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Aisling is Associate Professor of Law at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, where she lectures modules including ‘Genetics Law and Society’ and ‘Medical Law and Bioethics.’

Aisling graduated from National University of Ireland, Galway with a law degree (B.C.L.) in 2005 and graduated from University College Cork with a masters in law (LL.M.) in 2006. She is a qualified Solicitor (Law Society of Ireland) and trained in a large commercial law firm in Dublin (2006 – 2009). In 2013 Aisling defended her PhD (funded by the Irish Research Council), entitled ‘Advancing Science and Controlling the Misuse of Genetic Information in Employment and Insurance – Towards an Effective European Union Regulatory Framework.’

From 2009 to 2014 Aisling was a part-time Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, NUI Galway, and also worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway (2009 – 2010). She is an honorary fellow and an affiliated researcher of the Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University, New York and was a visiting scholar at this Institute in October 2012, May 2014 and June 2018.

Aisling’s research interests lie in the fields of genetics law and policy and medical law. She has published widely in these fields in journals including the European Journal of Health Law, the Journal of Community Genetics and the Irish Journal of Medical Science. Aisling is author of a book entitled ‘Genetics, Disability and the Law – Towards an EU Legal Framework’ (Cambridge University Press 2017) and co- editor of a book entitled ‘Genetic Discrimination – Transatlantic Perspectives on the Case for a European Level Legal Response’ (Routledge 2014). She speaks regularly at conferences and other events in Ireland, Europe and internationally.

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