ÁINE TYRRELL

Call - 2023

ÁINE TYRRELL

Call - 2023

Barrister of England & Wales (called 2023) and Stanford PhD, building a Commercial/Chancery practice focused on technology, international work, and commercial litigation. Pupillage at Monckton Chambers, contributing to large, multi-party collective proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal. I also worked on live matters before the Court of Appeal. A placement in the Cabinet of Advocate General Professor Andrea Biondi at the CJEU reflects a longstanding interest in cross-border and conflicts-of-laws matters. As junior to the in-house counsel at the family office of a very high-net-worth individual, I worked on corporate and trust governance, commercial agreements and cross-border matters across North America, Europe and the Caribbean. Mini-pupillages in equity and trusts and in civil fraud reflect an early and continuing commitment to the Commercial/Chancery Bar. Co-author of AI in Criminal Law (Bloomsbury, 2024), with particular expertise to contribute as artificial intelligence comes to feature more in fraud.

  • September 2022 – May 2023: University of Law, Bloomsbury Campus — Bar Practice Course (BPC). Very Competent (83%); Called to the Bar of England & Wales, July 2023.
  • September 2021 – September 2022: Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London — LLM, Transnational Law. Distinction, First Class Honours. Transnational law focus to build understanding of private and public international law — including public international law, cyber law, modern slavery, and the global digital enforcement of IP and IT rights.
  • September 2020 – July 2021: University of Westminster, London — Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL). Commendation, 2:1 Honours.
  • September 2015 – June 2020: Stanford University, California — Ph.D., Political Science and Performance Studies. GPA: 3.965 / 4.0.
  • September 2011 – October 2015: Trinity College Dublin — B.A., English Literature and Drama Studies. First Class Honours; awarded the Foundation Scholarship (“Schols”) in 2013.
  • March 2026 – August 2026: Junior to the In-House Counsel, TLTFO Services, London.
  • January – February 2026: Legal Placement (unpaid), CJEU, Luxembourg
  • September 2024 – January 2026: Pupil Barrister, Monckton Chambers, London
  • November 2023 – August 2024: Policy Advisor, Responsible AI & AI Regulation, UK Government (DSIT).
    Advised on the EU AI Act and its interaction with the UK regulatory framework.
  • April 2024 – July 2024: Contractor (TVC, via Harvey Nash), Legal Content Policy & Standards — Google London.
    GDPR right-to-be-forgotten requests and content-removal policy (French, Irish and Italian markets).
  • July 2022 – October 2023: Research Analyst (Legal), Fieldfisher LLP, London
    Comparative market-strategy analysis supporting the firm’s European expansion across ten jurisdictions, feeding senior firm leadership and contributing to the opening of the Vienna office (2023).
  • Bar European Group (BEG) Scholarship — BEG Conference, Rhodes (2025).
  • Advocacy Scholarship (Bar Practice Course), University of Law (2022).
  • Bar Course Scholarship (Holt Award), Gray’s Inn (2022).
  • Pigott Fellow, Pigott Fellowship Program in the Humanities, Stanford University (2018–19).
  • Foundation Scholarship (“Schols”), Trinity College Dublin (2013).
  • Book: AI in Criminal Law, co-authored with Ben Douglas-Jones KC (Bloomsbury Press, November 2024).
  • “Chapter 19: The Media and Human Rights,” in Human Rights in Criminal Law, eds. Douglas-Jones KC, Mason, Bunting and Newton (Bloomsbury Press, January 2023).
  • English (native)
  • Italian (native)
  • French (fluent)
  • Spanish (conversational)