The IP Bulletin is an update of intellectual property law, updated quarterly and providing practitioners with a detailed overview of intellectual property developments relating to Ireland and beyond, authored by Róísín Costello BL.
Róisín Á Costello is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Government. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and Georgetown Law Róisín is a qualified barrister and researches and works on EU law, fundamental rights (with a particular focus on privacy and property rights), media law, language rights, and law and literature. Her research has been supervised by and conducted alongside some of the leading privacy lawyers in Ireland, and internationally, including Professor Julie E Cohen, Professor Alvaro Bedoya and Professor Neil M Richards, Dr. Federico Fabbrini and Dr. Eoin O'Dell. Róisín has previously worked with the Georgetown Centre for Privacy and Technology Law and epic.org in Washington DC researching the interaction of privacy and consumer technologies and has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals on the subjects of privacy and data protection. 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 taught at Trinity College Dublin.