Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society
Faculty Director, Human Rights Center
Professor of Law, Queen's University of Belfast, School of Law
- Law and Policy
- Human rights
Introduction
Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin, Ph.D., is a University Regents Professor; holder of the Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society; and faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is concurrently a professor of law at the Queen’s University of Belfast, School of Law.
Ní Aoláin’s teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law, human rights law, national security law, transitional justice, and feminist legal theory. Her first book, The Politics of Force, examined the use of force by state agents during the conflict in Northern Ireland and contained a unique empirically based analysis of all conflict-related deaths in the jurisdiction by state agents.
Ní Aoláin was a representative of the prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at domestic war crimes trials in Bosnia (1996-97). In 2017 she was appointed as United Nations Special Rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights for a three-year term.
Notable Achievements
Regents Professor