Biography
Shane Kilcommins is a full professor in Law at the University of Limerick. His areas of expertise are criminal law, evidence law, criminal procedure, penology and legal philosophy. He has been head of the School of Law since 2014, and sits on other university reviews/committees such as Tenure Track Development Review, Executive Campus Infrastructural Committee (2018-), and the Research Rankings Sub Committee (2018). He is a Fulbright scholar, has been appointed an expert with European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He has also worked as part of a team of inspectors for the Inspector of Prisons, and being invited by the then Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald, to chair the Consultative Council to advise on issues relating to penal policy. He has also chaired the consultative forum on the Victims' Charter, as part of its relaunch by the Minister for Justice and Equality. He has also acted as an expert adviser to Transparency International Ireland. In 2020, he was appointed to An Garda Síochána's Expert Review Group on Recruit Education and Entry Pathways and Learning and Development, to provide strategic advice and make recommendations on the delivery of learning and development interventions in the organisation. He has obtained 2,654,636 in competitive funding, and has supervised 17 Ph.D. students and 2 postdoctoral students to completion. He is an examiner for the Law Society of Ireland, and sits on the board of the Victims' Rights Alliance. He has authored or edited 8 books with publishers such as Manchester University Press, Willan, Clarus Press and Routledge. He has also published reports and numerous articles in leading journals such as the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, International Journal of Evidence and Proof, International Review of Victimology, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, European Journal of Criminology, and Criminology and Criminal Justice. In addition, he has contributed 25 chapters to edited books, and presented over 75 conference papers.
Research Interests
Teaching Interests
I have undertaken a postgraduate certificate, diploma and MA in teaching and learning (2004-2007). My teaching has been recognised in the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching 2005-2006 (4,000), and I was a member of the University Teaching and Learning Committee at UCC (2012-2014).
Publications
Book
The Victim in the Irish Criminal Process
S Kilcommins, S Leahy, K Moore Walsh and E Spain
Criminal Law in Ireland: Cases and Commentary.
Liz Campbell, Shane Kilcommins and Catherine O'Sullivan,
Terrorism, Rights and the Rule of Law: Negotiating State Justice in Ireland
Kilcommins S and Vaughan B ,
Crime, Punishment and the Search for Order in Ireland
Kilcommins S, et al ,
The Introduction of Community Service Orders.
shane Kilcommins,
Book Chapter
Defining Corporate, White Collar and regulatory Crime: offences, defences and procedure
S Kilcommins and E Spain
White-Collar Crime in Ireland: Law and Policy
Taxing Crime: a new power to control
Kilcommins, S and Friel R
The Palgrave Handbook of Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law (London: Palgrave 2017).
The Development of Victims Rights in Ireland'
S Kilcommins, S Leahy, and E Spain
Criminal Litigation
Doctrinal Legal Method (Black Letterism): assumptions, commitments and shortcomings
shane Kilcommins
Legal Research Methods: principles and practicalities.
Regulatory Crime
Kilcommins, S and Spain, E
Criminal Litigation
Introduction - a revolutionary stirring in scholarship
kilcommins s, higgs b, cronin j, blackshields d, mccarthy, m
Integrative Learning: International Research and Practice
Capstone Modules
Shane Kilcommins
Integrative Learning: International Research and Practice
Victims of Crime in Ireland
Kilcommins, S and Moffitt, Luke
Irish Handbook of Criminology
Victims Rights in Ireland
Kilcommins, Leahy, Spain
Criminal L:itigation
Conclusion - integrative learning: a pathless path
Kilcommins, S et al
Integrative Learning: international research and practice
Regulatory Crime
Kilcommins, S and Spain, E
Criminal Litigation (3rd ed)
Vicitms of Crime with Disabilites in Ireland
Shane Kilcommins
Criminal Law and Practice Review
The Community Service (Amendment) Act 2011, Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated I.C.L.S.A.R 137: 24.01 -24.14
Shane Kilcommins
Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated
Regulatory Crime
shane Kilcommins,
M Butler, ed, Criminal Litigation, 3rd ed
Criminal Evidence
shane kilcommins,
J Schweppe and T Mohr, eds, IALT Collection of Essays (Dublin: Thomson, Round Hall)
Criminal Justice `Psychoactive Substances Act 2010,
Shane Kilcommins,
Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated
The Use of Learning Journals in Legal Education as a means of fostering integrative learning through pedagogy and assessment
S Kilcommins,
Making Connections: strengthening and documenting intentional teaching for integrative learning¿ (Cork: Nairtl) , pp. 28-60
Introduction, pp. 1-11
Shane Kilcommins and Ursula Kilkelly,
Regulatory Wrongdoing in Ireland (Dublin: First Law),
The Rise of the Regulatory State: a response to Colin Scott
S Kilcommins and B Vaughan,
Regulatory Wrongdoing in Ireland, (Dublin: First Law), pp. 82-108.
