David Cowan
David Cowan is an author and Associate Lecturer in Law at National University of Ireland Maynooth. His next book Effective Communication for Lawyers: A Practical Guide (Edward Elgar) is due out in 2021.
How to fix our broken justice system
In a world of superficial identity politics, Alexandra Wilson’s book offers a nuanced narrative
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?