Raymond Byrne

Raymond Byrne, BCL, LLM, BL, is an Adjunct Full Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, and was full-time Commissioner of the Law Reform Commission from April 2016 to July 2021. Before that, he had been Director of Researchin the Commission and, previously, a lecturer in law in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University.

He is the author of Safety and Health Acts: Annotated and Consolidated (2013). He is also co-author of the Annual Review of Irish Law series (37 volumes from 1987 to 2023) and of Byrne and McCutcheon on the Irish Legal System, now in its 7th edition (2020). He was also a contributor to Macleod and Hodges (eds), Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries (2017) and Percival and Sayers (eds), Changing the Law: A Practical Guide to Law Reform (2017). He has also written for many journals, including The Irish Jurist and the Irish Judicial Studies Journal. He is an editorial board member for Irish Law Times.

Raymond chaired a Working Group whose work led to a Council of Europe 2009 Recommendation on Missing Persons and Presumption of Death. He was also previously Chair of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers.