Mr Damien McCallig
B.Comm., LLB, LLM
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Biography
Damien McCallig is a second year Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Law. His research, which is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), is entitled The Law of Digital Remains: Reconciling the dignity and interests of the deceased with those of the living, and is supervised by Marie McGonagle. The research aims to provide a theoretical, philosophical and practical framework for developing an appropriate regulatory regime for digital remains aimed at reconciling the rights and interests of the deceased with those of living stake-holders. Further details regarding his Ph.D. research is available here.
Damien graduated from NUI Galway with an LL.M in Law, Technology and Governance in 2010 and an LL.B. in 2009, achieving first class honours in both. He was the winner of the Irish Times Prize in Media Law, 2009, which is an annual prize awarded to the student who achieves the highest mark at examination in the subject of Media Law. Damien regularly contributes to IRIS – Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, which addresses many of the cutting-edge issues in the media and communications fields.
Research
Research Interests
- Copyright
- Data Protection
- Internet Law and Regulation
- Information Rights
- Media Law and Regulation
- Privacy
Research Projects
PhD Thesis
‘The Law of Digital Remains: Reconciling the dignity and interests of the deceased with those of the living.’
The research aims to provide a theoretical, philosophical and practical framework for developing an appropriate regulatory regime for digital remains aimed at reconciling the rights and interests of the deceased with those of living stake-holders. Further details regarding Damien’s Ph.D. research is available here.
Research Publications
Articles
- “Online behavioural advertising: are Irish privacy laws in need of ‘re-Phorm’?”, (2011) 16 Communications Law 60.
Conference Papers
- “The Deceased as Data Subjects: Analysis of the Scope and Application of EU Data Protection Law”, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference (Bristol 2012) - accepted
- “Private but Eventually Public: Why Copyright in Unpublished Works Matters in the Digital Age”, Amsterdam Privacy Conference (Amsterdam 2012) - accepted
IRIS Contributions
- “Revised Television Access Rules Launched”, IRIS 2012-7:1/28.
- “Public Service Broadcaster Sanctioned”, IRIS 2012-7:1/27.
- “Broadcast of Unverified “Tweet” Unfair to Presidential Candidate”, IRIS 2012-5:1/27.
- “Approval of Funding Scheme for Broadcast Archiving”, IRIS 2012-4:1/29.
- “Copyright Review Committee Publishes Consultation Paper”, IRIS 2012-4:1/30.
- “Copyright Injunctions Law Introduced”, IRIS 2012-4:1/31.
- “Updated Broadcasting Code on Referenda and Election Coverage”, IRIS 2011-9:1/24.
- “Right of Reply Scheme Introduced”, IRIS 2011-7:1/28.
- “Details of Copyright Review Announced”, IRIS 2011-7:1/27.
- “No Change in Designated Free-to-Air Sporting Events”, IRIS 2011-7:1/26.
- "New Broadcasting Code on Election Coverage”, IRIS 2011-5:1/26.
- “No Basis for Three Strike Copyright Rule”, IRIS 2011-1:1/38.
Teaching Areas
- Copyright
- Constitutional Law – Freedom of Expression
- Entertainment Law – Online Behavioural Advertising
- Internet Regulation and Governance
- Privacy/Data Protection