non-Financial Reporting Directive as a Regulatory Tool to Enhance Corporate Engagement with the EU Sustainability Agenda, CSRxChange: Constructing Regulatory, Reporting and Accreditation Tools for Corporate Social Responsibility, The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 17 October 2015, 2015
Ahern, Deirdre, CSRxChange: Constructing Regulatory, Reporting and Accreditation Tools for Corporate Social Responsibility, 17 October 2015, 2015, The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Deirdre Ahern, Promoting Gender Diversity: Some Reflections on Listed Companies' Approach to Diversity in their Annual Reports, Women on Boards, Irish Women Lawyers' Association, Law Society Dublin, 10 December 2014, 2014
Ahern, Deirdre, Subordinating Directeorial Ambition: Social Cohesion and the Absolutist Approach to Corporate Opportunities , Law School Research Workshop, 13 November 2014, 2014
Deirdre Ahern, The Commercial Court, Review of The Commercial Court, by Stephen Dowling , The Irish Jurist, 51, 2014, p211-212
Ahern, Deirdre, Critical Reflections on the SUP Proposal: An Irish and Common Law World Perspctive, Close Corporations in Europe: Towards a Common Frame of Reference, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, 20 November 2014, 2014, Professor Jorge Viera Gonzalez
Ahern, Deirdre, Promoting Gender Diversity: Some Reflections on Listed Companies' Approach to Diversity in their Annual Reports, Women on Boards, Law Society of Ireland, 10 December 2014, 2014, Irish Women Lawyers Association
Ahern, Deirdre, Internet Governance and Regulation, Law Society E-Commerce Diploma , Law Society of Ireland, 1 June 2014, 2014, Law Society of Ireland
Ahern, Deirdre, (Panel Chair) Can Academics Make a Difference?, Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Kilkenny, 7-9 November 2014, 2014, Irish Association of Law Teachers
Ahern, Deirdre, Codification of Directors' Duties: An Assessment of the New Statutory Framework, Duties of Directors and Secretaries under the Companies Bill, Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin, 13 October 2014, 2014
Ahern, Deirdre, Reform of the Private Company - A Common Law World Perspective, Meeting of the Cross-Europe Working Group on Reform of the Private Company, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, 8 November 2013, 2013, Professor Jorge Viera Gonzalez
Ahern, Deirdre and Clarke, Blanaid, Keynote address: Companies Reporting of Diversity: A Multi-Jurisdictional Study, 12th European Corporate Governance and Company Law Conference, Convention Centre, Dublin, 17 May 2013, 2013, European Commission / Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation
Ahern, Deirdre and Clarke, Blanaid, Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards: Recent Research and Regulatory Initiatives, 6 November 2013, 2013, The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Ahern, Deirdre, Codification of Company Law, Statute Law and Alternative Solutions, Codification, Restatement, Common Law, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, 14 November 2013, 2013
Ahern, Deirdre, Invited keynote: Tokenism or Real Engagement: Listed Companies' Self-Reporting on Diversity in their Annual Reports, Women on Boards, University College Cork, 21 June 2013, 2013, Professor Irene Lynch-Fannon
Ahern, Deirdre, Loyalty (Respondent), Loyalty, Trinity College Dublin, 11 November 2013, 2013, Private Law Discussion Group
Ahern, Deirdre (as Director of the Irish Corporate Law Forum), Current Developments in Corporate Governance Policy and Practice, 29 March 2012, 2012, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Ahern, Deirdre, Current Issues in Corporate Governance Policy, Current Developments in Corporate Governance and Policy and Practice, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 29 March 2012, 2012
Ahern, Deirdre (as Director of the Irish Corporate Law Forum), Corporate Compliance and Enforcemnt, 5 December 2012, 2012, Shelborne Hotel, Dublin
Ahern, Deirdre, Keynote address: The Impact of the Commercial Agents Directive, Key Issues in Business Law, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 19 April 2012, 2012
Ahern, Deirdre, (Panel Chair) New Directions in Corporate and Commercial Law, Legal Scholarship and Judicial Reasoning: A Mutual Interaction, Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, Dublin, 16-18 November 2012, 2012
Ahern, Deirdre, The Corporate Objective, Review of The Corporate Objective, by Andrew Keay , International Company and Commercial Law Review, 23, (6), 2012, p221-222
Ahern, Deirdre (as Director of the Irish Corporate Law Forum), Transitioning to the New Form Private Company Limited by Shares: Structure and Governance under the Companies Bill, 21 July 2011, 2011, Dublin Castle
Ahern, Deirdre, Fundamental Principles of Irish Company Law, Fundamental Principles of Irish Company Law, University of Islas Balearas, Palma, Majorca, 11 April 2011, 2011, Faculty of Law, University of Islas Balearas
Ahern, Deirdre, "The Proposed European Private Company and the Market for Company Formation in the European Union", Inaugural lecture of the Centre for Financial Law, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, 12 April 2011, 2011
Ahern, Deirdre (as Director of the Irish Corporate Law Forum), Company Charges and Financial Assistance: The Significance of Planned Reforms in Law and Practice, 9 November 2011, 2011, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Ahern, Deirdre, Codifying Directors' Duties: Implications for Directors and Shareholders, Transitioning to the New Form Private Company Limited by Shares: Structure and Governance under the Companies Bill, Dublin Castle, 21 July 2011, 2011
Ahern, Deirdre, (Panel Chair) The Challenges of Contemporary Governance, Added Valu(s): The Role of Law in Contemporary Society, Irish Association of Law Teachers, Athlone, 18-20 November 2011, 2011
Ahern, Deirdre, Invited lecture: The Impact of the European Private Company (SPE) on National Company Law, The Impact of the European Private Company (SPE) on National Company Law, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 14 April 2011, 2011
Ahern, Deirdre, (Panel Chair) Research Metrics for Law, Thirty Years of Irish Scholarship: Lessons form the Past, Visions for the Future, Limerick, 27 November 2010, 2010, Irish Association of Law Teachers
Ahern, Deirdre, (Panel Chair) "Participation in and Provision of Home care; Advocacy and Service User Involvement", Becoming Visible: Older People as Active Participants in the Community and in Long-term Care Settings, Dublin Castle, 16-17 October 2010, 2010
Ahern, Deirdre, The Consumer Protection Act 2007: Implications for Legal Practice, 4 December 2007, 2007, Trinity College Dublin
Ahern, Deirdre, Practical Implications of the Consumer Protection Act 2007, The Consumer Protection Act 2007: Implications for Legal Practice, Trinity College Dublin, 4 December 2007, 2007
Ahern, Deirdre, Directors' Compliance Statements - An Update, Recent Developments in Regulation and Compliane, Trinity College Dublin, 6 May 2006, 2006
Deirdre Ahern and Ailbhe O'Neill, Recent Developments in Regulation and Compliance, 6 May 2006, 2006, Trinity College Dublin
Ahern, Beware the Irish Commercial Agent, New Law Journal, 56, 2006, p620 - 620
Ahern, Deirdre, "Legal Capacity and Vulnerable Adults" , Vulnerable Adults and the Law workshop , Ballymun Community Centre, 28 July 2005, 2005
Ahern, Deirdre, (Panellist) Elder Abuse, National Conference on Elder Abuse - Reach Out, Dublin, 25 November 2004, 2004
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- Determining The Future of Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI and Regulation: A Comparative Transnational Context
- Summary
- Artificial Intelligence is transforming our society. Important cutting-edge questions need to be probed about rights, safeguards and regulatory approaches and their impact on industry and citizens. This award will provide seed funding for a new research stream on regulatory issues on Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI that are beginning to be debated around the globe.
- Funding Agency
- Trinity College Dublin
- Date From
- 8 July 2024
- Date To
- 7 July 2025
- Title
- The Changing Face of Directors' Duties in the EU: Making Companies Responsible for Sustainability and Human Rights across Global Supply Chains
- Summary
- The project arises against the backdrop of increasing interest in making companies and/or their officers liable for environmental, social and governance matters, not only in relation to the company, but also in relation to its worldwide operations and supply chain. The project focuses on study of the European Commission's Proposal for an EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence published in April 2022 (European Commission, Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence SEC (2022) 95 final). Significantly this will considerably expand the reach of corporate responsibility and directors' duties and liabilities. This EU Directive presents solutions to issues touched upon in jurisdictional tug-of-war cases concerning the potential liability for parent companies for environmental and human rights abuses of their subsidiaries. Furthermore it demands that companies integrate climate and human rights concerns into their strategy, moving away from traditional focus on profit maximisation. The project is aimed at providing a cutting-edge early stage assessment of the proposed Directive's likely impact across the EU single market. Research Objectives The objective is to build an understanding of the likely impact of the ground-breaking Directive on: (1) the development of legal duties, liabilities, and theory applicable to directors in EU Member States; and (2) an understanding how it may impact differentially on companies depending on Member State choices in implementing the Directive based on Member State law on directors' duties and also the discretion provided by the Directive around enforcement and remedies.
- Funding Agency
- Trinity Research in Social Science (TRiSS)
- Date From
- 2022
- Title
- Artificial Intelligence in the Era of the EU AI Act: A New Frontier
- Funding Agency
- School of Law, Trinity College Dublin
- Date From
- 2024
- Date To
- 2025
- Title
- CSRxChange: Constructing Regulatory, Reporting and Accreditation Tools for Corpoate Social Responsibility
- Summary
- The Non-Financial Reporting Directive 2014/95/EU breaks new regulatory ground in requiring Member States to legislate by 6 December 2016 in relation to mandatory sustainability reporting for large companies using a 'comply or explain' model. Previously corporate social responsibility ("CSR") had been viewed as essentially voluntary by the EU for a long time and globally regulation has proved largely elusive. Nonetheless many companies have embraced CSR and have sought voluntary certification to show their engagement with sustainability. Transparent sustainability reporting provides material which enables stakeholders to engage with companies in relation to the adoption of socially responsible business practices in areas such as conditions of employment, environmental impact and human rights. Against this background, this project considers engagement with corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Ireland and reporting and regulatory challenges and pitfalls. Relevant themes to be explored will include sustainability and diversity as sound business practice, the role of voluntary accreditation schemes and appropriate sustainability reporting frameworks. The project will also focus on likely regulatory outcomes of implementation of the Directive in relation to corporate sustainability disclosures will also be examined from the perspectives of both regulator and affected companies.
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council
- Date From
- 2015
- Title
- An Examination of the Shareholders' Right Directive
- Summary
- This project involved examining the legal and practical implications for Ireland of implementing the Shareholders' Rights Directive including issues such as proxy voting and the right of shareholders to ask questions.
- Date From
- September 2009
- Date To
- February 2010
- Title
- The Legal Duties of Nominee Directors
- Summary
- This project focused on examining how the conflict of duties of nominee directors, based on the expectation that a nominee director would further their appointer's interests rather than those of the company, can be legally resolved.
- Date From
- October 2009
- Date To
- December 2009
Recognition
Representations
Member of Irelands' Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council
Devising and co-delivering Principles of Fiduciary Corporate Law course for the Duke-Geneva Transnational Law Institute
Co-editor of the Irish Business Law Review
Secretary of the Irish Association of Law Teachers
Director of the Irish Corporate Law Forum http://www.iclf.ie/
President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers
Member of the Steering Committee of the Trinity Consortium on Ageing
Member of the Quality Committeee, TCD
Member of the Law Society Business Law Committee
Member of the Law Reform Commission's Working Group on Vulnerable Adults and the Law
Member of the Research Ethics Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland's Faculty of Public Health Medicine
Awards and Honours
Award for Excellence in Supervision of Research Students
Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Directors' Duties: Law and Practice shortlisted for Kevin Boyle Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship
Visiting Scholar, Duke University
Herbert Smith Visitng Fellow, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University
Highly Commended, Provost's Teaching Awards
Memberships
Appointed to Ireland's Company Law Review Group
Appointed member of the European Commission's Informal Company Law and Corporate Governance Expert Group
Member of the League of European Research Universities' Legal Team on Artificial Intelligence
Member of the Law Society of Ireland
Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute
Member of the Steering Committee of the Daughters of Themis international network for women business scholars
Blanaid Clarke, McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law, Convenor
Professor Blanaid Clarke
McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law, Law
Biography
Blanaid holds the McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law at Trinity College Dublin where she lectures in: Corporate Governance in the EU; Contract Law; Company Law; and Responsible Business, Ethics and ESG. She is Convenor of the School"s Corporate Law, Governance and Capital Markets Research Group and Director of the LLM Programmes in the Law School.
Her research interests include: governance (corporate governance, fund governance and central bank governance); ethics; financial services law; securities law; and takeover law and she has published extensively in these areas.
Blanaid is the Irish representative on the OECD Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority's Shareholder Transactions Working Group (previously the Takeover Bids Network).
She is Deputy Chairman of the Irish Banking Culture Board and works with the Irish Takeover Panel. She is also a member of the Institute of Banker's Certified Investment Fund Director Institute Advisory Committee.
Blanaid is a Vice President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute and Deputy Chair of the Royal Irish Academy's Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee. She is a member of: the European Model Company Act Group and the University of Oslo's Sustainability Law Research Group.
Previously, she was also a member of: the IMF's Safeguards Assessments - 2022 External Expert Panel (2021-2022), the Irish Central Bank Commission (2010-2018); the European Securities and Markets Authority's Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (2018-2020); the European Commission's Informal Expert Group on Company Law (2014-2018); and the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law (2010-2011). She was on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Law and was one of the editors of Palmer's Company Law and (2009-2021) and Legal Studies (2011-2016).
