





Senior Advisory Council to the Project
Professor Adrienne Héritier
Professor of Comparative and European Public Policy, European University Institute, Florence. Member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a member of the Academia Europea.
Professor Colin Scott
Principal, UCD College of Social Sciences and Law and Professor of EU Regulation & Governance at UCD. Dean of Law at UCD, between 2011-2014.
Professor Frank Convery
School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin (economics), Honorary President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Prof Suzanne Kingston
Associate Professor
Sutherland School of Law
suzanne.kingston@ucd.ie
Suzanne is a graduate of Oxford University (BA in Law) and the University of Leiden, the Netherlands (LL.M. in European Community Law, Ph.D.). She served as a référendaire (legal adviser) in the cabinet of Advocate General Geelhoed at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg from 2004-2006. Prior to this, she practised EU law at the Brussels office of the US law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (2002-2004) and was a stagiaire at the European Commission (DG Competition)(2001-2002). In Spring 2014, Suzanne was international visiting professor of law at Columbia Law School, New York, where she is also be adjunct professor in 2015.
Previously, she has been a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, the University of Leiden, Queen’s University, Belfast, and Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. Suzanne is a principal investigator at UCD’s Earth Institute and a committee member of the Irish Society of European Law. She is a barrister practising at the Irish bar and regularly appears before the Irish and European courts. Suzanne’s research focuses primarily on EU law and policy and its interplay with national and international law. To date, her research has centred on:
- Competition law and policy, including EU, national, international and comparative competition law
- Environmental law and policy, including EU, national and international environmental law
- EU economic law, particularly EU internal market and taxation law
- EU human rights law
- The role of the EU courts
She has a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches, especially law/economics, law/political theory, and (especially in the environmental law context) law/science. Suzanne has published widely in the field of European law and governance, especially in the environmental, competition and economic, and human rights fields. She has a special interest in how tensions between the EU’s economic and non-economic aims play out in European law and governance.
In December 2014, Suzanne was awarded a research grant of almost 1.5 million euro from the EU’s European Research Council for this project investigating how the way we design our laws influences levels of environmental compliance in the EU. In 2012, 2014 and 2015 she led EU-funded seminars in advanced EU competition law for judges from across Europe, the first time that such events had ever taken place in Ireland.
Dr Geraldine Murphy
geraldine.murphy.1@ucd.ie
Geraldine Murphy is a postdoctoral researcher with the Effective Nature Laws project. Her background is multidisciplinary, having a BA (Mod) in Natural Sciences from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc (Agr) in Environmental Resource Management from University College Dublin, and a PhD in Economics from National University of Ireland Galway.
Whilst working with SEMRU, the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit Galway (pre-doctoral), and Teagasc, Dublin (postdoctoral), Geraldine further developed her skills in non-market valuation, discrete choice modelling and structural behavioural modelling. She has published in Ecological Economics, Land Use Policy and Ecosystem Services, amongst others.
MR MICHEÁL CALLAGHAN
UCD Sutherland School of Law
micheal.callaghan@ucdconnect.ie
Mícheál is a Ph.D candidate in UCD. He graduated with a law degree (LLB) from Trinity College Dublin in 2013, and completed an LLM in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at Queen’s University Belfast in 2014 – 2015.
His dissertation focused on the policy and regulatory barriers to food security in Northern Ireland and how the ‘commons transition’ paradigm might lead to new opportunities in creating a more sustainable food system. He is passionate about environmental sustainability and is active in a number of environmental groups and NGOs and groups including Friends of the Earth and Transition Monaghan, which he co – founded.
He is particularly interested in actions that people can take at local level to improve their environment and how legal and regulatory frameworks can enable and encourage this.
MS JULIE FOULON
Ph.D. Student
UCD Sutherland School of Law
julie.foulon@ucdconnect.ie
Julie is a Ph.D candidate at UCD (Dublin, Ireland). She graduated with a Master’s degree in International and European Environmental Law at CERIC Institute (Aix-en-Provence, France) in 2014. She recently graduated with an LL.M. in European Law from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium), defending a thesis within the framework of the European Environmental Law seminar.
Her dissertation focused on the reform of GMO’s regulatory framework in the European Union and the analysis of its compatibility with the internal market and WTO.
She is particularly interested in the legal frameworks regulating environmental law at international and European level, their interaction with national laws and with other sectors, such as trade.
MS SIOBHÁN POWER
UCD Sutherland School of Law
siobhan.power@ucd.ie
Siobhán graduated with a B.A (Mod) from Trinity College Dublin in 2011 and a Masters of Common Law from University College Dublin in 2015. She was a member of the Board of the UCD Law Review, Volume XV from 2014-2015.
MR EDWIN ALBLAS
Ph.D. Candidate
UCD Sutherland School of Law
Edwin is a Ph.D. candidate at the UCD Sutherland School of Law. In 2015, he graduated with a Liberal Arts & Sciences degree from Tilburg University (the Netherlands), majoring in Law in Europe. During his bachelor, he completed the honours program ‘Discourses on Europe’ and also spent an exchange semester at the University of Western Australia (Perth), where he took courses in international law and politics.
He continued his studies at Tilburg University as Research Master in Law student, a two-year joint program with K.U. Leuven (Belgium). He graduated cum laude in 2017. During his masters, he fulfilled the role of Editor in Chief of the Tilburg Law Review, worked as a research assistant at Tilburg Law School’s departments of public law and environmental law and took an internship at the European department of the Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations.
Edwin is particularly interested in the drivers of compliance and the role of rule-setting in the field of EU environmental law. His research is based within the broader context of the ERC-funded Effective Nature Laws project. He has published in several internal peer-reviewed journals, including European Union Politics, The Review of European, Comparative, International Environmental law, and The Theory and Practice of Legislation.
DR ZIZHEN WANG
Postdoctoral Researcher
UCD Sutherland School of Law
DEIRDRE NORRIS
Project Manager
UCD Sutherland School of Law
deirdre.norris@ucd.ie
Deirdre is the ERC Project Manager in the Sutherland School of Law, having previously held the position of Research and Innovation Manager. She joined the Effective Nature Laws team in June 2018. Deirdre is a graduate of UCD, having obtained a BA in Economics and MSc in Environmental Management. She spent over 10 years working in the financial services sector and has recently become a PhD candidate in the Sutherland School of Law, focusing on the impact of disruptive technologies in financial services regulations.
Previously Deirdre has worked on a number of research projects including ‘A comparative analysis of transnational private regulation: legitimacy, quality, effectiveness and enforcement’ funded by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law and ‘Listed Companies’ Engagement with Diversity: A Multi-Jurisdictional Study of Annual Report Disclosures’ with Trinity College Dublin.
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