Law

Contact Details

Title	Professor
Address	Law
Title	Head of College
Address	College of Business & Law University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353-21-490-3000
Fax:	+353 21 490 2529
Email:	ei.ccu@nonnafhcnyl.i
Homepage:	Web Page
Title	Professor
Address	Law University College Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353 21 490 2529

Biography:

Irene Lynch-Fannon is a graduate of University College Dublin (BCL, 1982); Oxford University (BCL, 1986, Senior Scholar, Somerville College) and the University of Virginia (Doctor of Juridical Science, 1999). She qualified as a Solicitor in 1985 and practised in London. She has acted as External Examiner for the University of Limerick, Dublin City University and the National College of Ireland. She was the Examiner in Company Law for the entrance examination for the Honourable Society of the Kings Inn. She was a member of the Audit Review Group established by the Government following the Public Accounts Committee Enquiry into DIRT and other irregularities. She was Head of the Department of Law at UCC from 1999-2002 and was also Dean of the Faculty of Law during 2000-2002. She continues to be involved in research on transatlantic corporate regulation and co-operation and was a visiting Professor at Cleveland Marshall College of Law in addition to holding the Baker Hostetler Chair at that law school during the academic year 2003/2004. She was  a European Commission expert evaluator for the Marie Curie Actions under FP6 and a reviewer for Cambridge University Press and for the Academy of Sciences in Finland. Since 2008 she has been the Head of the College of Business and Law at University College Cork.