Cathryn Costello
Fellow and Tutor in EU and Public Law
B.C.L., (N.U.I.), LL.M. (Bruges), B.L. (Honorable Society of King's Inns) is a fellow of Worcester College. She tutors Constitutional and EU law and also teaches parts of the BCL International and European Employment Law course.
From 1998-2003 she was Lecturer in European Law at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin. From 2000-2003, she also held the position of Director of the Irish Centre for European Law. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco and from January to May 2006 was a visiting research fellow at NYU School of Law.
She has assisted a number of NGOs in the immigration and asylum fields, and was a member of the Board of the Irish Refugee Council and the Steering Committee of the Immigrant Council of Ireland. She is currently on ILPA's (Immigration Law Practitioners' Association) European Group. Her DPhil is on EU immigration and asylum law, and will form the basis of a monograph in the Oxford Studies in European Law series with OUP. She also writes on EU constitutional and equality law.
Publications
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2012
C Costello, 'Courting Access to Asylum in Europe: Recent Supranational Jurisprudence Explored ' (2012) Human Rights Law Review 287
C Costello, 'Human Rights & the Elusive Universal Subject: Immigration Detention under International Human Rights and EU Law ' (2012) Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 257
C Costello, 'The Ruling of the Court of Justice in NS/ME on the fundamental rights of asylum seekers under the Dublin Regulation: Finally, an end to blind trust across the EU?' (2012) Asiel- en Migrantenrecht 83
2011
C Costello, 'Citizenship of the Union: Above Abuse?' in Rita de la Feria & Stefan Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law (Hart Publishing 2011)
L Lazarus, C Costello, K Ziegler and N Ghanea, 'Report on the evolution of Fundamental Rights Charters and Caselaw: A comparison of the EU, Council of Europe and UN Systems ' (2011)
C Costello, 'UK Migration Policy and EU Law' (2011) The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, Policy Primer Series
2009
C Costello, 'Metock: Free Movement and “Normal Family Life\\\" in the Union ' (2009) Common Market Law Review 587
C Costello, 'Report on Improving the Quality and Consistency of Asylum Decisions in the Council of Europe member states for the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly' (2009)
2008
C Costello, 'EC Immigration & Asylum Policymaking: Integrating a Role for the Oireachtas' in Gavin Barrett (ed), National Parliaments and the European Union: The Constitutional Challenge for the Oireachtas and Other Member State Legislatures (Clarus Press, Dublin 2008)
C Costello, 'Implementation of the Procedures Directive (2005/85) in the United Kingdom' in K Zwaan (ed), The Procedures Directive: Central Themes, Problem Issues, and Implementation in Selected Member States (Wolf Legal Publishers 2008)
C Costello and E Brown, 'The EU and the ECHR before European and Irish Courts' in U Kilkelly (ed), ECHR and Irish Law (2nd ed) (Jordans 2008)
2007
C Costello, 'The Asylum Procedures Directive in Legal Context: Equivocal Standards Meet General Principles' in Baldaccini, Guild, Toner (eds), Whose Freedom, Security and Justice? EU immigration and asylum law after 1999 (Hart 2007) [...]
Comprehensive analysis of the interaction of the Asylum Procedures Directive with the general principles of EC law, and other procedural guarantees embedded in human rights law more generally.
2006
C Costello, 'Administrative Governance and the Europeanisation of Asylum and Immigration Policy' in H Hofmann and A Türk (eds), EU Administrative Governance (Elgar Publishing 2006)
C Costello, 'The Bosphorus Ruling of the ECHR: Fundamental Rights and Blurry Boundaries in Europe' (2006) 6(1) Human Rights Law Review 87
C Costello and G Davies, 'The Case Law of the Court of Justice in the Field of Sex Equality Since 2000' (2006) Common Market Law Review 1567 [...]
Thematic review and evaluation of ECJ caselaw on sex equality from 2000 to 2006, including the general principle of equal treatment / non-discrimination.
2005
C Costello, 'Ireland's Nice Referenda' (2005) 1(3) European Constitutional Law Review 357
C Costello, 'The Asylum Procedures Directive and the Proliferation of Safe Country Practices: Deterrence, Deflection and the Dismantling of International Protection?' (2005) 7(1) European Journal of Migration Law 35
2004
C Costello, 'Accidents of Place and Parentage: Birthright Citizenship and Border Crossings' in The Citizenship Referendum: Implications for the Constitution and Human Rights (Law School TCD, Dublin 2004)
C Costello and E Brown, 'ECHR and the European Union' in U Kilkelly (ed), ECHR and Irish Law (Jordans, Dublin 2004) [...]
examines the position of the ECHR in EC law, and how the ECtHR reviews EC/ EU measures
ISBN: 0 853089264
2003
C Costello and E Barry (eds), Equality in Diversity: The New EC Equality Directives (ICEL / Equality Authority Dublin 2003)
C Costello, 'Gender Equalities and the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights' in Hervey & Kenner (eds), Economic and Social Rights under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Hart Publishing 2003)
I Bacik, C Costello and E Drew, 'Gender InJustice: Towards the Feminisation of the Legal Professions?' (Law School, TCD, Dublin 431 2003)
Research Projects
Interests
Teaching: European Union Law; Constitutional and Administrative Law; Labour/Employment Law; Human Rights Law
