News & Events 2023 Annual Distinguished Lecture

Mr. Tom O'Malley, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Galway, Senior Counsel and member of the Inner Bar of Ireland, gave the 2023 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Law on Thursday 11th May. The title of the lecture was “From practical wisdom to guidelines: The future of sentencing and regulation in Ireland”.

You can watch the lecture on YouTube and view photographs from Martina Regan Photography on Flickr or further down the page below. Tom's full lecture can be downloaded in PDF format: Annual Distinguished Lecture 2023.

The lecture was covered in The Irish Times (subscriber only) and Tom was interviewed on RTÉ Radio 1’s The Claire Byrne Show.

This was our 11th Annual Distinguished Lecture. Previous speakers include: Professor Christopher McCrudden of Oxford University, Judge John T. Noonan of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Professor Neil Walker of Edinburgh University, Baroness Brenda Hale of the UK Supreme Court with Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness of the Irish Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Nial Fennelly of the Irish Supreme Court, Sir Declan Morgan, the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Judge Síofra O’Leary of the European Court of Human Rights, Justice Leona Theron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Hon. Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan, Advocate General of the European Court of Justice.