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)
Research Projects
Interests
Teaching: European Union Law; Constitutional and Administrative Law; Labour/Employment Law; Human Rights Law
