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Donncha O’Connell

Address: Galway

Donncha O’Connell is an Established Professor of Law at University of Galway. He teaches European Human Rights on undergraduate programmes and Processes of Law Reform and Advocacy, Activism and Public Interest Law on the LL.M in Public Law. He also contributes to the teaching of Constitutional Law. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Galway from 2005 to 2008, prior to the establishment of the College of Business, Public Policy and Law, and Head of the School of Law from 2013 to 2017. He is a Commissioner (part-time) of the Law Reform Commission, having been appointed by the government on the nomination of the Attorney General, Máire Whelan SC, in 2012. He is also a member of the Legal Aid Board. Donncha is the founder and editor of the Irish Human Rights Law Review, an edited collection published biennially by Clarus Press, and the Ireland Correspondent for the International Survey section of the journal Public Law. He was previously the Senior Irish member of FRALEX and lead author of various reports. FRALEX was the legal expert group, appointed following a competitive tender process, that advised the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) based in Vienna from 2007 to 2011. Source: Commons

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