Prof Michael Doherty

    Law, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies

    Gaeilge agus fáilte

    Professor

    New House
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    (+353) 87 222 7038

    Biography

    Michael Doherty joined the School of Law and Criminology (then Department of Law)  at Maynooth University in 2013, and was Head of School from 2013-2022.

    He is a Full Professor of Law, with particular expertise in the areas of Irish and EU employment and labour law, industrial relations, and social dialogue and collective bargaining. He has published widely in national and international outlets on all of these topics and presented his work at numerous domestic and international conferences.


    He has worked on a number of projects for the European Commission, on cross-border working terms and conditions, and platform work, as part of European-wide research networks and as co-investigator on a major, EU-funded project on public procurement. He has worked on a major European Parliament study on free movement of labour, on projects on the REFIT of the Written Statements Directive, and is a member of several European research networks looking at labour law in the EU.

    He is a frequent media contributor on labour relations issues. In 2021, he was appointed by the Irish Government as Chair of a High Level Group reviewing industrial relations and collective bargaining in Ireland (which reported in 2022). He is a past President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers. 

    He has supervised a number of PhD students working on projects relating to employment rights, public procurement processes, youth unemployment and the implementation of human rights instruments, and welcomes applications from students interested in     employment law and policy.

    He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin (LL.B), Queens’ College Cambridge (LL.M) and the Honorable Society of King’s Inns (called to the Irish Bar in 2002). He also holds a PhD (on Irish Trade Union Membership) from Trinity College Dublin. From 2004-2013, he worked at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, where he served as Director of Undergraduate Studies (2007-2010) and Director of Law (2011-2013). 

    He is a passionate supporter of the Irish football team, which he has followed all over the world, and is always striving to improve on his (basic) Spanish.

    Research Interests

    Prof Doherty's research interests are in the areas of employment and labour law, industrial relations (especially the role of trade unions) and social partnership, as well as in EU Labour Law and Policy.

    He has worked on a number of projects for the European Commission, on cross-border working terms and conditions, and platform work, as part of European-wide research networks and as co-investigator on a major, EU-funded project on public procurement. He has worked on a major European Parliament study on free movement of labour, on projects on the REFIT of the Written Statements Directive, and is a member of several European research networks looking at labour law in the EU.

    He has published widely in national and international outlets on these topics and presented his work at numerous domestic and international conferences. His work has focused, in particular, on collective employment rights, employee representation at work, the role of trade unions and the role of social pacts in socio-economic governance.

    He sits on the editorial board of a number of national and international journals, including Employee Relations, the Journal of Law and Politics and the Irish Employment Law Journal and acts as a reviewer for many more (including Economic and Industrial Democracy and the Dublin University Law Journal). 

    Research Projects

    Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
    Winning in Tendering Investigator 04/09/2011 01/09/2013
    Complementary study on the legal aspects of the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services in the European Union National Expert 02/02/2011
    Study on the protection of workers’ rights in subcontracting processes in the European Union National Expert 03/01/2011

