Dr Elaine Fahey is a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI Florence, Italy (2009-2010) and Assistant Lecturer in Law (On leave 2009-2010), Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. She has taught at Trinity College Dublin, the Law Society of Ireland, Humboldt University, Berlin and is a former Judicial Research Assistant at the Four Courts, Dublin. She is the author of Practice and Procedure in Preliminary References to Europe: 30 years of Article 234 EC Case Law from the Irish Courts (2007) and has served as Secretary to the Irish Society for European Law.