Richard Humphreys is a Senior Counsel. He holds a BCL and LLM from the NUI (UCD) and a PhD from the University of Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1991 and the Inner Bar in 2009. He is also a member of the Northern Irish Bar and the English Bar by Middle Temple and is a Fellow of the RSA, RAS, ZSL and RGS.
He is Chairperson of the Architects Admissions Board of the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland, and is a member of the Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee. He is also an adjunct part-time lecturer in law in NUI Galway. He is also Legal Adviser to the Government Reform Unit and Statute Law Revision Project Director for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
He is the author of two books, Index to Irish Statutory Instruments (Dublin, 1988) and Countdown to Unity: Debating Irish Reunification (Irish Academic Press, 2008) and various articles in legal journals.
Previously he was a member of the Independent Appeals Tribunal under the Prisons Act 2007 (2008-10) and was was a member of the Balance in the Criminal Law Review Group (2006-07) and lectured in law at TCD (part-time, 2006-07) UCD (1991-93) and UCC (1990-91).
From 1993-97 he worked in Government as Special Adviser to the Minister for Equality and Law Reform.