Michael Mullan
SJD Graduate
Michael Mullan, an SJD graduate at 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law, worked on his dissertation titled, "Equal treatment of defendants with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities and calls for the abolition of the insanity defense."
Mr. Mullan, originally from Ireland, spent the past number of years living in Boston, USA. His legal education began at Trinity College, Dublin where Michael graduated with a first-class honors in Law & Business. Michael鈥檚 legal interests and passion were at the intersection of in criminal law and disability. Michael aspired to create meaningful legal change through his academic work. Upon leaving Trinity College, Michael worked for a year as a legal research assistant to a solicitor and barrister in Dublin, working on a wide variety of cases, including some Supreme Court work. Michael then succeeded in getting admitted to Harvard Law School鈥檚 LL.M program, as well as receiving numerous scholarships such the JFK Fund scholarship and a Cancer for College scholarship. At Harvard Law School, Michael specialized in criminal law and justice, and disability law and human rights jurisprudence. He received the graduate student鈥檚 humanitarian award for his voluntary work with Harvard鈥檚 Project on Disability and Harvard鈥檚 Prisoners Legal Assistance Fund. He was also an editor with Harvard鈥檚 Journal of Human Rights law. He also worked as a research assistant to criminal law professor Jeannie Suk and disability law professor Michael Stein at Harvard Law School. Michael鈥檚 work is widely published in Ireland on a variety of criminal law and justice topics, as well as a forthcoming publication in the聽Mississippi Law Journal.
Degrees & Universities
S.J.D., 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law, D.C., U.S.
Masters in Law, LL.M, Harvard Law School, MA, U.S.
Bachelor of Law & Business, LL.B (Bus), Trinity College University of Dublin, Ireland
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Criminal law
Criminal Justice
Disability law
Mental health law
Human rights law
PUBLICATIONS
Mullan M., 鈥淗ow Should Mental Illness Be Relevant to Sentencing鈥 (2018) Volume 88 Mississippi Law Journal (Forthcoming)
Mullan M., 鈥淰ictimisation Experience for Victims with Disabilities: Tertiary Victimisation鈥澛 (2015) 3 Sociolegal Review.
Mullan M., 鈥淐lassism and the Irish Prison System: An Abolitionist Approach鈥 (2015) Volume XXIII The Social and Political Review.
Mullan M., 鈥淥utside Inside: Unique Concerns for LGBT Prisoners in Ireland鈥, Irish Postgraduate Criminology Conference (Dublin Institute of Technology 2015)
Mullan M., 鈥淟GBT Prisoners: A Comparative Approach鈥,聽 Irish Society of Comparative Law Conference (University of Limerick, 2015)
Mullan M., 鈥溾楾ertiary Victimisation鈥: the Real Life Experiences of Victims with Disabilities in their Interaction with the Criminal Justice System鈥, Trinity College Law Colloquium (TCD, 2014)
Mullan M., Cohen, R. 鈥淔orensic Science Reform鈥, Documentary film, (HLS Criminal Justice Policy Program & Rebecca Cohen, 2017)
AWARDS
Scholarship for SJD at 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., U.S. (2018)
Full scholarship for LL.M, at Harvard Law School,, MA, U.S. (2016)
J.F.K Scholarship (2016)
Cancer for College Scholarship (2016, 2018)