Vicky Conway's powerful legacy will live on

As shown by the range of tributes to her after her death recently, Vicky Conway, from Douglas in Cork city, saw all people as equals and argued that law was not abstract, it was about people and relationships

No one can talk about modern policing without engaging with Vicky Conway’s work.

In the early summer of 2015, Vicky Conway turned up at Dublin City University to give a presentation as part of an application for a lectureship in law. Over the course of 20 minutes she astounded the audience with a treatise on how law was about people. 

She trenchantly argued that law was not abstract, it was about people and relationships and the more we remembered that as academics and teachers, the better. She was hired the following day and over the next seven years touched so many lives in DCU and beyond.