Rónán Riordan is a PhD Researcher at the Hertie School and Research Associate at the Jacques Delors Centre.
His research focuses on EU Institutions and Democracy, in particular exploring the influence of the Court of Justice of the European Union on law-making in relation to the regulation of the freedom of services at the European level. Rónán is a Research Associate at the CIVICA funded ‘Contesting the Court’ project which explores the judicial politics of the European Union, co-headed by Mark Dawson, Bruno de Witte, and Elise Muir. Rónán has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Law of the European University Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the Historical Archives of the European Union. He recently completed a three year research agenda (with Imelda Maher) exploring the interactions of European Union law with Irish law, published as a series of peer reviewed papers (also with Barry Rodger and Neža Šubic).
Rónán has degrees in Law, Politics and Sociology from University College Dublin. Prior to joining the Hertie School in 2020 he was the Research Assistant to the Dean of Law at the Sutherland School of Law, he has also taught courses on European Union Politics and Policy, Irish Contract and Constitutional Law, and was a Research Assistant at the ERC funded Effective Nature Laws Project for two years (€1.4 million grant).
Main Supervisor: Prof. Mark Dawson, PhD.
Second Supervisor: Prof. Niamh Nic Shuibhne, PhD.
Third Supervisor: Prof. Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen.
