Dr Claire Murray BCL, PhD, BL, PGCTLHE, PGDipTLHE
Contact Details
| Title | Lecturer | |
|---|---|---|
| Address | Law 2.73 Aras Na Laoi |
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| Telephone: | 021 490 3809 |
Biography:
Claire Murray is a first class honours graduate of University College Cork (BCL, 2004; PhD, 2010; PGCTLHE, 2011; PGDTLHE,
2012) and King's Inns (BL, 2008). She was awarded an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholarship to fund her PhD research and
completed her thesis, "Feminism, Rights and Mental Health Law: Analysing the Contribution of Feminist Theories of Rights to
Irish Mental Health Law", in 2009. She joined the Law Faculty in 2010 having previously practiced as a barrister and worked
as the principal legal researcher on the Law Reform Commission's project on Legal Aspects of Family Relationships. Her research interests lie broadly in the areas of mental health law, feminist theory, family law and medical law. She was
a Visiting Scholar at the Feminism and Legal Theory Project and the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, Emory
University, School of Law, USA. Claire is currently the Director of the BCL (International) and the LLM (Practitioner) programmes,
and a Coordinator of the Gender, Law and Sexuality (GLAS) Research Initiative.
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