Dr Richard Humphreys

Richard Humphreys is a practising barrister. He is also an adjunct part-time lecturer in law in NUI Galway, is a member of the Appeal Tribunal under the Prisons Act 2007 and is the Statute Law Revision Project Consultant to the Office of the Attorney General.

He holds a BCL and LLM from the NUI (UCD) and a PhD from the University of Dublin and is a member of the Irish, Northern Irish and English Bars and a Fellow of the RSA and RAS. He is the author of Index to Irish Statutory Instruments (Dublin, 1988) and Countdown to Unity: Debating Irish Reunification (Irish Academic Press, 2008) and various articles in legal journals.

Previously he was Special Adviser to the Minister for Justice and Law Reform (1993-97). He was a member of the Balance in the Criminal Law Review Group (2006-07) and lectured in law at TCD (part-time, 2006-07) UCD (1991-93) and UCC (1990-91).