Grainne McMORROW
Senior Counsel

• Human Rights Lawyer and International  Jurist
• Professor of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway. School of Law, Centre for Disability Law and Policy (Adjunct)
• Senior Counsel, Practicing Barrister, (1985- to date). Member of the Irish, United Kingdom and New South Wales Australia Bars, Member of the Law Library, Four Courts Dublin
• Visiting Fellow in Comparative Human Rights La Trobe University Melbourne 1992
• Chair of the International Association of Irish Lawyers, London 1996
• Mental Health Act Commissioner (Inspectorate Role) at Broadmoor Special Hospital, UK 1994-1998
• Chair of the National Practitioners Group for Mentally Disordered Offenders, UK,  1994-95
• Sole Member of the McMorrow (Douch) Statutory Commission of Investigation into the killing in Mountjoy Prison of a young prisoner (Gary Douch) by a mentally ill cellmate (Ireland); Report Published May 2014
• Member ( Subsitute) of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe: Member of the Sub-Commissions on the Rule of Law, Fundamental Rights, Gender Equality, Constitutional Justice, International Law Protection of Minorities, Judiciary, Latin America, and Democratic Institutions
• Member of the National Crime Council Ireland 2007-2009; co-authored Problem Solving Justice - Alternatives to Custody - the Case for Community Courts
• Member of the Professor Genevra Richardson Expert Scoping Group UK reviewing the operation of the 1983 UK Mental Health Act 1994-98
• Chair of the Mental Health Commission Review  Tribunal reviewing the legality of detained patients (Ireland) 2006-2010
• Shortlisted for the Times, Justice Human Rights Award, UK, 1994
• Founding Member of the Irish Women Lawyers Association
• Legal expert and international consultant on Prison law and Penitentiary systems, Mental Health, Human Rights.