Facilitating the Dirty Business of the State
Both as a lawyer and Supreme Court judge, Louis Brandeis was an inveterate opponent of…
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Disturbing Developments in Criminal Justice in Ireland
All persons and authorities within the state, whether public or private, should be bound by,…
Weighing up Ireland’s Hate Crime Law
The new so-called Hate Crime Bill [Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate…
Reform of Defamation Law in Ireland
Irish Times journalist Naomi O’Leary wrote an article recently commenting on how journalists are curtailed…
Eviction Ban: Towards an Unjust Society
An earlier version of this article was recently published in the Irish World newspaper, we…
Irish Prison Service Whistleblower: The Strange Story of Sean O’Brien
To meet ex-prison officer Sean O’Brien for the first time I drove through a sparse…
60 Bucks for Life
“You have no appointment.” I’d emailed, left messages, and read their mission statement: To free the…
War Crimes: Collective Guilt
As events in Ukraine demonstrate, ineluctably, war diminishes our humanity, possessing men – and mostly…
The Fog of Law
You enter here a taut quintet Where theorists can shift or shape How we make…
Socio-Economic Rights Must Be Vindicated
The noted American historian, and Putin critic,Timothy Snyder’s recent text Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty…
Does Ireland still have a Problem with Whistleblowing?
Over the past few years, a broad consensus has emerged that in Ireland providing adequate…
Unenumerated Constitutional Rights Erode Irish Democracy
When the Federal Convention of 1878 had completed its work on the U.S. Constitution in…
Irish Prison Reform Long Overdue
The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Fyodor…
Amy Coney Barrett and “Originalism”
The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son The age of the…
Enforcing Environmental Rights
Introduction However scant the support provided by the legal process, as a lawyer I am…
Jonathan Sumption on Law and Politics
In his recent book, Trials of the State Law and the Decline of Politics, (Profile…
The Legal Challenge of Preventing Future Misinfodemics in the Age of Digital Activism
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen a deluge of misleading advice, false rumours,…
Vigilance Required Against ‘Seepage’ of Emergency Legislation in Ireland
On Thursday 19th of March, the Dáil passed emergency legislation in response to the Covid-19…
An Open Letter to the Irish Supreme Court in Response to the Angela Kerins Decision
To My Fellow-Citizens in the Supreme Court, I write this letter because I think your…
Spain’s Grand Inquisitors Send Out an ‘Indisputable Message’
Repost… The year is 1500 and Jesus Christ returns – to the city of Seville…