Law & Artificial Intelligence

ABOUT

John P. Byrne

Dr. John P. Byrne is a practicing barrister (King’s Inns, 2005) with a Ph.D in Law (UCD, 2009) as well as a Masters degree in European Law (LL.M, 2002) and a Bachelor in Civil Law degree (BCL, 2001) both from UCD School of Law. He was the recipient of a University College Dublin Open Postgraduate Scholarship (UCD, 2004) for his research investigating the historical development of a plea in the criminal law known as marital coercion. He has published many times in various publications and has been a regular contributor to the prestigious Annual Review of Irish Law since 2007. The contents of his book on Artificial Intelligence have appeared as a series of seven articles in the Irish Law Times between 2022 to 2026.

He is co-founder of Irish manufacturing and technology company EVHACS and has recently co-authored a book on the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act (Thomson Reuters, 2025) which was launched at TUS and is available for purchase online. Previously he was Legal Counsel for over a decade with European automotive data-house Cartell.ie.

He is fluent in Portuguese and has conversational German (Goethe Institut) and Irish as well as reading both Spanish and Italian. His hobbies include playing piano, golf, reading history and retro-computing.

He is registered on the roll of practicing barristers in Ireland and lives in Dublin.

TUS hosts Launch of Landmark Book on Ireland ‘s Policing Reform

Co- Authors, John Paul Byrne, Superintendent Andrew Lacey , Josephine Feehily, Board of Governors with Chief Superintendent Derek Smart, Dr PJ Ryan attending the TUS hosts Launch of Landmark Book on Ireland ‘s Policing Reform
Picture Brendan Gleeson
28/11/2025 Tus Book Launch event, Moylish Campus.
Photo: Gareth Williams

PATENTS:

  • (UK) Method and system for determining advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) features

Date of Grant of Patent: 03 November 2020 Inventors: John P. Byrne; Jeff Aherne, Patent Publication No.: GB2572373

  • (DE) An Electric Vehicle Hybrid Air Conditioning System configured for charging an electric vehicle

Date of Grant of Patent: Jun 13, 2024 Inventors: John P. Byrne, Jeff Aherne, Darran Faherty, Patent Publication No. DE: 21 2021 000 569.1 

  • (Jap) An Electric Vehicle Hybrid Air Conditioning System configured for charging an electric vehicle

Date of Grant of Patent: 01/09/2025 Inventors John P Byrne, Jeff Aherne, Darran Faherty, Patent Publication No. Jap 2024502437

PUBLICATIONS:

