FAHEY, Elaine

Max Weber Fellow, 2009-2010, Visiting Max Weber Fellow, 2010-2011

2011-2013:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance
(ACELG)
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands

Email E.L.Fahey@uva.nl 

 

 

 

 

Elaine Fahey is a Visiting Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy in 2010-2011 and a Visiting Fellow at the Global Governance Program at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

She holds a Master of Laws (specializing in European Union law) from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and is a qualified Barrister-at-law (Kings Inns) and Attorney-at-Law (New York). Her doctoral thesis was entitled “Ireland and the European Union: The Unravelling Dynamic since Accession” and analysed 30 years of the operation of the preliminary reference procedure from the Irish courts pursuant to Art. 267 TFEU. She is an Assistant Lecturer in Law at the School of Social Sciences and Law at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland since 2007. She has practised as a barrister in Dublin and has taught at Trinity College Dublin. She is a former Judicial Research Assistant at the Four Courts, Dublin and has served as Secretary to the Irish Society for European Law.

She was a Max Weber Fellow in 2009-2010 and has recently completed a textbook entitled EU Law in Ireland (Clarus Press: Dublin, forthcoming in 2010).

Her research interests include EU Institutional law and EU law within the Irish legal order. Other areas of research include the preliminary reference procedure, national judicial administrations and the Court of Justice, the European arrest warrant, the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and Ireland and EU citizenship law.

She will work on EU-US Transatlantic Relations after the Treaty of Lisbon, considering the legal role of EU institutional actors played as to enlargement and security.

Publications include: 

EU Law in Ireland (2010), Clarus Press: Dublin 
“Swimming in a sea of law: Reflections on water borders, Irish (-British)-Euro Relations and opting-out and opting-in after the Treaty of Lisbon” (2010) Vol. 47 No. 3 Common Market Law Review pp. 645-672 
Súil ar an dlí (with O’Connor) (Co-Edited) (2010), Lonsdale Blackwell Publishing, Dublin 
“Interpretive legitimacy and the distinction between “social assistance” and “work seekers allowance”: Comment on Cases C-22/08 and C-23/08 Vatsouras and Koupatantze (2009) Vol. 34 European Law Review pp. 933-949 
“A Constitutional crisis in a tea-cup: The Supremacy of EC law in Ireland" (2009) Vol. 14 European Public Law pp. 515-522 
Practice and Procedure in Preliminary References to Europe: 30 years of Article 234 EC caselaw from the Irish Courts (2007) Firstlaw: Dublin.

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