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Walsh, Dermot P.J.
Prof. Dr
Professor of Law
Kent Law School
University of Kent
Canterbury, United Kingdom
D.P.Walsh@Kent.ac.uk
Biographical details:
Professor Dermot P.J. Walsh LLB; PhD; MRIA;
Barrister-at-Law
Dermot Walsh is a Professor of Law at the
University of Kent. He is formerly Professor of Law
and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at
the University of Limerick. He graduated with
an LLB from Queen’s University Belfast in 1980,
was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1983
and was awarded his PhD from the National
University of Ireland in 1993. He specialises in
criminal justice, policing, EU criminal law and
human rights and has published and lectured
widely in these areas. Seminal works include:
The Irish Police: a Legal and Constitutional
Perspective (1998); Bloody Sunday and the
Rule of Law in Northern Ireland (2000);
Criminal Procedure (2016); and Human Rights
and Policing in Ireland (2008). He was elected
a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2011
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