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David Langwallner

London, United Kingdom
As seen in: Facebook, Issuu, The Irish Times, RTÉ, The University Times, Village Magazine, Counsel, New Law Journal
Covers:  politics, philosophy, the rule of law, legalism, literature, law and literature and history and economics, environmental matters
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Public Interest Barrister, Academic. All views are entirely personal and do not reflect the views of any organisation I am affiliated with.

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David Langwallner’s Biography

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David Langwallner is a public interest lawyer specialising in immigration, housing, ,judicial review, criminal defence, and miscarriages of justice.

He has reported cases in several jurisdictions and has represented whistleblowers in inquiries, in constitutional matters, in banking and regulatory work, and secured the first posthumous pardon in the history of the Irish state, in the Harry Gleeson matter for which he was made Irish lawyer of the year in 2015.

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David Langwallner’s Journalist Portfolio

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David Langwallner: The Run For Cover

David Langwallner: The Run For Cover

From top: Leakey's second hand bookshop. Inverness, Scotland; David Langwallner 'Embarrassed by his emotional…

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Lawyers in film: Le Havre (2011)

Lawyers in film: Le Havre (2011)

© Moviestore/Shutterstock Relevant to current times, Aki Kaurismaki's very human story focuses on the plight …

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David Langwallner: From Desolation Row

David Langwallner: From Desolation Row

From top: Boris Becker arrived for his sentencing hearing with his partner Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro; David…

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David Langwallner: A Hate Supreme

David Langwallner: A Hate Supreme

From top: A protest outside the US Supreme Court, Washington DC last night following the leak of a draft opin…

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David Langwallner: Keeping A Straight Face

David Langwallner: Keeping A Straight Face

From top: Alec Guinness; David Langwallner "The circus world no longer exists. The real clowns have all disap…

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The Importance of Public Debate | Cassandra Voices

The Importance of Public Debate | Cassandra Voices

At a recent debate organised by the English-Speaking Union (ESU) at its HQ, Dartmouth House in London, we con…

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Articles

Advocacy as high theatre

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By David Langwallner
| Counsel Verified
I have recently completed a podcast series on the relationship between law and literature.* Episode four, which deals with advocates and judges in literature, begins with an argument that Sir Edward Carson was the greatest Irish or British advocate of all. In fact, to some increasingly representative elements of Southern and Northern Ireland, writing about his greatness as an advocate is a form of high treason which I now willingly commit.
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Our greatest intellectual is gone

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By David Langwallner
| Village Magazine Verified
For more than six decades, Jürgen Habermas defended the power of reasoned dialogue against authoritarianism, consumerism and political cynicism When the greatest mind on the planet dies, it would be ignorant not to write a proper obituary. Jürgen Habermas is dead at 96, and the obituaries in the established papers — not just in Ireland — did not properly understand why, or what, is lost.
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A year after Roe was overthrown, lessons from Trump’s Supreme Court for Ireland’s

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By David Langwallner
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6 7 July-August 2023July-August 2023 77 The idea of historicism, unevolving text that should be interpreted according to the original intent of those who drafted the text — militating against the derivation of new rights, particularly privacy restrictions could be imposed on abortion unless they were unduly burdensome. his Tled to a flurry of State retrenchments and subsequent litigation. Notifications, parental consent, independent advice were all promoted as obstacles to the procedure.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

na

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes i own an olivetti

How is social media changing news?

liberating and destroying simultaneously

Awards

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Irish Lawyer Of The Year 2015

2015 - public interest lawyering

I secured the first posthumous pardon in the history of the irish state and set up the irish innocence project

henry hunter hamilton memorial prize

law

trinity college award

kingsmill moore memorial award

history