Law & Government

Biographical Details:

Michael Doherty graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an LL.B and from Queen's College, Cambridge with an LL.M. He attended the Honourable Society of Kings' Inns and was called to the Irish Bar in October 2002. His PhD on Irish Trade Union Membership was awarded by Trinity College Dublin. He has lectured in DCU since 2004, primarily on Employment Law and EU Law. He was Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Law and Government from 2007-2010. He is currently Head of the Law Group in the School and Director of the Socio-Legal Research Centre. He served as President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers from 2010-2011.

Research Interests:

Dr Doherty's research interests are in the areas of employment and labour law, industrial relations (especially the role of trade unions) and social partnership. He has published widely in national and international journals on these topics and is a frequent media contributor on labour market issues. He is co-author of Principles of Irish Employment Law (published in 2010 by Clarus Press). He is also a National Rapporteur on Employment Law to the International Academy of Comparative Law and is currently working as the national expert for Ireland on two European Commission projects relating to the proposed revision of the Posting of Workers Directive. Dr Doherty has supervised a recently completed PhD on comparative trade union responses to migrant labour and is currently supervising PhD research on Irish trade union policies in relation to migrant work. He welcomes applications from prospective LLM by Research or PhD students in any area of employment or industrial relations law and practice.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Achtsioglou, E. and Doherty, M.. 2013. There Must Be Some Way Out of Here...The Crisis, Labour Rights and Member States in the Eye of the Storm. European Law Journal, Forthcoming,
• Doherty, M. 2012. Battered and Fried? Regulation of Working Conditions and Wage-Setting after the 'John Grace' Decision. Dublin University Law Journal, 35,, pp97-120.
• Doherty, M. 2011. 'It Must Have Been Love...But It's Over Now. The Crisis and Collapse of Social Partnership In Ireland'. Transfer: European Review Of Labour And Research, 17, 3, pp371-386.
• Doherty, M and Erne, R. 2010. "Mind the Gap - National and Local Partnership in the Irish Public Sector". Industrial Relations Journal, 41, (5), pp461-478.
• Doherty, M. 2009. Institutional Challenge: Tribunals, Industrial Relations and the Law. Employment Law Review, 2, pp70-90.
• Doherty, M. 2009. "Representation, Bargaining and the Law: Where Next For the Unions?". Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 60, (4), pp282-402.
• Doherty, M. 2009. 'When the Working Day is Through: the End of Work as Identity?'. Work, Employment And Society, 23, 1, pp84-101.
• Doherty, M. 2008. "It's Good to Talk...Isn't It? Legislating for Information and Consultation in the Irish Workplace". Dublin University Law Journal, 30, , pp120-138.
• Doherty, M. 2008. "Hard Law, Soft Edge? Information, Consultation and Partnership". Employee Relations, 30, 6, pp603-622.
• Doherty, M. 2007. 'Union Sundown? The Future of Collective Representation Rights in Irish Law'. Irish Employment Law Journal, 4, 4, pp96-102.

Selected Books

• Daly, B and Doherty, M. Principles of Irish Employment Law, Clarus Press, 2010.

Selected Chapters

• Doherty, M. 2011. 'Ireland'. In Search of Cheap Labour in Europe: Working and Living Conditions of Posted Workers, pp81-92.
• Doherty, M. 2011. 'Labour Law'. , pp274-289.
• Doherty, M and Ryan, D. 2011. 'Report on Ireland'. The Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Labour Relations, pp293-308.
• Doherty, M. 2005. Individuals at Work? Collectivism and New Employment in the Irish Workplace. The New World of Work. Labour Markets in Contemporary Ireland., pp145-162.

Reviews

• Doherty, M. 2011. review of Kerr, A. (ed) "Industrial Relations Law Twenty Years On". Irish Law Times, 3, pp38-.
• Doherty, M review of Freeman, R. 2010. What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace. Journal Of Labor Research, 31,
• Doherty, M review of Kerr, A (ed). 2010. "Industrial Relations Law Twenty Years On". Industrial Relations News,
• Doherty, M review of Currie, S. 2009. Migration, Work and Citizenship in the Enlarged European Union. Translocations: The Irish Migration, Race And Social Transformation Review, 5,
• Doherty, M review of Greco, L. (2002). 2002. Industrial Redundancies. Irish Journal Of Sociology, 12, 2,, pp135-137.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Doherty, M. 2011. Aer Lingus Staff- Deal or No Deal?. Irish Examiner, Jan 13th,
• Doherty, M (report by Farrelly, R). 2010. 'Union representation Rights: Where to Next'. Industrial Relations News,
• Doherty, M and Ryan, D. 2010. . International Academy of Comparative Law- Age Discrimination Country Report (Ireland),
• Doherty, M. 2008. 'Fare's fair: would a refund be offered if the roles were reversed?'. Irish Independent, April 19th,
• Doherty, M. 2008. 'Aer Lingus Bows to Consumer Pressure'. Sunday Business Post, April 20th,
• Doherty, M. 2007. "Corporatism or cop-out? The impact of social partnership on union-member relations". Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Dublin City University., Working Paper No. 07/01 (available at http://doras.dcu.ie),
• Doherty, M. 2007. Munck, R and McAuley, A. ICTU Briefing Paper- Workplace Equality: Legal Aspects and Workplace Culture,
• Doherty, M. 2007. 'Ryanair Ruling Serious for Labour Court Role'. Irish Times, February 2nd,

