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…
Rule of Law Backsliding in Rogue EU States
This is an abridged interview with jurist Laurent Pech, Professor of European Law, Jean Monnet…
‘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.”
The Key Change to Fix the Irish Constitution
The Harp needs more than tuning. The single most important and useful change we should…
Containing Strife – Professional Ideals in Law and Mediation
Perhaps we can agree on this much: conflict is intrinsic to the human condition. We…