Dr Rónán Kennedy

Law

University of Galway

ronan.m.kennedy@universityofgalway.ie

Dr Rónán Kennedy is an Associate Professor in the School of Law, University of Galway. He has written on environmental law, information technology law, and other topics, and co-authored two textbooks. He spent much of the 1990s working in the IT industry.

He was Executive Legal Officer to the Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Ronan Keane, from 2000 to 2004. In 2020, he was a Science Foundation Ireland Public Service Fellow in the Oireachtas Library and Research Service, writing a report on ‘Algorithms, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in the Irish Legal Services Market’