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
B.Clarke & A.Egli, Governance Challenges for the Boards of Investment Funds and Fund Managers: Evidence from Ireland, School of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper Series Paper N0. 13/2023, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 2023
Sustainable Finance: Country Report Ireland (forthcoming) in, editor(s)Jens Ekkenga and Martin Winner , Sustainable Finance in Europe, 2023, [Felix E Mezzanotte (with Blanaid Clarke)]
Blanaid Clarke, Purpose,Values and Governance in Big Tech Companies, Bond Law Review, 34, (2), 2022, p35 - 67
The Market for Corporate Control in the EU in, editor(s)H.Birkmose, M.Neville and K.Engsig Sørensen , Instruments of EU Corporate Governance, The Netherlands, Kluwer Law International B.V., 2022, pp285 - 308, [Blanaid Clarke]
Company Law Legal Systems - Ireland in, editor(s)D.Busch, C.Gortos and G.Mc Meel , Liability of Financial Supervisors and Resolution Authorities, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp321 - 348, [Blanaid Clarke]
Cultural Reforms in Irish Banks - A Pandemic Report Card in, editor(s)C. Gortsos and G. Ringe , Financial Stability amidst the Pandemic Crisis: On Top of the Wave, Frankfurt, European Banking Institute, 2021, pp404 - 434, [B. Clarke]
Senior Executive Accountability in the Financial Services Sector - An Irish Case Study in, editor(s)Ronald J. Gilson, Mats Isaksson, Erik Lidman Johan Munck and Erik Sjöman , Festschrift in honour of Rolf Skog , Sweeden, Norstedts Juridik, 2021, pp311 - 329, [B. Clarke]
B. Clarke, Senior Executive Accountability and Responsibility in Financial Institutions, The Irish Jurist, 66, 2021, p74-100
The Role of the Central Bank of Ireland as an Independent Financial Regulator in, D.Farrell and N. Hardiman , Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp683 - 701, [B. Clarke]
CRD IV - The EU's response to corporate governance failings in credit institutions" in, editor(s)D Cash and R Goddard , Regulation and the Global Financial Crisis: Impact, Regulatory Responses, and Beyond , Routledge, 2020, pp190-209 , [B. Clarke]
"Cultural reforms in Irish banks. Walking the walk during the COVID-19 pandemic in, editor(s)C. Gortsos and G. Ringe , Pandemic Crisis and Financial Stability, Frankfurt, European Banking Institute, 2020, pp127-154 , [B. Clarke]
Regulation of AIFMs and AIFs in Ireland in, editor(s)D.Zetzsche , The AIFM Directive- European Regulation of Alternative Investment Funds, Kluwer Law International, 2020, pp911-924 , [B.Clarke (and M.White) ]
Ireland in, S. Allegrezza , The Enforcement Dimension of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, Milano, Wolters Kluwer, 2020, pp341 - 380, [B.Clarke]
Rachael Walsh and Sarah Hamill (chapter authors) Deirdre Ahern and Suryapratim Roy (report editors), Policy Responses to Covid-19 In Ireland: Supporting Individuals, Communities, Businesses, and the Economy, COVID-19 Legal Observatory, Trinity College Dublin, December, 2020, p1 - 108
Worker rights under the Cross-border Mergers Directive 2005/56/EC: an Introduction in, Jan Cremers and Sigurt Vitols , Exercising voice across borders: workers' rights under the EU Cross-border Mergers Directive, Belgium , ETUI, 2019, pp29-44 , [B Clarke]
Unmasking directors and shareholders to prevent the abuse of companies in, editor(s)H. Birkmose, M. Neville and K. Engsig Sørensen , Abuse of companies , The Netherlands, Wolters Kluwer , 2019, pp209-230 , [B Clarke]
The EU as norm creator for sustainable corporate groups? in, editor(s)B Sjåfjell and C Bruner , Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp190 - 203, [B Clarke and L Anderson]
Ireland in, Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, Federico M Mucciarelli, Edmund-Philipp Schuster and Mathias Siems , 'The Private International Law of Companies in Europe, UK , Hart, 2019, pp461-488 , [B. Clarke and D Kenny]
B Clarke (with S. Griffith and D Awrey), Resolving the Crisis in U.S. Merger Regulation: A Transatlantic Alternative to the Perpetual Litigation Machine , 2018
B Clarke (with S. Griffith and D Awrey),, Resolving the Crisis in U.S. Merger Regulation, Yale Journal on Regulation , 35, (1), 2018, p1 - 65
Governance aspects of mutual funds in Ireland in, editor(s)W Birdthistle and J Morley , Research Handbook on the Regulation of Mutual Funds, UK and USA, Elgar, 2018, pp360 - 381, [B Clarke (and M White) ]
A Transatlantic Perspective on Shareholder Litigation in Public Takeovers in, editor(s)S.Griffith, J.Erickson, D. H. Webber, and V. Winship (eds) , Elgar, 415-438 (November 2018) , Research Handbook On Representative Shareholder Litigation, UK, Elgar, 2018, pp415 - 438, [B Clarke (with D Awrey)]
Blanaid Clarke, Individual Accountability in Irish Credit Institutions - Lessons to be Learned from the UK's Senior Managers Regime , Common Law World Review , 47, (1), 2018, p35 - 52
Banking Regulation in, editor(s)W.Roche, P.O'Connell and A.Prothero , Austerity and Recovery in Ireland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp107 - 123, [B. Clarke]
"EU Takeover Regulation as a Means of Safeguarding the Interests of Employees: Re-opening Pandora's Box" chapter in Helmut Siekmann (editor) , in, editor(s)Helmut Siekmann , Festschrift for Theodor Baums zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, Germany, Mohr Siebeck, 2017, pp215 - 235, [Blanaid Clarke]
National Implementation in the EU: Ireland in, editor(s)G.Moss, B.Wessels and M.Haentjens , EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency (Second Edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp349 - 363, [Blanaid Clarke]
Ireland in, editor(s)D Busch and C Van Dam , A Bank's Duty of Care, England, Hart/Bloomsbury, 2017, pp285 - 327, [Blanaid Clarke]
The Duties of Parent Companies in, H. Søndergaard Birkmose , Shareholders' Duties in Europe, Netherlands, Kluwer Law International, 2017, pp229 - 254, [B. Clarke ]
B. Clarke, Duty of Care, Skill and Diligence - from Warm Baths to Hot Water, The Irish Jurist, LVI, 2016, p139 - 160
The Role of Employees in the Takeover Bids Directive in, editor(s)Cremers J and Vitols S. , Takeovers with or without worker voice: worker rights under the EU Directive on Takeover Bids, Brussels, ETUI, 2016, pp33 - 49, [Blanaid Clarke]
Blanaid Clarke (and Gail Henderson), Directors as guardians of the Public Interest, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 16, (1), 2016, p187 - 220
"Deposit Guarantee Schemes" in, editor(s)M.Haentjens and B.Wessels , Research Handbook on Crisis Management in the Banking Sector, Research Handbooks in Financial Law series. , UK, Edward Elgar Publishing , 2015, pp345 - 365, [Blanaid Clarke]
"The role of board directors in promoting environmental sustainability" in, editor(s)B.J. Richardson and B. Sjåfjell , Company Law and Sustainability , UK, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp148 - 174, [Blanaid Clarke]
Blanaid Clarke, Irish Company Law as a Means of Furthering the Climate Change Agenda, International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal , 11, (3), 2015, p104 - 139
Blanaid Clarke & Gail Henderson, "Are Public Interest Directors a Good Idea? Lessons from the Irish Banking Crisis" (September 15, 2015). UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11/2015. , 2015
Takeovers Regulation in, editor(s)Geoffrey Morse (Co-ordinating Editor) , Palmers Company Law , London, Thompson Sweet & Maxwell, 2014, pp12065 - 12125, [B. Clarke]
Blanaid Clarke, The EU's Shareholder Empowerment Model in the Context of the Sustainable Companies Agenda, European Company Law , 2, 2014, p103-
B. Clarke, The Market for Corporate Control: New Insights from the Financial Crisis in Ireland" , Seattle University Law Review , 36, 2013, p63-
Blanaid Clarke, "The Takeovers' Directive - A Meaningful Contribution to Stakeholders Rights in Europe" , International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, 10, (1), 2013, p80 - 97
Deirdre Ahern and Blanaid Clarke, Listed Companies' Engagement with Diversity: A Multi-Jurisdictional Study of Annual Report Disclosures, 2013
Blanaid Clarke (with J. Antunes, T. Baums et al) , "Response to the European Commission's Action Plan on Company Law and Corporate Governance" , European Company and Financial Law Review, 10, 2013, p304 - 327
"Ireland: Crisis in the Banking System" in, editor(s)S. Konzelmann and M. Fovargue-Davies , Banking Systems in the Crisis: The Faces of Liberal Capitalism , London, Routledge, 2012, pp107 - 133, [B. Clarke and N. Hardiman ]
B.Clarke, Irish Company Law Mapping Paper, University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2012-35. , 2012
Liability of Asset Managers in Ireland in, editor(s)D. Busch and D. DeMott , Liability of Asset Mangers , Oxford University Press, 2012, pp369 - 409, [B. Clarke and A. Bates ]
B.Clarke and N.Hardiman, Crisis in the Irish Banking System (February 1, 2012). UCD Geary Institute Discussion Paper Series WP2012/03, UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 02/2012 , 2012
Legal Studies, UK, Wylie, [Co- editor], 2011-2018
B.Clarke, "Directors' Duties During an Offer Period - Lessons from the Cadbury PLC Takeover" UCD Law Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No.44/2011 , 2011
Corporate Law Scholarship in Ireland in, editor(s)J. Schweppe and T. Mohr , Thirty Years of Legal Scholarship: The Irish Association of Law Teachers , Dublin, Roundhall Press, 2011, [B.Clarke]
B.Clarke, Reviewing Takeover Regulation in the Wake of the Cadbury Acquisition: Regulation in a Twirl , Journal of Business Law, 2011, p298-
Where Was The 'Market For Corporate Control' When We Needed It? in, editor(s)W. Sun , Corporate Governance and the Global Financial Crisis: International Perspectives , Cambridge University Press, 2011, [B. Clarke ]
B.Clarke, Lessons Learned - The Corporate Governance Code For Credit Institutions And Insurance Undertakings, Dublin University Law Journal , 33, 2011, p172-
The EU Takeovers Directive - A Shareholder Or Stakeholder Model?" in, editor(s)P. Zumbansen and C. Williams , The Embedded Firm: Labour, Corporate Governance And Finance Capitalism , Cambridge University Press , 2011, [. B. Clarke ]
B.Clarke, Reinforcing the Market for Corporate Control, European Business Law Review, 2011, p517-
Journal of Business Law , UK, Sweet&Maxwell, [eds.], 2010-2018
Corporate Governance in Banks of Ireland in, editor(s)A. Kostyuk, F. Takeda, and K. Hosono , Anti-Crisis Paradigms of Corporate Governance in Banks: A New Institutional Outlook , Kiev, Virtus Interpress, 2010, [T. Lynn, R. Sharma and B. Clarke ]
B.Clarke, "Reinforcing the Market for Corporate Control" UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 39/2010, 2010
B.Clarke, Directors' Duties in a Changing World: Lessons from the Cadbury Plc Takeover, European Company Law , 7, 2010, p204-
B.Clarke and T.Lynn, "The Irish Corporate Governance System" UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 38/2010, 2010
Corporate Governance" An Oxymoron? - The Role Of Corporate Governance in the Current Banking Crisis in, editor(s)I. Mcneill and J. O'Brien , The Future Of Financial Regulation , Hart Publishing, 2010, [B. Clarke]
Corporate Governance Regulation and Board Decision Making During Takeovers in, editor(s)A. Thankom and J. Turner , Corporate Governance and Development , Edward Elgar, 2009, [B. Clarke]
B.Clarke, Insider Dealing: Getting Under the Skin of Fyffes Plc v DCC Plc & Others, Journal of Business Law , 2009, p68-
B.Clarke, The Takeovers Directive - Is a Little Regulation Better Than No Regulation?, European Law Journal , 15, (2), 2009, p174-
B.Clarke, "Where was the 'Market for Corporate Control' when we Needed it?" UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23/2009, 2009
The Relationship between Corporate Governance and Takeovers in Ireland in, editor(s)R. Keane and A. O'Neill , Corporate Governance - An Irish Perspective , Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2009, pp50 - 66, [B. Clarke]
B. Clarke, Contract Cases and Materials , 4th Edition, Gill & Macmillan, 2008
Inside Information and the Market Abuse Directive in, editor(s)P. Ali and G. Gregoriou , Insider Trading: Regulation and Analysis , London, CRC Press, 2008, [B. Clarke]
B.Clarke, Takeover Regulation- Through the Regulatory Looking Glass, German Law Journal , 8, 2007, p381-
The Market for Corporate Control and the Implications of the Takeover Directive (2004/25) in, P.Ali and G. Gregoriou , International Corporate Governance after Sarbanes-Oxley , New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, 2006, [B. Clarke]
B.Clarke, Articles 9 and 11 of the Takeover Directive (2004/25) and the Market for Corporate Control , Journal of Business Law , 2006, p355-
B.Clarke, European Takeover Regulation and Directive 2004/25/EC, The Company and Securities Law Journal , 24, 2006, p93-
B.Clarke, Regulating Poison Pill Devices, Journal of Corporate Law Studies , 4, 2004, p51-
Cross Border Mergers in Company Law: Removing the Final Barriers - Ireland in, International Federation of European Law XX Congress, Reports and Conclusions , London, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2002, [B. Clarke and G. Fitzgerald]
Accommodating the Special Needs of the Financial Markets - R v Panel on Takeovers and Mergers; Ex Parte Datafin plc in, editor(s)E. O'Dell , Leading Cases of the Twentieth Century, Roundhall Sweet & Maxwell, 2000, [B. Clarke]
B.Clarke, European Takeover Regulation - The Latest Draft of the 13th Company Law Directive, European Business Law Review , 10, 1999, p482-
