Ursula Connolly
Lecturer, School of Law
National University of Ireland Galway
National University of Ireland Galway
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.
Ursula’s research interests focus on the application of traditional tort principles to emerging legal areas, in particular liability for mental injury and liability for internet wrongs. She has developed a postgraduate module on Internet Torts. She is also interested in damages in personal injuries actions and discrimination in employment. Her research is comparative in nature and she is or has been involved in a number of European projects in the areas of Disability Discrimination and European Private Law. She has also acted as a visiting lecturer at the University of Brescia, Italy on the topics of liability for mental injury and damages in personal injuries actions.
Ursula is currently completing a PhD on a part-time basis at the University of Bristol on the Regulation of Non-Discriminatory Occupational Harassment.
She has acted as an external examiner for the Dublin Institute of Technology from 2004 - 2009. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley during September 2009 and spent two months at the University of Otago, New Zealand during October and November 2009 researching New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation scheme.
Ursula’s research interests focus on the application of traditional tort principles to emerging legal areas, in particular liability for mental injury and liability for internet wrongs. She has developed a postgraduate module on Internet Torts. She is also interested in damages in personal injuries actions and discrimination in employment. Her research is comparative in nature and she is or has been involved in a number of European projects in the areas of Disability Discrimination and European Private Law. She has also acted as a visiting lecturer at the University of Brescia, Italy on the topics of liability for mental injury and damages in personal injuries actions.
Ursula is currently completing a PhD on a part-time basis at the University of Bristol on the Regulation of Non-Discriminatory Occupational Harassment.
She has acted as an external examiner for the Dublin Institute of Technology from 2004 - 2009. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley during September 2009 and spent two months at the University of Otago, New Zealand during October and November 2009 researching New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation scheme.
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