Law

Contact Details

Address	Law Law University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353-21-490-2699

Biography:

Darren O'Donovan is a graduate of UCC (BCL 2005). A recipient of a Government of Ireland scholarship, he completed his PhD, ‘The Travelling Community, Cultural Rights and Accommodation under International Human Rights Law' at the UCC law faculty in 2009. In 2008, he was commissioned by the Irish Human Rights Commission to complete a research report on the international human rights protections of Travellers' cultural identity, which led to the publication of a joint Pavee Point/Irish Human Rights Commission Report: The Cultural Rights of Travellers' (2008). Darren is currently working as a researcher on an IRCHSS funded project Gender, Religious Diversity and Multiculturalism. In 2009, he co-authored a submission on the Intercultural Education Strategy, with Dr Siobhán Mullally. He is currently working on a series of articles on Travellers' and Roma rights in European and international law and the use of agency oversight to secure the implementation of human rights.