Galway law student wins prestigious US scholarship

Ruth Cormican, an LLB student at NUI Galway’s School of Law, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study for an LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Notre Dame.

The scholarship is one of the most prestigious programmes of its kind in the United States.

Ms Cormican, who will graduate from the LLB programme at NUI Galway in October, is interested in studying the application of human rights laws and norms to transnational corporations.

Afterwards, she hopes to engage in field-work with a human rights NGO or with the Human Rights Unit of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Congratulating her on the scholarship, Professor Donncha O’Connell, head of NUI Galway’s School of Law, said: “It is a great credit to Ruth, and my colleagues who taught her, that her academic accomplishments have been recognised in this way.

“The Fulbright scheme is the gold standard of academic recognition and for someone as young as Ruth to be the recipient of a Fulbright award augurs extremely well for her future. We are immensely proud of her and wish her continued success.”