B. Clarke, Takeovers and Mergers Law in Ireland , Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell, 1999
B.Clarke, The Draft 13th Directive and Employees - an Irish Law Perspective, European Business Law Review , 9, 1998
B.Clarke, Corporate Responsibility in Light of the Separation of Ownership and Control, Dublin University Law Journal , 19, 1997, p50-
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
B.Clarke, Mutual Fund Governance in Practice: A Purposive and Values-Based Approach ?, Sustainable Capitalism and the Corporation, Monash University Campus, Prato, Florence, 22 July 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, Comparative Takeovers and Securities Law Australia, Ireland and the US, 14 July 2023, In:Sustainable Capitalism and the Corporation, 2023, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin
B.Clarke, The Mutual Fund Board: a Lynchpin or a Weak Link in the Drive for Sustainable Investments, International Conference on Sustainability and Supply Chains in the Face of the Climate Crisis, University Carlos III, Madrid, 3 November 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, The Twitter Acquisition through the Prism of the Irish Takeover Panel Rules, Comparative Takeovers and Securities Law Australia, Ireland and the US, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 14 July 2023, 2023, TCD, Monash University and Vanderbilt University
B.Clarke, Panel Participant, Navigating a complex regulatory environment-the Fund Director"s perspective, Institute of Bankers and IQ-EQ, Dublin, 30 March 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, Board Profiles, Skills and Qualifications, Seventh Central Bank High-Level Governance Forum: Sound Board Oversight, Key Enablers of Good Governance, and Developments in Digitalization and Central Bank Digital Currencies, Dubai, 1 May 2023, 2023, International Monetary Fund in collaboration with Hawkamah, the Institute of Governance
B.Clarke, Making Individual Accountability Work " The Challenge for Industry and Regulators (Panel Discussant), Central Bank of Ireland, Financial System Conference: Achieving Good Outcomes in an Uncertain World, Dublin, 8 November 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, Investment Fund Governance Survey, Certified Investment Fund Director Annual Seminar 2023, Dublin, 29 September 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, The new Individual Accountability Framework (Panel Discussant), The new Individual Accountability Framework in Financial Services Ireland, UCD, 10 November 2023, 2023
B.Clarke, Individual Accountability in the Financial Services Sector -The Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022, Enhancing Accountability in Corporate and Financial Governance,, Monash University Campus, Prato, Florence, 10 October 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, Governance and Culture in the Banking Sector, Banking Union after Next Generation EU, DCU Brexit Institute, 3 November 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, The Continued Use of the UK Corporate Governance Code for Irish Listed Companies, McCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 17 November 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, Evolving Challenges for Governance over Alternative Investments - Panel Participant, Certified Investment Fund Director Annual Conference, Dublin, 30 September 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, Director Accountability and Ireland's new Individual Accountability Framework, Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law, 26 October 2022, 2022
B.Clarke, Individual Accountability in the Financial Services Sector: An Irish Case Study, Conference on Contemporary Corporate Governance Corporate Governance Forum, Stockholm, 31 May 2022, 2022
B. Clarke, "The Special Purpose of Big Tech Companies", Corporate Purpose Conference, Online, University of Oslo, 16 April 2021, 2021
B.Clarke, Independent Investment Fund Directors " an Irish Case Study, UCL Centre for Ethics and Law and Institute of Directors Centre for Corporate Governance (Online), 12 October 2021, 2021
B.Clarke, "Irish Banking Culture Board", NY Fed Supervisors" Roundtable, NY Online, 19 April 2021, 2021
B.Clarke, Collective Accountability (Keynote Address), Society of Legal Scholars of UK and Ireland, Durham University (Online), 2 September 2021, 2021
B.Clarke, The Financial Crisis: Corporate Law and Corporate Governance (Keynote Address), Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Cork, 20 November 2021, 2021
B Clarke, Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions: the Role of Culture, European Banking Institute Annual Conference,, Frankfurt, 22 February 2019, 2019, EBI
B.Clarke, The Irish Banking Culture Board, Innovation and other Contemporary Pivotal Issues in Financial Markets Law and Company Law - Selected National, International, European and Comparative Views, Sapienza University of Rome , 13 December 2019, 2019, Dr. Gudula Deipenbrock
B Clarke, Organisational Culture and the Role of Lawyers, Summer ELSA Law School, Trinity College Dublin , 24 July 2019, 2019
B Clarke, Organisational Culture: What Happens When No One is Looking?, TCD Law School's Lecture Series, TCD, 20 March 2019, 2019
B Clarke, Good Information Driving Good Decision Making - Board Engagement and Information Asymmetry, Supporting the Agenda for Good Governance of State Boards, Dublin, 16 May 2019, 2019, Public Affairs Ireland
B Clarke, "Individual Accountability for Regulatory Breaches: the Irish Experience", Regulation of the Banking Sector: Challenges and Emerging Issues conference, University of Bristol , 11 May 2018, 2018
B Clarke, "Brexit, financial services and contract continuity" , TRiSS - IIEA 'Bitesize' workshop series, Aspects of Brexit, TCD, 20 September 2018, 2018, TRiSS - IIEA
B.Clarke, The Role of law in fostering individual accountability within banks , Toward an integrated enforcement of banking regulation: the case of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, University of Luxembourg, 29 November 2018, 2018
B.Clarke, Board Culture and Behaviour , Culture, Diversity and the Way Forward for Corporate Governance in Ireland , Trinity College Dublin, 25 October 2018, 2018, Central Bank and Trinity Law School
B.Clarke, Insights into Changing Bank Culture and Behaviour , Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets Law and Company Law - Legal Challenges of Digitalisation - Fintech, Insurtech and other Developments, Berlin, 16 November 2018, 2018
B Clarke, "Regulation of Takeovers in Ireland and the UK" , Oceans Apart: Corporate and Securities Litigation and Regulation in Comparative Perspective conference,, MCCann FitzGerald, Dublin, 26 April 2018, 2018, Trinity College Dublin, Oxford University and Fordham University
B Clarke, Public Interest Directors and Corporate Governance Reform in the UK, Centre for Law Markets and Regulation , University of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 November 2017, 2017, Law School, UNSW
Blanaid Clarke, Holding Individuals Responsible for Regulatory Breaches in Banks", Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets Law and Company Law - National, International, European and Comparative Perspectives Conference , Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 15 December 2017, 2017
Blanaid Clarke, Autonomy and Accountability - performance, rules and trust , The Road to Better Governance in Organisations: Principles, Rules or Values , Dublin, 16 March 2017, 2017, Institute of Public Administration
B Clarke, The Meaning of "Impact" and "Engagement", ERC Research Impact Day, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 6 November 2017, 2017, Accounting for Social Change Research Group, QUT
Blanaid Clarke, Public Interest Directors - Update, Vanderbilt-Ghent Symposium on Corporate Law and Financial Regulation , University of Ghent, 23 May 2017, 2017
Blanaid Clarke, Early Intervention Measures under CRD IV, the SSM and SRM regulations (conditions for the application of both) and the early intervention phase under the SRM regulation , Reflections on Competent authorities' Measures in EU Banking Law ( organised by Malta Financial Services Authority and European Banking Institute), Malta, 9 June 2017, 2017
Blanaid Clarke, Shareholders Rights Directive II (2017/828/EC) amending Directive 2007/36/EC as regards the encouragement of long-term engagement, Regulatory Update, McCann FitzGerald Solicitors, Dublin, 28 June 2017, 2017, McCann FitzGerald Solicitors
Blanaid Clarke, "Implications of Brexit on the Financial Services Sector" , The legal implications of a potential Brexit , Dublin, 5 May 2016, 2016, Irish Centre for European Law and IBEC
Blanaid Clarke, The Takeovers Directive: An Overview, The Takeovers Directive: Ten years On, Trinity Long Room Hub, 22 April 2016, 2016
Blanaid Clarke, "Datafin Revisited: Judicial Review During a Takeover Bid", Centre for European Legal Studies and the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law Seminar Series,, University of Cambridge , 4 November 2015, 2015
Blanaid Clarke, "The Role of Culture in Good Corporate Governance" , CUCC Annual Conference; Compliance Through Communication, , Trinity College Dublin , 18 August 2015, 2015
Blanaid Clarke, "The Duty of Parent Companies" , 11th Nordic Company Law Conference on Shareholders' Duties , University of Aarhus, Denmark , 10 November 2015, 2015
Blanaid Clarke, "Company Formation" , European Model Companies Act Conference, Vienna , 10/11 September 2015, 2015
Blanaid Clarke, "Shareholders as Guardians of Long Term Growth - Is EU Faith Misguided?" , . Presentation to Corporate and Securities Panel "Improving Approaches and Substance", 2014 Massey Prize Symposium, , University of Texas , 26 September , 2014, University of Texas
Blanaid Clarke, "Board Directors: What can we expect of them?" , ERC Lessons in the Management of 'People Risk' Seminar Series, Dublin, 26 March, 2014
Blanaid Clarke, "The Role of Audit Committees in Good Governance of Central Banks" , High Level Forum on Central Bank Governance- Audit Oversight and Assurance Mechanisms , Dubai, UAE, 9 December , 2014, Hawkamah and the IMF
Blanaid Clarke, Jose Antunes et al,, Response to the European Commission's Action Plan on Company Law and Corporate Governance , 2014
Blanaid Clarke, "The Role of Diversity in Good Governance" , Assistant Secretary Network Annual Conference, Farmleigh, Dublin , 4 May , 2014, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Blanaid Clarke, "Judicial Review" , Conference of International Takeover Regulators, London, 22 May , 2014
Blanaid Clarke, "Corporate Governance under the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation" , McCann FitzGerald Presentation , Dublin, 8 May , 2014
Blanaid Clarke, "The Takeover Directive - from a stakeholder rights perspective" , GOODCORP meeting organised by the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels and the University of Oslo , Brussels, (17 September 2013), 2013
Blanaid Clarke (with D. Ahern) , Can a 'Comply or Explain' Approach Inspire an Effective Commitment to Board Diversity? , the 12th European Corporate Governance and Company Law Conference, Dublin , 16 May 2013, 2013
Blanaid Clarke, "Gender Diversity on European Company Boards' , ERA Annual Conference on European Company Law,, Triers, Germany, 26 September 2013, 2013
B.Clarke, The Takeovers Directive Report 2012, Post-crisis Trajectories of European Corporate Governance: Dealing with the Present and Shaping the Future, University of Leeds , 21 September 2012, 2012
B.Clarke, Regulating risk management at listed companies: panacea or bitter pill?, ERA Annual Conference on European Company Law 2012, Trier, 27 September 2012, 2012
B. Clarke (with J. Antunes, T. Baums et al), Report of the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law , Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1851654, European Commission Internal Market and Services, April, 2011
Palmer's Company Law, Sweet & Maxwell, [eds.], 2009-2018
Research Expertise
Description
Blanaid's research interests include company law, corporate governance, fund governance, ethics & responsible business, accountability, capital markets law and takeover law.Catherine Donnelly
Biography
Catherine Donnelly undertook her LL.B. in Trinity College Dublin and is a former scholar of the College. She then completed a B.C.L. in Oxford, at Magdalen College, followed by an LL.M. and Fellowship in Harvard. She practised as a litigation attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York from 1999-2001 and was admitted to both the New York State and Federal Bars (Eastern and Southern Districts). During this time, she also taught an asylum law workshop at Columbia Law School and worked on pro bono projects for the Yale Law Clinic and Human Rights Watch. From 2001-2004, she completed a D.Phil. in Oxford, again at Magdalen College, during part of which time she held a college lectureship shared between Corpus Christi College and St John's College, Oxford. The title of her doctoral thesis is 'Delegation of Governmental Power to Private Parties: A Comparative Perspective'. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2003 (Gray's Inn) and from 2004-2005, she undertook pupillage at Blackstone Chambers, where she is currently a member. She was called to the Bar of Ireland in 2007. She joined the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford in 2005 as a University Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Wadham College, teaching Administrative, Constitutional and European Community Law. She joined the Law School in January 2007. She has published and presented conference papers in the areas of human rights law, European Union law, administrative law, election law, constitutional law, comparative law, procurement law and public-private partnerships. She was elected to Fellowship of the College in 2011.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Catherine Donnelly, Ivan Hare, Joanna Bell, De Smith's Judicial Review, 9th, Thomson Reuters, 2023, 1 - 900pp
