Faculty Profiles
Brian Hutchinson
Senior Lecturer, University College Dublin, Faculty
of Law
Dean Hutchinson holds a Diploma in Arbitration
Law from the Dublin Institute of Technology;
Degree of Barrister-at-Law from The Honorable
Society of King's Inns; Master of Laws and Bachelor
of Civil Law from University College Cork. Dean
Hutchinson specializes in International Commercial
Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Gavin Barrett
Senior Lecturer, University College Dublin,
Faculty of Law
Professor Barrett earned his LL.B. and Ph.D.
from Trinity College, Dublin. He
specializes in the Law of the European Union
and the Commercial and Social Law of the European
Communities.
Bernadette Rainey
Lecturer, University of Cardiff, Faculty of Law
Subsequent to completing her Ph.D. at Queen's
University, Belfast, Dr. Rainey took up the post
of research fellow at the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth to work on an AHRB funded project
examining the impact of the Human Rights Act
on the National Assembly of Wales. She taught
and conducted research at Swansea University.
She is a member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association.
Dr. Rainey was a member of the Queen's
law faculty until 2006 and has recently joined
the University of Cardiff.
Kirk W. Junker
Professor of Law and Director of International Programs, Duquesne University School of
Law
Professor Junker received his J.D. from Duquesne
University, his Ph.D. from the University of
Pittsburgh and completed his postdoctoral work
at the University of Bonn, Germany. Professor
Junker specializes in the Law of the European
Union and in International Environmental Law,
which he also teaches regularly at the University
of Cologne, Germany.
Ciarán Mac Murchaidh
Lecturer in Irish Language, St. Patrick's College,
Dublin City University
Dr. Mac Murchaidh's research interests are
in the teaching of Irish grammar and 18th century
religious literature. He was awarded a Ph.D.
by the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
He has edited numerous publications, including
a collection of essays on the current state
of the Irish language. Cois Life published
his Irish grammar Cruinnscriobh
na Gaeilge in
2002, a second and enlarged edition of which
appeared in 2004. His most recent publication
is a bilingual anthology of spiritual poetry
from the early Irish to the Modern Irish periods,
Lón Anama: Poems for Prayer from
the Irish Tradition (Cois Life, Dublin
2005).
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