Maureen O'Sullivan

My principal interests lie in intellectual property: patents, ethics, morality and biotechnological inventions involving human and animal hybrids and chimeras. I have published a book on this area. This has led to an interest in animal rights and law, along withvegetarianismveganism. I have just completed writing a book on the Vegetarian Society of Ireland 1978-2024 and am negotiating Public - No restrictionation.I also have a keen interest in copyright law and have published widely on this theme. I am currently studying the Law Societys trademark course to develop expertise in the third pillar of intellectual property, so I am a lifelong scholar. As I have taught Land Law and Property Law at three different universities in Britain and Ireland, I also publish on this area and have some expertise in native title and aspects of Nigerian Land Law.My background interests are in Philosophy, Ethics, History, Sociology, Property and Political Science. I am interested in supervising hard-working and meticulous PhD students in the following areas: biotechnology and patents and related ethical questions; copyright and technology (and art); animal law, welfare and rights; themes in property and land law. Please email me to discuss your project.I hold degrees from several different universities and jurisdictions, in reverse chronological order, as follows: PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2018. The title of the thesis was Morality Patently Matters: The Case for a Universal Suffrage for Morally Controversial Biotechnological Patents; PG Cert. HE, University of the West of England, Bristol; Research LLM, University of Warwick and the title was The Linux Operating System: A Socio-Legal Study; BCL, University College Cork; BA in English and Philosophy, UCC. I am bilingual - Ispeak fluent Spanish and hold a Certificate from the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, Zaragoza, Spain.My teaching career began in Spain where I taughtT.E.F.L. for five years. I then studied for my BCL, I taught on the Property Law course at the University of Warwick for three years and later took up a lectureship at the University of the West of England, Bristol. There I continued teaching Property Law, eventually becoming module leader of that course. I also taught on the Cyber Law course and introduced a course on the LL.M. in Commercial Law, entitled Software Licensing and Legislation. Iwas appointed as a lecturer at NUI, Galway (as it then was) in 2006 and served as Interim Head of School from 2008 to 2009. The University funded my Ph.D which I completed in 2018.I have been the Chairperson of the Research Ethics Committee of the University since 2022.I have supervised four Ph.D. students to completion in patents, biotechnology and human dignity; land law in Nigeria and the UK; and animal law. I currently supervise two Ph.D students: one in biologics, patents and innovation; and the other inopen source software licences. I wasDirector of the BA in Public - No restriction and Social Policy from 2013-2016 and am the Law School representative on the MA in Public - No restriction Policy in the School of Sociology and Political Science. I am also the Law School Director of Careers.Selected Public - No restrictionations OSullivan, M (2021) Vegetarian Rights Denied: No Longer Cutting the Mustard? European Human Rights Law Review 2, 181-193. OSullivan, Maureen. Biotechnology, Patents and Morality: A Deliberative and Participatory Paradigm for Reform , (Routledge, 2019). OSullivan, Maureen (2015) Irish Artistic Copyright Law: A Menagerie of Holy Cows and Turtle Doves?, Intellectual Property Quarterly (1):31-61.

Patents and biotechnology, copyright (especially in the areas of history, technology and art), animal rights and ethics. Participatory democracy, land and property law.

Intellectual Property Law; Animal Law