Public Procurement in, editor(s)Chris McCrudden , The Law and Practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp269 , [Chris McCrudden]
Preliminary Rulings and EU Legal Integration: Evolution and Continuity in, editor(s)Paul Craig and Grainne de Burca , Evolution of EU Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, [Catherine Donnelly and Tom de la Mare]
Catherine Donnelly, Ivan Hare and Joanna Belle, De Smith's Judicial Review, 8th, London, Sweet and Maxwell, 2021, 1 - 1168pp
Catherine Donnelly and Ivan Hare, De Smith's Principles of Judicial Review, 2nd edn, London, Sweet and Maxwell, 2020, 1-1350pp
Lord Woolf, Jeffrey Jowell, Catherine Donnelly, Ivan Hare, De Smith's Judicial Review, 8th, London, Sweet and Maxwell, 2018, 1-1168pp
Participation and Expertise: Judicial Attitudes in Comparative Perspective in, editor(s)Susan Rose-Ackerman and Peter Lindseth , Comparative Administrative Law, Massachuetts, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017, pp370 - 388, [Catherine Donnelly]
Catherine Donnelly, Participation and Expertise: Judicial Attitudes in Comparative Perspective, Comparative Public Law, Yale Law School, 29 April , 2016, Yale Law School
Lord Woolf, Jeffrey Jowell, Andrew Le Sueur, Catherine Donnelly, Ivan Hare, De Smith's Judicial Review 3rd Cumulative Supplement, 7th , London, Thomson, 2016, 1 - 235pp
Lord Woolf, Jeffrey Jowell, Andrew le Sueur, Catherine Donnelly, Ivan Hare, De Smith's Judicial Review, Second Supplement to the Seventh Edition, 7th , London, Thomson Roundhall, 2015
Hilary Biehler and Catherine Donnelly, Proportionality in the Irish courts: the need for guidance, European Human Rights Law Review, 2014, (3), 2014, p272 - 283
Lord Woolf, Jeffrey Jowell, Andrew le Sueur, Catherine Donnelly, Ivan Hare, De Smith's Judicial Review, First Supplement to the Seventh Edition, 7th , London, Thomson Roundhall, 2014
Transparency, Reasons and the Europeanisation of Public Law in, editor(s)K Bradley, N Travers, A Whelan , Of Courts and Constitutions, London, Hart Publishing, 2014, pp353 - 375, [Catherine Donnelly]
Lord Woolf, Jeffrey Jowell, Andrew Le Sueur, Catherine Donnelly, Ivan Hare, De Smith's Judicial Review, 7th , London, Thomson, 2013, 1 - 1183pp
Catherine Donnelly, Are Preliminary Rulings Working?, Bar European Group, Lisbon, 6 May 2012, 2012
The Implementation of the Services Directive in Ireland in, editor(s)Michael Mirschberger , The Implementation of the Services Directive in EU Member States, Speyer, 2012, [Catherine Donnelly and John Biggins]
Catherine Donnelly, Privatization and Welfare: A Comparative Perspective, Law and Ethics of Human Rights, 5, (2), 2011
Catherine Donnelly, The 2010 Remedies Regulations: Automatic Suspension, Time Limits and Standing, A Review of Public Procurement in Ireland 2011, 2011
Catherine Donnelly and Ivan Hare, Judicial Review Remedies: Recent Developments and Some Predictions, Sweet and Maxwell Judicial Review Conference 2011, London, 25 November 2011, 2011
Catherine Donnelly and Hilary Delany, "The Irish Supreme Court Inches Towards Proportionality Review", Public Law, 2011, 2011, p9 - 19
Catherine Donnelly, Convergences and Divergences in Educating Transnational Lawyers?, American Bar Association: International Law Section, Dublin, 12 October 2011, American Bar Association, 2011
The New Remedial Landscape in Public Procurement in Ireland in, editor(s)D Fairgrieve and F Lichere , Public Procurement Law: Damages as an Effective Remedy, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011, pp113 - 145, [Catherine Donnelly]
Donnelly, Catherine, European Union Law Update - 2008, Irish Year Book of International Law, 2011
Preliminary Rulings and EU Legal Integration: Evolution and Stasis in, editor(s)P Craig and G de Burca (eds) , The Evolution of EU Law, Oxford, OUP, 2011, [Donnelly, Catherine and Tom de la Mare]
Catherine Donnelly, Positive Obligations and Privatization, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 61, (3), 2010, p209 - 223
Catherine Donnelly, "Automatic Suspension, Time Limits and Standing", The New Public Procurement Remedies Regulations, Dublin, 29 June 2010, 2010
A Public Law Analysis of International Investment Law in, editor(s)Walde, T , International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law, Oxford, OUP, 2010, [Donnelly, Catherine]
Problems of Legitimacy in Contracting Out and Privatization in, editor(s)M Ruffert , Legitimacy in Administrative Law: Reform and Reconstruction, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2010, [Donnelly, Catherine]
Participation and Expertise: Judicial Attitudes in Comparative Perspective in, editor(s)S Rose-Ackerman and P Lindseth , Comparative Administrative Law, Edward Elgar, 2010, [Donnelly, Catherine]
Public-Private Partnerships: Award, Performance and Remedies in, editor(s)Stefan Schill , International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp475 - 501, [Catherine Donnelly]
Catherine Donnelly, Ineffectiveness, Relationships and Costs, Dublin, 24 June 2010, 2010
Article 8 in, editor(s)Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, Lord Pannick QC, Javan Herberg , Human Rights Law and Practice, London, LexisNexis, 2009, pp359-452 , [Donnelly, Catherine]
Le Sueur, Andrew, Donnelly, Catherine, Hare, Ivan, de Smith's Judicial Review, First Supplement to the Sixth Edition, 6th, London, Sweet and Maxwell, 2009, 268pp
Catherine Donnelly, Administrative Law and Multi-Level Administration: An EU and US Comparison, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 11, 2009, p211 - 246
Donnelly, Catherine, Remedies in Public Procurement Law in Ireland, Public Procurement Law Review, 1, 2009, p18 - 41
'The Response of English Public Law to Private Actors in Public Governance' in, editor(s)Ruffert Matthias , The Public/Private Divide: Potential for Transformation, London, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2009, ppvi - 349, [Catherine Donnelly]
Donnelly, Catherine, European Union Law Update - 2007, Irish Yearbook of International Law, 2, 2008, p133-
'el Reino Unido' in, editor(s)F Caamaño , Gobierno y las Relaciones con las Cortes , Madrid, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2007, [Catherine Donnelly]
'Les rapports entre droit administratif fédéral et droits administratifs des Etats aux Etats-Unis: comparaison avec l'Union Européenne' in, editor(s)J Dutheil de la Rochère and JB Auby , Droit Administratif Européen , Bruylant, 2007, [Catherine Donnelly]
Lord Woolf, Jeffrey Jowell, Andrew le Sueur, Catherine Donnelly, De Smith's Judicial Review, 6th edn, London, Sweet and Maxwell, 2007
Catherine Donnelly, Delegation of Governmental Power to Private Parties: A Comparative Perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007
'Habeas Corpus' in, editor(s)B Lang , Administrative Court: Practice and Procedure , London, Sweet and Maxwell , 2006, [Catherine Donnelly]
'Elections' in, editor(s)B Lang , Administrative Court: Practice and Procedure , London, Sweet and Maxwell, 2006, [Catherine Donnelly]
Catherine Donnelly, 'Leonard Cheshire Again and Beyond: Private Contractors, Contract and Section 6(3)(b) of the Human Rights Act' , Public Law, [2005], 2005, p785 - 805
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Catherine Donnelly, "Transparency in Procurement Litigation: Importance, Anomalies and Developments", Developments in Public Procurement Law, Dublin, 8 October 2020, 2020
Catherine Donnelly, SCCs and EU-UK Data Transfers Post Brexit, Cross-Border Data Transfers, European Circuit, 2020
Catherine Donnelly, Common Law and EU Law: A Transient Blip or Enduring Exchange, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Dublin, 7 September 2017, 2017
Catherine Donnelly, Transparency in Procurement: Where are the Limits?, Public Procurement Law Conference, 3 June , 2016, Irish Centre for European Law
Catherine Donnelly, The Reach of Public Procurement Law: Current Issues, 30 April, 2015, Irish Society for European Law
Catherine Donnelly, The Cross-Over between Procurement and Competition Law, Public Procurement Law Conference, 12 June , 2015
Catherine Donnelly, The New Procurement Directives and Procurement Litigation, 14 May, 2014, CMG Professional Training
Brian Kennelly and Catherine Donnelly, Interim Relief, Damages and Expert Evidence in Public Procurement, Blackstone Chambers Procurement Law Seminar, London, 3 July, 2013
Catherine Donnelly, The Unfulfilled Promise of Zambrano, Understanding EU Citizens' Rights, 24 October, 2013
Catherine Donnelly, Implementation of the ECHR in Ireland: Reviewing the 2003 Act, Fundamental Rights Protection in the European Union, 10 May, 2013, Irish Centre for European Law
Catherine Donnelly, Automatic Suspension and Interlocutory Relief, Public Procurement Litigation, Trinity College Dublin, 1 March 2012, 2012
Donnelly, Catherine, Postive Obligations and Privatization, Queen's University Law School Annual Workshop, Belfast, 24 March 2010, 2010, Queen's University
Fairgrieve D(ed.), Remedies in Public Procurement Law in Ireland, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2010
Donnelly, Catherine, The NIO Bill of Rights Consultation Paper: A Public Law Analysis, NICEM Annual Conference, Belfast, 12 February, 2010, NICEM
Donnelly, Catherine, Reasons in Administrative Law, Presentation to the Upper Tribunal of Administrative Judges, London, 3 March, 2010, Upper Tribunal of Administrative Judges
Donnelly, Catherine, Pursuing Secondary Policies in EC Public Procurement Law, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, 16 February 2009, 2009, School of Law, TCD
Donnelly, Catherine, Grounds for Judicial Review: New Developments, Judicial Review; Recent Developments, Trinity College Dublin, 27 June 2009, 2009, School of Law, TCD
Donnelly, Catherine, Problems of Legitimacy in Contracting Out and Privatization, Sorbonne, Paris, 24 October 2009, 2009
Donnelly, Catherine, Damages Remedies in Public Procurement Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 13 March 2009, 2009, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Donnelly, Catherine, The Federalising Effect of Administrative Law in the EU and US, CEntre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge, 21 January 2009, 2009, University of Cambridge
Donnelly, Catherine, An Update on Judicial Review in the United Kingdom in 2008, Northern Ireland Centre for Ethnic Minorities Annual Conference, Belfast, 27 February 2009, 2009, Northern Ireland Centre for Ethnic Minorities
Donnelly, Catherine and Tom de la Mare, Article 234 in Social and Political Context, European University Institute, Florence, 19 April 2009, 2009, EUI, Florence
Donnelly, Catherine, Institutional Reform: With and Without Lisbon, Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL) Conference, Dublin, 23 October 2008, 2008, ICEL
Catherine Donnelly, 'Preamble, Enforcement and Implementation', Getting the Bill Right - An Update, Belfast, 2-3 July 2008, , 2008
The Privatisation of Governmental Functions in, editor(s)O Doyle and E Carolan , Irish Constitution: Governance and Values, Dublin, Thomson/Roundhall, 2008, [Catherine Donnelly]
Catherine Donnelly, 'A British Bill of Rights and Devolution in Northern Ireland', 'A British Bill of Rights and Devolution', London, 11 July , 2008, JUSTICE
Catherine Donnelly and Aideen Gilmore, Final Report of the Preamble, Enforcement and Implementation Working Group, Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Forum, Belfast, March, 2008
Donnelly, Catherine, Enforcing a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, Committee for the Administration of Justice Seminar, 30 September 2008, 2008
Catherine Donnelly, 'Remedies in Public Procurement', State Aid and Public Procurement Update, Dublin, 29 May 2008, 2008
Foreword in, editor(s)P Downes , Not One Victim More - Human Trafficking in the Baltic States, Estonia, 2008, [Catherine Donnelly]
Catherine Donnelly, Chapters 3 and 6, and Appendix 2, Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Forum Report, Belfast, March , 2008,
Catherine Donnelly, 'The Response of English Public Law to Private Actors in Public Governance', Public/Private Divide: Potential for Transformation, London, 4-5 May 2007, 2007
Catherine Donnelly, 'The Human Rights Council', Annual Department of Foreign Affairs NGO Human Rights Forum, Dublin, 19 June , 2007, Department of Foreign Affairs
Catherine Donnelly, 'Secondary Policies and Public Procurement', Secondary Policies and Public Procurement, Dublin, 29 October , 2007, Irish Society for European Law
Catherine Donnelly, 'The Constitution at 70 and Privatisation of Governmental Functions' The Constitution at 70, Dublin, 8-9 June 2007, 2007
Jeffrey Jowell and Catherine Donnelly, A Year in the Life of Judicial Review: Key Cases of 2007, Judicial Review Update, London, 30 November 2007, 2007
