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Biography

Dr Luke Noonan, LLB (Hons) (2009), LLM (2019), PhD (2024)  is a graduate of Griffith College Cork and University College Cork. His doctoral research was funded by the Irish Research Council and supervised by Dr Catherine O’Sullivan and Dr Darius Whelan. He joined the School of Law, University College Cork as a Lecturer in Law in September 2023, and was previously Assistant Professor in Criminal Law at Dublin City University.

He became the Deputy Director of the Centre of Criminal Justice and Human Rights in 2024, and has been the Co-Director of the Irish Legal Information Initiative since 2020.‍

Research Interests

Luke's doctoral research was titled "Reforming Mental Condition Defences and Procedures in the Criminal Justice System in light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities".

His research interests lie primarily in the areas of criminal law, criminal justice, law of evidence, human rights and mental health law. 

Research Grants

	Project	Funding Body	Start Date	End Date	Award
	Reforming Mental Condition Defences and Procedures in the Criminal Justice System in light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	Irish Research Council	01-SEP-19	31-AUG-22	€77,833.20

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Publications

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Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2020)	'Prior Fault Insanity and the impact of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Luke Noonan (2020) 'Prior Fault Insanity and the impact of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities'. Irish Criminal Law Journal, 30 (1) [Details]
	(2020)	'The Role of the Jury in the Insanity Defence: People (DPP) v Alchimionek' Luke Noonan (2020) 'The Role of the Jury in the Insanity Defence: People (DPP) v Alchimionek'. Hibernian Law Journal, 19 (1) [Details]
	(2020)	'The Insanity Defence in Ireland: An analysis of the defence in homicide trials' Luke Noonan (2020) 'The Insanity Defence in Ireland: An analysis of the defence in homicide trials'. Irish Jurist, 64 [Details]

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Professional Activities

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Honours and Awards

	Year	Title	Awarding Body
	2019	Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Scholar	Irish Research Council
	2019	Comyn Kelleher Tobin Graduate Bursary	College of Business and Law

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Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Centre for Criminal Justice & Human Rights	Deputy Director	13-FEB-24 /
	Irish Legal Information Initiative	Co-Director	01-JUN-20 /
	Irish Association of Law Teachers	Member	01-JUL-21 /
	Irish Penal Reform Trust	Member	01-JUL-21 /
	Society of Legal Scholars	Member	01-MAR-21 /
	Irish Legal Information Initiative	Project Coordinator	01-DEC-18 / 31-MAY-20

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Conference Contributions

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	European Research Council Roots of Responsibility, L. Noonan (2023) Protecting Legal Capacity: Replacing the Insanity Defence with Non-Discriminatory Doctrines of Culpability. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], European Research Council Roots of Responsibility, University College London . [Details]
	(2022)	Mental Diversity Law Network, L. Noonan (2022) From an assessment of moral responsibility to a doctrine of culpability: Changing the nature of the insanity defence to comply with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Mental Diversity Law Network, University of Nottingham . [Details]
	(2022)	XXXVIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health, L. Noonan (2022) Reforming the Insanity Defence to Comply with Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], XXXVIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health, University of Lyon . [Details]
	(2022)	All-Ireland PhD Conference, L. Noonan (2022) Absence of Choice: Reforming the Insanity Defence. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], All-Ireland PhD Conference, University of Galway . [Details]
	(2021)	Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, L. Noonan (2021) Reforming the law of Infanticide in light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, Irish Association of Law Teachers . [Details]
	(2021)	Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, L. Noonan & P. O'Callaghan (2021) The Irish Legal Information Initiative: Cultivating Key Graduate Attributes Beyond the Classroom. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, Irish Association of Law Teachers . [Details]

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Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	School of Law EDI	Member	2023 /
	Centre for Criminal Justice & Human Rights	Board Member	2023 /

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Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	University College Cork	Lecturer in Law	25-SEP-23 /
	Dublin City University	Assistant Professor in Criminal Law	01-JAN-23 / 31-AUG-23
	University College Cork	Assistant Lecturer	01-SEP-19 / 24-SEP-23

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Education

	Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
	2024	University College Cork	Ph.D	Law
	2019	University College Cork	LL.M.	Law
	2009	Griffith College Cork	LL.B. (Hons.) in Irish Law	Law

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Teaching Activities

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Teaching Interests