Staff Profile
Denis Carey
Lecturer
I am a UK and US dual-qualified lawyer (solicitor and attorney) and I have been a university law lecturer since 1991. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I first qualified as a solicitor in 1983 in Dublin and spent my first six years there in commercial practice, then after an LLM in the US moved in 1991 to full-time law lecturing at Staffordshire University Law School on their Legal Practice Course (of which I was Director for a short period) until the end of the 1998 to 1999 academic year.
From January 2000 to June 2020 I again practised full-time as a commercial lawyer in London and Nottingham, mainly Companies Court and Commercial Insolvency work, and latterly as a notarial lawyer in the City of London, while concurrently teaching part-time as Adjunct Faculty for several US universities with London-based study abroad programmes. I joined York St John as a part-time Lecturer in Law in 2021 and moved to a full-time Lectureship in Law here in January 2024.
- School – York Business School
- Email – d.carey@yorksj.ac.uk
Further information
Research
I am currently a Ph.D.-registered candidate at Lancaster University with an estimated completion date in late 2024. Research topic – "Challenges to arbitrators for bias – the approaches of the English and American courts."
Professional activities
As I am not now in practice as a lawyer, I currently do not take out a practising certificate but I am entitled to do so in respect of the following list of professional admissions:
- Solicitor of the Supreme Court, Ireland, admitted 1983
- Notary Public, City and County of Dublin, admitted 1986
- Attorney at Law, State Bar of California, admitted 1990
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, admitted 1991
- Notary Public, England & Wales, admitted 2011
- Attorney at Law, New York State Bar, admitted 2015
Currently, I am one of the External Examiners for the Legal Practice Course at the University of Westminster (Business Law and Practice/Commercial Litigation/Commercial Law/Entertainment & Media Law).
Publications
Personal Injury Litigation (LPC text), Blackstones, London, Spring 1995, revised ed. January 1996. ISBN-13: 978-1-85431-514-4
Medical Negligence: Practice text for PI Lawyers, EMIS Professional Publishing (February 1998) ISBN-13: 978-1-858111629
Tripping and Slipping: Practice text for PI Lawyers, Central Law Publications, 1997, 2nd ed. 2002 (EMIS Professional Publishing) ISBN-13: 978-1-858111391
