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Dr Sarah Fennell
LL.B(Dub), LL.M (Lond), BL, Ph.D(Dub)Sarah Fennell graduated from Trinity College Dublin with the degree of LL.B in 2000. She completed her Barrister-at-Law degree at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns in 2002. During 2002-2003, Sarah worked as a judicial researcher in the Judges’ Library, during which time she was appointed Senior Judicial Researcher. She holds an LL.M from University College London focusing in particular on Media Law and Child Law. Sarah has tutored Constitutional and Comparative Law to undergraduate law students in Trinity College Dublin. Sarah holds a Ph.D from Trinity College Dublin. Her doctoral thesis was awarded a Government of Ireland Scholarship and is titled ‘The Public Interest Defence and Damages for Defamation: Comparative Theoretical and Constitutional Perspectives for Irish Law’. Her publications include ‘Ireland and the ECHR: Back to the Drawing Board?’ (2002) Irish Student Law Review and ‘Damages for Defamation’, (forthcoming in O’Dell, Freedom of Expression, Ashgate, 2008). She currently teaches European Union law to LL.B. students at Griffith College Dublin. Sarah also lectures Family Law in the Honorable Society of King’s Inns. She is a practising barrister.
email: sarah.fennell@gcd.ie
