Criminal Law in Ireland 2nd edition: Cases and Commentary

About Alan CusackCatherine O'SullivanLiz CampbellShane Kilcommins

Professor Liz Campbell is the inaugural Francine V McNiff Chair in Criminal Jurisprudence at Monash University Melbourne. Her research focuses on how the law responds to profit-driven crime both by legitimate corporate entities as well as networks of organised crime. Another strand of her research looks at the use of biometrics in investigation and prosecution and she is a member of the UK Home Office Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group. She was a Fulbright scholar in 2011 and her research has been funded by the Research Council UK the Law Foundation of New Zealand the Modern Law Review and the Carnegie Trust. She publishes widely in the area of criminal law/justice in generalist and specialist journals and is co-author of the fifth edition of The Criminal Process (with Professor Andrew Ashworth and Professor Mike Redmayne) (OUP 2019). Dr Catherine OSullivan BCL LL.M (NUI) is a lecturer in Law and Criminology at the University College Cork. Her main research interests lie in Criminal Law Criminology Gender and the Law and Law and Popular Culture. In addition to this text she co-authored Fundamentals of the Irish Legal System (2016). She has published articles in a variety of national and international publications including the Irish Jurist the Dublin University Law Journal the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly Legal Studies and Human Rights Quarterly. Professor Shane Kilcommins is head of the School of Law at the University of Limerick. His areas of expertise are criminal law evidence law criminal procedure penology and legal philosophy. He is a Fulbright scholar has been appointed an expert with European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He also acts as an examiner for the Law Society of Ireland in criminal law. Dr Alan Cusack is a lecturer in law at the University of Limerick. Dr Cusack is a graduate of University College Cork (BCL LL.M PhD) University College Dublin (Dip. Emp) and the Law Society of Ireland (Solicitor 2012). His research interests lie in the broad areas of criminal procedure criminal law victimology criminology the laws of evidence and disability studies. Dr Cusack has been widely published in national and international journals including The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry The International Journal of Evidence and Proof; the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly and the Irish Judicial Studies Journal and he has provided expert analysis on the treatment of vulnerable witnesses for national media outlets in Ireland including Newstalk FM and The Irish Examiner.