He was a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
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In 2008 Burke-White won a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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His mother was Lady Honora Burke (1675–1698), second daughter of William Burke, (d. 1687), the seventh Earl of Clanricarde (Honora was a common female name in the Burke and Walshingam families).
William Burke's elder brother, and one of the two chief leaders of the Mac an Iarla wars, became Earl of Clanricarde in 1582.