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Lawrence Donnelly

Lawrence Donnelly
B.A., J.D. (USA). Attorney at Law

Tel.: 353 (0)91 495372
Room 404, Floor 2, Tower 2
Generally available to see students.
email: larry.donnellynuigalway.ie

Larry Donnelly has taken a leave of absence (September 2010-September 2012) to become the Manager of the Public Interest Law Alliance (http://www.pila.ie), a Dublin-based NGO.  PILA is a project of the Free Legal Advice Centres (http://www.flac.ie ) that is seeking to advance the use of law in the public interest in Ireland.  He can be reached by telephone at +353 (0)1 8728048 or by email at larry.donnelly@flac.ie.

Larry Donnelly, a native of Boston, MA, USA who holds both American and Irish passports, has worked in the School of Law since 2001.  He is a Lecturer and Director of Clinical Legal Education.  He teaches foundation level and advanced courses in legal research and writing to all students studying law in Galway, serves as advisor to the Galway Student Law Review and helps prepare moot court teams that compete at national and international levels.  Mr. Donnelly directs the largest clinical programme of its kind in Ireland and places a large number of final year students each year in “real world” placements for which they receive academic credit.  This successful programme seeks to advance the public interest, has garnered national and international recognition and was, most recently, a finalist for the MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship.  He also served as the School of Law Editor of the Judicial Studies Institute Journal, a biannual scholarly publication aimed at the Irish judiciary, from 2004-2007.

Mr. Donnelly is an attorney admitted to practice before the state and federal bars of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with extensive civil litigation experience.  Mr. Donnelly was active in Massachusetts government and politics, having served as an Elected Representative of the Milton, MA Town Meeting and an Appointed Member of the Milton, MA Municipal Finance Committee. He has also worked in leadership capacities on political campaigns at the federal, state and local levels.  He now comments regularly on political and legal issues on both sides of the Atlantic in the Irish print and broadcast media.

Mr. Donnelly is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1996), where he majored in Classical Latin and Greek, and of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA (Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1999), where he was elected a Chief Editor of the Suffolk Transnational Law Review.

AREAS OF RESEARCH

• Legal Education
• Comparative Law
• Law and Politics

COURSES TAUGHT

• Legal Methods and Research
• Intensive Legal Methods and Research
• Advanced Legal Methods and Research

PUBLICATIONS

Edited

• (2010) 4 Galway Student Law Review.
• (2007) (1) Judicial Studies Institute Journal.
• (2007) 3 Galway Student Law Review.
• (2006) 6(1) Judicial Studies Institute Journal.
• (2005) 5(2) Judicial Studies Institute Journal.
• (2005) 5(1) Judicial Studies Institute Journal.
• (2004) 4(2) Judicial Studies Institute Journal.
• (2003) 2 Galway Student Law Review.

Authored

• “Developing Irish Clinical Legal Education” in (Thomas Mohr and Jennifer Schweppe, Eds.), Thirty Years of the Irish Association of Law Teachers _ (Dublin, 2011).  (forthcoming)
• “Clinical Legal Education in Ireland: Some Transatlantic Musings,” 4 Phoenix Law Review 5 (2010).
• “Legal Education in Ireland: A Paradigm Shift to the Practical?,” (with Marie-Luce Paris) 11(9) German Law Journal 1067 (2010).
  
• “Irish Clinical Legal Education Ab Initio: Challenges and Opportunities,” 13 International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 56 (2008/2009).
• “Toward Uniformity in Legal Citation in Ireland,” (2007) 25 Irish Law Times 256.
  
• “The United States Federal Judiciary May Not Be a ‘Third, Co-Equal Branch’ of Government.  Implications for the Irish Debate on ‘Judicial Activism?,’” 8 San Diego International Law Journal 459 (2007).
  
• “A Modest Proposal: The Case for Open Book Law Exams,” (2006) 2(2) European Journal of Legal Education 105.  
  
• Book Review, “Discovery” by Eoin Dee, (2005) 5(2) Judicial Studies Institute Journal 296.
  
• Book Note, “Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States,” 22 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 775 (1999).
  
