Dr Catherine O’Sullivan, a senior law lecturer in U.C.C., is a graduate of U.C.C. (B.C.L, LL.M.) and completed a Ph.D. at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada.

Her main research interests lie in Criminal Law, Criminology, Gender and the Law, Children’s Rights and Law and Popular Culture. She is the Chair of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork (SVCC) Board of Directors and has trained to provided Bystander Intervention workshops and Consent workshops for third level students.

She is a regular contributor to student-run LawSoc and FemSoc events on the issue of sexual violence. She has co-authored the first national survey on stalking in Ireland (2023) and two leading student texts, Criminal Law in Ireland: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed(2021) and Fundamentals of the Irish Legal System (2016).

She has authored articles in a variety of national and international publications including the Irish Jurist, Dublin University Law Journal, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Legal Studies and Human Rights Quarterly.

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