Lecturer

Email: niall.neligan@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 220 5471

Niall is a graduate of Maynooth University and the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin. He studied law at the Honorable Society of Kings Inns and was called to the Irish Bar in 1999 practising on the Dublin & Eastern Circuit in Civil, Employment and Criminal Law. 

His research interests include: Criminal Law, Employment Law, International Cannabis Law (Medical and Adult Use Regulation) Drug Policy Law Reform and Regulation. 

Niall is a member of the Advisory Board of the INCBA  (International Cannabis Bar Association) the representative global body for lawyers who specialise in Cannabis Law and who work in the Regulated Cannabis Industry. He is also a member of the Academic Affairs and International Law Committees of that association. 

Select Publications: 

Books 

Cannon R & Neligan N, Evidence, (Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2002) 

(Reviewed by Attorney General of Ireland, Paul Gallagher, in the Bar Review, December 2002) 

Publications & Current Research  

Neligan, “Medicinal Cannabis and the law in Ireland – A critical evaluation of Doctor -Patient access under existing licensing rules and the Government’s proposed enhanced access scheme.” Irish Medico-Legal Journal (Thomson Reuters) (2018) 24, 2 M.L.J.I 106-116 

Public Policy Document 

Neligan, “A 21st Century Approach to Regulating Cannabis” Dublin, July 2018 

This public policy document sets out a comprehensive framework for the regulation of cannabis for Medical and Adult use in Ireland. The document was formally launched in Leinster House (Irish Parliament) on the 11th July 2018. 

Legislation (Private Members Bill) 

Controlled Drugs & Harm Reduction Bill 2017 (Seanad Eireann)  

Co-author of the Controlled Drugs & Harm Reduction Bill with Senator Lynn Ruane. The Bill was designed to provide for the decriminalisation for possession of controlled drugs for personal use and to provide for regulations regarding personal use; to establish a Drug Dissuasion Service to case-manage persons found in possession of controlled drugs and to divert people away from the courts by providing a system of harm reduction measures including drug awareness, drug rehabilitation and community engagement programmes;