James Gallen
@jamesgallen.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Law and Government, DCU. #TransitionalJustice and Historical Abuses of Church and State (CUP 2023) available here: https://shorturl.at/AJnT1
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James Gallen
@jamesgallen.bsky.social
· Apr 4
Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional Abuses
Abstract. This book critically examines justice responses to non-recent institutional abuses across the island of Ireland, comprising Northern Ireland and
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Delighted to say my new book (with Anne-Marie McAlinden and Marie Keenan) Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional abuses is now available free as a gold open access title with OUP academic.oup.com/book/59821
This is an important first step from the state for the survivors of Micheal Shine. A scoping inquiry can inform and shape the terms of reference for a statutory public inquiry and other justice responses to meet victim-survivor needs www.thejournal.ie/michael-shin...
'Scoping exercise' into Michael Shine abuse to get Cabinet approval
“There should be no stone left unturned and no ‘what-ifs’ at the end of this process,” a solicitor for the victims said.
www.thejournal.ie
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This is an important first step from the state for the survivors of Micheal Shine. A scoping inquiry can inform and shape the terms of reference for a statutory public inquiry and other justice responses to meet victim-survivor needs www.thejournal.ie/michael-shin...
Further evidence of the lack of seriousness and rigor with which the state has treated archives and non-recent records. We have access to all of the large tech companies on this island, the lack of support, political will and budget for modern solutions is absurd. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Mother and baby home records held in database ‘not fit for purpose’
Tusla warned Government that system would require ‘significant’ redevelopment to ensure preservation
www.irishtimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Further evidence of the lack of seriousness and rigor with which the state has treated archives and non-recent records. We have access to all of the large tech companies on this island, the lack of support, political will and budget for modern solutions is absurd. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Delighted to see my PhD student Lia O'Broin's first publication out in the world: www.ushrj.org.uk/ushrj-2025-i...
The Scope and Implementation of the Right of Indigenous Peoples - Lia O'Broin / USHRJ 2025 Issue | University of Stirling Human Rights Journal (USHRJ)
On The ‘Belgium Ruling’: The Need To Establish The Status of Non-human
Animals within The Human Rights Corpus and Law
www.ushrj.org.uk
August 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Delighted to see my PhD student Lia O'Broin's first publication out in the world: www.ushrj.org.uk/ushrj-2025-i...
I was honoured that Prof Kathy Daly @griffith.ed.au reflected at length on my work applying a transitional justice approach to institutional abuses. This is my response to her proposed alternative of a distinct conception of "institutional justice". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Response to Kathleen Daly (2024) Stepping Out of the Shadow of Transitional Justice: A Theoretical Framework for Institutional Justice
In “Stepping Out of the Shadow of Transitional Justice: A Theoretical Framework for Institutional Justice,” Kathleen Daly recently developed a new theoretical framework of institutional justice and...
www.tandfonline.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I was honoured that Prof Kathy Daly @griffith.ed.au reflected at length on my work applying a transitional justice approach to institutional abuses. This is my response to her proposed alternative of a distinct conception of "institutional justice". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by James Gallen
We are recruiting for the Legal Voluntary Internship Programme with the IBA’s Human Rights Institute, Legal Policy & Research Unit, Executive Director in international Criminal Law and eyeWitness to Atrocities in London from January–March 2026. Email your application to [email protected]
August 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We are recruiting for the Legal Voluntary Internship Programme with the IBA’s Human Rights Institute, Legal Policy & Research Unit, Executive Director in international Criminal Law and eyeWitness to Atrocities in London from January–March 2026. Email your application to [email protected]
Delighted that my first monograph #Transitionaljustice and Historical Abuses of Church and State has got over 10,000 unique downloads/views #openaccess www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...
Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State
www.cambridge.org
August 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Delighted that my first monograph #Transitionaljustice and Historical Abuses of Church and State has got over 10,000 unique downloads/views #openaccess www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...
Gardai need more resources to address these investigations in a systemic manner www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Investigating historic schools abuse a ‘major pull’ on Garda resources, authority warns
Fewer offences of possession of child sexual abuse material due to resource issues at online child exploitation unit
www.irishtimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Gardai need more resources to address these investigations in a systemic manner www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.thejournal.ie/schools-abus... As in other jurisdictions sexual abuse sits on a spectrum of abuse of children. The forthcoming Commission will likely just address sexual abuse - it wont tell a coherent truth if doesnt acknowledge the other forms of violence present at the time of sexual abuse.
Survivors want 'barbaric' corporal punishments in schools to be included in new inquiry
Corporal punishment was banned in Ireland in 1982, but many former pupils allege violent attacks still took place as a form of discipline.
www.thejournal.ie
July 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
www.thejournal.ie/schools-abus... As in other jurisdictions sexual abuse sits on a spectrum of abuse of children. The forthcoming Commission will likely just address sexual abuse - it wont tell a coherent truth if doesnt acknowledge the other forms of violence present at the time of sexual abuse.
