Ivana Bacik

Ivana Bacik has been Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Law School since 1993. She has an LL.B. from TCD and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. She also practises as a barrister in Dublin. As President of TCD Students' Union (1989-90), she was taken to court by SPUC for providing information on abortion - in a case that paved the way for legal change in favour of women's rights.

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Trinity College Dublin - Law School - LL.B. - LL.M.

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Her grandfather Karel Bacik was in the Czech resistance and was imprisoned by the Nazis. After the war, he moved to Ireland with his young family, where they lived in Waterford.

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She stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Irish Labour Party for the hotly contested election to the European Parliament in the Dublin area in 2004 where she posed a somewhat unsuspected threat to Labour's sitting candidate Proinsias De Rossa, proving especially popular among younger voters. She was narrowly beaten for the fourth Dublin seat by the Sinn Fein candidate Mary Lou McDonald.

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Irish Labour Party - European Parliament - Dublin - Proinsias De Rossa - Sinn Fein - Mary Lou McDonald

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