Aidan O’Neill QC

Aidan O’Neill QC is qualified to appear as counsel in Scotland, as well as in the courts of England and Wales.  He was called to the Scottish Bar in 1987 and took silk there in 1999.  He was called to the English Bar in July 1996 and became an associate member of the Matrix Chambers in 2000.

In addition to law degrees from Edinburgh and Sydney universities, Aidan O’Neill also holds a degree in European, Comparative and International law from the European University Institute, Florence.

In the academic year 2007-2008 he was the inaugural University Center for Human Values/Law and Public Affairs Fellow in Law and Normative Inquiry at Princeton University.   In 2009 he was appointed to be Chairman of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law and in the same year was made an Honorary Fellow in the School of Law, University of Edinburgh.  He has written three legal text books to date: EC for UK Lawyers, a guide to the impact which EU law has on a wide variety of domestic fields of practice including company law, immigration and asylum, intellectual property, employment protection and discrimination, consumer law and private international law; Decisions of the European Court of Justice and their constitutional implications, a survey of the manner in which the ECJ created the conditions for a European constitution and has transformed the UK constitution; and Judicial Review in Scotland: a practitioner’s guide.  He has also contributed chapters to a number of legal books, and is the author of numerous talks and of articles in academic journals, particularly in the field of human rights, constitutional law and EU law.

He has a particular interest in the inter-relationship between EU law, human rights law and public international law and in 2008 taught a semester-long seminar course at Princeton University on these issues.  He also teaches a human rights elective seminar course in the Diploma in Legal Practice at Edinburgh Law School. Further details of his legal practice can be found at www.ampersandstable.com.

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