Síofra O'Leary

Síofra O'Leary is the Judge of the European Court of Human Rights elected in respect of Ireland (2015-2024). She has been the ^17th President of the Court since¹ November 2022, having previously served as Vice-President and President of the Fifth Section. Before joining the European Court of Human Rights, Judge O'Leary had worked for almost two decades at the Court of Justice of the European Union in judicial and administrative functions. Alongside her work at the two European courts, Judge O'Leary is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, where she has taught master's lectures on EU law and the individual, as well as on EU social law and social policy, and where she takes part in an annual judicial workshop. She has served on the editorial board of the Common Market Law Review and is now a member of its advisory board as well as the board of the Irish Centre for European Law. She is also a member of the Society of Legal Scholars and on the editorial boards of several national and European periodicals. In 2016, she was elected Honorary Bencher of the Honorable Society of King's Inns. A graduate of University College Dublin (BCL) and holder of a PhD from the European University Institute, Justice O'Leary was previously Deputy Director of the Centre of European Legal Studies at Cambridge University, a Fellow of Emmanuel College, a Visiting Fellow at University College Dublin Law School, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cadiz (Spain) and a Research Associate at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London. Judge O'Leary is the author of two books, The Evolving Concept of Community Citizenship (Kluwer, 1996) and Employment Law at the European Court of Justice (Hart Publishing, 2001), and has published numerous articles in academic journals and legal monographs on the protection of fundamental rights in EU law and under the ECHR, on EU labor law, on the free movement of persons and services , and on EU citizenship in general.