[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 17, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E459]
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                     IN HONOR OF DEAN PAUL O'CONNOR

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 17, 1999

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Dean of the 
Faculty of Law of the University of Dublin, National University of 
Ireland, The Honorable Paul O'Connor. Dean O'Connor is the guest of 
honor at the twentieth annual Donahue & Scanlon St. Patrick's Day 
Party.
  Dean O'Connor received primary and postgraduate degrees in law at 
University College Dublin, the largest law school in Ireland, before 
qualifying at the Irish Bar in 1976. He was then awarded a fellowship 
to study at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with a 
Masters in 1978. After practicing briefly in Philadelphia, he returned 
to his alma mater to take up his first teaching post. Dean O'Connor 
specializes in the subjects of Criminal Law, Evidence, and Family Law, 
and he is widely published in each of these areas. In 1986, he resumed 
his academic acquaintance with the United States as a Fulbright Fellow 
at the University of Michigan where he studied comparative matrimonial 
property regimes.
  Dean O'Connor has guest lectured in Europe, the United States and 
Australia. He is a board member of both the Irish Centre for Commercial 
Law Studies, and the leading Irish law journal, The Irish Jurist. He is 
also currently a member of the Solicitors profession's Future of the 
Legal Profession Committee.
  My fellow colleagues, please join me in honoring the accomplishments 
of Dean Paul O'Connor.

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