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Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan



Position: Research Student
School: Law

Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74982
Email: cahill-ocallaghanrj@cardiff.ac.uk


Interests
   Law and Morality, Jurisprudence
   Scientific developments, Medicine and the Law, Interdisciplinary Research
   Socio-legal Research Methods
   Judicial Reasoning: method, considerations and morality

Introduction

Rachel is a postgraduate research student at Cardiff Law School. Her PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Richard Moorhead and Prof. Jiri Priban, focuses on the Influence of Personal Values on Legal Judgments.


Rachel moved into the study of Law from a successful career in academic science in the area of cancer biology and bacterial genetics. She completed her PhD in Science in 1994 at Trinity College (Dublin) and continued her research in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston) and Imperial College (London). Her work is widely published and has won several awards. Rachel decided to pursue her passion for law and completed her LLB in Cardiff in 2007. Since completion she has worked with Prof. Richard Moorhead in the areas of Contingency Fees and Tort Law. Rachel combines both her knowledge of science and law in the pursuit of a PhD (Law).


Rachel is the recipient of the 2010/11 Cardiff Law School Research Scholarship.