Eugene Mc Namee joined the School as a lecturer in 2005, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2014 and to Professor in 2018.  He has LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Reading, and a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence.   In 2002-4 he undertook a Marie Curie post-doctoral Research Fellowship at University College Cork, working on themes related to ‘Culture, Conflict and Constitutional Change’ in Northern Ireland.  In 2014 he spent a semester at Fordham University Law School, NYC, as a Fulbright scholar, researching into Clinical Legal Education and Legal Technology.    Eugene is Executive Director and founder-member of the Ulster Legal Innovation Centre, a Centre of collaboration between the Law School and the School of Computing and Intelligent Systems.   He has an academic research interest in technology as an anthropological process, and in information flow processes in complex communicative systems.  He has further research interests in Law, Culture and Humanities, and has taught specialist courses in Law and Film, and Law and Technology, as well as general courses in the Law of Evidence, Legal Theory, Law of Contract and Company Law.