John Quinn

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John Quinn is an Assistant Professor of corporate law at the School of Law and Government. His research focuses on the role law plays in the regulation of companies. He has published on a range of issues related to company law such as sustainability, digital privacy, corporate social responsibility and insolvency. His work has appeared in multiple leading peer reviewed journals including Law, Innovation and Technology, the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, the Irish Jurist and International Data Privacy Law. He also publishes a yearly chapter on Irish company law in the Annual Review of Irish Law.

John teaches company law to undergraduates and is chair of the LLM and MA in Data Protection and Privacy. John was the principal proposer of the MA in Data Protection and Privacy, a unique interdisciplinary programme delivered with the School of Computing. He also led the initiative to expand the LLM to include multiple pathways on Public Law, European Business Law and International Human Rights Law.

John previously worked as a lecturer at the Quinn School of Business at UCD. He has worked with the Irish Law Reform Commission on their report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences (2018) and acted as national exert for an EU Commission Project on corporate transparency (2023). John is a graduate of NUI Galway (BCL 2009, LLM 2011), Dublin City University (PhD, 2015) and was admitted to the bar as a New York Attorney-at-Law in 2013.


Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 John Quinn (2023) 'The New Duty to Company Creditors: A Statutory Step Too Far?'. Irish Jurist, 69 .
2023 John Quinn; Philip Gavin (2023) 'The Creditor Duty Post Sequana: Lessons for Legislative Reform'. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 23 .
2022 John Quinn (2022) 'Companies in Court and the Limits of their Legal Personality'. Irish Jurist, .
2021 John Quinn (2021) 'Geo-Location Technology: Restricting Access to Online Content Without Illegitimate Extraterritorial Effects'. International Data Privacy Law, 11(3) .
2021 John Quinn; Barry Connolly (2021) 'Distributed Ledger Technology and Property Registers: Displacement or Status Quo'. Law, Innovation and Technology, 13(2) .
2020 John Quinn (2020) 'The Crystallisation of Floating Charges: Rethinking the Conceptual Framework'. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, (20(1)).
2019 John Quinn (2019) 'The Sustainable Corporate Objective: Rethinking Directors’ Duties'. Sustainability Journal, 11 (22).
2017 John Quinn and Barry Connolly (2017) 'The Non-Financial Information Directive: An Assessment of its Impact on Corporate Social Responsibility'. European Company Law, 14 (1).
2017 John Quinn (2017) 'Passive Directors and the Law of Restriction'. Commercial Law Practitioner, 24 (5).
2016 John Quinn (2016) 'The Companies Act 2014 and the Absence of the Derivative Action'. Commercial Law Practitioner, 23 (4).
2016 (2016) 'What it Means to Act in the Interests of the Company'. Irish Law Times, 34(15) .

Edited Book

Year Publication
2021 Federico Fabbrini, Edoardo Celeste and John Quinn (Ed.). (2021) Data Protection Beyond Borders: Transatlantic Perspectives on Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty. Oxford: Hart,

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2022 John Quinn; Noel McGrath (2022) 'Company Law and Insolvency Law' In: Annual Review of Irish Law. Dublin : RoundHall.
2021 John Quinn; Noel McGrath (2021) 'Company and Insolvency Law' In: Annual Review of Irish Law. Dublin : RoundHall.
2021 John Quinn (2021) 'Google v CNIL: Circumscribing the Extraterritorial Effect of EU Data Protection Law' In: Data Protection Beyond Borders: Transatlantic Perspectives on Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty. Oxford : Hart.
2020 John Quinn and Noel McGrath (2020) 'Company and Insolvency Law' In: Annual Review of Irish Law. Dublin : Roundhall.
2019 John Quinn and Noel McGrath (2019) 'Company and Insolvency Law' In: Annual Review of Irish Law. Dublin : Roundhall.
2018 John Quinn and Noel McGrath (2018) 'Company and Insolvency Law' In: Annual Review of Irish Law. Dublin : Roundhall.

Other Journal

Year Publication
2021 John Quinn (2021) 'Regulating Big Tech: The Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act' Dublin Law and Politics Review, .
2018 John Quinn (2018) 'An Analysis of the Restrictions on Share Transfers in Private Companies' Irish Business Law Review, 3(1) .
2016 John Quinn (2016) 'German Codetermination and Ireland’s Convergence' The Company Lawyer, 37(11) .
2016 John Quinn (2016) 'The Duty to Act in Good Faith in Light of the Business Judgment Principle' International Company and Commercial Law Review, 27 (4) .
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Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
New York State Bar Attorney-at-law -

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name Degree Supervision
Kilkenny ,Cormac PhD-track Supervisor