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Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Professor Ní Aoláin is concurrently Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the Queens University, Belfast. She is the recipient of numerous academic awards including the Leverhulme Fellowship, Fulbright scholarship, ASIL Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship, Alon Prize, Robert Schumann Scholarship and Lawlor fellowship. She has published extensively on issues of gender, conflict regulation, transitional justice, and counter-terrorism. She has held academic positions at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, Princeton University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ní Aoláin is currently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism. @UN_SPExperts @just_security
Co-Director, Transformation and Empowerment Queens University

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Areas of Research

Gender; conflict regulation; transitional justice; counter-terrorism

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  • Addressing Post-Colonial Legacies in Transitional Justice
  • Social and Economic Rights in Transition
  • Gender and Conflict Transformation

Publications

  • Fionnuala D. Ni Aolain, Fionnuala D. Ni Aolain “The Gender of Occupation” , Yale Journal of International Law 45(2) 338 (2020)
  • Fionnuala D. Ni Aolain, Fionnuala D. Ni Aolain u0022How Can States Counter Terrorism While Protecting Human Rights?” 45 Ohio Northern University Law Review 389 (2019)
  • Anne Dutton and Fionnuala Ní Aolain, Anne Dutton and Fionnuala Ní Aolain “Between Reparations and Repair: Assessing the Work of the ICC Trust Fund for Victims Under its Assistance Mandate” 17 (1) Chicago Journal of International Law (2019)
  • Bill Rolston and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Bill Rolston and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin “Colonialism, Redress and Transitional Justice: Ireland and Beyond” State Crime 7(2) (2018)

Publications from Fionnuala

Stream Summary: Transformation and Empowerment 

The Datafication of Counterterrorism

How could minority and women’s rights be protected in a united Ireland?

A Window of opportunity to bring colonial legacies into view: The case of Colombia

On the Frontlines: Gender, War and the Postconflict Process

Los legados colonialesen Colombia: Impacto sobre las mujeres indígenas, afrodescendientes y negras y rutas hacia el cambio

Colonial Legacies in Colombia: Impact on Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and Black Women and Pathways to Change

The Belfast Good Friday Agreement and Transformative Change: Promise, Power and Solidarity

The Complexity of Sexual Violence, Birthing, and Status after the Fall of the Caliphate

The Limits of Law and the Value of Rights in Addressing Terrorism: A Study of the UN Counterterrorism Architecture

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Colombia
Kurdistan-Iraq
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