School of Law

Staff

Biography
Jack Anderson lectured in law at the School of Law, University of Limerick from 1998 to 2002. In that year, he was appointed a Senior Research Scholar by the Irish Research Council for Humanities & Social Sciences. The following year he was a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Australian National University , Canberra . He currently teaches contract law, criminal law and the law of torts, and is the Law Society of Ireland's internal examiner in property law. His primary research interest is the relationship between sport and the law. He is a qualified arbitrator being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and is a member of a number of sports dispute resolution tribunals including the UK Sports Dispute Resolution Panel.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• Contract Law
• Criminal Law
• Torts (module co-ordinator)

Research

Sports Law

Selected publications

The Legality of Boxing (Routledge Cavendish, London, 2007)

“No Licence for Thuggery: Violence, Sport and the Criminal Law” [2008] Criminal Law Review 751-763

“Personal Injury Liability in Sport: Emerging Trends” (2008) 16 Tort Law Review 95-119

“Off the Beaten Track: Adopting a Countryside Access Act for Ireland – The Right to Ramble, Roam and Rest” (2007) 12(2) Conveyancing and Property Law Journal 37-46
 
“An Accident of History: Why the Decisions of Sports Governing Bodies are not Amenable to Judicial Review” (2006) 35(3) Common Law World Review 173-196.

• Director of External Affairs, 2007-present
• First year LLB advisor of studies, 2005-2007