Common and Comparative Law | Research Cluster


Director
Dr Heather Conway

Objectives
The research cluster in Common and Comparative Law brings together legal academics who are working on doctrinal, analytical and comparative legal scholarship across a range of legal subjects, including commercial law, criminal law, family law, human rights law, information technology law, legal history, legal philosophy and property law. It aims to publish articles and books which are ground-breaking, academically penetrating and of international importance in their fields.

Within the last four years members of the research cluster have published three monographs and at least five more are planned for the next two years. In addition, articles have recently been published in journals such as the Child and Family Law Quarterly, the European Human Rights Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Irish Jurist, the Journal of Criminal Law, the Journal of Law and Society, the Journal of Legal History, the Journal of Social Welfare Law, the Law Quarterly Review, Legal Studies, the McGill Law Journal, the Modern Law Review, Public Law and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies.

The cluster is striving to consolidate its work across a range of legal areas by producing ever more impressive publications, by submitting a number of projects for research council funding and by encouraging postgraduates to undertake research in the specialist fields where cluster staff are already working. We plan to engage in more collaborative work, both between ourselves and with researchers in other universities, and to that end will continue to host seminars and/or conferences with internationally excellent speakers.

If you think you have an idea for a project which members of the Common and Comparative Law research cluster could help you with please contact the cluster's director, Dr Heather Conway.

Director

Dr Heather Conway
Property Law (especially Comparative Commonwealth), Planning Law, Dead Bodies

Members

Dr Jack Anderson
Sports Law

Dr Qingxiu Bu
Corporate Law; Cross-Border Merger & Acquisitions and Insolvency; Comparative Corporate Governance

Dr David Capper
Contract, Insolvency Law, Civil Procedure

Prof Norma Dawson
Intellectual Property, Land Law, Legal History, Charity Law

Dr Alan Dowling
Land Law, Conveyancing, Planning Law, Legal History

Ms Eileen Fegan
Legal Theory and Education, Gender, Human Rights

Mr Ray Geary
Medical Law, Criminology, Law and Culture

Ms Lisa Glennon
Comparative Family Law, Legal Regulation of Gender and Sexuality, Unincorporated Associations

Dr Robin Hickey
Personal Property, Equity, and Legal Theory

Dr Niamh Howlin
Irish legal history, evidence, juries, law and society

Prof Philip Leith
Intellectual Property, Information Technology Law, Legal Information, eGovernment

Dr Fiona Marshall
WTO law, regional trade agreements, trade protection instruments, competition policy, TRIPs. 

Ms Katie Quinn
Juries and Lay Participation in Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure and Evidence, Victim Surveys 

Ms Sara Ramshaw
Legal Theory, Legal History, Law and Music

Prof Giovanni Sartor
Legal Philosophy, Legal Reasoning

Dr John Stannard
Criminal Law, Contractual Remedies, Law and the Emotions