ProfessorImelda Maher

Imelda Maher is the Sutherland Full Professor of European Law and Director of the UCD Dublin European Institute and served as Dean of Law and Head of School from Sept 2017-Sept 2021 and Sept 25-Sept 26. She is interested in the relationship between law and governance and has published extensively on competition law and EU governance. A Member of the Royal Irish Academy, she is currently Vice-President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, having previously served as Senior Vice-President. An honorary Bencher of Middle Temple, London, she serves on the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich and The Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University, Chicago. She is a member of the editorial advisory board of European Law Open, The European Law Review and The Irish Yearbook of International Law and was previously general editor of Legal Studies.
Prof Maher was the first Irish woman to become President of the Society of Legal Scholars of the UK and Ireland (2016-2017), the largest scholarly society of common law lawyers in Europe. She is a founding member of the European Law Institute, Vienna and serves on the Board of the Irish Hub. She served on the UCD Governing Authority from 2013-2019 and was a member of the National University of Ireland Senate from 2017-2022. She was Academic Director for the UCD Sutherland School of Law building project which opened in 2013.
She previously held posts at the London School of Economics; the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (where she was Director of the Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy); Birkbeck College, University of London; and Warwick University. She has held fellowships, visiting or adjunct appointments at The Europe Centre, Australian National University; The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London; Lund University, Sweden; Loyola University School of Law, Chicago; Notre Dame Law School (London); Peking University School of Transnational Law; and Sydney University School of Law. In 2008 she gave the prestigious general course lectures on economic law and governance at the Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Florence and in 2022 she was the Senior Emile Noel Global Fellow at New York University School of Law. Her recent work includes a series of articles on implementation of EU Law in Irish courts (with Rónán Riordan, Barry Rodger and Neža Šubic) and she is currently working on a monograph on international competition law (with Marek Martyniszyn).
Professor Maher is a graduate of UCD (BCL), holds an LLM from Temple University and a Barrister-at-Law degree from the Kings Inns. She is interested in supervising PhD students in the fields of EU law, of EU Law and Governance and Competition Law.