Dr Orla Kelleher
Biography
Research Interests
Peer Reviewed Journals
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2022 | 'Systemic Climate Change Litigation, Standing Rules and the Aarhus Convention: A Purposive Approach'
Orla Kelleher (2022) 'Systemic Climate Change Litigation, Standing Rules and the Aarhus Convention: A Purposive Approach'. Journal of Environmental Law, 34 (1) [Details] |
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2022 | 'Incorporating climate justice into legal reasoning: towards a risk-based approach to causation in systemic climate litigation'
Orla Kelleher (2022) 'Incorporating climate justice into legal reasoning: towards a risk-based approach to causation in systemic climate litigation'. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 13 (1) [Details] |
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2021 | '‘The role of judges in systemic climate litigation: a comparative analysis of Ireland and the Netherlands’'
Orla Kelleher (2021) '‘The role of judges in systemic climate litigation: a comparative analysis of Ireland and the Netherlands’'. The Journal Of Comparative Law, 16 (2) [Details] |
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2021 | 'A critical appraisal of Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland'
Orla Kelleher (2021) 'A critical appraisal of Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland'. Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 30 (1) [Details] |
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2018 | 'The revival of the unenumerated rights doctrine: a right to an environment and its implications for future climate change litigation in Ireland'
Orla Kelleher (2018) 'The revival of the unenumerated rights doctrine: a right to an environment and its implications for future climate change litigation in Ireland'. Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal, 25 (3) [Details] |
Conference Contributions
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | IUCN WCEL Oslo International Environmental Law Conference.
Orla Kelleher (2022) IUCN WCEL Oslo International Environmental Law Conference. [Oral Presentation], Constitutionalising a right to a healthy environment in Ireland: a transformative discourse or time-wasting distraction in a climate crisis?’, Oslo [Details] |
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2022 | Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference.
Orla Kelleher (2022) Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference. [Oral Presentation], Constitutionalising a right to a healthy environment in Ireland: a transformative discourse or time-wasting distraction in a climate crisis?’, Belfast [Details] |
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2022 | Panellist.
Orla Kelleher (2022) Panellist. [Oral Presentation], UCC FLAC conference ‘Strategic Litigation the Courts as a vehicle for Change,’, UCC [Details] |
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2020 | QUB School of Law SRN Symposium.
Orla Kelleher (2020) QUB School of Law SRN Symposium. [Oral Presentation], ‘Causation and attribution of responsibility for climate harms in systemic rights-based climate change litigation: through a climate justice lens’, Belfast [Details] |
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2019 | SLS Postgraduate Conference.
Orla Kelleher (2019) SLS Postgraduate Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Climate justice and its influence on standing in systemic climate litigation’, University of Central Lancashire, Preston [Details] |
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2019 | Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference.
Orla Kelleher (2019) Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Climate Justice and its influence on judicial interpretation in systemic climate litigation’, Limerick [Details] |
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2019 | College of Social Sciences & Law and College of Business Annual Research Student Symposium.
Orla Kelleher (2019) College of Social Sciences & Law and College of Business Annual Research Student Symposium. [Oral Presentation], ‘Climate Justice After the Paris Agreement’, UCD [Details] |
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2018 | Postgraduate Research Symposium on Environmental Law.
Orla Kelleher (2018) Postgraduate Research Symposium on Environmental Law. [Oral Presentation], , ‘The Revival of the Unenumerated Rights Doctrine: A Right to Environmental Protection and its Implications for Future Climate Change Litigation in Ireland’, UCC [Details] |
Article
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | ‘A Reflection on Climate Justice in Ireland’.
Orla Kelleher (2020) ‘A Reflection on Climate Justice in Ireland’. Article [Details] |
Blog
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2022 | What could a Citizens' Assembly on biodiversity in Ireland do?.
Orla Kelleher (2022) What could a Citizens' Assembly on biodiversity in Ireland do?. Blog [Details] |
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2020 | The Supreme Court of Ireland’s decision in Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland (“Climate Case Ireland”).
Orla Kelleher (2020) The Supreme Court of Ireland’s decision in Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland (“Climate Case Ireland”). Blog [Details] |
Invited Seminars
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Panellist at UL Research Week roundtable discussion on biodiversity and the 6th mass extinction.
Orla Kelleher (2022) Panellist at UL Research Week roundtable discussion on biodiversity and the 6th mass extinction. Invited Seminars [Details] |
Newspaper Articles
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | 'Proposed Climate Bill is not good enough- we need clear and binding commitments’.
Clodagh Daly, Orla Kelleher and Andrew Jackson (2020) 'Proposed Climate Bill is not good enough- we need clear and binding commitments’. Newspaper Articles [Details] |
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2020 | ‘Ireland’s 2050 climate target: too little, too late’.
Orla Kelleher and Clodagh Daly (2020) ‘Ireland’s 2050 climate target: too little, too late’. Newspaper Articles [Details] |
Workshops
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Panellist at an NGO workshop organised by the CLM Environmental Justice Centre on the Clean Air Strategy Consultation.
Orla Kelleher (2022) Panellist at an NGO workshop organised by the CLM Environmental Justice Centre on the Clean Air Strategy Consultation. Workshops [Details] |
Podcast
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Panellist for discussion of human rights and climate change as part of the ABCs of Green Politics Podcast.
Orla Kelleher (2021) Panellist for discussion of human rights and climate change as part of the ABCs of Green Politics Podcast. Podcast [Details] |
Webinar
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2022 | ‘The benefits of the access to justice provisions of the Aarhus Convention: lessons from the case law’.
Orla Kelleher (2022) ‘The benefits of the access to justice provisions of the Aarhus Convention: lessons from the case law’. Webinar [Details] |
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2022 | ‘A legal view of climate justice and just transition’.
Orla Kelleher (2022) ‘A legal view of climate justice and just transition’. Webinar [Details] |
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2021 | Panellist at Climate Bar Association Climate Case CPD Event at the Irish Bar Council.
Orla Kelleher (2021) Panellist at Climate Bar Association Climate Case CPD Event at the Irish Bar Council. Webinar [Details] |
Honours and Awards
Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
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2019 | Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship | Irish Research Council | |
2017 | UCD Sutherland School of Law Doctoral Scholarship | UCD Sutherland School of Law | |
2016 | Full entrance scholarship to attend College of Europe | Irish Department of Education and Skills | |
2011 | Strategic Skills Entrance Scholarship | University College Cork |
Employment
Employer | Position | From / To | |
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University of Limerick | Teaching assistant | 30-AUG-21 / 30-JUN-22 |
Education
Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
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2022 | University College Dublin | PhD | Law | |
2020 | The King's Inns | Barrister at Law | Law | |
2017 | College of Europe | LLM | European Law | |
2016 | University College Cork | BCL | Law and French |