Prof Eilionóir Flynn

Law & Disability Law

University of Galway

Eilionóir is an Established Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP) at University of Galway. Her work on disability rights is widely published and her current research interests include legal capacity, access to justice, and the intersectionality of disability, gender and ageing. Her most recent research projects include the Re(al) Productive Justice: Gender and Disability Perspectives project, funded by Wellcome, as well as work with Inclusion Ireland and the National Disability Authority.

Eilionóir is passionate about educating a new generation of disability activists and scholars, and was the Scientific Co-Ordinator of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network known as DARE (Disability Advocacy Research in Europe) which funded 15 early stage researchers working on various disability rights issues across seven European countries. Prior to this project, Eilionóir held a European Research Council Starting Grant for the VOICES project, which documented the narratives of people with lived experience of legal capacity denial.

Eilionóir regularly collaborates with civil society organisations and disabled peoples organisations at national and international levels. In Ireland, she co-ordinated the Civil Society Legal Capacity Coalition to influence the drafting of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act and internationally she has supported the Secretariat of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly the working group which developed.