Catherine Donnelly, 'Governance in the Changing Ireland and the Law's Response' Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Cork, 8-9 April 2006, 2006
Catherine Donnelly, 'Administrative Law and Multi-Level Governance: An EU-US Comparison', Oxford University Public Law Discussion Group, Oxford, 30 November 2006, 2006
Catherine Donnelly, Europe's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Review of Europe's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, by Neil Walker , Public Law, [2005], 2005, p889-892
Catherine Donnelly, 'Leonard Cheshire and Beyond: Is Contract Really a Substitute for the Human Rights Act? Does it Matter?' Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Sheffield, 14 September 2004, 2004
Catherine Donnelly, 'Human Rights Controls on Delegates of Governmental Power', Oxford University Public Law Discussion Group, Oxford, 10 June , 2004, Oxford Public Law Discussion Group
Catherine Donnelly, 'The Thirteenth Amendment of the US Constitution and Diplomatic Immunity', Recent Constitutional Law Cases, New York, 12 June, 2000, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Catherine Donnelly, 'The Importance of Functionalism in Procedural Due Process: A Comparative Perspective', 1999, -
Research Expertise
Description
European Union Law; Administrative Law; Constitutional Law; Comparative Law; Human Rights; Governance; Public Procurement LawRecognition
Representations
Member, Blackstone Chambers
Member, Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland
National Expert, The development of pan-European general principles of good administration, Project conducted by Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Lecturer, Public Procurement Regulation in the EU and in its Global Context, MA and Post-Graduate Diploma, King's College, London
Chair, Committee of the Irish Society for European Law
Member, Editorial Board of the Irish Journal for European Law
Committee Member, Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Legal Advisor, Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Forum
Member, Dornburg Study Group
Awards and Honours
Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Arts and Humanities Research Council Award
Harvard Law School Fellowship
Magdalen College Award for Excellent Performance in B.C.L. Examinations
Arts and Humanities Research Council Award
Scholar of Trinity College
External Examiner, University of Oxford, University College Dublin
Memberships
Irish Society for European Law
Society of Legal Scholars
Irish Association of Law Teachers
Irish Centre for European Law
Ailbhe O'Neill
Dr. Ailbhe O'Neill
Ussher Assistant Professor, Law
Biography
Ailbhe O'Neill completed her LL.B at Trinity College Dublin where she was elected to scholarship. After graduating first in her year she attended Cambridge university where she completed an LL.M as an awardee of the WM Tapp Studentship in Law. She completed her doctoral thesis in Trinity on "The Rights of Companies Under the Irish Constitution: A Philosophical and Comparative Analysis." (published by Thomson Round Hall in 2005). She lectures Corporate Governance and Media Law on the LL.B Programme. She has published widely in these areas both domestically and internationally and is co-author of Media Law in Ireland (Bloomsbury, 2011). Her research interests include Corporate Governance, Media Law, Constitutional Law and Bank Resolution. A practising barrister, she has advised on and acted in relation to a broad range of legislation connected with the banking crisis in Ireland including the Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Act 2008, the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009, the Central Bank Reform Act 2010, the Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Act 2010 and the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 and was appointed as legal advisor to the Commission of Investigation into the Causes of the Banking Crisis in 2011.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Ailbhe O'Neill, Budgetary Procedures Under the Irish Constitution, Special section: "The medium-term constitutional implications of the Eurozone crisis in countries under financial assistance" (Quaderni costituzionali) , (1), 2019, p1 - 5
Ailbhe O'Neill, Open Justice Revisited - Gilchrist and Rogers v. Sunday Newspapers Ltd., Irish Supreme Court Review, 1, 2019, p1-18
Ailbhe O'Neill Eoin Carolan, Media Law in Ireland, 2nd, Ireland, Bloomsbury, 2019, 1-623pp
Ailbhe O'Neill, The Principle of Open Justice, Irish Supreme Court Review, Trinity College, 6 October, 2018, TCD Law School
O'Neill, When do Clubs Die?, Dublin University Law Journal, 38, (1), 2015, p208 - 218
Ailbhe O'Neill, "Subordinated creditors in times of crisis - the Irish approach" , Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation , 30, (5), 2015, p296 - 299
National Reporter, European Insolvency Law - The Heidelberg-Luxembourg-Vienna Report , 2014
Rights and Freedoms in the Domestic Context - Fair Procedures in Difficult Times in, editor(s)Ferarri and O'Dowd , 75 Years of the Constitution of Ireland: An Irish-Italian Dialogue, Italy and Ireland, Clarus Press , 2014, pp17 , [Ailbhe O'Neill]
Ailbhe O'Neill, . "Defamation by Hyperlink and the Publication Rule" , Dublin University Law Journal, 35, 2012, p317-
Ailbbhe O'Neill, "Reporting allegations: Reynolds privilege revisited in the UK Supreme Court" , Irish Jurist, 2012, p185-
Ailbhe O'Neill, . "Fair Procedures - An Inviolable Right?" , Dublin University Law Journal, 33, 2011, p319 - 338
Ailbhe O'Neill, Rescuing the Law of Torts, Irish Jurist, 2011, 2011
Ailbhe O'Neill, On-line Piracy and the Responsibilities of Internet Service Providers in Ireland, Entertainment Law Review, 2011, p89-
McCann Courtney , Companies Acts 1963-2010, Dublin, Tottel, 2010
Ailbhe O'Neill and Eoin Carolan, Media Law in Ireland, First, Dublin, Bloomsbury , 2010
Taming Directors in, editor(s)Ronan Keane and Ailbhe O'Neill , Corporate Governance and Regulation in Ireland, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2009, [Ailbhe O'Neill]
Property Rights and the Power of Eminent Domain in, editor(s)Oran Doyle , The Constitution at 70, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2008, [Ailbhe O'Neill]
O'Neill, Invalidity and Retrospectivity under the Irish and Canadian Constitutions, Forum Constitutionnel, 2007, p147-
O'Neill , The Constitutional Rights of Companies, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2007, 300pp
O'Neill, The Constitutional Rights of Companies, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2007
O'Neill, Part 40 of the U.K. Companies Act 2006: Disqualification Orders go Global, International Company and Commercial Law Review , 2007, p166-
O'Neill, Unjust Enrichment and Restitution of Tax Paid under a Mistake of Law, Irish Tax Review, 2007, p66-
O'Neill, Relieving Directors: The Irish Approach, Company Lawyer, 2007, p116-
O'Neill, Corporate Reputation in the House of Lords, Company Layer, 28(3), 2007, p76-
Ailbhe O'Neill, The Right to Silence and the Company, Irish Jurist, 2005, p111-
Ailbhe O'Neill, Corporate Freedom of Expression", Dublin University Law Journal, 27, 2005, p185-
Ailbhe O'Neill, The Rule against Double Jeopardy and the Company and Some Thoughts on Interpretive Seepage, Irish Criminal Law Journal, 2005
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
O'Neill Ailbhe, The Right of Publicity - Privacy reimagined for a public world, Irish Jurist, 2019, p195 - 197
Ailbhe O'Neill, Reflections on Referenda in Ireland - Response, The Role of Referendums in the UK Constitutional Order: Comparative Perspectives , Durham University, 31 January , 2019, Durham Law School
Ailbhe O'Neill, Developments in Banking and Financial Regulation, Recent Developments in Public Law, UCD, 11 June , 2018, UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies, 5pp
Ailbhe O'Neill, Administrative Sanctions Procedure - INBS Inquiry, Training for Enforcement Unity Central Bank of Ireland, Central Bank of Ireland, 14 September, 2018, Central Bank of Ireland
Flynn, Roderick, Media Pluralism Monitor, 2016, Florence, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, EUI, May, 2017
Flynn, Roderick, Media Pluralism Monitor, 2015, Florence, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, EUI, May, 2016
Ailbhe O'Neill, "Pillar A of the Companies Bill 2011 - the role of the company secretary", Irish Business Law Quarterly, 2012, 2012, p3-
Researcher, Report of the Working Group on a Court of Appeal, Ireland, Courts Service, 2009
O'Neill, Reform of the Derivative Suit, New Law Journal, 2007, p356-
Ailbhe O'Neill, "The effect of a finding that legislation is unconstitutional - the approach of the Irish Supreme Court", Common Law World Review, 2007, p220-
O'Neill, Breach of the Peace as an Offence at Common Law, Journal of Criminal Law, 71, 2007, p21-
Ailbhe O'Neill, Section 12(1) of the Companies Act 1990 as a Weapon of Mass Discovery, Commercial Law Practitioner, 13, (3), 2006, p81-
Ailbhe O'Neill, Cross-Border Insolvency in the Supreme Court - Some (Euro) Food for Thought, Commercial Law Practitioner, May, 2005
Research Expertise
Description
Company Law - particularly Corporate Governance and Corporate Insolvency and Rescue. Constitutional Law - Irish and Comparative. The European Convention on Human Rights.Recognition
Representations
Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute
Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians Research Ethics Committee
The Royal College of Physicians Ethics Committee The European Corporate Governance Institute Research Associate of the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)
Media Pluralism Monitor - National Expert for Ireland
Awards and Honours
Entrance Exhibition Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Scholarship
Kingsmill Moore Memorial Prize for 1st place in Junior Sophister Year
Henry Hamilton Hunter Memorial Prize 1st place in Senior Sophister Year
W.M. Tapp Studentship in Law Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Honorary Senior Scholarship Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Memberships
The Law Library, Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Mary Rogan
Biography
Professor Mary Rogan's research interests include prison law, human rights and imprisonment, and penal policymaking. Professor Rogan received a first class honours degree in Law from Trinity College Dublin before going on to obtain a BCL from the University of Oxford. Professor Rogan received her PhD at Trinity College Dublin for her work on the penal policymaking process. She was elected to Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin in 2021. She is a barrister with expertise in prison law, receiving the degree of Barrister-at-Law from the Honorable Society of King's Inns with distinction. She is also a Member of Lincoln's Inn and the Bar of England and Wales. Prof. Rogan holds an MA in Higher Education from Dublin Institute of Technology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. In 2021, she became President of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation/Fondation Internationale Pénale et Pénitentiaire, becoming the first person from Ireland and the first woman to hold this position. Since 2023, she has been its Secretary-General, also the first from Ireland. In 2022, she won the award for best civic engagement project at the Trinity Civic Engagement Awards. She was also nominated by the School of Law for best Research Supervisor in 2022.
Professor Rogan holds two European Research Grants. She was a Starting Grant worth €1.5 million in 2015 for a project entitled 'Prisons: the rule of law, accountability and rights'. This work brings together, for the first time, the disciplines of public law and the sociology of punishment to examine inspection, oversight and accountability in prison systems in the United States and Europe. In 2024, she commenced work on a project funded by the ERC's Proof of Concept scheme entitled 'Prison Oversight: Improving Rights in Europe (POIRE)). This work provides support and training to people in prison and officials in responding to international human rights prison monitoring. Professor Rogan has also received funding from the European Commission and Irish Research Council for cross-jurisdictional projects on imprisonment, and pre-trial detention, and for work on law and social change. She has led research on bail and pre-trial detention in Ireland as part of research examining seven European Union countries, and a further project examining leadership in penal change in the United States and Europe. She has also provided research consultancy to the Council of Europe on projects concerning the inspection of prisons in Ukraine and North Macedonia. She is the former Book Review Editor for the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice and a current member of its Editorial Board and a member of the Research Advisory Group to the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Professor Rogan teaches Penology at Trinity College Dublin and was the first coordinator of the Undergraduate Research Project Programme at the School of Law. She has pioneered community-based learning methods in legal education, having introduced the first community-based learning module partnering with nongovernmental organisations on penal policy, and supervised the first Employment-Based PhD student researching penal policy to work with a nongovernmental organisation.
