A Visit to the Hague
Late last year HHJ Gumpert KC – one of the judges in the formidable fortress…
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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…
Assange Case: a partial victory or another ominous step towards extradition?
Anyone watching the agonizing progress of the Julian Assange case proceeding through the U.K. justice…
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,…
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…
Rule of Law Backsliding in Rogue EU States
This is an abridged interview with jurist Laurent Pech, Professor of European Law, Jean Monnet…