Anne White O’Brien

University of Galway
Law

Exploring the Adequacy of Irish Law in Protecting Female Victims: Examining the Subjective Standard and the Defence of ’Honest Mistake’ in Rape Cases

Anne is a graduate of the University of Galway, with a degree in Law, Criminology & Criminal Justice (BCL). During her first year of her undergraduate studies, she was a recipient of the University of Galway ‘Scholarship of Excellence’. Anne’s research centres around equality before the law. Her winning paper sought to examine the inadequacies of the standard by which the mens rea of perpetrators of sexual offences is judged in the Irish courts.

Anne is currently studying a Master of Laws (LLM) at Queen’s University Belfast. She is continuing her interest in legal scholarship through her current role as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Galway Law Review for Volume IV.