  • Byrne Dr John P., Artificial Intelligence and Liability (2025) Irish Law Times 43(12) at 136
  • Byrne Dr John P., Byrne R, McIntyre TJ, Ryan P.J., Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024, Thomson Reuters · November 2025
  • Byrne Dr John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2024, Criminal Law, (Chapter) Thomson Reuters Autumn 2025 
  • Byrne Dr John P., Copyright and Artificial Intelligence – Emerging Issues from USA (2025) Irish Law Times 43 (7) at pg 74 · Aug 19, 2025
  • Byrne Dr John P., Editorial, Irish Criminal Law Journal, [2025] I.C.L.J. 3 Thomson Reuters · June 18, 2025
  • Byrne Dr John P., Codifying the Criminal Law – 20 Years On [2025] I.C.L.J. No. 3
  • Byrne Dr John P., Editorial, Irish Criminal Law Journal, [2025] I.C.L.J. 2 Thomson Reuters · April 29, 2025
  • Byrne Dr John P., Editorial, Irish Criminal Law Journal, [2025] I.C.L.J. 1 Thomson Reuters · Feb 20, 2025
  • Byrne Dr John P., Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated Thomson Reuters · Nov 16, 2024 -Annotations of the Road Traffic Act 2024 and Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023.
  • Byrne Dr John P., Law & Artificial Intelligence, A book available online at www.johnpbyrne.eu, Nov 14, 2024
  • Byrne Dr John P., Regulation of E-Scooters and E-Bikes in Ireland 2024 31 (7) Commercial Law Practitioner · Sep 23, 2024
  • Byrne Dr John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2023, Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023, (Chapter)
  • Byrne Dr John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2023, Criminal Law (Chapter) Thomson Reuters Autumn 2024 · Apr 18, 2024
  • Byrne Dr John P., Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) Regulation in Brazil (2023) Irish Law Times 41 (17) at pg 247 
  • Byrne Dr John P., Preparedness for Artificial Intelligence Systems is Crucial, Irish Broker, July 2023
  • Byrne Dr John P., Getting the Intelligence into Artificial Intelligence Liability (2023) Irish Law Times 41 (6) at p.86
  • Byrne Dr John P., The Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in the EU The Bar Review (February 2023)
  • Byrne Dr John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2022, Criminal Law (chapter) Thomson Reuters, Autumn 2023
  • Byrne Dr John P., The Artificial Intelligence Act – An Act Not Just For the Future (2023) Irish Law Times 41 (1) a p. 15
  • Byrne Dr John P., Conclusiveness of the Register: Section 31 and “mistake” Conveyancing and Property Law Journal [2022] 27(3) 45 C.P.L.J.
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Self-Driving Vehicles in Ireland and Accident Liability (2022) Irish Law Times 40 (19) at p. 282
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2021, Criminal Law (chapter) (Thomson Reuters, 2022)
  • Byrne Dr., John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2020, Criminal Law (Chapter) (Thomson Reuters)(September 2021
  • Byrne Dr. John P., The End of the Plea: Marital Coercion in England and Wales 1898 to 2014 University College Dublin Law Review (2019) 19 UCDLR 1
  • Byrne Dr. John P., The Origins and Early Development of the Plea of Marital Coercion The Irish Jurist 2019 (61) Irish Jurist 99
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2015, Criminal Law (Chapter) Thomson Reuters
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2014, Criminal Law (Chapter) Thomson Reuters
  • Consultation Paper on Mandatory Sentences, Law Reform Commission of Ireland, (as Legal Researcher) 2012
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Vehicle clocking: does the Beere case represent a new approach to consumer-related frauds? (Thomson Reuters) Irish Criminal Law Journal 2011, 21(2), 41-44
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2009, Criminal Law (Chapter) Thomson Reuters
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2008, Criminal Law (Chapter) Thomson Reuters
  • Report on Statute Law Restatement, Law Reform Commission of Ireland, (as Legal Researcher) 2008
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Annual Review of Irish Law 2007, Criminal Law (Chapter with R. Byrne co-author) Thomson Reuters
  • Consultation Paper on Statute Law Restatement, Law Reform Commission of Ireland (as Legal Researcher) 2007
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Conscripting Women into the Workforce – Honouring the Lisbon Agenda by Violating the Constitution The Bar Review (The Bar of Ireland) 3/1/2007
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Tax Individualisation: Time for a Critical Re-Think (Iona Institute) 2007
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Constitutional Doubt on Fiscal Policy – Opinion The Irish Times 15/12/2006
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Codification of Criminal Law in Ireland Irish Criminal Law Journal 2005 15(2) ICLJ 15
  • Codifying the Criminal Law, The Stationary Office, (as Legal Researcher to the Expert Group on Codification) 2004
  • University College Dublin Law Review, 2002, Editor-in-Chief
  • Byrne Dr. John P., Why we need to tighten up how we deal with and dispose of write-offs, Irish Independent, 5/13/2015
  • Operating a successful business a factor in sentence, Jan 9, 2010, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2010, 20(1), 26
  • Sentencing Court erred in not waiting for probation report, Jan 6, 2008, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2008, 18(2), 55
  • Byrne Dr John P., Ireland is Being Run like a Factory, Feb 12, 2007, Irish Examiner
  • Why Tax Individualisation Penalises Families, Jan 18, 2007, The Irish Catholic
