Catherine Donelly undertook her LL.B. in Trinity College, Dublin, where she became a scholar of the University in 1995. She completed a B.C.L. at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1998, followed by an LL.M. at Harvard in 1999. Catherine passed the New York bar examination in 1999 and worked as a lititgation attorney at David, Polk, & Wardwell in New York from 1999 - 2001. From 2001 to 2004 she wrote her doctorate in comparative public law at Oxford, again at Magdalen College. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2003 and has just finished a pupillage at Blackstones Chambers in Lon...