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Provide accurate, high quality and impartial research to individual Members and CommitteesProduce a range of research outputs, including customised research papers, legislative analysis briefings, topical briefings and blog posts

Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

Lecturing/Module Coordination: Postgraduate Human Rights Law, Human Rights Law, Crime and Criminal Justice, Law and Psychology, Comparative Legal Systems, Introduction to Lawyering (I), and Introduction to Lawyering (II).Teaching duties: preparation of course outlines and teaching materials, utilisation of blended learning tools to deliver course content.

County Carlow, Ireland

Core Teaching areas: Farm Business Law to final year students on the Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Farm Management and Agribusiness degree/(Honours) degree; and Employment Law to second year students on the Bachelor of Business degree/(Honours) degree. Others teaching areas: Introduction to Legal Studies, Company Law, Commercial Law and Introduction.

Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

Teaching Family Law module to final year students on the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Law degree (7-week maternity leave cover).

County Galway, Ireland

Teaching: teaching on the BA Connect with Human Rights degree, including Human Rights and Development (2013) and guest lectures for the Human Rights in Ireland (2015), Regional Systems for the Protection of Human Rights (2014) and Rights of the Child (2012) modules.Conference Organisation: co-organised the annual Summer School on the International Criminal.

Athlone, Co. Westmeath

Teaching: Human Rights Law module to final year students on the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Law Degree (2013 and 2014). Duties: compilation of week-by-week course outline; provision of lectures and tutorials; drafting, supervision and correction of mid-term assignments and exam papers; provision of feedback to students orally and in writing; maintenance.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Representing the Mission at intergovernmental meetings, donor meetings and humanitarian briefings.
• Reporting to Irish Aid and government departments on new, protracted and complex emergencies.
• Engagement with multilateral partners and donors on thematic areas (e.g. protection and gender) and on policy issues concerning humanitarian crisis prevention, preparedness and response.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Drafting interventions for delivery by Ireland and the EU at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC).
• Delivering interventions on behalf of Ireland at the HRC.
• Representing the Mission at HRC sessions, EU coordination, donor group meetings, NGO briefings and ad hoc meetings e.g. exchange of views on human rights at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
• Assisting in the preparations preceding Ireland’s first examination under the HRC’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) procedure.
• Forming part of the delegations that presented Ireland’s combined 3rd and 4th Periodic Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and Ireland’s 1st Periodic Report to the Committee Against.
• Assisting in the organisation of side panel events at the Palais des Nations, UN Geneva.

County Dublin, Ireland

• Performing company secretarial duties for a portfolio of Irish, Bermudan and Cayman companies.
• Attending board meetings in Ireland and overseas, and drafting board minutes.
• Drafting share certificates, share transfer forms and documentation for AGMs/EGMs.
• Preparation and filing of forms with regulatory bodies e.g. the Companies Registration Office.
• Maintenance of company registers and completion of due diligence.
• Liaising daily with directors, legal counsel, investment managers etc.

Quito, Ecuador

Participated in street outreach and English teaching programmes

Sydney, Australia

General administrative and clerical duties at the Secretariat Department of the Office of the DPP for New South Wales and the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care for New South Wales.

Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

English teacher in Eastern Thailand in 2006 with Greenway. Greenway promotes intercultural exchange and organises volunteer programmes in Thailand.

Dublin, Ireland

Performing company secretarial duties for a portfolio of Irish, Bermudan and Cayman companies.

County Dublin, Ireland

Helping the head of the company secretarial department to perform company secretarial duties for a portfolio of primarily Irish-domiciled companies.

Graduate Diploma In Teaching, Learning And Scholarship, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, First Class Honours (1.1)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, International Law And International Politics, No Corrections

My doctoral thesis was awarded without corrections and investigated the relationship between international law, international politics and.

Master Of Laws - Llm, International Human Rights Law, First Class Honours (1.1)

First class honours in all subjects undertaken: International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Transitional Justice, Human.

The Final Examination - First Part (Fe-1), Law, Passed All Entrance Examinations Undertaken

Activities and Societies: Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Law of Equity, Company Law, Contract Law, Land Law, Tort Law, EU Law and Irish.

Bachelor Of Laws - Llb, Law And European Studies, Second Class Honours (Grade I) 2.1

Modules included Law of Business Associations, Equity and Trusts, Commercial Law, Labour Law, Tort Law, Criminal Law, Land Law, EU Law.