  • Discovery of Documents can be sought under the European Arrest Warrant Act s. 16, Sep 9, 2006, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2006, 16(3), 23
  • Disparity in sentences imposed on co-offenders, Jan 6, 2005, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2005, 15(2), 25-27
  • Relationship between defences of self-defence and provocation, Jan 1, 2005, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2005, 15(1), 23
  • Application for Certification under Section 29 of the Courts of Justice Act 1924, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2004, 14(2), 23-24
  • Admissions after meeting in custody with girlfriend ruled admissible, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2006, 16(1), 24
  • Adverse comment by trial judge could be remedied at trial, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2009, 19(1), 26-29
  • Court should not allow tactical use to be made of the plea of guilty, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2009, 19(2), 57-58
  • Delay, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2005, 15(1), 25-27
  • Delay not prejudicial to accused, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2006, 16(3), 24-27
  • Exclusion of Unconstitutionally obtained evidence, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2004, 14(2), 25
  • Editing of statement prejudicial to accused, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2005, 15(2), 28-30
  • Error made in respect of consecutive sentences, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2010, 20(3), 88
  • Failure to take into account previous convictions constituted an error in principle, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2007, 17(2), 27-28
  • Form of identification procedure ‘not ideal’, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2008, 18(3), 92
  • Handling of racial prejudice may in future constitute point of exceptional public importance, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2007, 17(4), 29
  • Inadequate warning on gross delay in sexual abuse case, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2006, 16(2), 23-25
  • Inter-racial recognition and the Casey warning, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2005, 15(3), 29-30
  • Jury had right to determine the meaning of statement, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2010, 20(1), 25
  • Mobile telephone records admissible, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2005, 15(3), 27-28
  • No Deliberate ploy adopted by Gardai in interviewing applicant’s sick mother, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2008, 18(2), 56
  • No Duty on Defence Counsel to requisition, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2004, 14(4), 28-29
  • No Special Status given to belief evidence, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2008, 18(1), 24-25
  • New evidence must have been unknown at time of trial, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2009, 19(1), 25
  • Newly Discovered Fact must be Fact and not Opinion, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2008, 18(3), 90-91
  • No good reason for extending the time limit for judicial review, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2006, 16(4), 23-24
  • Offence of Endangerment contrary to s.13 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2004, 14(3), 20-21
  • Provocation Raised as a defence, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2004, 14(2), 26-27
  • Prosecution case not taken at its strongest, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2010, 20(1), 27
  • Remarks of Trial Judge, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2004, 14(2), 22
  • Requirements of General Deterrence a factor in sentencing – though “not an appropriate case for guidelines”, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2008, 18(1), 26-27
  • Reactivation of part of Suspended Sentence permitted even where sentence imposed prior to commencement of Criminal Justice Act 2006, s.99, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2009, 19(2), 59-60
  • Refusal by DPP to call a witness listed in the book of evidence, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2006, 16(1), 21-22
  • Review of sentence pursuant to Criminal Justice Act 1993, s.2, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2007, 17(1), 27-29
  • Sentencing was “wholly appropriate” Irish Criminal Law Journal 2008, 18(2), 55
  • Sentencing, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2004, 14(4), 27
  • Seizure of drugs pursuant to investigation for rape was incidental to the power under s.10(1)(c), Irish Criminal Law Journal 2006, 16(4), 21-22
  • Sentencing, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2005, 15(1), 24
  • Trial Judges’ Direction to the Jury, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2004, 14(3), 18-19
  • Value and quantity of drugs a “critical factor” in sentencing, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2009, 19(1), 24
  • Where an invitation to enter is issued to Gardai no obligation to advise of constitutional rights falls on them, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2007, 17(3), 26-28
  • Whether the applicant said he would “sort the guy out”, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2010, 20(3), 88-90
  • “Inappropriate professional advice” did not affect admissibility, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2006, 16(1), 23
  • “Unduly rigid and mathematical approach” to drafting of indictment criticised, Irish Criminal Law Journal 2006, 16(2), 21-22

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