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Shivaun Quinlivan

Quinlivan
B.A. (NUI), LL.B. (NUI), LL.M. (King's College, London), B.L. (King's Inns)

Tel.: 353 (0)91 493842
Room 514, Floor 3, Tower 2
email: shivaun.quinlivannuigalway.ie

Shivaun Quinlivan is a graduate of NUI, Galway, King's College London and King's Inns. Shivaun joined the Law Faculty in NUI, Galway in 2000 and currently teaches Constitutional Law, Tort Law and Disability Discrimination Law on various programmes offered by the Faculty. She has worked as a stagiaire in the European Commission and a lecturer in Waterford Institute of Technology. Shivaun's research interests lie mainly in the field of equality and the law, with a particular interest in disability rights issues and is a founder member of the Law Faculty's Disability Law Policy and Research Unit. In 2004 She was appointed as the Irish member on the EU Network or Legal Experts on Non-Discrimination, this project reviews the incorporation of the Race Directive and the Framework Directive on Equal Treatment at Work within all twenty-five Member States. Shivaun was selected in 2005 for an Expert Consultative Panel on Discrimination and Gender Equality - this panel advises EU INTERREG on Public Sector Procurement and involves UCD and Trinity College Wales. She has been a project consultant for the European Project on Disability Discrimination (http://ww.euroddlaw.org) since 2004. This project is designed to provide training on the disability aspects of the Framework Directive on Equal Treatment at Work to NGOs representing people with disabilities. This training has so far been provided in Romania, Bulgaria and Lithuania and workshops will also take place in Estonia and Hungary during 2005/6. In 2002 Shivaun was appointed as the Irish Legal Expert on the EU Network of Legal Experts on Disability Discrimination established by the European Commission. This Network completed their work in 2004. Shivaun is also a member of the Board of the Association of Higher Education Access and Disability, an external examiner for The Honourable Society of King's Inns, an external lecturer to the Law Society of Ireland. She is also the Associate Director, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Law, Ireland Summer Law School. This American summer law school programme is accredited by the American Bar Association.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Shivaun is working on a chapter entitled ’Disability and the Workplace - Achieving Equality through Law,' edited by Basser, Lee A., Jones, M., and Rioux, M., publisher Martinus Nijhoff. Commissioned for publication in early 2006.
She is currently completing a Casebook on Tort Law, co-authored with Ursula Connolly (NUI Galway), to be published by Round Hall publishers in 2006.

COURSES TAUGHT

Constitutional Law (LW327)
Constitutional Law (LW302, 305)
Tort
Student Information

PUBLICATIONS

Chapters

’Disability Discrimination' in Moffatt, J., Mooney Cotter, A., ed., Discrimination Law, (Dublin 2005).
’Gender Discrimination' in Moffatt, J., Mooney Cotter, A., ed., Discrimination Law, ( Dublin 2005).
’Law and Disability in Ireland' in Noonan Walsh, P., Gash, H., ed., Lives and Times: People with Intellectual Disabilities, (Dublin 2004).
With Quinn, G., ’Disability Discrimination: The Need to Amend the Employment Equality Act, 1998 in Light of the EU Framework Directive on Employment,' in Costello, C., Barry, E., ed., Equality in Diversity: The New Equality Directives, ( Irish Centre for European Law, 2003).

Articles

’Employment Rights and Disability: Present and Proposed,' (2004) 4 ULLR 113-21.
’Disabilities Bill, 2001,' Bar Review , Volume 7, Issue 4, March/April 2002.
With Keys, M., ’Official Indifference and Persistent Procrastination: An Analysis of Sinnott,' Judicial Studies Institute , Vol. 2, No. 2, 2002, 163.
’Comhairle Act, 2000' Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated, R65 2001.

Reports

With Simoni, A., Rubio, R., ’Harassment: Related to Race and Ethnic Origin, Religion and Belief, Sexual Orientation and Disability.' EU 2004.
’Final Report Ireland, European Union Article 13 Network of Disability Discrimination Law Experts.' http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/fundamental_rights/pdf/aneval/disabfull_irl.pdf
With Quinn, G., Degener., T, ’Human Rights and Disability, The Current Use and Future Potential of United Nations Human Rights Instruments in the Context of Disability.' United Nations, OHCHR, 2002

Principle Conferences and Presentations

’Non-Discrimination in EU Law - The Value-Added to Irish Law.' Equality Authority and the Law Faculty, NUI, Galway, Human Rights and Disability Discrimination, Galway, September 2004.
’General Framework Directive - How Must Member States React.' Trieste Regional Government, Non-Discrimination and Disability, Italy, February 2004.
’EU Equality Acquis - What Must Member States Do?' European Commission and Taiex, Enlargement: Social Inclusion and the European Union, Lithuania October, 2003.
’General Framework Directive - The Value-Added to European Society.' Venice Regional Government, European Union: Non Discrimination and Disability, Italy, June 2003.
’Disability Bill - What Should it Contain?' Equality Authority, Disability NGO's Get Your Act Together! Dublin, December 2001.
’European and International Developments in Disability Law.' Law Society, National Disability Authority and Equality Authority, Law and Social Rights of the Disabled, Dublin, November 2001.
’EU Law - How Ireland Must Respond?' European Disability Forum, Taiex, Implications of Accession to the European Union, Brussels, November 2001.
’What Do We Need? - The Disability Bill.' People with Disabilities Ireland, Disability Bill and the Law, Cork, October 2001.
’Defining Disability - Ireland as a Role Model?' Disability Rights Commission, Defining Disability, London, October 2001.
With Quinn, G., ’Reasonable Accommodation - How To Bypass the Supreme Court Decision?' Irish Centre for European Law, and the Equality Authority, Equality Law, Dublin June 2001.
’Gender Rights and the Employment Equality Act, 1998.' Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Equality Authority, Equality Conference, Dublin, October 1999.

ADMINISTATIVE DUTIES

BCL Co-ordinator for the Law Faculty
Class Advisor, 1st B. Civil Law
Member of NUI, Galway Disciplinary Committee
Member of NUI, Galway Self Evaluation Steering Committee
Member of the Law Faculty Programme Review Committee
Member of the Law School Building Committee.

School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
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This page was last updated Thursday, September 11, 2008