The law of Evidence
Maura Butler,
Criminal Litigation, 2nd ed. (Oxford: OUP), pp. 33-63. (update)
Irish Law
P Cane and J Conaghan,
The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford: OUP) ,pp 637-638
Historical Jurisprudence
shane kilcommins,
Western Jurisprudence Sweet and Maxwell, Dublin 144-167
Reconstructing the image of the Habitual Drunkard
Kilcommins, S,
Alcohol, society and Law London: Barry Rose Law Publishers pp. 60-103.
Conference Contribution
ICJDN Conference: vulnerable adults and the law
S Kilcommins and A Cusack
Burren Law School, 5th May 2018
S Kilcommins
DCU Law of Evidence/Criminal Procedure Workshop
S Kilcommins
Conference Publication
National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
Higgs, B; Kilcommins, S; et al
Edited Book
Aprendizaje Integrado: investigaciones internacionales y casos practicos
Integrative Learning: International Research and Practice
Regulatory Crime in Ireland
Alcohol, Society and Law
Other Publication
Victims and the Irish Criminal Process
S Kilcommins and A Cusack
Scholarship of Teachign for transitions, National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Alexnder Hotel, 22nd May 2015
Bettie Higgs, Shane Kilcommins and Kathryn O'Sullivan
Transitions in, through and out; a compilation and analysis of the cholarship of teaching and learning in Inaugural European Conference on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, UCC 9/9 June 2015
Shane Kilcommins, Kathryn O'Sullivan, Donna alexander, Bettie Higgs
Engaging students in service learning and public value, Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Innovation, Thursday 3rd September UL
Shane Kilcommins and Eimear Spain
Should we imprison white collar crime? Corporate Conscience, European Business Network, All Hallows College, Dublin, 20th November, 2013.
Shane Kilcommins and John Considine
Extending the Scope of Employment Equality Legislation: Comparative Perspectives on the Prohibited Grounds of Discrimination.
Kilcommins, Shane, McClean, Emma, McDonagh, Maeve, Mullally, Siobhán, Whelan, Darius,
Employment Equality Law: comparative perspectives on the prohibited grounds of discrimination. (Dublin: Government Publications Office) 173pp..
Mullally, S., McDonagh, M., Kilcommins, S. and Whelan, D.,
Report on the extension of the grounds of discrimination in the Employment Equality Act.
Kilcommins, S., McDonagh, M., Mullally, S and Whelan, D,
Peer Reviewed Journal
GSOC, the legislative process, and the privacy rights of citizens
Kilcommins, S and Spain, E
Irish Criminal Law Journal
The Victim in Law - the emergence of a new juridical subject in the crime conflict
S Kilcommins
Criminal Law and Practice Review
The victim in the Irish criminal process: a journey from dispossession towards partial repossession
Kilcommins, S
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
Crime Control, the security state and constitutional justice in Ireland: discounting liberal legalism and deontologicla principles
shane kilcommins
The International Journal of Evidence and Proof
"Deaths in Prison Custody" Capstone Course: Engaging Final-Year Law Students In Service Learning and Public Value
Kilcommins, S,Spain, E
Journal of Criminal Justice Education
DOI: 10.1080/10511253.2015.1117118
Show me a Justice System that's open, transparent, accessible and inclusive': barriers to access in the criminal justice system for people with disabilities as victims of crime'
Kilcommins, S, Daly, C and Harold G,
Irish Journal of Legal Studies
Creating Equitable access to Justice for people with disabilities as victims of crime: Ireland's criminal justice system and the challenge of disability rights
kilcommins, Harol and Edwards
Irish Journal of Legal Studies
The Introduction of Community Service Orders: mapping its conditions of possibility
Shane Kilcommins
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
DOI: 10.1111/hojo.12096
Victims of Crime with Disabilities: hidden casualites inthe vision of vicitm as Everyman
Shane Kilcommins and Mary Donnelly
International Review of Victimology
DOI: 10.1177/0269758014537149
Victims of Crime with Disabilities in Ireland: an invisible caste within an adversarial paradigm of justice
shane Kilcommins, Claire Edwards, Gill Harold
Irish Criminal Law Journalirish Criminal Law Journal
where is our criminal justice system going
shane Kilcommins,
Irish Probation Journal Irish Probation Journal
`The Governance of Crime and the Negotiation of Justice 10(1), 59-75.
