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Mary Keys

Mary Keys
B.Soc.Sc. (NUI), Dip. P.S.W. (University of Manchester), LL.B.(NUI), LL.M. (NUI), Ph.D. (University of Wales).

Tel.: 353 (0)91 493805
Room 502, Floor 3, Tower 2
Office hours by appointment.
email: mary.keysnuigalway.ie

Mary Keys is a graduate of University College Cork, University of Manchester, NUI, Galway and Cardiff University. She worked in the health service before completing her law degree and LL.M. She was a tutor in the Law Faculty before becoming a full-time member of staff in 1999. She was awarded Ph.D. by the University of Wales, Cardiff University Law School in 2006 on the area of mental health law and human rights. The title of her thesis was: The Enforcement of the Rights of Mental Disordered People and the European Convention on Human Rights. Mary specialises in Mental Health Law and is a founder member of the Law Faculty'sDisability Law and Policy Research Unit.

AREAS OF RESEARCH

• Mental Health Law
• Law and Older People

Current Research Project

Participating in the study on End of Life Care for Older People in Ireland involving the Centre for Nursing Studies and the Economics Department by contributing a section on the legal framework for end of life care for older people in Ireland.

COURSES TAUGHT

• Health Law and Policy
• Family Law
• Disability Law (LLM.programme)
• Medical Law
• Law for Nurses
• Seminars for allied health professional students including social work and occupational therapy
• Taught Constitutional Law, Tort and Law and Social Policy in the past.

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

• Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
• Class Advisor to Second BA Public and Social Policy
• Member of University Ethics Committee
  

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• “Legal Capacity Law Reform in Europe: An Urgent Challenge”, in Quinn & Waddington,(ed.s) European Yearbook of Disability Law, Intersentia,2009.

• Annotated Mental Health 2008”, ICLSA 2009 (forthcoming June 2009)
• Mental Health Law Chapter for text in Doyle et al, Mental Health Nursing in Ireland (forthcoming)
• Mental Health Law and the European Convention on Human Rights (forthcoming)
• “Mental Health Act 2001 Annotated” (2002) Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated 80
• Mental Health Act 2001 Round Hall Press 2002.
• “Challenging the legality of psychiatric detention under habeas corpus in Ireland” (2002) 24 Dublin University Law Journal  pp 26-57.
• “Official Indifference and Persistent Procrastination: An Analysis of Sinnott” (2002) Vol. 2 No. 2 Judicial Studies Institute Journal pp163-190.
• “Whose Illness is it Anyhow” Conference Papers published by Schizophrenia Ireland Jan 2001.
• "Comment on Council of Europe White Paper on Mental Health Law" Law Society Gazette June 2000.
• "Comment on the Council of Europe White Paper on Mental Health Law." Gazette Law Society of Ireland June 2000.
• "Guarded welcome for the new Mental Health Bill 1999", (1999) 6 Medico Legal Journal of Ireland 28
• "The Influence of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Ireland's mental health legislation, the deficiencies and the future." (1998) Personal Social Services NI 57
• "Issues for the new Mental Health Act," (1997) 3 Medico Legal Journal of Ireland  3

Conference Papers presented since 2000

• “A policy approach to embedding rights in Mental Health Services: A Vision for Change and the experience in Ireland”
  Amnesty and Irish Mental Health Coalition Annual Conference, Dublin, 2009
• “Nurses, Documentation and the Law” Nursing Conference, Galway, 2008
• “Advance Directives and the Law” Law Reform Commission of Ireland Annual Conference, Dublin Castle Bioethics: Advance Care Directives, 2008
  
• “Law and Recovery in Mental Health” East Galway Mental Health Services Conference on Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 2007.
• “Mental Health Law and Human Rights in Ireland” University College Cork Department of Social Science in conjunction with Cork Advocacy Network, 2006.
• “Rights of persons with mental disabilities under the European Convention on Human Rights” Law Society of Ireland Conference on Mental Health, Dublin, 2005.
• “The value added to mental health by the European Convention on Human Rights” Human Rights and Non-Discrimination Conference held jointly by the Equality Authority and Law Faculty at NUI Galway, 2004.
• “Nursing implications of the new Mental Health Act 2001”
• HSE Western Region Psychiatric Nursing Conference, 2004.
• “Mental Health Act 2001, Improved Rights – Greater Burdens? to Irish Association of Social Workers A.G.M. in Donegal 2002.
• “A Legal Perspective on Advocacy in Action” to Kerry Citizens Information Centre and Kerry Network of People with Disabilities, Killarney, 2001.
• “Participation in Reform” National Association of Mentally Handicapped of Ireland AGM, Kilkenny, 2001.
  "Civil Liberties and Changing Mental Health Legislation" to Royal Academy of Medicine -Psychiatric division, Dublin, 2000.
• ”Whose Illness is it Anyway” Chairpersons Address at the 12th Biennial Conference of Schizophrenia Ireland Conference, Galway, 2000.

Papers presented to various groups since 2000

• “The implications of the proposed Scheme of the Mental Capacity Bill for services” Disability Federation of Ireland, Dublin, Seminar, 2009
• “Content and Implications of the proposed Scheme of the Mental Capacity Bill 2008” Amnesty International Ireland, Dublin, Seminar, 2009
• “Content and Implications of the proposed Scheme of the Mental Capacity Bill 2008” Amnesty International Ireland, Dublin, Seminar, 2008
• “New Legal Challenges for Pharmacists” Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, Council meeting at NUI, Galway, 2008
• Consent and relationships” Ability West Seminar, Galwa, 2008
• “Mental Health Law for Social Workers” Seminar for UCC MSW and BSS students, 2007
• “Elder Abuse” presented to Knocknacarra Active Retirement Group, 2006.
• “Mental Health Law” to practitioners and students in St Angela’s College, Sligo, 2006.
• “Children, mental health and the law” Irish College of Psychiatrists held in Dublin, 2004.
• “Disabilities Bill 2001” Joint presentation and afternoon seminar to Galway Centre for Independent Living and PWDI in NUI, Galway February, 2002
• “Disability Law, Education and Children” to Enable Ireland Parents Group, 2002.
• “Incapacity and the Law” to Family Mediation Service, national meeting, Galway, 2002.
• “Consent and Capacity” Presentation to Galway Association Working Group, Galway, 2001.
• “Mental Health Law for Advocates” Workshop for Kerry Advocacy Network February 2001 Citizens Information Centre Killarney, 2001.
• “Changes to the Mental Health Bill 1999” to I.A.S. W. Social Workers in Psychiatry meeting in Galway, 2001.
• “The proposed Disabilities Bill” European Disability Day, Seminar and Workshop for Galway Centre for Independent Living Galway 2001.
• "Implications of the Mental Health Bill 1999" to South Eastern Psychiatrists Group, Kilkenny, 2000.
• “The Mental Health Bill 1999” to I.A.S.W. Social Workers in Psychiatry, Kildare, 2000.
• “Nurses and the Law” to Psychiatric Nurses, UCH, Galway, 2000.               

Other information

• Appointed to Mental Health Commission as the public representative for five years, 2007.
  
• Appointed as Director of the Board of the Brothers of Charity Services in Galway, 2007.
  
• Reappointed to the Mental Health Advisory Committee of the National Disability Authority, 2006.
• Member of subcommittee of the Department of Health and Children Expert Group on the Mental Health Policy A Vision for Change, 2005
  

 

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