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2024 Doherty, M (2024) 'Domino Dancing: Mutuality of Obligation and Determining Employment Status in Ireland'. Industrial Law Journal, online first . https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwae018
    2024 Doherty, M (2024) 'Make me good…just not yet? The (potential) impact of the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive'. Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 17 (1):211-226. [Link] https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1561-8048/19623
    2023 Doherty, M (2023) 'Collective agreements regarding the working conditions of solo self-employed persons in Ireland'. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft, 122 (4):430-439. [Link]
    2022 Doherty, M. (2022) ''An Outpost at a Difficult and Indistinct Frontier: Zalewski v Workplace Relations Commission’'. Irish Supreme Court Review, 4 :65-85. [Link]
    2021 Doherty, M (2021) 'The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers horizontal ellipsis Workplace Discipline and Legal Representation'. EUROPEAN LABOUR LAW JOURNAL, 12 :237-241. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2021 Doherty, M. (2021) 'Le « travailleur », le droit de l’UE et la négociation collective (in French)'. Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité social, 2021/2 :60-72. [Full-Text]
    2020 Doherty, M and Franca, V (2020) 'The (non/)Response of Trade Unions to the “gig” Challenge'. Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 13 (1):125-140. [Link] https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1561-8048/10762 [Full-Text]
    2020 Doherty, M; Franca, V (2020) 'Solving the 'Gig-saw'? Collective Rights and Platform Work'. Industrial Law Journal, 49 :352-376. [DOI]
    2020 Franca V.; Doherty M. (2020) 'Careless whispers: confidentiality and board-level worker representatives'. Employee Relations, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Doherty M. (2016) 'BREXIT, social and environmental rights: Through the looking glass: Brexit, free movement and the future'. King's Law Journal, 27 (3):375-386. [DOI]
    2016 Doherty, M (2016) 'New Morning? Irish Labour Law Post-Austerity'. Dublin University Law Journal, 39 (1):104-125. [Link] [Full-Text]
    2015 Doherty, M (2015) 'Austerità e diritti del lavoro in Europa: una filastrocca irlandese?'. Rivista Giuridica del Lavoro e della Previdenza Sociale, ANNO LXVI .
    2014 Achtsioglou, E. and Doherty, M. (2014) 'There Must Be Some Way Out of Here...The Crisis, Labour Rights and Member States in the Eye of the Storm'. European Law Journal, 20 :219-240. [Full-Text]
    2014 Doherty, M (2014) 'Can the Patient Survive the Cure? Irish Labour Law in the Austerity Era '. EUROPEAN LABOUR LAW JOURNAL, 5 :82-96. [Full-Text]
    2014 Doherty M. (2014) 'Back to the future of EU labour law? A review of Marc Rigaux, Jan Buelens and Amanda Latinne, from labour law to social competition law?'. King's Law Journal, 25 (3):467-475. [DOI]
    2013 Doherty M. (2013) 'When you ain't got nothin', You got nothin' to lose.... Union recognition laws, voluntarism and the anglo model'. Industrial Law Journal, 42 (4):369-397. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2013 Doherty, M. (2013) ''Emergency Exit? Collective Bargaining, the ILO and Irish Law''. EUROPEAN LABOUR LAW JOURNAL, 4 :171-195. [Full-Text]
    2012 Doherty, M. (2012) 'Battered and Fried? Regulation of Working Conditions and Wage-Setting after the John Grace Decision'. Dublin University Law Journal, 35 . [Full-Text]
    2011 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 . [Full-Text]
    2010 Doherty, M. (2010) 'What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace'. Journal of Labor Research, 31 . [Full-Text]
    2010 Doherty, M and Erne, R. (2010) 'Mind the Gap - National and Local Partnership in the Irish Public Sector'. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, 41 . [Full-Text]
    2009 Doherty, M. (2009) 'When the Working Day is Through: The End of Work as Identity?'. Work, Employment and Society, 23 . [Full-Text]
    2009 Doherty, M. (2009) 'Representation, Bargaining and the Law: Where Next For the Unions?'. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 60 . [Full-Text]
    2009 Doherty, M. (2009) ''Institutional Challenge: Tribunals, Industrial Relations and the Law’ in Employment Law Review'. IRISH EMPLOYMENT LAW JOURNAL, 2 . [Full-Text]
    2008 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 . [Full-Text]
    2008 Doherty, M. (2008) 'Hard Law, Soft Edge? Information, Consultation and Partnership'. Employee Relations, 30 . [Full-Text]
    2007 Doherty, M. (2007) 'Union Sundown? The Future of Collective Representation Rights in Irish Law'. IRISH EMPLOYMENT LAW JOURNAL, 4 . [Full-Text]

