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Ursula Connolly

 

Ursula Connolly
B.Comm. LLB (NUI) LLM (KU Leuven)

Tel.: 353 (0)91 493250
Room 513, Floor 2, Tower 2.
Office hours: Tuesday 10.30am - 12.00pm
email: ursula.connollynuigalway.ie

Ursula Connolly is a graduate of NUI, Galway and of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where she was awarded a masters degree specialising in European and International law, in 1998. Following the completion of her masters she taught Labour Law at the University of Limerick (1999 – 2001). She has been a lecturer at the Law Faculty, NUI, Galway, Ireland, since September 2001 where she teaches primarily in the area of Tort Law.

She was appointed as the Irish contributor for the Common Core on European Private Law project in 2005 ( www.jus.unitn.it/dsg/common-core ) in the area of Personal Injury Compensation. She is a founding member of the Centre for Research on Occupational and Lifestyle Stress ( http://www.nuigalway.ie/psychology/crols.htm), an interdisciplinary research unit based at NUI Galway. The Centre is dedicated to research on the impact of stress in occupational and lifestyle contexts.

She acted as project consultant for the European Project on Disability Discrimination ( www.euroddlaw.com) from 2004 to 2006. This project was designed to provide training on the disability aspects of the Framework Directive on Equal Treatment at Work (Directive 2000/78/EC) to NGOs representing people with disabilities. This training was provided in Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Hungary and Estonia from 2004 to 2006.

Ms. Connolly acted as an external examiner for the Dublin Institute of Technology from 2004 - 2009. 

She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley during September 2009 and spent two months at the University of Otago, New Zealand during October and November 2009 researching New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation scheme.

AREAS OF RESEARCH

• Legal liability for stress related occupational injuries
• Compensation in personal injury actions
• Equality in the workplace

COURSES TAUGHT

• Tort Law
  

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Connolly, U., Tort Law: Nutshell 2nd ed., (Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2009).
• Connolly & Quinlivan, Tort Cases and Materials (Thomson Round Hall, Dublin, 2006).

Articles

• Connolly, U., “ Paternity Fraud and the Tort of Deceit”, (2008) QRTL 24.
• Connolly, U., “Corr v IBC – Civil Liability and Employee Suicide”, (2007) 2(3) QRTL 16.
• Connolly, U., " Sutherland v Hatton: A Solution to Ireland’s Occupational Stress Question?," (2002) 20 ILT 230.
• Connolly, U., “ The Race Directive and the Framework Directive - An Analysis of their effect on Irish Employment - Part I,” (2001) 13 ILT 206.
• Connolly, U., “ The Race Directive and the Framework Directive - An Analysis of their effect on Irish Employment - Part II,” (2001) 14 ILT 219.
• Connolly, U., " Sex Discrimination Law," by Bolger & Kimber, (2001) 2 ULLR 135.

PAPERS PRESENTED

Conference

• “Legal Challenges in Psychiatric Injury Liability – a Commonwealth Perspective”, The 16th Commonwealth Law Conference, April 2009, Hong Kong.
•  “Civil Liability for Suicide”, Australia and New Zealand Association for Psychiatry, Psychology and Law Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 2008.
• “Deciding quantum when liability is not an issue – an Irish initiative.”, Scuola Superior Sant’Anna Conference, Personal Injuries Damages, a Transnational Problem, November, 2007, Pisa, Italy.
• “Mental Injury at Work – who is responsible?”, Law Faculty, NUI Galway Conference, Law and Mental Health, November 2007, Galway, Ireland.
• “The case for an Irish tort of privacy,” (Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Law in a Changing Ireland, April 2006, Cork).
• “The Personal Injuries Assessment Board – comments and criticism,” (Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia Conference, Taking the Pain out of the Suffering – Current Problems and Future Perspectives of the Law of Damages for Non Pecuniary Harm, March 2006, Norwich, England).
• “Sutherland v Hatton: Stress in the Workplace,” (Irish Association of Law Teachers Mid-Year Conference, Recent Developments in Human Rights Law, November 2002, Dublin). 

Seminars / Inivited Lectures / Other Talks

• “Legal Issues in Assisted Admissions”, delivered as part of a HSE Training Workshop, May 2010, Galway.
• “Damages in Personal Injury Actions, a Common Law perspective,” Faculty of Law, University of Brescia, Italy, October, 2009, Italy.
• ’Torts in Ireland – Recent Initiatives’, Law Faculty, University of Otago, NZ, November 2008.
• ’Liability for Mental Injury – Perspectives from Ireland and the United Kingdom’, School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle, US, September 2008.
• ’Selected issues in Irish Constitutional Law’, University of Warmia and Mazury , 2nd International Seminar on Roman and Comparative Law, April 2008, Poland (to be published in Faculty Law journal).
• “Damages in Personal Injury Actions, a Common Law perspective,” Faculty of Law, University of Brescia, Italy, November 20, 2007.
• “Liability for Stress Related Injury, a Common Law perspective,” Faculty of Law, University of Brescia, Italy, November 21, 2007.
• “An Ghaeilge agus an Stát: Dearcadh Dlí,” (presented to NUI Galway students of the Dioplóma sa Ghaeilge and of the Dioplóma Dlí, November 2005, NUI Galway).
• “The work of the Common Core on European Private Law,” Law Faculty Research seminar series, November 2005, NUI Galway).
• “Introduction to European Law,” (delivered to disability NGO’s in Cluj, Romania (April, 2005), Sofia, Bulgaria (May 2005), Vilnius, Lithuania (August 2005), Budapest, Hungary (March 2006) and Tallinn, Estonia (August 2006)).
• ’Positive Action and the Framework Directive on the prohibition of discrimination in employment’, delivered to disability NGO’s in Cluj, Romania (April, 2005), Sofia, Bulgaria (May 2005), Vilnius, Lithuania (August 2005), Budapest, Hungary (March 2006) and Tallinn, Estonia (August 2006)).
• ’Direct Discrimination and the Framework Directive on the prohibition of discrimination in employment’, delivered to disability NGO’s in Cluj, Romania (April, 2005), Sofia, Bulgaria (May 2005), Vilnius, Lithuania (August 2005), Budapest, Hungary (March 2006) and Tallinn, Estonia (August 2006)).
• ’Indirect Discrimination and the Framework Directive on the prohibition of discrimination in employment’, delivered to disability NGO’s in Cluj, Romania (April, 2005), Sofia, Bulgaria (May 2005), Vilnius, Lithuania (August 2005), Budapest, Hungary (March 2006) and Tallinn, Estonia (August 2006)).
• “Comparative Aspects of Employers Liability for Injury arising from Occupational Stress,” (delivered to law students at Robert Gordan University, February 2004, Glasgow and Aberdeen campuses, Scotland).