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Ms Ursula Connolly LL.B, LL.M.
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Biography:
| 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 School of Law, NUI, Galway since September 2001 where she teaches primarily in the area of Tort Law. From 2011 she will also teach Labour Law and Internet Torts. Ursula’s research interests focus on the application of traditional tort principles to emerging legal areas, in particular liability for mental injury and liability for internet wrongs. She has developed a module on Internet Torts which is offered to students on the LL.M. in Law, Technology and Governance programme. She is also interested in damages in personal injuries actions and discrimination in employment. Her research is comparative in nature and she is or has been involved in a number of European projects in the areas of Disability Discrimination and European Private Law. She has also acted as a visiting lecturer at the University of Brescia, Italy on the topics of liability for mental injury and damages in personal injuries actions. Ursula is the author of a casebook on Tort Law and a nutshell on Tort Law. She has 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. Selected Publications
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Research Interests
| Ursula's research interests focus on liability in Tort Law and the application of tortious principles to modern legal problems. Much of her research is comparative in nature, drawing primarily from the experiences of other common law jurisdictions. Recent research has focused on the challenges facing the courts in compensating mental injury and she has published comparatively on the topic of stress related injury and liability for suicide. Other research interests include damages in personal injuries actions and she has acted as the Irish contributor to the Common Core on European Private Law project since 2005 on the topic of damages. She is also interested in legal protection against discrimination, including disability discrimination. From 2004-2006 she acted as a project consultant in the area of disability discrimination with the European Disability Discrimination Project. She is also an Adjunct Member of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI, Galway. In her research she has maintained links with the Health Service Executive
(HSE) Mental Health Services. She organised a conference on the Law and Mental
Health in 2006 primarily aimed at service providers in the HSE. She has also
provided training on tortious liability and involuntary admissions to the HSE
West Mental Health Services during 2010-11. |
Books
| Connolly, U. (2009) Tort Law: Nutshell. Dublin: Dublin, Thomson Round Hall 2nd ed. [Details] |
| Connolly, U. and Quinlivan, S. (2006) Tort Cases and Materials. Dublin: Thomson Round Hall, Dublin. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Connolly, U. (2012) 'Multiple Publication and Online Defamation - Recent Reforms in Ireland and the UK'. Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, 6 (1). [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2009) 'The Irish Constitution - an examination of selected issues'. Studia Prawnowstrojowe, 9 :95-108. [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2008) 'Paternity Fraud and the Tort of Deceit'. Quarterly Review of Tort Law, 24 . [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2007) 'Corr v IBC - Civil Liability and Employee Suicide'. Quarterly Review of Tort Law, 2 (3). [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2002) 'Sutherland v Hatton: A Solution to Ireland's Occupational Stress Question?'. Irish Law Times, 20 . [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2001) 'The Race Directive and the Framework Directive - An Analysis of their effect on Irish Employment - Part II'. Irish Law Times, 14 . [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2001) 'The Race Directive and the Framework Directive - An Analysis of their effect on Irish Employment - Part I'. Irish Law Times, 13 . [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Callanan, D.; Connolly, U (2011) Sections 8 & 22 Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005: Privacy, breach of contract and data protection issues Employment Law and Mental Health [Details] |
| Connolly U (2011) Multiple Publication and Online Defamation: Recent Developments in Ireland and the United Kingdom 9th International Cyberspace Conference [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2011) My Brother's Keeper - Legal Challenges in Imposing Civil Liability for Suicide 32nd International Congress of Law and Mental Health [Details] |
Book Review
| Connolly, U. (2001) Sex Discrimination Law,. ULLR. Book Review [Details] |
Invited Lectures
