Mr Gerard Conway
Senior Lecturer & Professional Liaison Tutor

Tax in Outer Space
Funder: BRIL, Brunel University London
Duration: -

• Are the existing principles of international taxation sufficient for the taxation of activities in space? • Who should have taxing rights – tax authorities on Earth or somewhere else? • When should tax be considered in attempting to set up communities in Space? • How does tax tie in with the Outer Space Treaty of 1967?

A Case Study on UK Exports in Goods Post-Brexit: Models of Mutual Recognition in EU Internal Market Law and International Trade Law
Funder: Research Centre for Law, Economics & Finance
Duration: August 2023 - July 2024

This project seeks to compare methods or models of mutual recognition (MR) and conformity assessment (CA) pre-Brexit and post-Brexit in UK trading practice, through a comparative assessment of EU law with international trade law and to situate UK practice within the range of available MR models or methods. The aim of the study, and its potential for policy impact, is to identify in what ways UK practice post-Brexit could be rationalised or streamlined based on international good practice. Even though the UK is no longer within the system of mutual recognition of EU law, and the general presumption of mutual trust inherent in it, to what extent can the EU and other MR practices be a basis for a more general, cross-sectorial approach to MR by the UK in future trading relationships? The proposed study would seek to advance the existing literature by (i) addressing the issue of MR and CA in the context of Brexit, including through empirical data, and (ii) to a greater extent seeing to identify what general principles can be abstracted from the range of existing practices to inform future UK policy options, in particular, through comparison with the ‘EU model’ and how UK trade rules, especially in UK Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), have moved away from the EU MR model since Brexit.

Criminal procedural laws across the Union - a comparative analysis of selected main differences and the impact they have over the development of EU legislation: Overview of the relevant case law on procedural rights in Ireland
Funder: Universite Libre De Bruxelles
Duration: November 2017 - February 2018

Training of public servants in Europe
Funder: Observatory on Local Autonomy (OLA)
Duration: November 2016 - June 2017

Questionnaire on the initial training of public servants in Europe, for which I contributed the report on the Republic of Ireland.

Visiting research grant at the iCourts centre of the University of Copenhagen
Funder: Danish National Research Foundation
Duration: August 2015 - September 2015

An analysis of the future of mutu al recognition in criminal matters in the European Union
Funder: Universite Libre De Bruxelles
Duration: January 2008 - November 2008

I contributed the Irish section to an EU-wide study on the application of mutual recogniton in EU criminal justice. The final overall report wass presented to the European Commission, including in a meeting in the Commission, as well as leading to a follow-up academic analysis in a book published in 2009 by Bruylant.