Conor William Hanly

Conor Hanly, B.A., LL.B., LL.M. (N.U.I.), LL.M., J.S.D. (Yale)Conor Hanly graduated from N.U.I., Galway with a B.A. in History and Legal Science in 1988, and with an LL.B. in 1990. In 1994, he completed an LL.M. by research at University College Dublin entitled Pricing: A Behavioural Approach to Abuses of Market Power, for which he was awarded First Class Honours. Conor spent five years in a civil litigation environment in the Claims Department of Eagle Star Insurance Company. From 1995 to 2000, he was Lecturer in Law at Waterford Institute of Technology, and was an adviser to the Doras project, an outreach programme for those involved in juvenile prostitution in Waterford City. He joined the faculty at NUI Galway in 2000.From 2003 to 2004, Conor was a Graduate Fellow at the Yale Law School, where he was conferred with a Master of Laws degree, and was awarded the Joseph M. Parker Prize in Legal History and Roman Law for his paper, The Decline of the Civil Jury in Nineteenth Century England. He was also an editor on the Yale Law and Policy Review. In 2012 he completed his doctorate (J.S.D.) on the criminal jury in Victorian England.From 2013 to 2018,Conor was appointed the Director of Internationalisation for the Law School, in addition to being the Director of the LL.B. programme. Further, for the same period, he was a member of the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Committee, and a member of the Law School Executive Committee. Since 2018, he is the Director of Marketing for the School, and is Class Adviser to the 2nd BCL students. He has acted as external examiner for Trinity College, the University of Limerick, and Athlone, Carlow and Waterford Institutes of Technology. He is a regular contributor to local, regional and national print and electronicmedia on matters of criminal law, especially those relating to sexual offences. Conor has a particular interest in the area of domestic and sexual violence. He was principal investigator for a ground-breaking study of attrition in rape cases published in 2009 ( Rape and Justice in Ireland ). In 2016, he was principal investigator and co-author of a major study of domestic violence in Ireland ( In Search of Justice: Women and the Irish Legal System ). In 2018, Conor joined the Board of the Galway Rape Crisis Centre, and has been Secretary to the Board since 2022. He runs a free legal information service for clients of the Centre. In 2019, The Central Statistics Office appointed Conor to the Data Expert Group in respect of the CSOs Sexual Violence Survey 2023. In April 2024, the Minister for Justice Appointed Conor to the Board of CUAN, the statutory Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency

Conors main research interests lie in criminal law. He is the author of An Introduction to Irish Criminal Law ( 3rd ed., 2015), which is a standard work on the subject. He contributed the criminal law chapter to the Annual Review of Irish Lawbetween 2016 and 2020.He was principal investigator and co-author of Rape and Justice in Ireland (2009), a major study of attrition in rape cases commissioned by the Rape Crisis Network Ireland with part-funding from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. He has worked with Safe Ireland to help design and implement an empirical study of domestic violence in Ireland. Heco-wrote the resulting report (2016) and contributed a chapter on researching domestic violence (2019). In 2020, he published a study of mandatory reporting in Ireland in the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family .He has contributed to several reports from theEuropean Agency for Fundamental Rights as a national expert onthe rights of victims of crime (since2016). In 2022, Conor was principal investigator on a study funded by the Department of Justice on delays in the processing of rape cases.Conor also has research interests in the field of legal history. He wrote an award-winning paper on the decline of the civil jury in nineteenth-century England (2005), and has delivered several historical papers on different aspects of the jury. In 2016,he published an article in the Dublin University Law Journal on the 1916 Proclamation and jury trial in the Irish Free State. He has prepared a book chapter onthe Maamtrasna murders in 1882, and a discussion of the English jury system, both published in early 2019. Most recently, he has completed articles on jury selection in Victorian England and the decline of the criminal jury in Victorian England, both ofwhich were published in 2021.

My undergraduate teaching interests are primarily in the field of criminal law. I also teach a first-year module on Legal Procedure which includes a mandatory moot element. For several years, I also ran the Moot Court module, and I continue to mentor moot teams. At postgraduate level, I teach a module on the criminal jury.