About Niall Coghlan

Niall Coghlan is an LL.M. Researcher at the European University Institute. His research concerns the origins, effect and potential of EU fundamental rights law’s prohibitions on eugenics, cloning and commercialisation of the body. He previously spent four years practising as a barrister, first at a leading civil and public law chambers and subsequently in Cabinet Office Legal Advisers. He holds an MA in History from the University of Cambridge and has undertaken traineeships at the European Court of Justice, European Commission and European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights.