Dr Cathryn Costello B.C.L., (N.U.I.), LL.M. (Bruges), B.L. (Honorable Society of King’s Inns), DPhIl (Oxon.) is a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford and a member of the Faculty of Law. She tutors Constitutional and EU law and also teaches parts of the BCL International & European Employment Law course.
From 1998-2003 she was Lecturer in European Law at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin. From 2000-2003, she also held the position of Director of the Irish Centre for European Law. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco and a visiting research fellow at NYU School of Law. She has assisted a number of NGOs in the immigration and asylum fields, and was a member of the Board of the Irish Refugee Council and the Steering Committee of the Immigrant Council of Ireland. She is currently on ILPA’s (Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association) European Group.
She has published widely on many aspects of EU immigration and asylum law, including asylum procedures, EU Citizenship and third country national family members and family reunification. Her monograph on EU immigration and asylum law is due to be published in OUP’s Studies in European Law series in 2012. She has co-authored a Report for the European Parliament on the Evolution of Fundamental Rights Charters and Caselaw: A comparison of the EU, Council of Europe and UN Systems (2011, with Dr Liora Lazarus, Dr Nazila Ghanea and Dr Katja Zeigler). She also assisted the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, authoring its Report on Improving the Quality and Consistency of Asylum Decisions in the Council of Europe member states (2009).