R.f. (ronan) Fahy
Professor
Faculty of Law
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
Biography
Ronan graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway with a first-class master’s degree in law, and was vice-president of the university’s law society. He is a former legal researcher with the Irish public broadcaster (RTÉ), and a former research fellow at Columbia Law School. He has published his work in a number of law reviews, including the Journal of Media Law, European Human Rights Law Review, Hibernian Law Journal, Columbia Journal of European Law, and European Human Rights Cases, and is a regular contributor to the Strasbourg Observers blog. Ronan joined the Institute for Information Law (IViR) in 2014 from Ghent University, where he has been writing his doctoral dissertation on freedom of expression and the chilling effect, under the guidance of Professor Dirk Voorhoof. Ronan is currently an editor of IRIS (the monthly newsletter on audiovisual law published by the European Audiovisual Observatory), and a researcher at the Institute.
Research Interest
Information Law
