Ursula Connolly
Professor
Faculty of Law
NUI Galway
Ireland
Biography
Ursula Connolly is a graduate of NUI, Galway and of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where she was awarded a masters degree specialising in European and International law in 1998. Following the completion of her masters she taught Labour Law at the University of Limerick (1999 - 2001). She has been a lecturer at the School of Law, NUI, Galway since September 2001 where she teaches primarily in the area of Tort Law.
Research Interest
Ursula's research interests focus on liability in Tort Law and the application of tortious principles to modern legal problems. Much of her research is comparative in nature, drawing primarily from the experiences of other common law jurisdictions.