On the Question of Immigration
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is perhaps best understood as the culmination of…
Author David Langwallner
David Langwallner
David Langwallner is a human rights lawyer and founder of the Innocence Project in Ireland. He was previously Dean of Law at Griffith College. He was made Pro Bono & Public Interest Team/Lawyer of the Year at the AIB Private Banking Irish Law Awards 2015.
Hooligans, Thugs and Gangsters
Our world, especially the United States, is now becoming a Gangster Enterprise where brutality…
Distortions Of Language
What tangled web we weave when our intention is to deceive? Sir Walter Scott…
Banksy and Protest Rights: The View from The Robing Room
As I sauntered from the Old Bailey past the RCJ the Banksy painting caricaturing a…
On Rhetoric
What makes for fine rhetoric in an age of disinformation? Clearly, this is distinct from…
The Journalist as Public Intellectual
Many of those featuring in this series wrote top class journalism, including Albert Camus, Noam…
Public Intellectuals: Voltaire
Voltaire (1694-1778) is the self-invented name of François-Marie Arouet, riffed on a childhood description of…
Public Intellectuals: Leonardo Sciascia
Corruption is worse than prostitution; the latter might endanger the morals of an individual. The…
Public Intellectuals: Charles Darwin
In a court case in Kent recently I detoured to the small village of Down…
Make Greenland Great
In his last great novel The Plot Against America (2004) Philp Roth posited plausible circumstances…
A Visit to the Hague
Late last year HHJ Gumpert KC – one of the judges in the formidable fortress…
Public Intellectuals: Fyodor Dostoevsky
In an age of unrestrained Russian-bashing, the figure of Fyodor Dostoevsky might seem a provocative…
The Greatest Troubadour: Jacques Brel
In search of the my favourite troubadour all roads lead to Flanders, Belgium, then on…
The Austrian Mind
There still exists – even today – a yearning, a nostalgia for European solidarity, a…
The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 3
The remains of unquestionably the greatest intellect of the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, are buried…
The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 2
In the first part of this series, London-based barrister, who taught Jurisprudence for sixteen years…
The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 1
This article is a response to Supreme Court Justice Gerard Hogan’s Annual Hale Lecture in…
Guilt and Innocence in the Criminal Justice System Part 2
As the founder of the now seemingly inactive Irish Innocence Project, and co-founder of The…
Guilt and Innocence in the Criminal Justice System Part 1
I have just finished representing a client in a murder case and have plenty to…
Being Irish
This Ireland exists. And should one travel there and not find it, then they have…