About

Welcome to Lex Ferenda (‘the law as it ought to be’, approximately), which is my blog. I am Daithí Mac Síthigh and I am a lecturer at the Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia (UEA). Find out more about the Law School here, including my official bio on that site.

The areas of law I teach and research in are Internet law, media law and public law (constitutional and administrative law), and I also have interests in copyright and in human rights. At UEA, I teach and supervise postgraduate students on our LLM programmes in Information, Technology and Intellectual Property Law and Media Law, Policy and Practice. Find information about my current teaching here and my research here.

I now live in the fine city of Norwich in the county of Norfolk in England but am originally from Co. Wicklow, in Ireland; before moving to England in mid-2008, I was a postgraduate student, research assistant and part-time tutor at the Law School in Trinity College Dublin. I submitted my PhD thesis ( supervised by Dr. Eoin O’Dell, who blogs at cearta.ie) in October 2009. My undergraduate degree (2004) in Law was also at Trinity College. Between completing that degree and starting my PhD, I was a students’ union officer (at TCD and also at the Union of Students in Ireland) and studied social science with the Open University.