The Irish state historically outsourced "care" of vulnerable children to Church until the 1990s - and has not adequately invested in children since. This is a large structural injustice for generations: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Tusla and Government clash over bed spaces for at-risk children
Correspondence shows disagreement between department and agency over handling of special care placement shortages
www.irishtimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The Irish state historically outsourced "care" of vulnerable children to Church until the 1990s - and has not adequately invested in children since. This is a large structural injustice for generations: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... justice work only possible due to long slow and relentless work of victims families and advocates
Man kidnapped by Argentina’s military regime as baby is reunited with relatives
Forty-nine-year-old is 140th child found by Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who search for people ‘disappeared’ under 1976-83 dictatorship
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... justice work only possible due to long slow and relentless work of victims families and advocates
observer.co.uk/news/interna... "Everyone knew and nobody did anything." Sadly so familiar
What did the PM know? France reels at ‘absolute cruelty’ ...
A report accuses prime minster François Bayrou of failing to act over the depravity of Bétharram
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
observer.co.uk/news/interna... "Everyone knew and nobody did anything." Sadly so familiar
Glad to support survivors in pursuit of meaningful investigation of the systemic failures related to Michael Shine's decades of abuse: www.thejournal.ie/michael-shin...
Victims of paedophile Michael Shine outline what inquiry into his abuse would look like
It follows a recent meeting with the Health Minister, during which she asked the victims to return with a list of their key demands.
www.thejournal.ie
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Glad to support survivors in pursuit of meaningful investigation of the systemic failures related to Michael Shine's decades of abuse: www.thejournal.ie/michael-shin...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025... An important step in justice for survivors in this case
George Gibney arrested in US on foot of extradition request
Gardaí seek extradition of former swimming coach after investigation into alleged child sex abuse
www.irishtimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025... An important step in justice for survivors in this case
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... Further evidence that the need to address child sexual abuse in the Catholic church is an ongoing global issue that needs national and Vatican level changes in law policy and practice to meet survivor justice needs.
‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France
Legal complaints filed by former pupils accuse priests and staff of physical or sexual abuse from 1957 to 2004
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... Further evidence that the need to address child sexual abuse in the Catholic church is an ongoing global issue that needs national and Vatican level changes in law policy and practice to meet survivor justice needs.
A new report estimates it would cost nearly C$663m (£353m) over five years to the fund repatriation for all 204 First Nations in British Columbia. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
After 150 years, a prized box returns to an Indigenous nation in Canada: ‘I felt like royalty traveling with it’
The unlikely return of the bentwood box underscores the challenges facing Indigenous communities working to reclaim items raided from their lands
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A new report estimates it would cost nearly C$663m (£353m) over five years to the fund repatriation for all 204 First Nations in British Columbia. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... Victim-survivors of non-recent abuses across different sectors have a terrible time when seeking justice through litigation. Reform of our civil procedure (cost protections, statute of limitations, legal aid) is necessary for effective access to justice.
Abuse survivors left waiting too long for redress from Scouting Ireland
Youth organisation continues to fight historical sex abuse cases in the courts, despite apologies and promises
www.irishtimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... Victim-survivors of non-recent abuses across different sectors have a terrible time when seeking justice through litigation. Reform of our civil procedure (cost protections, statute of limitations, legal aid) is necessary for effective access to justice.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci... This would not have happened without the tireless work of Catherine Corless, survivors, families, advocates and the international scrutiny that the truth brought on Ireland. Necessary, painstaking work ahead.
Work to excavate Tuam mother and baby home site to begin
Catherine Corless says the 796 children kept her going during ‘painful’ fight for justice
www.irishtimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci... This would not have happened without the tireless work of Catherine Corless, survivors, families, advocates and the international scrutiny that the truth brought on Ireland. Necessary, painstaking work ahead.
www.ncronline.org/opinion/pope... Ability to control and regulate the diverse Catholic religious orders and groups is a key to an effective and consistent approach to addressing child sexual abuse in Catholic church.
Pope Leo XIV faces major test over Opus Dei reforms
When Pope Leo XIV summoned the leader of Opus Dei to see him, in one of his first official papal audiences, Vatican watchers immediately began to wonder what the meeting meant.
www.ncronline.org
June 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
www.ncronline.org/opinion/pope... Ability to control and regulate the diverse Catholic religious orders and groups is a key to an effective and consistent approach to addressing child sexual abuse in Catholic church.
www.thejournal.ie/increase-abu... Combined with Scoping inquiry report, this further evidences the widespread nature of child abuse in day schools in Ireland.
'Significant increase' in allegations of abuse against Catholic Church members, report says
The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church said there were 385 allegations made last year.
www.thejournal.ie
June 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
www.thejournal.ie/increase-abu... Combined with Scoping inquiry report, this further evidences the widespread nature of child abuse in day schools in Ireland.
The state has been ignoring this since the failure of the Retention of Records Bill 2019. Legislation preserving and regularising the CICA RIRB and McAleese inquiry records can and should proceed the establishment of the National Centre for Research and Remembrance www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Thousands of child abuse records kept in storage costing €80,000 a year
Long-promised law to transfer documents to the National Archives of Ireland has not been passed
www.irishtimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The state has been ignoring this since the failure of the Retention of Records Bill 2019. Legislation preserving and regularising the CICA RIRB and McAleese inquiry records can and should proceed the establishment of the National Centre for Research and Remembrance www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
