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Róisín Áine Costello

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E:Roisin.AineCostello@dcu.ie

Róisín Á Costello is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Government. A graduate of the LLB at Trinity College Dublin, Róisín also holds Masters degrees in International Affairs, and Law from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and Georgetown Law. Róisín completed her PhD in Law at Trinity College Dublin where her doctoral research was funded by the Irish Research Council and examined private actors as norm setters in the digital environment. Prior to joining DCU Róisín was an Assistant Lecturer in Media and IT Law at Maynooth University and a tutor at Trinity College Dublin. Róisín has worked with the Council of Europe, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (epic.org) in Washington DC, and the Georgetown Centre for Privacy and Technology Law and acts as a local expert for the World Bank Report on Women, Business and the Law. A qualified barrister, Róisín researches and works on EU law, technology law (with a particular focus on privacy and property rights), media law, language rights and law and literature.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2021	Róisín Áine Costello (2021) 'The Barbarian and the Cart: Citizenship, Law and Language in Macaronic Verse'. Law and Humanities, .
	2020	Róisín Á Costello (2020) 'Courtroom Dialogues and Feminist Legal Theory in Irish literature'. Irish Studies Review, 28 (3).
	2020	Róisín Á Costello (2020) 'The Impacts of AdTech on Privacy Rights and the Rule of Law'. Technology and Regulation (TechReg), .
	2020	Róisín Á Costello (2020) 'Conflicts Between Intellectual Property and Consumer Property Rights in the Digital Market'. European Journal of Law and Technology, .
	2020	Róisín Á Costello (2020) 'Schrems II: Everything is Illuminated?'. European Papers, .
	2019	Róisín Á Costello (2019) 'Review: Law, Policy and the Internet'. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, .
	2019	Róisín Á Costello (2019) 'Review: Remedies for Breach of Privacy'. SCRIPTed, .
	2018	Róisín Á Costello (2018) 'International criminal law and the role of non-state actors in preserving open source evidence'. Cambridge International Law Journal, .
	2018	Róisín Á Costello (2018) 'The Right to be Forgotten in Cases Involving Criminal Convictions: NT1 & NT2 v Google and the Information Commissioner'. European Human Rights Law Review, 3 .
	2014	Róisín Á Costello (2014) 'Reviving Rylands: How the Doctrine could be Used to Claim Compensation for Environmental Damage Caused by Fracking'. Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 23 (1).
	2014	Róisín Á Costello (2014) 'Reviving Rylands: How the Doctrine could be Used to Claim Compensation for Environmental Damage Caused by Fracking'. Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, .
	2022	Róisín Á Costello (2022) 'Genetic Data and The Right to Privacy: Towards a Relational Theory of Privacy?'. Human Rights Law Review, .
	2022	Róisín Á Costello (2022) '‘To be British, Irish, or Both’: Understanding Language Rights as a Tool for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland'. IRISH STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (ONLINE), 33 (2).
	2023	Róisín Á Costello (2023) 'Lost in Translation: Courtroom Interpretation and the Right to a Fair Trial in DPP v HM and BO [2021] IECA 315'. Irish Jurist, .
	2023	Róisín Á Costello;Sahar Ahmed (2023) 'Citizenship, Identity and Veiling: Interrogating the Limits of Article 8 ECHR in Cases Involving the Religious Dress of Muslim Women'. The Journal of Law and Religion, .

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2018	Róisín Á Costello (2018) 'R (Liberty) v The Secretary of State: The Struggle to Keep Data Retention Legislation Afloat in ‘Deep Constitutional Waters’ Continues' 36 (17) .
	2021	Róisín Á Costello (2021) 'Volodina v Russia (no. 2): Intimate Images, Domestic Violence and the Positive Obligations of Member States under Article 8 ECHR' European Data Protection Law Review (Peer Reviewed), 4 .

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2021	Róisín Á Costello (2021) Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference Law and Political Economy Approaches to European Constitutionalism Durham University, .
	2021	Róisín Á Costello (2021) Cross Border Research in Ireland Following Brexit: Data Protection in Research and Practice Second in series of events under IRC/ESRC Funded Project Dublin City University, 23/06/2021-23/06/2021.
	2021	Róisín Á Costello (2021) Out of Bounds: An Exploration of Boundaries in Crisis Smart Borders, Vulnerable Subjects: Citizenship in Threshold Zones Trinity College Dublin, 16/07/2021-16/07/2021.
	2021	Róisín Á Costello (2021) ICON-S Mundo Political Economy Approaches to European Constitutionalism Online, 08/07/2021-08/07/2021.
	2020	Róisín Á Costello (2020) Citizenship: An Exploration in Law and the Humanities Pursuing Insights into Multi-Level Citizenship through Irish Macaronic Verse Irish Network for the Legal Humanities, .
	2019	Róisín Á Costello (2019) Oxford Internet Institute & LSE Alan Turing Institute Data & Disorder Conference Citizen Datafication as a Condition of Access to Public Services: the Poverty of Privacy Rights in the EU? University of Oxford, .
	2019	Róisín Á Costello (2019) NOVA EU Workshop Digitalisation, Ethics and EU Fundamental Rights The Rise of Private Policy: Fundamental Rights and the Law of the Horse in EU Law Maastricht Centre for EU Law, .
	2019	Róisín Á Costello (2019) Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference Genetic Testing and the Erosion of Privacy Rights: Toward a Theory of Herd Immunity Preston, .
	2018	Róisín Á Costello (2018) WG Hart Legal Workshop: Building a 21st Century Bill of Rights The Need for a Constitutional Prohibition on Unreasonable Search and Seizure in a Digital Age UCL, .
	2018	Róisín Á Costello (2018) UACES Annual Conference A Dyadic Future: The Rule of Law in the European Union University of Bath, .
	2017	Róisín Á Costello (2017) ICON-S Great Britain and Ireland Fade to Black: the declining influence of the common law and its implications for the rule of law in Europe Trinity College Dublin, .

