Public Intellectuals: Leonardo Sciascia
Corruption is worse than prostitution; the latter might endanger the morals of an individual. The…
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.
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…
White Riot in Dublin
When David Irving, the mad fascist historian imprisoned in Austria for Holocaust denial, was asked…
Late Art and Hackney Diamonds
The theme of ‘late art’ was recently explored by the art historian Carel Blotkamp in…
Public Intellectuals: Thomas Mann
Born in 1875, like many in his era Thomas Mann was initially a Great German…
Ten Faery Tales for Our Time
This article is dedicated to Patrick Healy. The Irish people have a long-standing relationship with…
Facilitating the Dirty Business of the State
Both as a lawyer and Supreme Court judge, Louis Brandeis was an inveterate opponent of…
Disturbing Developments in Criminal Justice in Ireland
All persons and authorities within the state, whether public or private, should be bound by,…
Regulating Online Safety: Ireland v. U.K.
U.K. lawmakers, unlike their Irish counterparts, are currently agonising over the Online Safety Bill 2023.…