shane kilcommins and Barry Vaughan,
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Signature Pedagogies and Legal Education: some epistemological and pedagogical concerns with Langdellian case method
Kilcommins, S and Hyland A ,
Teaching In Higher Education Teaching In Higher Education
The Europeanization of Human Rights and National Cultures of Control
Kilcommins, S and Vaughan B ,
European Journal Of Criminology European Journal Of Criminology
Moving Towards Control - Redefining Trial Procedure in Ireland
Kilcommins, S ,
Irish Probation Journal Irish Probation Journal
The Importance of Safeguards on Revenue Powers
Kilcommins, S (with John Considine) ,
Irish Tax Review
Reconfiguring State-Accused Relations in Ireland Irish Jurist, XLI: 90-124.
Kilcommins, S and Vaughan B,
Irish Jurist
The Importance of Safeguards on Revenue Powers
Kilcommins S and Considine J,
Irish Tax Reviewirish Tax Review
Risk in Irish Society: moving to a crime control model of justice
Kilcommins, S ,
Irish Probation Journal Irish Probation Journal
The crime complex hypothesis throughout the British Isles
S Kilcommins and B Vaughan,
Cambrian Law Reviewcambrian Law Review
A Perpetual State of Emergency: Subverting the Rule of Law in Ireland
Kilcommins, S and Vaughan B (2004),
Cambrian Law Review Cambrian Law Review
Wiping the Slate Clean: Rehabilitating Offenders and Protecting the Public
Kilcommins, S and O¿Donnell, I ,
Administration Administration
An Old Doctrine of Insurance Law revisited in the light of recent calls for further legislative reform: mapping the duty of disclosure in Irish Insurance Law from the perspective of what need not be disclosed
shane kilcommins,
Journal Of International Insurance Journal Of International Insurance
Cultural Determinants and Penal Practices: an analysis of the introduction of community service orders
shane kilcommins,
The Mountbatten Journal Of Legal Studies The Mountbatten Journal Of Legal Studies
Impressment and its genealogical claims in respect of Community Service: the revision of progressivist analysis.
shane kilcommins
Irish Jurist
Making Sense of the Cases on `Materiality and The Duty of Disclosure in Irish Insurance Law.
shane kilcommins,
International Journal Of Insurance Lawinternational Journal Of Insurance Law
Making Sense of the Cases on 'Materiality' and 'The Duty of Disclosure' in Irish Insurance Law
Kilcommins, S. with Lind, C,
International Journal Of Insurance Lawinternational Journal Of Insurance Law
Context and Contingency in the Historical Penal Process: the revision of revisionist analysis using the Twelve Judges Notebooks as one tool of analysis. pp. 1-54
shane kilcommins,
The Holdsworth Law Review The Holdsworth Law Review
Materiality in Insurance Law: an appraisal.
shane kilcommins,
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The Duty of Disclosure Revisited: St. Paul Fire and Marine v. McConnell Dowell Constructions. The Juridical Review. Part II., pp. 127-134
shane kilcommins,
Juridical Review Juridical Review
Kilcommins, S and Dingwall, G. (1996) Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Cross-Border Arrest Warrants: R v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, ex p. Bennett.
Shane Kilcommins and Gavin Dingwall,
Juridical Review Juridical Review
Published Report
Deaths of Prisoners while in the custody of the Irish Prison Service
kilcommins, S and Spain, E
Scholarship of Teaching for Transitions: final report a review of scholarly work and educator understanding of pedagogies for transition
Bettie Higgs, Kathryn O'Sullivan, Shane Kilcommins, et al
'Teaching for Transitions: A Review of Teaching for Transitions related to Teaching and Learning Activity and Research'
Higgs, B, Kilcommins, S, O'Sullivan, K et al
Analysis of Text for the Final Review of the National Strategy on Doestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence, 2010-2014
Spain, Gibbons and Kilcommins
Access to Justice for People with Disabilities as Victims of Crime in IrelandAccess to Justice for People with Disabilities as Victims of Crime in Ireland
Edwards, C., Harold, G., Kilcommins, S.