Professor Rogan is committed to using research to improve penal policy and the policymaking process. She chairs the Implementation and Oversight Group on reforms to penal policy, reporting to the Minister for Justice and Equality. She was appointed to the inaugural Research Advisory Group for the Department of Justice and Equality in July 2018. She sits on the Advisory Group to the Office of the Inspector of Prisons. She has also been a member of the Central Statistics Office's Expert Group on Crime Statistics. She is a former member of the Board of the Irish Association for the Social Integration of Offenders, the Victims' Rights Alliance, and is a former Chairperson of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Le système pénitentiaire irlandais, Céré Jean-Paul, World Prisons, 2024, pp32 , [Mary Rogan]
Christine Morgenstern, Mary Rogan and Walter Hammershick, Pre-trial Detention in Europe: A Means of Last Resort?, Abingdon, Routledge , 2023, 300pp
Sarah Curristan and Mary Rogan, When an Inspector Calls: Perceptions of Oversight among Prison Management, 2023
Morgenstern, Christine; Rogan, Mary, `One always looks for a compromise"": Senior prison managers" views of law, human rights and prisoner complaints in Germany, Incarceration, 4, 2023, p1 - 20
Social Rehabilitation and Torture Prevention Bodies in, editor(s)Adriano Martufi and Federica Coppola , Social Rehabilitation and Criminal Justice, Abingdon, Routledge , 2023, pp20 , [Mary Rogan]
Ireland: The weak European supervision of prison policies and its explanations in, editor(s)Gaëtan Cliquennois , The Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe, Abingdon, 2022, pp13 , [Mary Rogan and Sophie van der Valk]
Histories of Penal Oversight in, editor(s)Black, Lynsey Brangan, Louise Healy, Deirdre , Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from a Periphery, Emerald, 2022, pp360 - 380, [Mary Rogan]
Mary Rogan, Examining the Role of Legal Culture as a Protective Factor Against High Rates of Pre-trial Detention: the Case of Ireland, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research , 2022
The two tales of prison litigation in Germany in, editor(s)Gaëtan Cliquennois , The Evolving Protection of Prisoners" Rights in Europe, Routledge , 2022, pp14 , [Morgenstern, Christine and Rogan, Mary ]
Ciara O'Connell and Mary Rogan, Monitoring Prisons in Europe: Understanding Perspectives of People in Prison and Prison Staff, Law and Social Inquiry, 2022, p1 - 31
van der Valk, Sophie, Aizpurua, Eva, Rogan, Mary, "[Y]ou are better off talking to a f****** wall": The perceptions and experiences of grievance procedures among incarcerated people in Ireland, Law and Society Review, 2022
Sophie van der Valk and Mary Rogan, Prisoners tell how they experience inspections and the complaints system, Ireland, 2021, 13
Mary Rogan, Prison Law in Ireland Enters Adulthood: Simpson v Governor of Mountjoy Prison, Irish Supreme Court Review, 3, 2021, p121 - 140
van der Valk, Sophie, Aizpurua, Eva and Rogan, Mary, Towards a typology of prisoners' awareness of and familiarity with prison inspection and monitoring bodies, European Journal of Criminology, 2021
Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, Correctional oversight bodies' resources and protections across the European Union: Are their hands tied?, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2021
Ciara O'Connnell, Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, The European committee for the prevention of torture and the gendered experience of imprisonment, Crime, Law and Social Change, 2021
Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, Rights protection in prisons: Understanding recommendations-making by prison inspection and monitoring bodies in the European Union, Punishment and Society, 2021
Sophie van der Valk and Mary Rogan, Prisoner Complaints Mechanisms: Assessing Human Rights Requirements and the Role of a General Ombudsman, European Public Law, 26, (4), 2020, p801 - 822
Sophie van der Valk and Mary Rogan, Experiencing Human Rights Protections in Prisons: The Case of Prison Monitoring in Ireland, European Journal of Criminology, 18, (1), 2020, p101 - 119
Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, Understanding New Actors in European Arrest Warrant Cases Concerning Detention Conditions: The Role, Powers and Functions of Prison Inspection and Monitoring Bodies, New Journal of European Criminal Law, 2020
Ciara O''Connell and Mary Rogan , Rights and Recommendations: Prison Perspectives on the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture' - Briefing Papers Shared with Prisons in Norway and Scotland, Ireland, 2020
In Conversation with Mary Rogan in, editor(s)Lynch, O., Ahmed, Y., Russell, H., Hosford, K. , Reflections on Irish Criminology, Cham, 2020, pp14 , [Mary Rogan]
Minimising Prisonisation and the Harms of Custody in, editor(s)P.H.P.H.M.C Van Kempen and M. Jendly , Overuse in the Criminal Justice System: On Criminalization, Prosecution and Imprisonment, Cambridge, Intersentia Ltd., 2019, pp213 - 228, [Mary Rogan]
Mary Rogan, Prison Inspection and Monitoring: The Need to Reform European Law and Policy, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research , 2019, p1 - 21
'Changing Ireland, Changing Law': Access to Justice and Understanding the Lived Experience in, editor(s)Edited by Laura Cahillane and Jennifer Schweppe , Case Studies in Legal Research Methodologies: Reflections on Theory and Practice , Dublin, Clarus Press Ltd. , 2019, pp81 - 99, [Mary Rogan and Ivana Bacik]
Mary Rogan, "What constitutes evidence of poor prison conditions after Aranyosi and Căldăraru? Examining the role of inspection and monitoring bodies in European Arrest Warrant decision-making" , New Journal of European Criminal Law, 10 , (3), 2019, p209 - 226
Eva Aizpurúa, Mary Rogan , La situación de las prisiones y los centros de menores en España: Analizando las observaciones del CPT, Boletín Criminológico, 1, (182), 2019, p1-11
Overusing the Criminal Justice System: the Case of Ireland in, editor(s)P.H.P.H.M.C. Van Kempen and M. Jendly , Overuse in the Criminal Justice System: On Criminalization, Prosecution and Imprisonment, Cambridge, Intersentia Ltd., 2019, pp391 - 415, [Mary Rogan and Michael Reilly]
Mary Rogan, Human rights approaches to suicide in prison: implications for policy, practice and research, Health and Justice , 2018, phttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40352
Mary Rogan and David Perry, Report on Expert Interviews, Ireland, 2018
Mary Rogan and David Perry , The Use of Pretrial Detention in Ireland: How Does the Legal Framework Operate in Practice?, Criminal Law and Practice Review, 2, 2018
Mary Rogan , Judges and resisting penal policy, Howard Journal of Crime and Justice , 57, (3), 2018, p321-338
International human rights law and high risk offenders in, editor(s)Faye S. Taxman , Handbook on Risk and Need Assessment: Theory and Practice , New York, Routledge, 2017, pp447 - 464, [Mary Rogan]
Mary Rogan, Human rights and correctional healthcare: a view from Europe, International Journal of Prisoner Health, 13, (1), 2017, p1-7
Mary Rogan and David Perry, DETOUR - Towards Pre-trial Detention as Ultima Ratio, Country Briefs, Country Briefs, Ireland, November , 2017
Women in Prison and Ireland in, editor(s)Piet Hein van Kempen Maartje Krabbe , Women in Prison: The Bangkok Rules and Beyond , Intersentia, 2017, pp479 - 512, [Mary Rogan and Michael Reilly]
Walter Hammerschick, Christine Morgenstern, Skirmantas Bikelis, Miranda Boone, Ioan Durnescu, Alexia Jonckheere, Joep Lindeman, Eric Maes, Mary Rogan, DETOUR: Towards Pre-trial Detention as Ultima Ratio - Comparative Report, Vienna, Austria, December , 2017, 1-80
Mary Rogan, Remission of Prison Sentences: Emerging Principles, Dublin University Law Journal, 40, (1), 2017, p217 - 231
Walter Hammerschick, Christine Morgenstern, Skirmantas Bikelis, Miranda Boone, Ioan Durnescu, Alexia Jonckheere, Joep Lindeman, Eric Maes, Mary Rogan , DETOUR - Towards Pre-trial Detention as Ultima Ratio, Comparative Report, Comparative Report, Ireland, December, 2017
The policymaking process and penal change in, editor(s)Deirdre Healy, Claire Hamilton, Yvonne Daly, Michelle Butler , The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology, Routledge, 2016, pp434 - 449, [Mary Rogan ]
David Perry and Mary Rogan , Pre-trial detention as a measure of last resort: first national report on Ireland, Dublin, 2016
Mary Rogan and David Perry, DETOUR - Towards Pre-trial Detention as Ultima Ratio, Second National Report, Expert Interviews, Ireland, First national report , 2016
Community-based research in, editor(s)Laura Cahilliane Jennifer Schweppe , Legal Research Methods Principles and Practicalities, Dublin , Clarus Press, 2016, pp89 - 106, [Mary Rogan]
Reintegration of high-risk offenders - closing remarks on human rights issues in, editor(s)Frieder Duenkel Joerg Jesse Ineke Pruin Moritz von der Wense , European Treatment, Transition Management and Re-integration of High Risk Offenders, Forum Verlag Godesberg, 2016, pp239 - 243, [Mary Rogan]
Ivana Bacik and Mary Rogan, Legal Cases that Changed Ireland, Dublin , Clarus Press, 2016, 1-131pp
Mary Rogan, The European Court of Human Rights, Gross Disproportionality and Long Prison Sentences, Public Law, 1, 2015, p22 - 39
Mary Rogan, Book Review: O'Sullivan, E. & O'Donnell, E. (2012). Coercive Confinement in Ireland. Patients, Prisoners and Penitents, 2014, -
Mary Rogan , Driving penal reform, 2014
Mary Rogan , 'Out of balance: disproportionality in sentencing ', Penal Reform International , 2014, -
Mary Rogan, Prison Law, 1st, Bloomsbury Professional, 2014, 1 - 462pp
The Penal System in Ireland: Pragmatism, Neglect and the Effects of Austerity in, editor(s)Vincenzo Ruggiero Mick Ryan , Penal Systems in Europe: A Critical Anatomy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp86 - 110, [Mary Rogan ]
Mary Rogan, 'Other status' and the rights of prisoners under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, European Human Rights Law Review , 6, 2013, p605 - 615
Mary Rogan, Prison policy in times of austerity: reflections from Ireland, Prison Service Journal, May, 2013, p9 - 15
Mary Rogan, Prisoners' rights and the separation of powers: comparing approaches in Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales, Public Law, July, 2013, p415 - 425
Mary Rogan , Rehabilitation, Research and Reform: Prison Policy in Ireland , Irish Probation Journal, 9, 2012, p6 - 32
Mary Rogan, Brown, Governor of California v. Plata et al, Modern Law Review, 2012, p261 - 274
Mary Rogan, Improving Criminal Justice Data and Policy, Economic and Social Review, 43, (2), 2012, p303 - 323
Mary Rogan, Dealing with overcrowding in prisons: contrasting judicial approaches from the USA and Ireland, Irish Jurist, 47, 2012, p195-
Mary Rogan, Book Review: O'Sullivan, E. & O'Donnell, I. Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents, Review of Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents, by E. O'Sullivan, I. O'Donnell , Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, 14, (1), 2012, p74-76
Mary Rogan, Day et al, Transitions to Better Lives, Review of Transitions to Better Lives: Offender Readiness and Rehabilitation, by A. Day, S. Casey, T. Ward, K. Howells, J. Vess , International Criminal Justice Review, 21, (2), 2011, p174-176
Mary Rogan, Day et al, Transitions to Better Lives, 2011, -
Mary Rogan, Yes (or no) Minister: the role of the Minister-senior civil servant dyad in the formation of prison policy in Ireland, Prison Journal, 91, (1), 2011, p32 - 56
Mary Rogan, The innocence rights of sentenced offenders, Irish Journal of Legal Studies, 2, 2011, p55 - 62
Mary Rogan, Prison Policy in Ireland: Politics, Penal-Welfarism and Political Imprisonment, 1st, Abingdon, Routledge, 2011, 1 - 246pp
Mary Rogan, The Innocence Rights of Sentenced Offenders, Irish Journal of Legal Studies, 2, (1), 2011, p55 - 66
Mary Rogan, B. Crewe, The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison, Review of The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison, by B. Crew , International Criminal Justice Review, 21, (1), 2011, p81-83
Mary Rogan, Charles Haughey, the Department of Justice and Irish Prison Policy during the 1960s, Administration, 57, (3), 2010, p65 - 86
Rogan, Mary, Crewe, The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison, 2010, -
Mary Rogan, Tonry, Thinking about Punishment, 2010, -
Mary Rogan, Tonry, Thinking about Punishment, Review of Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy across Time, Discipline, by M. Tonry , International Criminal Law Review, 10, (5), 2010, p870-972
Mary Rogan, Prison policy in Ireland: an historical overview, Prison Service Journal, 186, 2009, p3-13-
Mary Rogan, Visiting committees and accountability in the Irish prison system: some proposals for reform, Dublin University Law Journal, 31, 2009, p298 - 323
Mary Rogan, Extending the reach of the state into the post-sentence period: section 26 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007, Dublin University Law Journal, 15, (1), 2009, p214-
Mary Rogan, The Prison Rules 1947: Political Imprisonment, Politics and Legislative Change in Ireland, Irish Jurist, 43, 2008, p89-
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Mary Rogan, The Irish prison system, 2024
Mary Rogan, Prison Inspection and Monitoring, North South Criminology Conference, Queen's University Belfaast, 2024
Mary Rogan, Deaths in Prison Custody, Deaths in Prisons, University of Oxford, 2022
Mary Rogan, Comparing Prison Oversight: Rights, Rules and Realism , Comparative Penology Symposium , University of Strathclyde, October 2022, 2022, Ben Crewe (Cambridge) and Louise Brangan (Strathclyde)
Mary Rogan, Recent Developments in Prison Litigation, Irish Prison Service Senior Managers Strategy Day, Irish Prison Service College, Portlaoise, Ireland, June 2022, 2022, Irish Prison Service
Mary Rogan, Human Rights Perspectives on Mothering in Prisons, IN-CJ (International Network on Criminal Justice) Mothers and the Criminal Justice System, Online webinar, 16/05/2022, 2022, Dr Lucy Baldwin
Mary Rogan, Doing comparative research on prison oversight, Leiden University Comparative Law, 2021, Prof Miranda Boone
Mary Rogan, The Prison Rules: Current Impact and Opportunities for Reform, The Prison Rules: Current Impact and Opportunities for Reform, Online , 25/02/21, 2021, Irish Penal Reform Trust
Professor Mary Rogan, Presentation on the outcome of evaluation by the Council of Europe Development Bank of judicial infrastructure in Ireland, Paris, France, 23 January 2020, 2020