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2022 Doherty, M. (2022) '‘Competition Law, Cartels and Collective Bargaining: An Irish Goodbye?’' In: The Cambridge Handbook of Labor in Competition Law. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909570
    2019 Doherty, M. (2019) 'Collective Bargaining in the UK and Ireland' In: La Negociación En Europa. Una Persepective Tansversal. Spain : Gobierno de Espana.
    2021 Doherty, M. (2021) 'Ireland' In: Economically-dependent Workers as Part of a Decent Economy International, European and Comparative Perspective. Hamburg : Beck/ Hart/ Nomos.
    2020 Doherty, M (2020) 'Posting of Workers Before Irish Courts' In: Posting of Workers Before National Courts. Brussels : ETUI.
    2019 Doherty, M and Mangan, D. (2019) 'The Informing Ethos Behind the Sources of UK National Labour Law' In: The Sources of Labour Law. Amsterdam : Kluwer.
    2019 Doherty, M and Franca, V (2019) 'The Scope of Labour Protection in the Era of New Forms of Work: An EU Perspective' In: A Critical Review of Social Sciences: Contemporary Issues. London : Front Page.
    2018 Doherty, M (2018) 'EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND THE LAW' In: ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS. ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE.
    2018 Doherty, M (2018) '‘W(h)ither Social Europe? Labour Rights in a Social Market Economy’' In: The EU Social Market Economy and the Law: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Challenges for the EU. London : Routledge.
    2018 Doherty, M (2018) '‘Trade Unions and the “Gig Economy”’' In: Game Changers in Labour Law: Shaping the Future of Work. Amsterdam : Wolters Kluwer.
    2016 Doherty, M (2016) 'Getting Down and Dirty: The Case for Empirical Legal Research' In: Legal Research Methods: Principles and Practicalities. Dublin : Clarus.
    2015 Doherty, M and Ryan, D (2015) '‘ Whistleblowing: National Report for Ireland’' In: Whistleblowing: A Comparative Study. Amsterdam : Springer.
    2012 Doherty, M. (2012) 'Labour Law' In: J. Schweppe and T. Mohr (eds) 30 Years of Irish Legal Scholarship. Dublin : Round Hall Press.
    2011 Doherty, M. and Ryan, D. (2011) 'Report on Ireland' In: M. Schlachter (ed) The Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Labour Relations. Berlin : Nomos.
    2011 Doherty, M. (2011) 'Ireland' In: J. Cremers, (ed) In Search of Cheap Labour in Europe: Working and Living Conditions of Posted Workers. Netherlands : International Books.
    2005 Doherty, M. (2005) 'Individuals at Work? Collectivism and New Employment in the Irish Workplace' In: G. Collins and G. Boucher (eds) The New World of Work. Labour Markets in Contemporary Ireland. Dublin : Liffey Press.

    Book

    Year Publication
    2010 Daly, B. and Doherty, M. (2010) Principles of Irish Employment Law. : Clarus Press.