• Doherty, M., `Labour Rights and EU Law: (Re)drawing the Battle Lines?¿ , Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference 2012, 03-APR-12 - 05-APR-12, De Montfort, Leicester, UK
• Doherty, M, W(h)ither Social Europe? EU Law, the Crisis and Labour Rights , Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, 31-AUG-11 - 02-SEP-11, Barcelona. Spain
• Doherty, M, 'After the `Flood¿: Protecting Posted Workers in the UK and Ireland', Irish Society of Comparative Law Third Annual Conference, 29-APR-11 - 30-APR-11, University College Dublin
• Doherty, M, 'Build It and They Will Come- The Posted Workers Directive, Transient Labour and Trade Unions', Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference, 12-APR-11 - 14-APR-11, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
• Doherty, M, The Crisis and Collapse of Irish Social Partnership, Employment and the Crisis: Work, Migration, Unemployment: ESRI/Policy Institue Symposium, 29-MAR-11 - 29-MAR-11, Trinity College Dublin
• Doherty, M, 'It Must Have Been Love...But It's All Over Now. The Crisis and Collapse of Social Partnership In Ireland', Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, 08-SEP-10 - 10-SEP-10, Oslo, Norway
• Doherty, M, 'You Can Lead a Horse to Water...Statutory Union Recognition Procedures in the Anglo-Saxon World', Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 30-APR-10 - 01-MAY-10, UWE, Bristol
• Doherty, M, A Bleak House: Trade Union Recognition Rights and the Law in Ireland, Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, 05-MAR-10 - 07-MAR-10, University of Limerick
• Doherty, M., European Employment Relations and the Law, Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, 22-JUL-09 - 24-JUL-09, Kocaeli University, Istanbul, Turkey
• Doherty, M and Hyland, M, 'Be Careful What You Wish For...Migrant Labour and the Law', Migration and the Irish Workplace Symposium- Trinity College, 05-JUN-09 - 05-JUN-09, Trinity College Dublin
• Doherty, M, 'Labour and the Law...Uneasy Bedfellows Still', Socip-Legal Studies Annual Conference, 07-APR-09 - 09-APR-09, De Montfort, Leicester
• Doherty, M., 'The World in Union? Collective Employee Representation and the Law', Industrial Relations In Europe Conference, 23-JUN-08 - 25-JUN-08, University of Greenwich, England
• Doherty, M, 'Representing the Future? Non-union Employee Representation and the Law', Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 18-MAR-08 - 20-MAR-08, University of Manchester, England
• Doherty, M and Erne, R, 'Mind the Gap-National and Local Partnership in the Irish Public Sector', Industrial Relations In Europe Conference, 26-28 July 2007, 26-JUL-07 - 28-JUL-07, Athens, Greece
• Doherty, M, `New Governance, Old Ideas? Social Dialogue in Action¿, Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 03-APR-07 - 05-APR-07, University of Kent, England
• Doherty., M, 'Can't We All Just Get Along? Workplace Partnership in the Public Sector', Industrial Relations In Europe Conference, 31-AUG-06 - 02-SEP-06, Ljubljana, Slovenija
• Doherty, M., `When is Too Much Information Too Much Power? The Regulation of Information, Consultation and Partnership at the Workplace', 3rd International Conference on Industrial Organisation, Economics and Law, 12-JUN-06 - 14-JUN-06, Athens, Greece
• Doherty, M., Hard Law, Soft Edge? The Janus Approach to Employee Participation at the Workplace, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 28-MAR-06 - 30-MAR-06, Stirling, Scotland
• Doherty, M., That Lucky Ol' Sun's Got Nothing to Do: The end of Work as Identity?, 13th Annual International Employment Relations Association (Worlds of Employment) Conference, 26-JUN-05 - 29-JUN-05, Aalborg, Denmark
• Doherty, M., Soft Law, Hard Results: Does Social Partnership Deliver?, Governance Issues in Shifting Industrial and Employment Relations Conference, 26-AUG-04 - 28-AUG-04, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Doherty, M., Irish Jig or Euro-vision: The Europeanisation of Workplace Relations In Ireland?, European Sociological Association Conference, 23-SEP-03 - 26-MAR-03, Murcia, Spain
• Doherty, M., Getting Down and Dirty: Case Study Methodology and The Workplace, Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Contemporary Research Conference, 06-SEP-03 - 07-SEP-03, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
• Doherty, M, 'Any Which Way But Loose: Social Partnership and the Law in Ireland', Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 23-APR-03 - 25-APR-03, Cavan, Ireland
• Doherty, M., Who Needs the Law? Social Partnership Irish Style, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 14-APR-03 - 16-APR-03, Nottingham, UK