Professor Mary Rogan, Dr. Ciara O'Connell, Sarah Curristan, Sophie van der Valk and Dr. Eva Aizpurua, "Experiencing a CPT visit - the impact on prisons and penal administrators", Thirty Years of monitoring prisons in Europe, KU Leuven, December 5 2019 , 2019
Mary Rogan and Sophie Van der Valk, Complaints procedures in prisons and recent case law, Public Law Conference , UCD , 23rd May, 2019, 2019
Mary Rogan, Prison inspection and monitoring bodies: a new role in the AFSJ?, EU Law and Detention Seminar, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 17 September 2019, 2019
Mary Rogan, Battling the elements: capturing the hard to hear stories, Considerations and Challenges in Life Story Research, Trinity Long Room Hub, 6th June, 2019, 2019
Dr. Eva Aizpurua, Sophie van Der Valk, Sarah Curristan, 'Prisoners' and Staff views of Prison Oversight', Visiting Committee Training Day, IPS College, 2 December 2019, 2019
Ciara O'Connell, Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Gendered Experience of Imprisonment, Gender in Law and Courts: Uneasy Encounters?, European University Institute, 8 November 2019, 2019
Mary Rogan, Reflection on Law, Brain Health and Diversity , Diversity and Brain Health: Perspectives from the LGBT+ Community in Ireland, Trinity Long Room Hub, 4th June, 2019, 2019, Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) and the School of Law
Mary Rogan , Bail and the use of pre-trial detention in Ireland: findings from an empirical study, Meeting of the Judges of the District Court, 2018
Mary Rogan, Sophie van der Valk, Sarah Curristan, Christine Morgenstern, Eva Aizpurua, Ray O'Keeffe, Revision of the European Prison Rules, Submission from PRILA to the Council for Penological Cooperation, July, 2018
Mary Rogan, 'Behind the Door': Solitary Confinement in the Irish Penal System, The Irish Penal Reform Trust, Kilmainham, 2 February , 2018, The Irish Penal Reform Trust
Mary Rogan, The Purposes of Punishment, Irish Prison Service (IPS) meeting of The Strategy and Policy Group (SPG) , Portlaoise, 12 June 18, 2018
Mary Rogan, The effects of incarceration and aging, Head Space 2018, Trinity College, Dublin, 27 April, 2018, Creative Aging International
Mary Rogan, human rights in prisons and the role of inspection and monitoring, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, 18 July, 2018, GBHI
Mary Rogan, The Future of Policing , Behind the Headlines, Synge Theatre, Trinity College, 21 February , 2018, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute
Mary Rogan, We have a rare window to reform justice system, 2018, -
Mary Rogan, Bail and the use of pre-trial detention: findings from an empirical study , Criminal Law: Recent Developments and Emerging Trends, Trinity College, Dublin, 19 April , 2018, Trinity Law School
Mary Rogan, Sophie van der Valk, Sarah Curristan, Christine Morgenstern, Eva Aizpurua, Ray O'Keeffe, Revision of the European Prison Rules, Submission from PRILA to the Council for Penological Cooperation, July, 2018
Mary Rogan , Towards pre-trial detention as ultima ratio? Pre-trial detention and alternatives across Europe, Law Society Professional Training , Law Society of Ireland, 27th November, 2018, 2018
Mary Rogan, Opening Statement to the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on the Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017, 5 December , 2018
Mary Rogan, Justice in Transition: improving the penal policymaking process, Probation Board for Northern Ireland Annual Conference, Belfast, 15 March, 2018, Probation Board for Northern Ireland
Mary Rogan, Pre-trial detention in Ireland, Pre-trial detention conference, University of Leiden, 2018
Mary Rogan and Penal Policy Review Group, Fifth Report of the Implementation Oversight Group to the Minister for Justice and Equality , Fifth, Dublin, 2018
Mary Rogan, Through the lens of liberty or detention: the starting point for decisions on pre-trial detention, DETOUR conference, Vienna, November , 2017, DETOUR
Mary Rogan, Inspection and Oversight of Prisons: the position of the European Court of Human Rights, The Society of Legal Scholars Conference Annual Conference Dublin 2017 'The Diverse Unities of Law', Dublin, September 2017, 2017
Mary Rogan, Sarah Curristan, Ray O'Keefe, Sophie van der Valk , Submission on the Proposed Inspectorate for Places of Detention , May, 2017
Mary Rogan, Revision of the commentary to the European Prison Rules: inspection and monitoring, Council for Penological Cooperation, Strasbourg, November , 2017, Council of Europe
Mary Rogan and Sophie van der Valk, Ireland and OPCAT six years on: have things changed?, Ireland, 2017
Mary Rogan, Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons in the commentary to the European Prison Rules , PCCP Plenary Meeting, Strasbourg, France, 2017
Mary Rogan, Correctional oversight: comparing Europe and the USA, American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, November 2017, 2017
Mary Rogan, European Human Rights Law and Death in Prison: Obligation and Reforms, ESRC funded conference on Death in Punishment, School of Law, University of Sheffield, 25 October 2017, 2017
Mary Rogan, Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons: the role of European human rights law, European Society of Criminology, Cardiff, September 2017, 2017
Mary Rogan, The evolving role of imprisonment in Ireland, Law Society Annual Human Rights Conference, Dublin, October , 2017, Law Society
Mary Rogan, Inspection and monitoring of prisons, Ethics of Vulnerability conference, Dublin, November , 2017, UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life
Mary Rogan, Inspection and Oversight of Prisons: the position of the European Court of Human Rights, The Society of Legal Scholars Conference Annual Conference Dublin 2017 'The Diverse Unities of Law', Dublin, September 2017, 2017
Mary Rogan, Solitary confinement and the role of the courts, Solitary Confinement and the Role of the Courts in the USA and Ireland, Dublin, September 2017, 2017
Mary Rogan, Sarah Curristan, Ray O'Keefe, Sophie van der Valk, Submission from PRILA to the Irish Prison Service on the Code of Ethical Behaviours, Ireland, 2017
Mary Rogan , Landmarks in Irish penal history, Parnell Summer School, Avondale, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, August , 2017
Mary Rogan, Sarah Curristan, Ray O'Keefe, Sophie van der Valk, Submission from PRILA to the Council for Penological Cooperation : Revision of the Commentary to the European Prison Rules, Dublin, August, 2017
Mary Rogan , Current issues in the Irish Prison System, Waterford Institute of Technology, 2016
Mary Rogan , Internal Prison Inspection: Human Rights standards and examples of practice in Europe, 2016, -
Mary Rogan , Prison inspection: international human rights standards, Skopje, FYRO Macedonia, 2016, Council of Europe
Mary Rogan , 'The Syrian who did us all some service by suing the State" ', The Irish Times , 2016, -
Lynsey Black and Mary Rogan , The Inspector of Prisons' reports into deaths in custody, the National Steering Committee on Deaths in Custody, 2016
Mary Rogan , Overuse of imprisonment and minimising prisonisation, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation Colloquium , Helsinki, Finland, 2016
Ivana Bacik Mary Rogan , Briefing Paper on the findings of 'Changing Ireland, Changing Law , 2016, -
Mary Rogan , 'La renición de cuentas en nuestras prisones', Justicia+, El Institutio de Justicia Procesal Penal, Mexico, 2015, -
Mary Rogan , Remission of sentences, Constitutional Law: An Update, University College Dublin , 2015
Mary Rogan, Prisons and the law, National University of Ireland/Maynooth. , 2015
Mary Rogan, Prison inspection: purpose and principles, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2015, Council of Europe
Mary Rogan, Penal policy: politics, penal-welfarism and political imprisonment , Pitzer College, California/United States of America., 2015
Mary Rogan, Prison Law: remission and visits , Dublin City University/Ireland, 2015
Mary Rogan, Legal issues and solitary confinement: the Irish perspective , American Society of Criminology Conference, Roundtable Sessions, 2015
Mary Rogan , Parenting and prisons: a human rights perspective, Conference on prison education and re-entry, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2015
Mary Rogan, Prisons and accountability: the role of rights' protection , Human Rights Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2015
Mary Rogan , How Ireland might ratify OPCAT, Conference on Securing Accountability , Dublin, Ireland, 2015, Irish Penal Reform Trust
Mary Rogan, Release and visits , Criminal Law Forum of practitioners and academics , King's Inns, Dublin, Ireland, 2015
Mary Rogan, 'What happens when a pregnant woman or nursing mother gets sent to jail', thejournal.ie, 2014, -
Mary Rogan, The European Convention on Human Rights and the treatment and transition management of high risk offenders , Justice Cooperation Network, Warnemuende/Germany, 2014
Mary Rogan, The Rule of Law and Access to Justice in Prisons, Burren Law School, Burren/Ireland, 2014
Mary Rogan , '"Pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in prison', Pregnancy Research Network , 2014, -
Mary Rogan , Models of penal reform, US-European Criminal Justice Innovation Programme, 2014, University of California, San Francisco, Prison Law Office
Mary Rogan, Understanding penal change: north and south , Irish Criminology Conference, University College Dublin/Ireland, 2014
Mary Rogan, The role of the courts in Ireland; Improving conditions related to detention, European Rights Academy, Council of Europe, Strasbourg , 2014
Mary Rogan, Prison Policy in Ireland, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin/Ireland, 2014
Mary Rogan, Driving penal reform, Scottish Association for the Study of Offending, Dunblane/Scotland, 2013
Mary Rogan, Prison Conditions Under Irish Law and the European Convention on Human Rights , Dublin , 2012, 1-27
Rogan, Mary, Deaths in Prison Custody: Information for Families and Others Affected, Dublin , Irish Penal Reform Trust, June, 2012, 1-28
Mary Rogan, Taking Prison Law Cases: A Practical Approach, Dublin , 2012, 1-11
Mary Rogan, Rehabilitation, research and reform: Prison policy in Ireland, Martin Tansey Memorial Lecture, Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development, Dublin/Ireland, 2012
Mary Rogan, Accountability Structures and the Law Regulating Irish Prisons , Dublin , Irish Penal Reform Trust , June, 2012, 1-29
Mary Rogan, The Determinants of Penal Policy in Ireland, Society for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Chambery/France, 2011
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Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- Prisons: the rule of law, accountability and rights
- Summary
- This project aims: 1. To find out whether 'accountability' is a distinctive norm of the European legal system, and what European prison law and policy requires regarding the oversight and monitoring of prisons; 2. To find out how accountability is experienced by prisoners, prison staff and staff of bodies such as Ombudsmen, inspectors, and bodies which deal with complaints; 3. To create a typology of accountability bodies in European prison systems, and examine the relationship between the presence of such bodies and other indicators of prison regimes. Dr. Rogan will lead a team of three postdoctoral researchers, two PhD students, an MPhil student and a research assistant to carry out the work.
- Funding Agency
- European Research Council
- Date From
- 2016
- Date To
- 2021
- Title
- Prison Oversight: Improving Rights in Europe
- Summary
- This project offers support and training to people in prison and officials to enhance their ability to engage with international prison monitoring and thus enhance human rights compliance in prisons.
- Funding Agency
- European Research Council
- Date From
- 01/03/2024
- Date To
- 31/08/2024
- Title
- Towards pre-trial detention as ultima ratio?
- Summary
- This project examines the use of pre-trial detention and alternatives to such detention across Europe. It involves work in Ireland, Romania, Austria, Germany, Lithuania and the Netherlands. It will analyse pre-trial detention practices, with a particular focus on decisions which have a cross-border element,
- Funding Agency
- European Commission DG Justice
- Date From
- 2016
- Date To
- end 2017
- Title
- Leadership, culture and managing prisons: knowledge exchange between the USA and Europe
- Summary
- LEADERS will build a global network of innovative prison leaders engaged in progressive reforms to prison systems, the NGO partner, the Irish Penal Reform Trust, and the academic and NGO sectors in Ireland and the USA. LEADERS provides masterclasses and opportunities for reflection by prison leaders in selected US states and European countries. Participants will be invited to take part in research examining the challenges faced by prison leaders. LEADERS fulfils a core aim of the NGO partner - to support prison leadership to implement policy change.
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council
- Date From
- 01/01/17
- Date To
- 30/09/17
Recognition
Representations
President, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation/Fondation Internationale Pénale et Pénitentiaire, a 150 year old body with members across five continents with the aim of promoting studies in crime prevention and penal policy.
Book review editor and member of international editorial board, Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
Appointed by the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality as Chairperson of the Implementation and Oversight Group for the Report of the Strategic Review Group on Penal Policy
Member. Research Advisory Group, Howard League for Penal Reform (UK)
Member, Inaugural Research Advisory Group, Department of Justice
Member of the inaugural Department of Justice and Equality Research Advisory Group
Reviewer Canadian Journal of Law and Society
Reviewer Punishment and Society
Consultant on review of funding to build Cork Prison and a youth detention centre for the Council of Europe Development Bank
Consultant on human rights and prison issues, Council of Europe for projects in Ukraine and North Macedonia
Reviewer, research grant applications, National Science Centre, Poland
Reviewer and panel member for ERC mock interviews, SSH applicants, Irish Research Council
Member, Inaugural Research Advisory Group, Office of the Inspector of Prisons
Elected to the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation in respect of Ireland (representing academia; the two other representatives being Vivan Geiran, Director of the Probation Service and the Hon. Ms. Justice Úna Ní Raifertaigh, judge of the Court of Appeal).
