Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London, specialising in human rights and civil liberties. Gallagher studied at University College Dublin and graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor's degree in Civil Law. She also holds degrees from the Honorable Society of the King's Inns, Dublin; and Cambridge University. She is one of the three joint founders of the ‘Act for the Act’ campaign (with Martha Spurrier and Fiona Bawdon), a crowdfunded mass advertising campaign to tell positive stories about the Human Rights Act 1998. In 2017 she received UCD's alumni award in Law.