Name: Sinead Eaton
Position: Junior Lecturer
Email:sinead.eaton@ul.ie
Phone: 233231
Fax: 202417
Office: FG015
Description:
Sinead Eaton, B.C.L., BL, Dip. European Law (Bruges), LLM - Junior Lecturer
Sinead graduated from National University of Ireland, UCD with a BCL in 1988 and, having graduated from The Honorable Society of Kings Inns with a Degree of Barrister at Law, was called to the Irish Bar in 1990. Having been awarded a scholarship by the Department of Education Sinead completed a bilingual course in EC law at the College of Europe in Bruges, following which she did a "stage" at DG IV of the European Commission in Brussels.
Sinead then spent a total of eight years working as a legal adviser to major Irish financial institutions. During that time she graduated with an LLM (with special mention) in Commercial Law from UCD. Before taking up a position at University of Limerick, Sinead spent two years at O'Donnell Sweeney, Solicitors in Dublin.
Teaching Interests:
Commercial Law, Company Law, Competition Law and EC Law.
Research Interests:
Corporate Finance, Company and Competition Law.
Selected Publications:
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL PAPERS
COMMON LAW WORLD REVIEW
"Protecting the prepaying buyer of unascertained goods"
Volume 37 Number 1 2007
Sinead Eaton and Ray Friel.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION
"Peer Observation : Reflecting on a mirror of your teaching" EJLE Volume 4, Number 2, October 2007 p. 181 (Published in 2008)
"The Commission's decision on Ryanair's arrangements at Charleroi airport" Commercial Law Practitioner Volume 11, Number 5, May 2004
REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS
IRISH JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LAW
"Economics based dominance - Has the tide turned?" (2009) Vol, 16 (1) and (2) p.195 - Published February 2011
EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW REVIEW
"Joint purchasing ; Assisting the survival of small retailers in small markets."
Volume 30 : issue 6, 2009
10 pages
COMMERCIAL LAW PRACTITIONER
"Not so separate legal personality and bad debts." CLP (2009) 16 (1) p. 13
5 pages
COMMERCIAL LAW PRACTITIONER
"Implementing the Prospectus Directive"
Volume 13, Number 1, January 2006
"Port Abused its Dominant Position" - a review of the ECJ decision relating to the port of Genoa, Competition Law Journial Vol. 1, issues 1 and 8 1991/1992.
"How Parallel Imports Row ended in the Supreme Court" - an analysis of the law and recent Supreme Court decision, Competition Law Journial Vol. 1, issues 1 and 8 1991/1992.
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