Eilionóir Flynn is an Established Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP) at University of Galway. Her work on disability rights is widely published, and her current research interests include legal capacity, access to justice and the intersectionality of disability, gender and ageing.

Her most recent research projects include the Re(al) Productive Justice: Gender and Disability Perspectives project, funded by Wellcome, as well as work with Inclusion Ireland and the National Disability Authority. Eilionóir is passionate about educating a new generation of disability activists and scholars, and was the Scientific Co-Ordinator of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network known as DARE (Disability Advocacy Research in Europe), which funded 15 early-stage researchers working on various disability rights issues across seven European countries.

Before this project, Eilionóir held a European Research Council Starting Grant for the VOICES project, which documented the narratives of people with lived experience of legal capacity denial. Eilionóir regularly collaborates with civil society organisations and disabled peoples organisations at national and international levels. In Ireland, she co-ordinated the Civil Society Legal Capacity Coalition to influence the drafting of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act, and internationally she has supported the Secretariat of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly the working group which developed General Comment 1.

She is a graduate of University College Cork (BCL, PhD), and received a scholarship from the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences for her PhD research on advocacy for persons with disabilities in Ireland and Australia. She published her first book with Cambridge University Press in 2011, entitled From Rhetoric to Action: Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This work was based on her postdoctoral research on comparative National Disability Strategies, conducted at the CDLP.

She has also served as one of the editors of the European Yearbook of Disability Law and co-edited the Routledge Handbook on Disability Law and Human Rights. Her next co-authored monograph, Re(al) Productive Justice: Gender and Disability, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Eilionóir's current research interests include legal capacity, advocacy, access to justice, and the intersectionality of disability, gender and ageing.

Eilionóir currently teaches Irish Disability Law and Policy (LW555) and Advocacy and Access to Justice (LW550) on the LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy. She also contributes to Foundational Theoretical Framework in Disability Law and Policy (LW552) and Legal Capacity Law and Policy (LW558). She has also taught on the MA in Lifecourse Studies, particularly the modules on Protection and Support Across the Lifecourse and Social Policy Across the Lifecourse.