SEAMUS CLARKE: Lecturer and Tutor in Jurisprudence and Evidence at the King's Inn. He is also a practicing Barrister-at-law specializing in the area of criminal law. Professor Clarke holds a Barrister-in-Law degree, The Honorable Society of King's Inns; Magister Juris Degree in European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford; and a Bachelor of Civil Law, University College Dublin. Professor Clarke has published numerous articles in relation to judicial review, pharmacy law and electronic commerce.
MARY CATHERINE LUCEY: Lecturer in Competition Law at the University College, Dublin. She previously worked in the Competition section of the European Commission--the body charged with enforcing EC competition law throughout the European Union.
SUZANNE KINGSTON: Suzanne Kingston graduated from Oxford University (BA in Law) and Leiden University, the Netherlands (LL.M in European Community Law, cum laude). From 2002-2004, she practised EU law in the Brussels office of the US law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. From 2004-2006, she served as a référendaire (law clerk) in the cabinet of Advocate General Geelhoed at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg. She was appointed affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 2006, where she tutored EU law at undergraduate level and lectured in EU environmental law at graduate level. Since September 2007, she has been a lecturer in University College Dublin, where she has taught EU law and EU antitrust law at undergraduate level, and EU constitutional law at graduate level. She also regularly gives lectures on EU law in programmes run by the European Commission in newly-acceded Member States or states in the process of accession. Recent publications include "A light in the darkness? Recent Developments in the ECJ's case law on taxation" 44 Common Market Law Review (2007) 1321 and "The Boundaries of Sovereignty: The ECJ's Controversial Role Applying the Internal Market Rules to Taxation" (2007) Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. She is a contributor to the new edition of P.J.G. Kapteyn, P. Verloren van Themaat, et al., Introduction to the Law of the European Communities (Kluwer, forthcoming). Suzanne is a qualified barrister in England and Wales (1999) and Ireland (2007).
DR. FERGUS RYAN: Cert. (Fr.), LL.B. (Hons.), Ph.D. (Dub.) Dr. Ryan, a graduate and former scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, is currently Head of the Department of Legal Studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology and a visiting lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, the Law Society of Ireland and the National University of Ireland. An experienced teacher and researcher, Dr. Ryan has served as internship director for the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dublin summer program since 2001.
Dr. Ryan is also the author of several books, chapters in books and academic articles including Constitutional Law (Thomson Round Hall, 2001) and (with Dug Cubie) Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Law in Ireland, Cases and Materials (Thomson Round Hall, 2004). He has acted as consultant to the Northern Ireland Law Reform Advisory Committee. A former President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers and the current Vice-Chair of One Family, Dr. Ryan is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, and a regular contributor on Irish radio and television.
ROBERT SPOO: Professor Spoo earned his J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal and received the Michael Egger Prize for best student publication on current social problems in volume 108 of the Yale Law Journal. After graduating, he served as law clerk for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and practiced for several years with law firms in New York, Oklahoma, and San Francisco, providing litigation services and advice in the areas of copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property. As an attorney, Professor Spoo has represented authors, scholars, documentary filmmakers, record companies, and other creators and users of intellectual property. His litigation work has included serving as co-counsel, with the Stanford Center for Internet & Society, for Professor Carol Shloss of Stanford against the Estate of James Joyce. In 2005, he was asked to travel to Vietnam to advise the Ministry of Education and Training on issues of intellectual property and higher education.
Prior to his legal career, Professor Spoo received his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Princeton University and taught for more than ten years as a tenured faculty member in the English Department at the University of Tulsa, where he was also Editor of the James Joyce Quarterly. He has published numerous books and articles on James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and other modern literary figures. His teaching interests include copyrights and intellectual property, media and entertainment law, law and literature, and contracts. His recent research has focused on the intersection of intellectual property, modernist literature, and the copyright-related needs of scholars. Professor Spoo is a member of the Modernist Studies Association Task Force on Fair Use, serves as copyright advisor to numerous academic journals and projects, and acts as general counsel for the International James Joyce Foundation. In June 2008, he received the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award for "outstanding contributions and achievements in a career field," from his undergraduate institution, Lawrence University.
PAUL WARD: Lecturer in Family Law and Tort Law at the University College, Dublin. He is an expert on Irish family law and has written numerous articles on the subject. Mr. Ward also practices family law in Dublin.