Max Barrett, is a Judge of the High Court of Ireland, where he currently sits on the Chancery list and heads the Competition Law list. He has also sat as an occasional judge of the Court of Appeal, and previously presided over family, child, and immigration law matters. He is a former member of the Commercial Court and the author of over 500 published reserved judgments. Before his appointment to the bench, Mr Justice Barrett accumulated extensive senior in-house, regulatory, and commercial legal experience in a variety of financial services groups. An accomplished legal scholar, his academic credentials include an LL.B. from Trinity College Dublin, a first-class M.A. in competition law from King's College London, a first-class M.A. in Literature from Dublin City University, and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Salford, where he attended on a full scholarship. e is an Editorial Board member of the Irish Judicial Studies Journal, has lectured to the Ukrainian judiciary under Council of Europe programmes, and serves as an external examiner for the Law Society of Ireland and King's Inns.