    Conference Publication

    Year Publication
    2016 Doherty, M; Ryan, D (2016) WHISTLEBLOWING - A COMPARATIVE STUDY Whistleblowing: National Report for Ireland [DOI]
    2015 Doherty, M (2015) Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference , De Montfort, Leicester Back to the Future of EU Labour Law
    2014 Doherty, M and Trif, A (2014) Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Dublin, Ireland Horses for Courses? Trade unions’ responses to the crisis in Romania and Ireland
    2013 Doherty, M. (2013) Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK, 4-6th September 2013 (forthcoming) ‘When You Ain’t Got Nothin’, You Got Nothin’ to Lose….Union Recognition Laws, Voluntarism and the ‘Anglo-model’
    2013 Doherty, M (2013) Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Bucharest, Romania Labour Rights and Public Procurement In Europe’ 11-13th Sept 2013
    2013 Doherty, M (2013) Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference Doherty, M. ‘When You Ain’t Got Nothin’, You Got Nothin’ to Lose….Union Recognition Laws, Voluntarism and the ‘Anglo-model’
    2013 Doherty, M. (2013) Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Bucharest, Romania, 11-13th September 2013 (forthcoming, paper accepted) Labour Rights and Public Procurement In Europe
    2013 McEvoy, E, Doherty, M, Davis, P, Flynn A and McKevitt, D. (2013) International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 10-12th April 2013 An Understanding of the Remedies Directive’s Impact on Public Procurement – An Academic Study for Practitioners
    2013 McEvoy, E, Davis, P, Doherty, M, Flynn A and McKevitt, D. (2013) International Purchasing and Supply, Education and Research Association (IPSERA) Conference, Nantes, France , 24-27th March 2013 Encouraging Social Enterprise participation in the Irish Public Procurement Market
    2012 McEvoy, E, Davis, P, Doherty, M, Flynn A and McKevitt, D. (2012) Irish Academy of Management (IAM) Annual Conference, NUI Maynooth, 5-7th September 2012 Regulating Low Value Public Procurement Procedures in Ireland - The Commercial Benefits
    2012 McEvoy, E, Doherty, M, Davis, P, Flynn A and McKevitt, D. (2012) International Public Procurement Conference, Seattle, USA, 17-19th August 2012 The Role of Procurement Review Bodies Post Transposition of the Remedies Directive in Europe
    2012 Davis, P, Doherty, M, McEvoy, E, Flynn A and McKevitt, D. (2012) International Purchasing and Supply, Education and Research Association (IPSERA) Conference, Naples, Italy , 1st-4th April 2012 The Remedies Directive - An Understanding of its impact on public procurement – An Irish Case Study
    2012 McEvoy, E, Doherty, M, Davis, P, Flynn A and McKevitt, D (2012) International Public Procurement Conference, Seattle, USA, 17-19th August 2012 ‘SMEs' Redress Participation in EU Public Contracts in the Wake of the Evolution of Centralised Procurement Review Bodies
    2012 Doherty, M. (2012) ELAI Annual Conference, UCD, 28-29th September 2012 The ILO and Collective Bargaining
    2012 Doherty, M. (2012) Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference 2012, De Montfort, Leicester, 3rd- 5th April 2012 Labour Rights and EU Law: (Re)drawing the Battle Lines?
    2011 Doherty, M (2011) Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 12-14th April 2011 Build It and They Will Come- The Posted Workers Directive, Transient Labour and Trade Unions
    2011 Doherty, M (2011) Employment and the Crisis: Work, Migration, Unemployment: ESRI/Policy Institue Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, 29th March 2011 The Crisis and Collapse of Irish Social Partnership
    2011 Doherty, M. (2011) European Employment Studies Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin, 14th December 2011 Regulating Transient Work in the EU
    2011 Doherty, M (2011) Irish Society of Comparative Law Third Annual Conference, University College Dublin, 29-30th April 2011 After the `Flood¿: Protecting Posted Workers in the UK and Ireland
    2011 Doherty, M. (2011) Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 1st-2nd Sept 2011 W(h)ither Social Europe? EU Law, the Crisis and Labour Rights
    2010 Doherty, M. (2010) Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Fafo Research Institute, Oslo, Norway, 8-10th Sept 2010 It Must Have Been Love…But It’s All Over Now. The Crisis and Collapse of Irish Social Partnership
    2010 Doherty, M, (2010) Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference, UWE, Bristol, England 30th April - 1st May 2010 You Can Lead a Horse to Water...Statutory Union Recognition Procedures in the Anglo-Saxon World
    2009 Doherty, M. (2009) Socio-Legal Studies Annual Conference, De Montfort, Leicester, England 5th-7th April 2009 Labour and the Law...Uneasy Bedfellows Still
    2009 Doherty, M. (2009) Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Kocaeli University, Istanbul, Turkey, 22-24th July 2009 European Employment Relations and the Law
    2009 Doherty, M. and Hyland, M. (2009) Migration and the Irish Workplace Symposium- Trinity College, Dublin 5th June 2009 Be Careful What You Wish For...Migrant Labour and the Law
    2008 Doherty, M. (2008) Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, England, 18-20th March 2008 Representing the Future? Non-union Employee Representation and the Law
    2008 Doherty, M. (2008) Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Greenwich, England 23rd-25th June 2008 The World in Union? Collective Employee Representation and the Law
    2008 Doherty, M. (2008) Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, 5th-7th Mar 2008 A Bleak House: Trade Union Recognition Rights and the Law in Ireland
    2007 Doherty, M. (2007) Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Kent, England, 3rd-5th April 2007 New Governance, Old Ideas? Social Dialogue in Action
    2007 Doherty, M. (with Roland Erne) (2007) Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Athens, Greece 26th-28th July 2007 Mind the Gap-National and Local Partnership in the Irish Public Sector
    2007 Doherty, M, (with Roland Erne) (2007) The Present and Future of Irish Social Partnership: Distributive, Regulatory and Strategic Issues', University College Dublin, 13th March 2007 Mind the Gap-National and Local Partnership in the Irish Public Sector
    2007 Doherty, M. (with Gerry Boucher) (2007) Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Dublin, October 19th – 21st 2007 Rhetoric and Results: Will Social Partnership Really “Save the Future”?
    2006 Doherty, M. (2006) Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenija, 31st Aug-2nd Sept 2006 Can't We All Just Get Along? Workplace Partnership in the Public Sector
    2006 Doherty, M. (2006) 3rd International Conference on Industrial Organisation, Economics and Law, Athens, Greece, 12th-14th June 2006 When is Too Much Information Too Much Power? The Regulation of Information, Consultation and Partnership at the Workplace
    2006 Doherty, M. (2006) Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Stirling, Scotland, 29h-30th March 2006 Hard Law, Soft Edge? The Janus Approach to Employee Participation at the Workplace
    2006 Doherty, M. (2006) Employment Research Centre Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin, January 10th 2006 Participation Boutique or Talking Shop?
    2005 Doherty, M. (2005) The 13th Annual International Employment Relations Association (Worlds of Employment) Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 26th-29th June 2005 That Luck Ol’ Sun’s Got Nothing to Do: The End of Work as Identity?
    2004 Doherty, M. (2004) The Industrial Relations in Europe Governance Issues in Shifting Industrial and Employment Relations Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 26th-28th August 2004 Soft Law, Hard Results: Does Social Partnership Deliver?
    2003 Doherty, M. (2003) The Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK, 14th-16th April 2003 Who Needs the Law? Social Partnership Irish Style
    2003 Dohery, M. (2003) The fifth ECSR Summer School 'Integrating Sociological Theory and Research' (ISTAR), Belfast, Northern Ireland 30th August – 4th September 2003 The Europeanisation of Irish Industrial Relations?
    2003 Doherty, M. (2003) The European Sociological Association Aging Societies, New Sociology Conference, Murcia, Spain 23rd-26th September, 2003 Irish Jig or Euro-vision- The Europeanisation of Workplace Relations In Ireland?

