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Dr Niamh Howlin
Lecturer
Contact details
Email address n.howlin@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3250
Room 27.302, 27 University Square
Degrees
B.C.L. (University College Dublin) 2003.
Ph.D. (University College Dublin) 2007.
P.G.C.H.E.T. (Queen’s University Belfast) 2009.
Biography
Niamh Howlin graduated from University College Dublin with a first class BCL degree in 2003. Her PhD, awarded in 2007, examined the composition and functioning of Irish juries in the nineteenth century, and was funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Niamh has been the recipient of several awards and grants from the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Society of Legal Scholars and the British Academy. Niamh's research interests include the development of the Irish jury and its modern functioning and Irish and comparative legal history generally. She has presented her research at national and international conferences. Niamh sits on the COuncils of the Irish Legal History Society and the Irish Association of Law Teachers and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Niamh was appointed to a lectureship at Queen’s in 2007, having previously taught at UCD. She has taught on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules including Legal History, Constitutional Rights, Constitutional Frameworks, Tort, Contract, Legal Systems and Methods, Legal Research and Writing, Evidence, European Internal Market Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Processes.
Teaching
Undergraduate: Legal History, Law of Evidence, Criminal Law, Contemporary Issues in Property Law
Postgraduate: Criminal Justice Processes
Research
Irish legal history, evidence, juries, criminal justice, criminal procedure
Selected publications
Niamh Howlin, "'The terror of their Lives': Irish Jurors' Experiences" (2011) 29 Law and History Review
Niamh Howlin, 'Fenians, Foreigners and Jury Trials in Ireland 1865-69' (2010) 45 Irish Jurist 51-81
Niamh Howlin, “Controlling Jury Composition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland” (2009) 30(3) Journal of Legal History 227-261.
Niamh Howlin, "English and Irish Jury Laws: the Growing Divergence 1825-1833' in Brown and Donlan (eds) The Laws and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850 (Ashgate Publications, 2011)
Niamh Howlin, “Merchants and Esquires: Special Juries in Dublin 1725-1833” in O’Kane and Sullivan (eds), Georgian Dublin (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008).
Niamh Howlin, “Guys from Out of Town: Expert Witnesses, A Law Reform Proposal” in O’Dell and Shannon (eds), Law and Practice: Essays on Reform (Clarus Press Dublin, 2008)
Niamh Howlin and Robert C. Fitzpatrick, “The Feasibility of Mandatory Trade Union Recognition in Ireland” (2007) 29 Dublin University Law Journal 178.
Niamh Howlin, “Shortcomings and Anomalies: Aspects of Article 26” (2005) 13 I.S.L.R. 26
Niamh Howlin, “The Special Jury: A Solution to the Expert Witness Problem?” (2004) 12 I.S.L.R. 19
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