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Imelda Maher

BCL(NUI), LLM(Temple) BL(King's Inns). RIA Senior Vice-President

Sutherland Full Professor of European Law UCD

Member PL&AElected in 2011

Director Dublin European Institute 2023-, Dean of Law UCD 2017-2022; Advisory Boards, Cambridge University Centre for European Legal Studies and Max Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation; RIA Strategic Plan Working Group 2018-19, 2023-24. On Council and in Office: Sec. PL&A 2014-2018, SVP 2023

Imelda Maher is the inaugural Sutherland Chair of European Law. She has worked extensively in European law and governance and in competition law. Currently Dean of UCD Sutherland School of Law, she was President of the Society of Legal Scholars in the UK and Ireland (2016-2017) and was elected honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple Inn of Court, London in 2018. Her most recent monograph (with Dermot Hodson) is the Transformation of EU Treaty-Making (CUP, 2018).

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