Law

Contact Details

Title	Professor
Address	Law University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353 21 490 3642
Email:	ei.ccu@ylleklik.u

Biography:

Ursula Kilkelly (BA, LLM, PhD) joined the Law Faculty in 1999 and was made Senior Lecturer in 2004 and Professor of Law in 2011. She has lectured and published widely on children's rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and youth justice. She is director of the LLM (Child and Family Law) at UCC where she directs the innovative Child Law Clinic, a research initiative which provides student-led research services to lawyers litigating children's issues.

She is currently undertaking commissioned research for the Ombudsman for Children, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. She is working on the second editions of her books on the Child and the ECHR (2012) and Children's Rights in Ireland (2013). She currently holds two IRCHSS 'new ideas' grants to convene an international child law conference and a national children's researcher symposium.

Ursula actively collaborates with colleagues across other disciplines including education, health, social work and psychology. She is a member of the steering group of the ISS21 Children and Young People's research cluster, an inter-disciplinary network committed to collaboration in research and teaching.

 

She is the Chairperson of the University Research Ethics Board.