On the Question of Immigration
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is perhaps best understood as the culmination of…
Browsing: David Langwallner
Distortions Of Language
What tangled web we weave when our intention is to deceive? Sir Walter Scott…
Public Intellectuals: Voltaire
Voltaire (1694-1778) is the self-invented name of François-Marie Arouet, riffed on a childhood description of…
A Visit to the Hague
Late last year HHJ Gumpert KC – one of the judges in the formidable fortress…
The Austrian Mind
There still exists – even today – a yearning, a nostalgia for European solidarity, a…
The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 2
In the first part of this series, London-based barrister, who taught Jurisprudence for sixteen years…
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…
We are in a new dark age: David Langwallner on Julian Assange
David Langwallner is a barrister working in the U.K.. He has written numerous articles for…
Lessons From the Great Depression (I)
This is the first instalment of a three part essay on the legacy of the…
Does Ireland still have a Problem with Whistleblowing?
Over the past few years, a broad consensus has emerged that in Ireland providing adequate…
J. G. Ballard: Foreshadowing Collapse
The fusion of mood and setting, the mapping of a landscape of the troubled mind…
Unforgettable Year: February 2020
By February 15th there was a scent of danger in Bull Moose’s nostrils. Discussing which…
Unforgettable Year: January 2020
Here begins our journey back through the #unforgettableyear of 2020… The drone-strike assassination of Qassem…
Gradations of Evil: Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism
Since the 1970s, the consistent presence of neoliberalism in politics alongside short, sharp bursts of…
Multiculturalism in an Age of Extremes
I feel that Europe, in its state of degeneracy has passed its own death sentence.…
Enforcing Environmental Rights
Introduction However scant the support provided by the legal process, as a lawyer I am…
In Conversation with David Langwallner
London-based Barrister David Langwallner, the founder of the Innocence Project in Ireland, responds to the…
It is Time for a Renewed Deal
U.S. President (1932-45) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born into one of the most aristocratic families…