Dr Kathryn O'Sullivan

​Dr Kathryn O’ Sullivan, LLB, PhD is a Lecturer of Law at the School of Law, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Her research interests lie in property law and family law, particularly the point of intersection, family property law. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Limerick in 2012 for her doctoral thesis entitled ‘A Critique of the Legal Protections afforded to the Matrimonial Home in Ireland: Lessons from British Columbia’. She has since been published in highly respected national and international journals including Legal Studies, the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, the Common Law World Review, the Dublin University Law Journal and the Irish Journal of Family Law. She has also secured significant research funding to date and is currently involved in the Research Evidence into Practice Project (2016-19) funded by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.