Dr Niamh Howlin awarded prize for Outstanding Contribution to Legal Scholarship
Dr Niamh Howlin (centre) with (l-r) Keith Walsh, Chair of the Judging Panel; John Hogan, legalbooks.ie and Legal and General; Rossa Fanning SC, Attorney General; Niall Cawley, President of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association. (Photo credit: Mark Harrison).
We are pleased to announce that our colleague and former Dean, Dr Niamh Howlin was unanimously awarded a prize for Outstanding Contribution to Legal Scholarship at the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association Law Book Awards.
Dr Howlin was awarded this prestigious prize on the basis of two books published in 2023 and 2024: Barristers in Ireland: An Evolving Profession Since 1921 (Four Courts Press, 2023) and A Century of Courts: The Courts of Justice Act 1924 (Four Courts Press, 2025). She was presented with leather-bound copies of both books by Attorney General Rossa Fanning at a gala awards dinner.
The winners of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association Law Book Awards were announced and celebrated at the dinner hosted in April by DSBA President Niall Cawley at the Kildare St. and University Club, St Stephen’s Green.
Congratulations also to colleagues Dr Maebh Harding and Anthony Kerr SC who were also shortlisted at the award ceremony. Dr Harding for Law Book of the Year and Anthony Kerr for Practical Law Book of the Year.
The award details and the leather-bound copies of Dr Howlin’s books