Amy Coney Barrett and “Originalism”
The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son The age of the…
Browsing: Law
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…
A Poor Relation’s Rich Associations
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence,…
Freedom of Speech in the Facebook Age
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently called for more stringent Internet privacy and election laws saying,…
The Limits of Law
‘What is law?’ This is a fundamental question posed at the outset of any course…
‘Wild Law’ is the Path of Natural Justice
“every member of the Earth Community has three inherent rights: the right to be, to habitat, and to fulfil its role in the ever-renewing processes of the Earth community.”
Review: Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
In his autobiography– in itself an unusual exercise for a lawyer – Geoffrey Robertson QC,…
UK’s Surveillance Regime in Breach of European Convention on Human Rights
In a previous editions of Cassandra Voices we discussed the Russian surveillance system, called SORM,…
The Towering Qualities Needed in an Advocate
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Tower of Song’ is a short history, and valedictory, to the tradition of…
The Torture of my Irish Visa Application
I am writing this account for the sake of those who follow. As victims of…
The Key Change to Fix the Irish Constitution
The Harp needs more than tuning. The single most important and useful change we should…
Your Fitbit Might be Walking You into Trouble
In the previous edition of Cassandra Voices Eoin Tierney explored the extent to which data…
The Qualities Needed in a Judge
The task of ascertaining essential qualities required to be a judge is necessary for the…
Containing Strife – Professional Ideals in Law and Mediation
Perhaps we can agree on this much: conflict is intrinsic to the human condition. We…
How Russian Internet Surveillance Operates
The issue of data privacy is becoming a source of increasing individual and corporate unease…