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 was 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

Associate 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 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).