    Book Review

    Year Publication
    2011 Doherty, M. (2011) Review of Kerr, A. (ed) ‘Industrial Relations Law Twenty Years On’. [Book Review]
    2010 Doherty, M. (2010) Review of Kerr, A (ed). 2010. ‘Industrial Relations Law Twenty Years On’. [Book Review]
    2009 Doherty, M. (2009) Review of Currie, S. 2009. ‘Migration, Work and Citizenship in the Enlarged European Union’. [Book Review]
    2002 Doherty, M. (2002) Review of Greco, L. 2002. ‘Industrial Redundancies’. [Book Review]

    Other

    Year Publication
    2011 Doherty, M. (2011) National Expert for Ireland: Study on the protection of workers’ rights in subcontracting processes in the European Union (VT/2010/063). [Other]
    2011 Doherty, M. (2011) National Expert for Ireland: Complementary study on the legal aspects of the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services in the European Union (Contract Number VC/2011/0096). [Other]
    2010 Doherty, M and Ryan, D (2010) The Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Labour Relations for the International Academy of Comparative Law Congress 2010. [Other]
    2010 Doherty, M. (2010) National Expert for Ireland: Living and Working Conditions of Posted Workers (research project, commissioned by the European social partners in the construction industry, EFBWW- FIEC). [Other]
    2007 Doherty, M. Munck, R and McAuley, A. (2007) Policy paper commissioned by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions: ICTU Briefing Paper- Workplace Equality: Legal Aspects and Workplace Culture. [Other]

    Report

    Year Publication
    2019 Cruz Villalon, J, La Negociación En Europa. Una Persepective Tansversal (Gobierno de Espana). (2019) Collective Bargaining in the UK and Ireland. [Report]

    Published Report

    Year Publication
    2023 Doherty, M; Kerr, A; Murphy, C (2023) Interaction between labour law and immigration regimes- Ireland. ETUI, . [Link]
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    Teaching Interests

    Employment and Labour Law
    EU Law
    Legal Systems