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Professor Irene Lynch Fannon is a Professor at the School of Law, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. She serves as Principal Investigator (PI) of the JCOERE (Judicial Co-operation supporting Economic Recovery in Europe) project, focusing on EU integration, corporate insolvency, and comparative legal frameworks. Her research emphasizes corporate rescue law, company law theory, and the role of the EU social market economy.
Education: Graduate of University College Dublin (UCD), Oxford University (Somerville College), and the University of Virginia, USA, where she earned a doctorate in comparative corporate law theory. Former solicitor (qualified 1985).
Research Interests: EU corporate law harmonization, judicial cooperation in cross-border insolvency, comparative analysis of US and EU corporate governance models, corporate sustainability, and tax-driven restructuring strategies. She has authored seminal works, including Corporate Insolvency and Rescue Law in Ireland and Working Within Two Kinds of Capitalism.
Professional Engagements: Member of the Irish Company Law Review Group, contributor to law reform bodies, and co-editor of Creating Corporate Sustainability (CUP, 2018). Her work bridges legal theory and practice, with a focus on aligning corporate governance with social and economic policy objectives.
Grants/Projects: Leads the EU-funded JCOERE project, analyzing judicial cooperation mechanisms in EU preventive restructuring frameworks. Her research has informed policy debates on post-Brexit insolvency recognition and EU tax directives.
Labs/Teams: Coordinates the JCOERE consortium, collaborating with legal and academic institutions across Europe to advance judicial cooperation in economic recovery contexts.
