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Dr. Desmond Ryan

Associate Professor (Law)
HOUSE 39, COLLEGE
      
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Dr. Desmond Ryan

Associate Professor (Law)
HOUSE 39, COLLEGE

 Desmond.Ryan@tcd.ie

 3531896 8572


     Constitutional Law   Employment and Labour Law   Tort and Personal Injury Law
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Executive Committee Member, International Society of Labour and Social Security Law 2023-present
Convenor for Ireland, Society of Legal Scholars 2015-present
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Founder and Convenor, Private Law Research Group, Trinity College Dublin 2012 present
Founding Member and Committee Member, Employment Law Association of Ireland 2011 present
European Employment Lawyers' Association 2011 present
Health and Safety Lawyers' Association of Ireland 2012 present
Executive Committee Member, International Society for Labour and Social Security Law 2023 present
"A Decade of Distinctive Doctrinal Developments in Tort Law in Ireland: Analysing the Case Law of the Court of Appeal in Comparative Perspective" in, editor(s)Dr. Mark Coen and Dr. Noel McGrath , The Irish Court of Appeal: The First Decade of an Intermediate Appellate Court, 2026, pp153 - 170, [Desmond Ryan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Desmond Ryan, Of Principles and Principals: Reasonableness and Remedies in Unfair Dismissal: An Bord Banistíochta, Gaelscoil Moshíológ v the Labour Court [2024] IESC 38, Irish Supreme Court Review, 7, 2025, p59 - 74, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Desmond Ryan, Esther McGuinness, Rory O'Connell, A Review of Employment Law in Ireland, North and South, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 2025, p1 - 29, Journal Article, IN_PRESS
Desmond Ryan, "The Power and Limits of Close Connection: Analysing the Legacy of Bazley v Curry through three international case studies", The Supreme Court Law Review (Canada), 2, (Third Series), 2024, p31 - 47, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Desmond Ryan, Emerging institutional reforms of the labour law dispute resolution machinery in Ireland, and their implications for labour law norms, Labour Law Research Network, Warsaw, Poland, 24 June 2023, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Desmond Ryan, Damages for false imprisonment by the state: counterfactual and vindicatory approaches in comparative perspective, Obligations X, Banff, Canada, 14 July 2023, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Desmond Ryan, Marta Lasek-Markey, Andrea Mulligan, Linda Hogan, Bryana Tunder, Conscientious Objection in an Uncertain Time: New Challenges in Ireland, Religions, 14, 2023, p1 - 16, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Connecting Cautiously: Vicarious Liability in Ireland in Comparative Perspective in, editor(s)Paula Giliker , Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World, Oxford, Hart, 2022, pp103 - 119, [Desmond Ryan ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
The influence of Chief Baron Palles on the development of the doctrines of vicarious liability and the non-delegable duty of care in, editor(s)Oonagh B. Breen and Noel McGrath , Palles: The Legal Legacy of the Last Lord Chief Baron, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2022, pp160 - 175, [Desmond Ryan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Allison Silink and Desmond Ryan, Twenty Years on from Lister v Hesley Hall Ltd - Is There Now a 'Tailored Close Connection Test' for Vicarious Liability in Cases of Sexual Abuse, or Not?, Professional Negligence, 38, (1), 2022, p5 - 23, Journal Article, IN_PRESS
  

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Desmond Ryan, Redmond on Dismissal Law, Third, Dublin, Bloomsbury Professional, 2017, 1 - 641pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Employment Law in, editor(s)Professor William Binchy Raymond Byrne, Director of Research, Law Reform Commission , Annual Review of Irish Law 2008, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2009, pp311 - 324, [Des Ryan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Employment Law in, editor(s)Professor William Binchy Raymond Byrne, Director of Research, Law Reform Commission , Annual Review of Irish Law 2007, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2008, pp257 - 279, [Des Ryan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  


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Elected a Visiting Fellow, Exeter College Oxford October 2016-June 2017
Provost's Teaching Award, Trinity College Dublin, 2011 2011
Invited as Academic Visitor, University of Melbourne Law School Centre for Employment Law and Industrial Relations July-August 2017
Nominated for a Provost's Teaching Award (ineligible for application due to having received this award in 2011) 2014
Elected a Visiting Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford January 2024
Invited Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame School of Law March 2024
My research focuses on Employment Law and Tort Law, with a particular emphasis on the contract of employment, vicarious liability and dismissal law. I am particularly interested in the relationship between statute and common law in, and between, employment law and tort law. I am the Director of the Private Law Group at Trinity College Dublin, responsible for leading a programme of international and national research activities including conferences, workshops, seminars and inster-institutional collaborations. I am interested in all aspects of Tort Law, especially Negligence and Vicarious Liability, and in private law generally.