• Book Note, “Alien Nation: Its Impact on the United States’ Great Debate Considered,” 22 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 311 (1998).

Ongoing Projects

• www.legalwriting.ie
  Partner in a collaborative endeavour with colleagues from NUIG, University of Limerick and Dublin Institute of Technology to design an online portal with text and exercises to improve law students’ analytical, research and writing skills.
• National Report on Legal Education – Ireland
  Co-reporter with a colleague from University College Dublin on the current status of university legal education in Ireland for the 18th International Congress on Comparative Law in Washington, DC, Summer 2010.
• Menu for Justice (JUSTMEN)
• Contributor to a European Union funded, deep and detailed preliminary study of similarities and differences of legal education systems in different EU member states.
  

PAPERS PRESENTED

• “Lawyers for Others: Toward a Practical, Public Interest Curriculum in Irish Law Schools,” (30th Anniversary of the Irish Association of Law Teachers Commemorative Conference, November 2010, Limerick).
• “Pro Bono, Public Interest Law and Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion,” (panel speaker) (Public Interest Law Institute European Pro Bono Forum, November 2010, Paris, France).
• “Who ‘Clinics’ and Where?  Considering and Questioning the Operational Practices of a Fledgling Clinical Legal Education Programme in Ireland,” (8th International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference, July 2010, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England)
• “Teaching Legal Writing Online,” (with Dr. Elaine Fahey, Rónán Kennedy and Jennifer Schweppe) (4th Irish Legal Education Symposium, May 2010, Limerick) (also served as Symposium Rapporteur).
• “Clinical Legal Education at NUI Galway: Some Observations and a Case Study,” (with Moya de Paor and Lorcan Burke) (Inaugural Conference on Service Learning, March 2010, Galway).
• “Opportunities for and Obstacles to Expanding Clinical Legal Education in Ireland,” (UCD Legal Education Symposium, Legal Education in Context and in Practice, March 2009, Dublin).
• “Irish Clinical Legal Education Ab Initio: Challenges and Opportunities,” (Sixth International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference, Lighting the Fire: The Many Roles of Clinical Legal Education, July 2008, Cork).
• “Legal Research: Methods and Know-How for Solicitors,” (Central Law Training Seminar, June 2008, Dublin).
• “Observations on the Teaching of Irish Legal Research,” (UCC Legal Education Symposium, What Are the Expectations of Legal Education in the 21st Century?, December 2007, Cork).
• “Clinical Legal Education at NUI, Galway: Progress to Date,” (TCD Legal Education Symposium, Education, Learning, Teaching and Research in the Irish Legal Academy, September 2006, Dublin).
• “Why Traditional and Electronic Sources Aren’t Mutually Exclusive in Legal Research: A User’s Perspective,” (with Nora Lydon) (Academic and National Library Training Cooperative, Perspectives on Online Information, July 2006, Galway).
• “Clinical Legal Education: Translating an American Innovation into Irish Practice,” (Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Law in a Changing Ireland, April 2006, Cork).
• “The Clerical Sex Abuse Scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts and the Ensuing Litigation – Implications for the Scandal in Ireland,” (Faculty of Law Public Lecture, February 2003, Galway).

MEDIA ACTIVITY

• Regular Political Analyst, Drive Time, RTÉ Radio One
• Regular Political Analyst, News on Two, RTÉ Television
• Guest Political Analyst, Prime Time, RTÉ Television
• Guest Panelist, Questions & Answers, RTÉ Television
• Regular Political Analyst, Keith Finnegan Show, Galway Bay FM
• Guest Political Columnist, Sunday Tribune
• Guest Political Columnist, Sunday Business Post
• Guest Columnist, Law Matters, The Irish Times
• Guest Political Contributor, Village Magazine
• Regular Panelist, Morning View, Dublin South FM

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

• Director of Clinical Legal Education
• Class Advisor, 2nd Year B.A. (Legal Studies) students
• Founding Member, Meitheal, Service Learning Pilot/Mentoring Group
• Faculty Representative, University Library Committee

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