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Dr. Anne Egan

Dr. Anne Egan
B.A. (NUI), LL.B. (NUI) Ph.D. (NUI)

Office : Room 403, Floor 2, Tower 2.
Telephone : 353 (0) 91 492937 Ext. 2937
Email: anne.egan@nuigalway.ie

Anne Egan is a graduate of National University of Ireland, Galway where she was awarded a B.A in Legal Studies, Sociology and Politics in 2003 and LL.B in 2004. She completed her PhD in 2008 on “The Rights and Responsibilities of Fathers in Irish Family Law”. She was a tutor in the Faculty of Law from 2004-2006 and lectured part-time in Family Law in 2007-2008. She also has completed a Certificate in Part 1 Mediation training accredited to the Mediators Institute of Ireland. Anne was awarded a postgraduate certificate in Teaching and Learning in 2009 and will graduate with a Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Practice with the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, NUI, Galway. Anne is a member of the NUIG-UL research network Gender ARC (Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Family Law, Constitutional Law, Law and Social Policy.

COURSES TAUGHT

• Family Law
• Sociology of Law
• Law and Social Policy
• Irish Legal Systems
  

PUBLICATIONS

• “Access and the Non-Custodial Parent in the Republic of Ireland” Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (2011) 62(2): 199-215  
• “Are fathers discriminated against in Irish Family Law? An empirical study” (2011) 14(2) Irish Journal of Family Law 38-49.
• "Grandparents and the law in Ireland" with McNamara R. (2010) 13(2) Irish Journal of Family Law 27
• “The guardianship rights of unmarried fathers in Ireland and New Zealand” in (2005) 3 Irish Journal of Family Law 15.

PAPERS PRESENTED

• “Fathers in contemporary Irish society: an equality perspective” Seminar on Equality Through the Ages, National University of Ireland Galway, Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society, (June 2011).
• “Podcasting as a novice in a Legal Environment” Irish Learning Technologies Association Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, June 2011.
• “The influence of gender in the family law system in Ireland” Femininity and Masculinity Interdisciplinary Conference Warsaw, Poland (May 2011).
• “The rights of grandparents in contemporary Irish Family Law” Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland Galway (March 2011).
• “The role of mothers and the Irish Constitution” Writings of Intimacy in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries Conference, Loughborough University, U.K. September 2010.
• “The right of a child to maintain contact with its parents”  The Children’s Convention at 21: The Rights of the Child Come of Age? International Society of Family Law Regional Conference, University of Ulster, Derry, June 2010.
• "A comparative approach to the rights of sperm donors in Ireland and New Zealand" Irish Society of Comparative Law Conference (Belfast, March 2010).
• "Frustration of access" Persons, Intimacy and Love Inter-discliplinary conference (Salzburg, November 2009).
• "The rights of fathers - an Irish perspective" Society of Legal Scholars Centenary Conference (Keele, September 2009).
  
• "Sperm donation: what Ireland can learn from New Zealand" Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand (July 2009).
  
• "Guardianship - how can the present system be improved" Law Society, NUI Galway Family Diversity week (March 2009).
  
• "The rights of fathers and their children" seminar presented to the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (January 2009)
• “Fathers’ rights in Irish Family Law”, Faculty of Law Research Seminar Series, NUI, Galway (March 2007)
• “Is there a bias against fathers in the Irish family law system” Postgraduate Conference, UCD (November 2006)
• “Fathers on the sidelines – the position of fathers in Irish legal system”, University of Limerick Seminar Series (March 2006)

ADMINISTATIVE DUTIES

• 3rd Bachelor of Arts (Public and Social Policy) co-ordinator
• Class advisor 1st Bachelor of Arts (Public and Social Policy) 2008- 11.
• Class Advisor 2nd Bachelor of Arts (Public and Social Policy) 2010-11
• Class advisor 1st Bachelor of Arts 2009-10.
• B.A. Connect in Children’s Studies co-ordinator in the School of Law.  

 

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