Sport and the Law; EU Competition Law and IPR, Law and the Elder, Animal Welfare, Animals in Sport                       

                       Lecturer in European Law, Sport and the Law and Comparative Property Law                       

Laura Donnellan teaches European Union Law and Sport and the Law. She has published in the areas of drug testing and the rights of athletes, elder law, the regulation of football agents, TV rights in Irish football, EC competition law, horse racing, and animal welfare in the EU. Laura is the author of Sport and Law: A Concise Guide (Blackhall Publishing, 2010), the 2nd edition of Sport and the Law will be published by Clarus Press at the end of 2023. As well as several articles in international law journals. She is a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animals Ethics and a Consulting Editor for The Journal of Animal Ethics (published by the University of Illinois). Laura is currently an external examiner for Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) in Property Law, Succession Law, Equity and Trusts, Constitutional Law and Criminal Law and Procedure. She has co-written Sports Law in Ireland with her colleague Dr Susan Leahy (2nd ed. Kluwer, 2017). She is currently writing the 3rd edition.