Name
Joseph McMahon
Role
Funded Investigator
Professor McMahon joined the UCD Sutherland School of Law in 2004 from the Queen’s University of Belfast. He was previously Professor of International Trade Law at the Queen’s University of Belfast and has also been a member of staff at the University of Leicester and Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand. He studied Law at the Queen’s University of Belfast before undertaking his doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded his PhD in 1988 for his thesis on European Trade Policy in Agricultural Products, which was subsequently published by Martinus Nijhoff. His primary research interest is agriculture at the European level (the Common Agricultural Policy) and the World Trade Organization (the Agreement on Agriculture) and has published a number of works in this area. He has also published on the relationship between agriculture and the EU’s Development Cooperation Policy with particular reference to policy coherence for development.
