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Áine Ryall is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland (http://www.ucc.ie/en/lawsite/staff/aryall/) and a qualified barrister (called to the Irish Bar in 1995).  At UCC, Áine teaches Environmental Law, Tort Law and the Law of the European Union and supervises LLM and PhD candidates in these fields.  In February 2010, she was appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency Review Group by the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government(http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/EPAReview/).

Áine's research focuses on implementation and enforcement of EU environmental law with particular reference to Ireland.  Current projects include: implementation of Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information; the impact of the Aarhus Convention and EU obligations on access to justice in environmental matters at national level (including the impact on rules governing judicial review); and communicating EU environmental law rights to the public. 

Selected Publications

  • Case C‑263/08, Djurgården-Lilla Värtans Miljöskyddsförening v. Stockholms kommun genom dess marknämnd, judgment of the Second Chamber of 15 October 2009, with annotation (2010) 47 CML Rev 1511-1521
  • ‘Access to Environmental Information: Enforcement and Remedies' (2010) 17 Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal 92-100
  • Case Note - Case C-215/06 Commission v Ireland, judgment of the European Court of Justice, 3 July 2008 (2009) 18 (2) RECIEL 211-214
  • Effective Judicial Protection and the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive in Ireland (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2009) 332pp Hbk    ISBN 9781841135007(www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841135007)         
  • ‘Access to Justice and the EIA Directive: The Implications of the Aarhus Convention' in Holder, J and McGillivray D, (eds.) Environmental Assessment: Law, Policy and Practice (London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007) 191-218
  •  ‘Access to Information on the Environment Regulations 2007' (2007) 14 Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal 57-63
  • ‘EIA and Public Participation: Determining the Limits of Member State Discretion' (2007) 19 Journal of Environmental Law 247-257

Recent papers and presentations

  • ‘Access to Information on the Environment - Early Experiences and Emerging Issues' Local Authority Solicitors Bar Association Conference, Cork, 28 May 2010
  • ‘Communicating European Environmental Citizenship' Communicating European Citizenship, UACES, London, 22 March 2010(www.uaces.org/events/conferences/cec/programme/index.php)
  • ‘Impact of EU Environmental Law on Access to "Environmental Justice", Planning Enforcement Law - the Practitioners' Perspective Irish Planning Institute, Cork Branch, 11 March 2010
  • ‘Environmental Impact Assessment Directive: Room for Improvement?' Law and Law Enforcement for Biodiversity Protection European Environment Bureau and Coastwatch seminar, Dublin, 26 February 2010
  • ‘Environmental Impact Assessment and Access to Justice', Irish Environmental Network, Dublin, 24 November 2009.
  • ‘Legal Protection before National Courts: General Considerations' Environmental Impact Assessments and Enforcement of Community Law Academy of European Law (ERA) and Portuguese Centre of Judicial Studies, Lisbon 2-3 November 2009
  • ‘Access to Environmental Information: International and European Union Law Standards', paper presented at seminar on Environmental Information organised by the Centre for Freedom of Information, Dundee Law School, 22 October 2009 (http://www.centrefoi.org.uk/seminars_archive.php)