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Orla Lynskey

Lucy Cavendish

Reconciling fundamental rights in European data protection law

Summary

Start Date: 2009/10.

End Date: 2012/09.

Education / CV

Education

2009 - present: PhD candidate, University of Cambridge

2004 -2005: Master of European legal studies, College of Europe, Bruges (mention tres bien)

2000- 2004: LLB Law and French, Trinity College, Dublin (1st)

Erasmus year (2002-2003): Université de Poitiers, France

Professional experience

May - September 2009: Intern, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, ACT group, Brussels

Sept. 2008 - May 2009: Part-time lecturer in EC Competition and Internal Market law, EDHEC Nice

May 2008 - May 2009: Case-handler, Cartels - DG Competition, European Commission

Sept 2007 - May 2008: Stagiaire, Competition and antitrust, Howrey LLP, Brussels

Sept. 2005 - Sept. 2007: Teaching assistant, law department, College of Europe, Bruges

Other

Call to the Bar of England and Wales (2008)

Finalist before ECJ in the European Law Moot Court 2005; coach of winning team 2007.

Conference speaker: European University Institute, Florence (2006), UACES Edinburgh (2008), Academy of European Law, Trier (2009, 2010), Human Rights Law Conference, University of Nottingham (2010).

Mini-pupillages: Monckton Chambers, 20 Essex Street 

Fields of Research

European Union law, Competition law, Human rights

Representative Publications

  • "Putting the brakes on patient mobility: defining the limits of the freedom to travel to receive medical services", European Law Reporter, (78) July/ August 2009, 246.
  • "The extent to which the EC legislature takes into account WTO obligations- jousting lessons from the European Parliament" (co-authored by Jacques Bourgeois), chapter in "Law and Practice of EU External Relations", Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • "The ever-longer arm of EC law: the extension of Community competence into the field of criminal law", 1 Common Market Law Review 2008 1  (co-authored by A. Dawes)
  • Book review, Battjes, "European Asylum Law and International Law", 5 Common Market Law Review 2007 1544
  • "The application of Article 86(2) EC to measures which do not fulfil the Altmark criteria; institutionalising incoherence in the legal framework governing state compensation of public service obligations", World Competition, March 2007
  • "Giving with one hand and taking away with another: A critical analysis of the Asylum Procedures Directive", Focus article, European Current Law, August 2006
  •  "Complementing and completing the Common European Asylum System: a legal analysis of the emerging extraterritorial elements of EU refugee protection policy” (2006) 31 European Law Review. April 230
  •  Monthly casenotes on Irish Competition law for the online Competition law journal e-concurrences and contribution to project on private enforcement (www.concurrences.com)

Dissertation
Supervisors

Dr. Albertina Albors-Llorens