![Maureen O'Sullivan, Vegan Society IRN conference speaker](https://www.vegansociety.com/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Mauren%20Osullivan.jpg?itok=Un7ALuAR)
(Ireland) PhD (Edinburgh) LLM (Warwick), PGCHE (UWE, Bristol), BCL (UCC), DipL (UCC), BA (UCC), Lecturer (Above the Bar) at NUI Galway, Fellow Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and Chair Vegetarian Society of Ireland 2013-9 specialising in animal rights law.
Maureen is currently introducing Ireland's first university course on Animal Rights Law at NUI Galway in 2023, has published widely on vegan rights, and is a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She will discuss vegan rights in education: the UK, Ireland, and Europe with a special focus on the extent to which human rights law can be used to clarify and extend the vegan rights frontiers.