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Sinéad Ring is an Associate Professor in Law at Maynooth University's School of Law and Criminology. She specializes in legal responses to sexual violence, historical child sexual abuse, and transitional justice. Her work bridges legal, psychological, and criminological perspectives to address institutional failures and advocate for victim-survivors.
Education: BCL (Law and German) and LLM (Criminal Justice) from University College Cork (UCC), with a PhD in Law funded by the Irish Research Council. Pre-Maynooth roles include Senior Lecturer at Kent Law School and visiting positions at Harvard Law School and Melbourne Law School.
Research focuses on legal frameworks for addressing historical child sexual abuse, including state responsibility and memory preservation. Key projects include the Comparative Examination of University Policies on Sexual Harassment and the Transitional Justice Processes as Archives of Collective Memory.
Publications include books like Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors and peer-reviewed articles in Social and Legal Studies and International Journal of Evidence and Proof. Awards include the Irish Research Council Doctoral Scholarship.
Professional roles include membership in the Judicial Council's Sentencing Guidelines Committee, the Higher Education Authority's Sexual Violence Advisory Group, and editorial board positions at Social and Legal Studies and feminists@law.
Teaching includes The Law of Evidence, Gender/Sexuality and Law, and Historical Gendered Violence and the State. Supervises five PhD students researching topics like judicial sentencing in rape cases and domestic violence legal responses.
Active in policy development, including Ireland's Framework for Consent in Higher Education Institutions and the National Consent Framework Implementation Group at Maynooth University.