Appointed by the Central Statistics Office to the Expert Group on Crime Statistics
Member Advisory Group, ERC-funded RECEDE project (University of Nottingham)
Presented on bail and pre-trial detention to Oireachtas sub-committee on Justice
Reviewer British Journal of Criminology
Member of the interim Board of the Victims' Rights Alliance
Reviewer, Routledge
Member Advisory group ESRC funded project on Deaths in Custody University of Nottingham
Board member, Irish Association for the Social Integration of Offenders
Reviewer, Child and Family Law Quarterly
Reviewer, Theoretical Criminology
Appointed by the Minister for Justice and Equality to the Working Group conducting a Strategic Review of Penal Policy in Ireland
Invited research collaborator, Confederation of European Probation
Chairperson, Advisory Board, Prisoner Support Network (Pathways Project and Care After Prison)
Chairperson, Irish Penal Reform Trust (foremost NGO on penal affairs in Ireland)
External Examiner, Sligo Institute of Technology, (Higher Certificate in Custodial Care, Law programmes)
External Examiner, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University/Ireland: LLB (Law and Society) and LLM programmes
External Examiner, Criminal Justice, Waterford Institute of Technology/Ireland
Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan
Reviewer, University of Monash Law Review
External Examiner, Letterkenny Institute of Technology (Law)
Academic Advisor, Trinity College Law Review
Organiser of a public event on 'Changing Ireland, Changing Law' selected for inclusion in PROBE: Research Uncovered event at Trinity College Dublin/Ireland
Presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on research into public interest law and strategic litigation
Presentation on "The impact of ERC funding", European Research Council Day, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin/Ireland
Awards and Honours
Best Civic Engagement Project, Trinity Civic Engagement Award
Law School Nominee for Trinity College Dublin Graduate Supervision Prize
President, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation
Honorary Lifetime Member, Irish Penal Reform Trust
British Institute of International and Comparative Law Visiting Fellowship
Teaching Excellence Award/Dublin Institute of Technology
James Murnaghan Memorial Prize/Honorable Society of King's Inns
Simms'' prize for best performance in BCL examination in Crime, Justice and the Penal System/University of Oxford
Trinity College Postgraduate Studentship/Trinity College Dublin
Graduate Bursary/University of Oxford
Selected by Trinity College Dublin to participate in the LFHE Aurora programme
Réalt Scholarship/Dublin Institute of Technology
Memberships
President of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation/Fondation Internationale Pénale et Pénitentiaire
Member, Inaugural Research Advisory Group, Office of the Inspector of Prisons, Ireland
Member, The Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London, UK
Chair, Implementation and Oversight Group for the Review of Penal Policy (appointed by the Minister for Justice)
Member, Howard League for Penal Reform (UK) Research Advisory Group
Member for Ireland and Voting Member, the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation/Fondation Internationale Pénale et Pénitentiaire
Member, Advisory Group to ERC-funded project RECEDE, University of Nottingham
Member, Penal Policy Review Group (appointed by the Minister for Justice)
Member, Expert Group on Crime Statistics (with the Central Statistics Office) - set up to carry out a comprehensive review of the collection, publication and methodology for crime statistics in Ireland
Member Inaugural Research Advisory Group, Department of Justice, Ireland
Director, Irish Association for the Social Integration of Offenders
Chairperson, Irish Penal Reform Trust
Member, Division on Corrections and Sentencing, American Society of Criminology
Member of the Board, Victims' Rights Alliance
Convenor, 'Cultural and Legal Lives of Incarceration' Network, Law and Society Association
Alexandros Seretakis
Biography
Alexandros is teaching courses in Financial Services, Mergers and Acquisitions and Alternative Investment Fund Regulation. His teaching and research interests include financial regulation, alternative investment fund regulation, fintech and its regulation and corporate governance. His research is regularly featured in global media, including the Financial Times and the Banker. Prior to joining Trinity College, Alexandros completed his PhD at the University of Luxembourg where he also taught courses in Alternative Investment Funds and EU Company Law. Furthermore, he acted as a consultant and was involved in the setting up of a fintech start-up. Alexandros holds a law degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an LL.M. in Banking and Finance from the University College of London, an LL.M. in Corporation Law from the New York University and was a research fellow at the NYU Pollack Center for Law and Business and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. He is admitted to practice law in Greece and the State of New York. He has practiced law in Greece and has also worked for the Permanent Mission of Greece to the UN office in Geneva. He has also acted as a consultant for a US investment holding company and has been appointed an expert in financial law at the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg. He is also a guest lecturer at the LLM programme of the University of Luxembourg and the Institute of Bankers in Ireland. He also served as the founding director of the Director of the MSc in Law and Finance, an interdisciplinary program offered by the Law School in cooperation with the Business School. Alexandros is a member of Blockchain Ireland Legal Working Group and an expert at the Digital Euro Association. He welcomes expressions of interest from prospective PhD students and postdoctoral researchers willing to work in the area of investment funds and regulation, fintech, blockchain and financial regulation.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Governing the Digital Finance Value-Chain in the EU: MIFID II, the Digital Package, and the Large Gaps between! in, editor(s)Filippo Annunziata & Rosa Maria Lastra , The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, Oxford University Press, 2025, [Emilios Avgouleas and Alexandros Seretakis]
The Evolution of Private Equity in, editor(s)Daniele D'Alvia , Research Handbook on Corporate Finance Law, Edward Elgar, 2025, [Alexandros Seretakis]
Seretakis Alexandros, Central Bank Digital Currencies: Opportunities and Risks, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 39, (7), 2024
Hedge Fund Activism and ESG: Fit For Purpose? in, editor(s)Mieke Olaerts and Bastian Keemp , Twenty Years of European Company Law: Developments and Challenges in European Company Law,, Kluwer Law, 2024, [Alexandros Seretakis]
Alexandros Seretakis, Appraising the New EU Appraisal Regime, European Company Law, 12, (5), 2024
The Unfair Terms Directive in Ireland in, editor(s)Danny Busch & Matthias Lehmann , Unfair Terms in Banking and Financial Contracts, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, [Alexandros Seretakis]
Alexandros Seretakis & Emilios Avgouleas, How Should Crypto-Lending be Regulated in the eu?, European Business Organization Law Review, 24, 2023, p421 - 438
Felix E Mezzanotte (with Alexandros Seretakis), Blockchain and Corporate Sustainability Reporting, European Company Law, 20, (5), 2023, p97 - 102
Alexandros Seretakis, Regulating Hedge Funds in the EU, Wolters Kluwer, 2022
Alexandros Seretakis, The Promise and Perils of Central Bank Digital Currencies, The Banker, 2021, -
Emilios Avgouleas and Alexandros Seretakis, The Regulation of the Digital Value-Chain in the EU: MIFID II, the Digital Package, and the Gaps Between, European Company and Financial Law Review, Special Issue: Digital Finance in Europe: Law, Regulation, and Governance, 5, 2021, p1 - 37
Alexandros Seretakis, Report from Greece: The New Corporate Governance Framework, European Company Law, 18, (6), 2021
Rachael Walsh and Sarah Hamill (chapter authors) Deirdre Ahern and Suryapratim Roy (report editors), Policy Responses to Covid-19 In Ireland: Supporting Individuals, Communities, Businesses, and the Economy, COVID-19 Legal Observatory, Trinity College Dublin, December, 2020, p1 - 108
Blockchain, Securities Markets and Central Banking in, editor(s)Philipp Hacker, Ioannis Lianos, Georgios Dimitropoulos, and Stefan Eich , Regulating Blockchain. Techno-Social and Legal Challenges, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, [Alexandros Seretakis]
Appraisal Rights in the US and the EU in, editor(s)Thomas Papadopoulos , Cross-Border Mergers Directive: EU perspectives and national experiences , Springer, 2019, [Seretakis Alexandros]
Alexandros Seretakis and Georg Gutfleisch, Brexit and Alternative Investment Fund Managers, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 34, (4), 2019, p134 - 144
Alexandros Seretakis, Financial Services Law in Ireland: Authorisation, Supervision, Compliance, Enforcement, Review of Financial Services Law in Ireland: Authorisation, Supervision, Compliance, Enforcement, by Finbarr Murphy , Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 34, (3), 2019, p129-130
Alexandros Seretakis, EU Hedge Fund Regulation: Hedge Funds and Single Supervision, European Company Law, 15, (6), 2018
Seretakis Alexandros, Appraisal Rights in the US and the EU, Cross-Border Mergers Directive: EU perspectives and national experiences , University of Cyprus, 7 October 2017, 2017, pp1 - 24
Seretakis Alexandros, Blockchain, Securities Markets and Central Banking, Blockchain and the Constitution of a New Financial Order: Legal and Political Challenges, UCL Center for Law, Economics and Society, UCL Faculty of Laws, London, 19 June 2017, 2017, pp1 - 30
PRIVATE EQUITY IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE: MARKET AND REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS in, editor(s)H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Halil Kiymaz , PRIVATE EQUITY: OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015, pp32 - 45, [SERETAKIS ALEXANDROS]
SERETAKIS ALEXANDROS, HEDGE FUND ACTIVISM COMING TO EUROPE: LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, BROOKLYN JOURNAL OF CORPORATE, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL LAW, 8, 2014, p439 - 469
SERETAKIS ALEXANDROS, REGULATING HEDGE FUNDS IN THE EU? THE CASE AGAINST THE AIFM DIRECTIVE, REVUE TRIMESTRIELLE DE DROIT FINANCIER, 2, 2014, p1 - 6
SERETAKIS ALEXANDROS, A COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION OF PRIVATE EQUITY IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE: ACCOUNTING FOR THE PAST AND PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN PRIVATE EQUITY, FORDHAM JOURNAL OF CORPORATE AND FINANCIAL LAW, 18, (3), 2013, p613 - 667
SERETAKIS ALEXANDROS, TAMING THE LOCUSTS? EMBATTLED HEDGE FUNDS IN THE EU, NYU JOURNAL OF LAW AND BUSINESS, 10, (1), 2013, p115 - 153
SERETAKIS ALEXANDROS, HOSTILE TAKEOVERS AND DEFENSIVE MECHANISMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES: A CASE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES REGIME , THE OHIO STATE ENTREPREUNERIAL BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL, 8, (2), 2013, p246 - 279
Seretakis Alexandros, The New EU Directive on the Regulation of Private Equity, Columbia Journal of European Law Online, 18, (3), 2012
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Ireland in, editor(s)Danny Busch and Matthias Lehmann , Prospectus Liability Rules in Europe and Beyond: Towards Uniformity, Oxford University Press, 2024, [Alexandros Seretakis]
Blockchain Ireland Legal and Regulatory Working Group, Smart Legal Contracts, 2024
Alexandros Seretakis, The Regulation of Crypto Lending, CBFL Banking Finance and Technology Conference(, National University of Singapore, 18-19 May, 2023
Alexandros Seretakis, Central Bank Digital Currencies: Opportunities and Risks, 5th International Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Law, International Artificial Intelligence and Law Research Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, 6 November 2022, 2022
Alexandros Seretakis, Decentralized Finance: Opportunities and Risks, IALS Fellow's Lunchtime Seminar, London, 2 February, 2022, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Alexandros Seretakis & Emilios Avgouleas, How Should Crypto-Lending Be Regulated in the EU?, International Artificial Intelligence and Law Research Foundation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2-3 December 2022, 2022
Alexandros Seretakis, Panelist, Transparency in the Digital Tools Directive - Ultimate Beneficial Ownership, Company registries, Disqualified Directors, Workshop on the Transposition of the Digital Tools Directive, 8 June, 2021, European Trade Union Confederation
Alexandros Seretakis, Chair Panel: CBDCs, Stablecoins & Fiat Money: Competitors?, Competition in Fintech Markets, 6, 7 May, 2021, Swedish Network for European Legal Studies in cooperation with the University of Leeds and ASCOLA
Alexandros Seretakis, How DLT Could Shake Up Capital Markets, The Banker , 2021, -
Alexandros Seretakis and Emilios Avgouleas, Decentralized Finance Could Revolutionise European Markets, The Banker, 2021, -
Alexandros Seretakis, Crises and Financial Regulation, Dublin Law and Politics Review Sustainable Finance Conference, Dublin City University, 25 March 2020, 2020
Alexandros Seretakis, The EU's Proposal on a Pilot Regime for Market Infrastructures Based on DLT, Blockchain Ireland Legal and Regulatory Working Group, Ireland, 16 December 2020, 2020
Alexandros Seretakis, Review for the book Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers: Markets, Communications Networks, and Algorithmic , Review of Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers: Markets, Communications Networks, and Algorithmic , by Melanie Swan et al. , Journal of Economic Literature, Forthcoming, 2020
Emilios Avgouleas and Alexandros Seretakis, Ethics, sustainability, and decentralised finance, Digital Capital Markets in Europe- The Challenge of EU Market Integration, University of Helsinki and University of Edinburgh, 2 September 2020, 2020
Dr Konstantinos Stylianou (Leeds), Dr Alexandros Seretakis (TCD), Dr Felix Irresberger (Leeds), and Dr Iain Clacher (Leeds), RESPONSE TO THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY PUBLIC CONSULTATION CP19/3:GUIDANCE ON CRYPTOASSETS, 2019, -
Ahern Deirdre and Seretakis Alexandros, Symposium Addressing the Global Challenge of Responsive Fintech Regulation, 8 March 2019, 2019, Dublin Ireland
Alexandros Seretakis, Legal Aspects of ICOs, Presentation at the Blockchain Ireland Legal Working Group, Dublin Ireland, 16 April 2019, 2019
Alexandros Seretakis, Fintech and Capital Markets Union, Centre for European Policy Studies Task Force on Rebranding the CMU, Brussels Belgium, 10 December 2018, 2018
Alexandros Seretakis, Blockchain, Securities Markets and Central Banking, German Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting 2018, Ljubjiana , 5-6 July 2018, 2018
Alexandros Seretakis, Further Development and Implementation of Blockchain, Blockchain Next 2018, Warsaw, Poland, 21 June 2018, 2018
Alexandros Seretakis, Initial Coin Offerings: Risks and Regulation, Artificial Cosmoi and the Law (2nd edition), UCL, Yale and University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 30 July 2018, 2018
Seretakis Alexandros, Blockchain, Securities Markets and Central Banking, Blockchain and the Constitution of a New Financial Order: Legal and Political Challenges, UCL Center for Law, Economics and Society, UCL Faculty of Laws, London, 19 June 2017, 2017
Seretakis Alexandros, Appraisal Rights in the US and the EU, The Cross-Border Mergers Directive: EU Perspective and National Experiences, Department of Law, University of Cyprus, 7 October 2017, 2017
Seretakis Alexandros, Comments: Iteration and EU Takeover Regulation, ICON-S Britain and Ireland Chapter Launch Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 5 September 2017, 2017
Seretakis Alexandros, The Blockchain Revolution: How Can Blockchain Transform Securities Trading and Corporate Governance, Digital Currencies, Digital Finance and the Constitution of a New Financial Order: Challenges for the Legal System, Athens, Greece, 27 July 2016, 2016
Seretakis Alexandros, Regulating Hedge Funds: From Supervision to Resolution, Lawyers' Committee, Central Bank of Luxembourg, 8 December, 2016, Central Bank of Luxembourg
Seretakis Alexandros, 'In Defense of the Hedge Fund Industry', Oxford Business Law Blog, 2016, -
Research Expertise
Recognition
Representations
Serving as an editorial board member for the European Company Law Journal published by Kluwer Law.
Member, Fintech and Blockchain Collaboratory, Rutgers School of Law Centre for Corporate Law and Governance
Invited to be a reviewer for Hart Publishing, Cambridge University Press, European Business Organization Law Review, Banking and Finance Law Review (leading Canadian law review), the International Journal of Law and Management (Emerald) and the prestigious Journal of Economic Literature one of the highest ranked journal in economics which is published by the American Economic Association and the European Science Foundation and the Research Foundation Flanders in Belgium (FWO).
Adjunct Lecturer IOB (formerly Institute of Banking)
Visiting Professor University of Luxembourg. Teaching a 4 hour course on Hedge Funds and Hedge Fund Activism.
Examiner for the Law Reform Commission Annual Legal Research Competition
Awards and Honours
Election to the Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin
Master in Arts (jure officii) of the University of Dublin
Dean's Merit Scholarship NYU School of Law
Memberships
Member of Blockchain Ireland Legal and Regulatory Working Group
Attorney at Law, New York State Bar
Academic Member European Corporate Governance Institute
Attorney at Law, Thessaloniki Bar Association
Editorial Board Member, European Company Law Journal
Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Colorectal Cancer Association