Mr Lughaidh Kerin

Biography

Lughaidh Kerin is the School of Law's Director of Clinical Legal Education and the academic in charge of the School's Legal Advice Clinic - MdxLAC. He is spear heading our efforts in relation to reducing the chasm that exists between law in practice and the academy. 

He joined us from the National University of Ireland Galway in 2014, where he had held the position of Lecturer in Law since 2009. 

Prior to that he had spent close to a decade in private practice as a solicitor with the office of Desmond J. Houlihan & Company Solicitors, in the west of Ireland. 

He graduated with an honours Bachelor of Arts degree in 1997 and an honours Bachelor of Laws degree in 1999 from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He spent the academic year 1997/1998 as an Erasmus student studying at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He then went on to successfully complete his Masters in Law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 2000, where he read Commercial Law, European Union Law and Arbitration Law. 

He successfully completed the New York State Bar Exam and was admitted as an Attorney and Counselor at Law in the State of New York in June 2004. Lughaidh has also been admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in England and Wales. He joined the School of Law at NUI, Galway in September 2009.

Qualifications

BA, LLB (NUI); LLM(Edin.), FCIArb, Arbitrator, Acc Mediator, SFHEA,

Solicitor (Ireland, England & Wales) Attorney at Law (NY - USA)

Professional Memberships

Adjudication Society, Member (2012)

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow (2004)

Irish Clinical Legal Education Association, Founding Member (2013)

Law Society of England & Wales, Member (2009)

Law Society of Ireland, Member (2003)

Mediation Institute of Ireland, Certified Member (2011)

New York State Bar, Member (2004)

New York State Bar Association, Member (2004)

Young International Arbitration Group – London Court of International Arbitration

(2015)

Teaching

Teaching:

Undergraduate – Compulsory English Legal Systems – 1st year Bachelor of Laws

Legal Methods & Research – 1st year Bachelor of Laws

Postgraduate – CompulsoryAdvanced Legal Methods & Research – Masters of Laws

Undergraduate – OptionalAdvanced Legal Skills – 2nd year Bachelor of Laws

He created a new yearlong module entitled "Advanced Mooting and Advocacy", which was approved by the School Quality and Curriculum Board.

The mediation portion of my Advance Legal Skills (ALS) module was awarded "Outstanding New Mediation Program" by the InterNational Academy of Dispute Resolution (INADR) in 2015, following the inaugural participation of a team of Middlesex University ALS students in the 14th Annual International Law School Mediation Tournament which was hosted by the BPP and UCL in London.

Inaugural participation in the UK National Negotiation Tournament.

I was nominated for 'Most Empowering' Award in the MDXSU Teaching Awards 2015.