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2021	Róisín Áine Costello, David Fennelly, Maria Grazia Porcedda (2021) Data Protection and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Trinity College Dublin, . [Link]
	2018	Various (2018) Women, Business and the Law. World Bank, .
	2019	Various (2019) Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform. World Bank, .
	2020	Various (2020) Women, Business and the Law. Washington DC, .

Blog

	Year	Publication
	2021	Róisín Á Costello, Sahar Ahmed (2021) Privacy at the Margins: France's New Ban on the Hijab. Oxford: BLOG [Link]
	2021	Róisín Á Costello (2021) Clear in Principle, Opaque in Practice: Data sharing between public bodies during COVID-19. BLOG [Link]
	2020	Róisín Á Costello (2020) Private Policy, Public Health and the Balance of Power during COVID-19. BLOG [Link]
	2020	Róisín Á Costello, Conor Casey (2020) Judicial Review of Human Rights in a Time of Emergency. BLOG [Link]
	2021	Róisín Á Costello (2021) Does the European Union Set or Export Data Privacy Standards?. BLOG [Link]

Newspaper

	Year	Publication
	2021	Róisín Á Costello (2021) The Quinn’s Right to be Forgotten and the Public Interest. NEWSA

Book

	Year	Publication
	2023	Dr Róisin Á Costello BL (2023) Privacy Law in Ireland. London: Bloomsbury.

Honors and Awards

Date	Title	Awarding Body
01/01/2014	Fellow of International Economic Law	Georgetown Institute for International Economic Law
01/01/2015	CALI Award for Future Leadership in Law & Emerging Technologies	Georgetown Law Centre
01/01/2018	Irish Research Council Postgraduate Research Scholarship	Irish Research Council
01/01/2018	Graduate Scholarship	Trinity College Dublin
01/01/2014	International Student Scholarship	Georgetown University Law Centre
01/01/2017	Winner of International Technology Law Writing Competition	Justis

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	Irish Centre of European Law		-

Employment

Employer	Position	From / To
Maynooth University	Assistant Lecturer	01/09/2019 - 01/06/2020
Georgetown Centre for Privacy and Technology Law	Research Assistant	-
Electronic Privacy Information Centre	Public Interest and Consumer Protection Clerk	-
Trinity College Dublin	Seminar Tutor	01/09/2017 - 01/09/2019

Education

Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
	Trinity College Dublin	LLB
	Institut d'études politiques de Paris (SciencesPo Paris)	M.A.
	Georgetown Law Centre	LLM
	Trinity College Dublin	PhD
01/09/2018	The Honorable Society of the Kings Inns	Barrister at Law	Law

Languages

Language	Reading	Writing	Speaking
Irish	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
English	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
French	Fluent	Functional	Fluent

Outreach Activities

Year	Engagement Type	Organisation	Description
	Advisory Work	World Bank	Local expert advising on law and policy in Ireland for the World Bank's annua report on Women, Business and the Law
	Advisory Work	American Bar Association	Researcher on ABA White Paper on Religious Freedom
	Advisory Work	New Orleans' Public Defenders Office	Clerk
2022	Advisory Work	Council of Europe Data Protection Unit	I provide advices to the Council of Europe's data protection unit

Media

Title	Year	Type	Authors
Adhmhaidin	2021	Radio Interviews	Radio na Gaeltachta
Tús Áite	2020	Radio interview/panel discussion	Róisín Á Costello
Tús Áite	2021	Radio interview/panel discussion	Radio na Gaeltachta
Let’s call ‘revenge porn’ what is really is – sexual abuse	2020	Newspaper article (Print)	Róisín Á Costello
State’s right to collect data on children with autism far from clear	2020	Newspaper article (Print)	Róisín Áine Costello
RTÉ Radio One	2020	Radio Interviews	Róisín Á Costello
Newstalk FM	2020	Radio Interviews	Róisín Á Costello
What exactly are you giving away when you hand over your DNA?	2020	Newspaper article (online)	Róisín Á Costello
Súil Siar, Tús Áite	2021	Radio interview/panel discussion
Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill	2021	Radio Interviews	Newstalk FM
The uncertainty around data transfers from EU to UK post-Brexit	2021	Newspaper article (online)

Research Interests

EU law, privacy law, intellectual property law, media law, language rights, law and literature.

Research Projects

Title	Role	Start date	End date
The Constitutional Future of the Irish Language	Principle Investigator	01/05/2020	01/05/2021
Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law in a Digital Future	Award Holder	01/09/2018	01/09/2020
Cross Border Data Protection Network	Investigator	30/09/2020	31/12/2021
Supporting Irish Language Use on a Cross-Community Basis - Recommendations and Insights	DCU PI	01/11/2021	31/08/2022

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022	The Law of Contract	LG316
2022	Moot Court	LG124
2022		LG145
2022		LG399
2022		LG215
2023		LG3990
2023		LG215A
2023		LG5028