Fionnuala Ni Aolain

2012-2013 Academic Year

Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization

Research Interests

• Public International Law
• The Law of Armed Conflict
• National Security Law
• Feminist Legal Theory
• Transitional Justice

Education

• Lester Pearson College, Victoria, Canada Baccalaureate, Liberal Arts 1987, Philosophy & English
• The Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland LL.B. 1991
• Columbia Law School LL.M. 1996
• The Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Ph.D. 1997

Appointments

• Professor Law and Associate Director, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast, 2000-
• Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law, University of Minnesota Law School, 2004-
• Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, 2012

Additional Information

Professor Ni Aolain will teach the course European Union Law in the Fall 2012 term, and the course Public International Law in the Spring 2013 term.

Biographical Statement

Professor Ni Aolain is concurrently the Dorsey and Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Professor of Law at the University of Ulster's Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies Hebrew University (Jerusalem)(2011-12); Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's LAPA Program (2001-02); Visiting Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (1996-2000); Associate Professor of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel (1997-99); Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School (1994-96); and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (1993-94). She has published extensively in the fields of emergency powers, conflict regulation, transitional justice and sex based violence in times of war. Her book Law in Times of Crisis (CUP 2006) was awarded the American Society of International Law's preeminent prize in 2007 - the Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship. Her book On the Frontlines: Gender, War and the Post Conflict Process has recently been published by Oxford University Press. She has served as expert and consultant to the UN OHCHR and UN WOMEN, and for the Office of the UN Secretary-General. She has twice been nominated to the position of Judge at the European Court of Human Rights by the Government of Ireland.

Representative Publications

• Ni Aolain, Fionnuala, Dina Francesca Haynes & Naomi Cahn. On the Frontlines: Women, War and the Post-Conflict Process (Oxford University Press 2011).
  
• Ni Aolain, Fionnuala. Law in Times of Crisis - Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press 2006).
  (Awarded the ASIL Certificate of Merit for its contribution to creative scholarship)
  
• Ni Aolain, Fionnuala. The Politics of Force - Conflict Management and State Violence in Northern Ireland (Blackstaff Press 2000).