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Dr Maureen O’Sullivan, PhD

12th June 2014

is a lecturer in law (Above the Bar) at the School of Law at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) where she specialises in industrial and intellectual property law, animal rights law and legal issues related to veganism and vegetarianism. She completed a Ph.D. at the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh in 2017 and published a monograph entitled “Biotechnology, Patents and Morality: A Deliberative and Participatory Paradigm for Reform” with Routledge in 2019. To date she has supervised several Ph.D. students to completion in animal law, land law and patents and biotechnology. She holds a Research LL.M. from the University of Warwick and studied her B.C.L. and B.A. (Philosophy and English) at University College Cork. She previously taught at the University of the West of England, Bristol and at Warwick University. Maureen was Chairperson of the Vegetarian Society of Ireland from 2013-9, secretary from 2012-2013 and has been a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics since 2014. She speaks fluent Spanish. She became vegetarian at the age of 12 and vegan at 20. Recently she has published articles on vegetarian and vegan rights in the European Human Rights Law Review and for the legal network of the UK Vegan Society. She is currently writing a book on the history of vegetarianism and veganism in Ireland and is editing a book entitled “Animals in Ireland.”