Dr Cian Murphy

Dr Murphy's research and teaching interests lie in the relationship between collective power and individual rights and the role that law plays in that relationship. His current writing focuses on the dynamics of transnational law and their impact on legality. It has been published in Transnational Legal Theory and is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law. 

Dr Murphy has served on several journal editorial boards. At present he is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Common Law World Review. He sat on the Committee of the American Society of International Law Mid-Year Meeting and Research Forum 2019, and currently serves on the David D. Caron Prize Committee. 

Dr Murphy’s first monograph, EU Counter-terrorism Law: Pre-emption & the Rule of Law, won the SLS Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (Second Prize) in 2013, with an expanded edition published in 2015. In 2014 Dr Murphy published, with Diego Acosta Arcarazo, EU Security and Justice Law: After Lisbon and Stockholm.

Support for Dr Murphy’s research has come from the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the National University of Ireland, the Modern Law Review, the EU Framework Programme 7, the Fulbright Commission and the British Academy. A selection of his research publications can be found on SSRN.