News archive Staff Promotions - Dr Padraic Kenna & Dr Lucy-Ann Buckley

Dr Lucy-Ann Buckley has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway. Dr Buckley previously lectured at the University of Warwick and the University of Limerick. She specialises in equality law, labour law and family property law, and is currently co-leading a major project advising the States of Guernsey on the development of multi-ground equality legislation. She is also a member of the Berkeley Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Study Group, where she is a member of the Sexual Harassment Working Group and the Disability Rights Working Group.

Dr Padraic Kenna has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway. Padraic is the Director of the Centre for Housing Law, Rights and Policy and is leading a project on integrating housing rights into the EU institutional economic governance framework.

Padraic has recently published Loss of Homes and Evictions across Europe – A Comparative Legal and Policy Examination. (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar). This book provides a comparative assessment of human rights, administrative, procedural and public policy norms, in the context of eviction, across a number of European jurisdictions. Through this comparison the book exposes the emergence of consistent, Europe-wide standards and norms.