| Connolly, U (2009) Damages in Personal Injuries Actions, a Common Law Perspective, Faculty of Law, University of Brescia, Italy. Invited Lectures [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2007) Liability for Stress Related Injury, a Common Law perspective. Faculty of Law, University of Brescia Italy. Invited Lectures [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2007) Faculty of Law, University of Brescia Italy. Invited Lectures [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2005) An Ghaeilge agus an Stát: Dearcadh Dlí. NUI Galway students of the Dioplóma sa Ghaeilge and of the Dioplóma Dlí NUI Galway Galway, Ireland. Invited Lectures [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2004) Comparative Aspects of Employers Liability for Injury arising from Occupational Stress. Delievered to Law students at Robert Gordan University Glasgow and Aberdeen campuses, Scotland. Robert Gordan University Glasgow and Aberdeen campuses, Scotland: Invited Lectures [Details] |
Seminar
| Connolly, U (2008) Torts in Ireland - Recent Initiatives Law Faculty, University of Otago, New Zealand. Seminar [Details] |
| Connolly, U (2008) Liability for Mental Injury - Perspectives from Ireland and the United Kingdom, University of Washington, Seattle. Seminar [Details] |
| Connolly, U (2008) Selected Issues in Irish Constitutional Law, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland. Seminar [Details] |
Workshops
| Connolly, U. (2006) Introduction to European Law. Delivered to Disability NGO's. Tallinn, Estonia: Workshops [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2006) Direct Discrimination and the Framework Directive on the prohibition of discrimination in employment. Disability NGO's. Budapest, Hungary: Workshops [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2006) Indirect Discrimination and the Framework Directive on the prohibition of discrimination in employment. Disability NGO's. Budapest, Hungary (: Workshops [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2005) The work of the Common Core on European Private Law. Law Faculty Research seminar series NUI Galway Galway, Ireland. Workshops [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2005) Direct Discrimination and the Framework Directive on the prohibition of discrimination in employment. Disability NGO's. Sofia, Bulgaria: Workshops [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2005) Indirect Discrimination and the Framework Directive on the prohibition of discrimination in employment. Disability NGO's. Vilnius, Lithuania: Workshops [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2005) Introduction to European Law. Delivered to Disability NGO. Sofia, Bulgaria: Workshops [Details] |
| Connolly, U. (2005) Positive Action and the Framework Directive on the prohibition of discrimination in employment. Delivered to Disability NGO's. Cluj, Romania: Workshops [Details] |
Conference Contributions
| Connolly, U. (2002) Sutherland v Hatton: Stress in the Workplace. [Oral Presentation], Irish Association of Law Teachers Mid-Year Conference, Recent Developments in Human Rights Law, Dublin, Ireland , 01-NOV-02 - 01-NOV-02. |
| Connolly, U. (2006) The case for an Irish tort of privacy. [Oral Presentation], Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Law in a Changing Ireland, Cork , 19-NOV-08 - 20-FEB-07. |
| Connolly, U. (2006) The Personal Injuries Assessment Board - comments and criticism. [Invited Oral Presentation], Taking the Pain out of the Suffering - Current Problems and Future Perspectives of the Law of Damages for Non Pecuniary Harm Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia Norwich, UK , 01-MAR-06 - 02-MAR-07. |
| Connolly, U. (2007) Deciding quantum when liability is not an issue - an Irish initiative. [Invited Oral Presentation], Personal Injuries Damages, a Transnational Problem, Pisa, Italy , 01-NOV-07 - 02-NOV-07. |
| Connolly, U. (2007) Mental Injury at Work - who is responsible?. [Oral Presentation], Conference on Law and Mental Health Law Faculty, NUI Galway Galway, Ireland , 01-NOV-07 - 01-NOV-07. |
| Connolly U (2008) Civil Liability for Suicide. [Oral Presentation], Australia and New Zealand Association for Psychiatry, Pychology and Law Conference, Sydney, Australia , 06-NOV-08 - 07-NOV-07. |
| Connolly, Ursula (2009) Legal Challenges in Psychiatric Injury Liability - a Commonwealth Perspective. [Oral Presentation], 16th Commonwealth Law Conference, Hong Kong , 17-APR-09 - 21-FEB-10. |
| Connolly, Ursula (2011) Multiple Publication and Online Defamation - recent reforms in Ireland and the United Kingdom. [Oral Presentation], 9th International Cyberspace Conference, Brno, Czech Republic , 25-NOV-10 - 26-NOV-11. |
| Connolly, Ursula (2011) My Brother's Keeper? - Legal Challenges in Imposing Civil Liability for Suicide. [Oral Presentation], 32nd International Congress of Law and Mental Health, Berlin , 14-JUL-11 - 16-JUL-11. |
| Callanan, Deirdre; Connolly, Ursula (2011) Sections 8 & 22 Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005: Privacy, Breach of Contract and Data Protection Issues. [Invited Oral Presentation], Employment Law and Mental Health, National University of Ireland, Galway , 19-NOV-11 - 19-NOV-11. |
Teaching Interests
| Ursula currently teaches Tort Law. She will also teach Labour Law from 2011 and has developed a new module on Internet Torts which is offered to students on the LL.M. in Law, Technology and Governance programme. In the past she has taught Health and Safety Law, Labour Law, Tort Law and Irish Legal Systems. |