Frances Elizabeth Moran

Frances Elizabeth Moran (born December 6, 1889 in Dublin , † October 7, 1977 , Dublin) was an Irish lawyer and the first professor of law in Ireland and the British Isles and the first female Crown Attorney . By 2018, Moran was also the only woman to ever hold a Regius Chair of Law.

Life

Moran's father was James Moran, a long-time member of the Dublin City Government (Dublin Corporation) and a prominent figure in Dublin's business life with leading positions in various important institutions. In 1922 he became a founding member of the Senate and retained his seat until that body was dissolved in 1936. Fran Moran was educated at Dominican College in Newbridge and enrolled at Trinity College Dublin in 1911 . In 1915, Moran graduated second-best in her class in English and French. In 1918 she was awarded the LL.B. and in 1919 LL.D., where she obtained these degrees through oral exams as was possible at the time.

Moran was admitted to the bar in Ireland in 1924, three years after Frances Kyle became the first woman in Ireland to be admitted on November 1, 1921. In 1925 she got her first teaching post at her alma mater. In 1932 she became Professor of Equity in the King's Inn Bar Association and became Professor of Laws at Trinity College. This made her the first woman in the British Isles to hold a chair in law. In 1940 Moran was also admitted to practice in English courts. In 1941 she was the first wife of the British Isles to be appointed King's Counsel. In 1944 she was appointed to the Regius Chair of Laws , an office that she held until 1965. It was her leadership of these two offices that earned her the admiration and respect not only of her students but of the rest of the Trinity College graduates. She was president of the International Federation of University Women. In addition to her academic career, she was able to run a prosperous practice.

In 1945, Professor Moran witnessed the Nuremberg Trials . When asked about their impressions, according to Robert Francis Vere Heuston , her answer is said to have been: "You looked as normal as men who had spent the night in third class on a train."

In 1959 Moran was awarded an honorary doctorate (LL.D.) from Queen's University Belfast .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Paul Gallagher (1997) An Irishman's Diary ; Irish Times April 2, 1997.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Robert Francis Vere Heuston (1989) Frances Elizabeth Moran ; 11 Dublin University Law Journal, 1-9; online .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Professor Frances Moran , Obituary.
4. ↑ James Chalmers (2013) Resorting to Crime ; The inaugural lecture of James Chalmers, the Regius Professor of Law, delivered in the Bute Hall of the University of Glasgow on January 17, 2013.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Martina Hegarty (2003) A Study of the Career Histories of Female Barristers in Ireland from 1983 to 2003 ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in European Business and Languages. P. 3. 
6. ↑ Máiréad Enright, Julie McCandless, Aoife O'Donoghue (Eds.); Northern / Irish Feminist Judgments: Judges' Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity ; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
7. ^ Prof. goes to Queen's in Trinity News from May 16, 1957.