Dr Niamh Howlin

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Lecturer

Contact details
Email address n.howlin@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line     (+44) 028 9097 3250   
Room 31.LG.18, 30 University Square

Degrees:
B.C.L. (University College Dublin) 2003.
Ph.D. (University College Dublin) 2007

Biography:
Niamh Howlin graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 2003. From 2003 until 2007 Niamh underwent doctoral research under the supervision of Prof. W.N. Osborough in University College Dublin. Her Ph.D. examined the structure and functioning of Irish juries in the nineteenth century, and was funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Niamh has been the recipient of several awards and grants, including the UCD Bank of Ireland Silver Medal for Jurisprudence. In 2006 she interned at the Federal Defender Program, Chicago, Illinois. She became Editor-in-Chief of the University College Dublin Law Review in 2004. Niamh was appointed to a lectureship at Queen’s in 2007, having previously been a tutor, senior tutor and occasional lecturer in UCD. She has taught Constitutional Rights, Constitutional Frameworks, Tort, Contract, Legal Systems and Methods, Legal Research and Writing, Evidence and European Internal Market Law. Her research interests include the development of the Irish jury and its modern functioning.

Teaching:
Evidence, Torts, Criminal Law.

Administration:
Library Officer.

Research:
Irish legal history, evidence, juries, law and society.

Selected publications:
‘The Feasibility of Mandatory Trade Union Recognition in Ireland’ (2007) 29 Dublin University Law Journal 178 (with Robert C. Fitzpatrick)

‘English and Irish jury laws: the growing divergence 1825-1833’ in Brown and Donlan (eds) The Boundaries of the State: Law in Ireland, 1700-1850 (forthcoming, Manchester University Press, 2008)

‘Merchants and Esquires: Special Juries in Dublin 1725-1833’ in O’Kane and Sullivan (eds), “Bare Bones of a Fanlight”: Georgian Dublin (forthcoming Four Courts Press Dublin, 2008)

‘Guys from Out of Town: Expert Witnesses, A Law Reform Proposal’ in O’Dell and Shannon (eds),  Law and Practice: Essays on Reform (forthcoming, Clarus Press Dublin, 2008)

 “The Health Bill Fiasco: Thirty Years of Doublethink?” in O’Dell (ed), Older People in Modern Ireland: Essays on Law and Policy (2006, Firstlaw) (With M. Shariff and A. del Rio)

“Shortcomings and Anomalies: Aspects of Article 26” (2005) 13 Irish Student Law Review 26

“The Special Jury: A Solution to the Expert Witness Problem?” (2004) 12 Irish Student Law Review 19