Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (2016)

From left: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, University of Minnesota ; Professor of Law, University of Ulster Dr Soumita Basu, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, South Asian University Dr Laura J. Shepherd, Visiting Fellow, LSE Gender Institute and Center for Women, Peace and Security; Associate Professor of International Relations, UNSW Australia Chair: Dr Paul Kirby, Visiting Fellow, LSE Center for Women, Peace and Security; Lecturer in International Security, University of Sussex

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin ( [⁠ fʲɪn̪ˠuəl̪ˠə NI Ilan ⁠] * 9. November 1967 in Galway ) is an Irish professor of law relating to human rights in international law has specialized.

Career

Ní Aoláin graduated from Queen's University Belfast ( LL.B. 1990, PhD 1998) and Columbia Law School (LLM 1996).

1994 she was a visiting professor at the degree program Human Rights of the Harvard Law School . From 1994 to 1996 she was Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School , then from 1996 to 2000 visiting professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University . From 1997 to 1999 she was Associate Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 2001 to 2002 she was visiting professor at Princeton University , from 2003 to 2004 at the Law School of the University of Minnesota, and from 2012 to 2013 at Harvard Law School.

Ní Aoláin was appointed by the Irish government in December 2000 as a member of the Irish Commission on Human Rights, which was established by the Good Friday Convention . From 2011 to 2012 she was an advisor to UN Women and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights , Study on Reparations for Conflict Related Sexual Violence (study on reparations for conflict-related sexual violence). She chairs the board of directors of the Open Society Foundations' International Women's Program and has co-chaired the American Society for International Law's annual meeting with Oona A. Hathaway and Larry D. Johnson since 2014 . She was nominated by the Irish government to the European Court of Human Rights in 2004 and was both the first woman and the first female academic lawyer to be nominated.

From 2009 to 2012 she was an executive member of the American Society of International Law and the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) of a human rights organization in Northern Ireland. She is a member of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and was appointed Special Expert on promoting gender equality in times of conflict and peace-making by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2003. She is a specialist in promoting gender equality in times of conflict and peace-making .

She is also Professor of Law at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, where she teaches international law and international human rights . She is the founder and currently Associate Director of the Transitional Justice Institute and Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is married to Oren Gross, on a Department of Law of the University of Minnesota sits Law School, already on the Irving Younger sat.

In 2015 she was a member of the Dorsey & Whitney law firm in New York City , which also includes lawyers belonging to the Guantanamo Bay attorneys .

At the same time she held a professorship in law at the Law School of the University of Minnesota and had a professorship in law at the University of Ulster .

At its thirty-fifth session, the UN Human Rights Council appointed Fionnuala Ní Aoláin as Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Counter Terrorism. She took up this office on August 1, 2017.

On October 18, 2017, she gave her first report at a session of the United Nations General Assembly .

On April 9, 2020, she commented on the stricter Egyptian anti-terror laws: Regulations under the comprehensive Egyptian anti-terror law further undermine fundamental human rights and could lead to more arbitrary imprisonment, enforced disappearances and allegations of torture as well as to a more comprehensive crackdown on opinion, thought, Lead freedom of association and assembly.

Books

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin: The Politics of Force - Conflict Management and State Violence in Northern Ireland. Blackstaff Press , 2000, ISBN 0-85640-668-6 .
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Oren Gross: Law in Times of Crisis - Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-521-83351-5 . (This book was awarded the American Society of International Law 's Certificate of Merit for its contribution to creative scholarship.)
DS Weissbrodt, F. Ní Aoláin and others: International Human Rights: Law, Policy and Process. 4th edition. Lexis Pub , 2009, ISBN 978-1-4224-1173-5 .
F. Ní Aoláin, DS Weissbrodt et al .: Selected International Human Rights Instruments and Bibliography for Research on International Human Rights. 4th edition. LexisNexis , 2009, ISBN 978-1-4224-1174-2 .
F. Ní Aoláin, DF Haynes, N. Cahn: On the Frontlines: Women, War and the Post-Conflict Process. Oxford University Press , 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-539665-2 .
F. Ní Aoláin, DS Weissbrodt: Development of International Human Rights Law. Ashgate Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4094-4129-8 .
F. Ní Aoláin, O. Gross (Ed.): Guantánamo and Beyond: Exceptional Courts and Military Commissions in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-63171-7 .

Awards and recognitions

Scholarships: 1992-1994: Lawlor Foundation Award, 1993-1994: Fulbright Scholarship , 1997-99: Teaching awards (Provost list of excellent teachers) - Hebrew University. Israel. Ranked among top 10% of all university teachers. 1996–97: Robert Schuman Scholarship (Civil Liberties Division of the European Parliament) 1998-2001: Yigal Allon (All Israeli University-wide Arard to a promising academic)

Ní Aoláin was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in May 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Fionnuala Ní Aoláin - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Law School University of Minnesota
^ ^A ^b Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
↑ Oren Gross, The New Way of War: Is There a Duty to Use Drones? . In: Discover . University of Minnesota . February 7, 2014. Archived from the original on January 24, 2015. Retrieved on December 29, 2014.
↑ Fionnuala Ní Aoláin: The Complexity of Addressing Sexual Violence Experienced by Guantanamo Bay Detainees , Just Security online forum at New York University School of Law. April 20, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2015. "Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is concurrently the Dorsey and Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the University of Ulster."
↑ Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism . Retrieved April 9, 2018.
↑ Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, said she was aware of the loss and harm involved in the nexus between terrorism, counter-terrorism and violent extremism. Profoundly conscious of the damage that could be done to political and legal systems by terrorism and counter-terrorism measures, she identified four target areas to guide her mandate. From the proliferation of permanent states of emergency to advancing the rights and protections of civil society, the target areas asserted the obligation of States to honor international law in countering terrorism. Noting that gendering counter-terrorism was not a marginal activity, she pledged to mainstream gender into her work. www.un.org
↑ Egypt's updated terrorism law opens the door to more rights abuses, says UN expert, Geneva (April 9, 2020), www.ohchr.org
^ University of Minnesota , cv
^ Royal Irish Academy [1]

Remarks

↑ Guantanamo Bay attorneys : The Center for Constitutional Rights coordinated efforts by American attorneys to process the habeas corpus and other appeals against several hundred inmates at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detention center . Only US attorneys were allowed to visit detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Cuba. You need to go through the security clearance first. And they must agree that they cannot speak from the notes they made during their meetings with their clients until they are approved for approval.

personal data
SURNAME	Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish lawyer, professor, professor of human rights
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Galway

[umn-1] A ^b Law School University of Minnesota

[ohchr-2] A ^b Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

[3] Oren Gross, The New Way of War: Is There a Duty to Use Drones? . In: Discover . University of Minnesota . February 7, 2014. Archived from the original on January 24, 2015. Retrieved on December 29, 2014.

[5] Fionnuala Ní Aoláin: The Complexity of Addressing Sexual Violence Experienced by Guantanamo Bay Detainees , Just Security online forum at New York University School of Law. April 20, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2015. "Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is concurrently the Dorsey and Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the University of Ulster."

[6] Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism . Retrieved April 9, 2018.

[7] Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, said she was aware of the loss and harm involved in the nexus between terrorism, counter-terrorism and violent extremism. Profoundly conscious of the damage that could be done to political and legal systems by terrorism and counter-terrorism measures, she identified four target areas to guide her mandate. From the proliferation of permanent states of emergency to advancing the rights and protections of civil society, the target areas asserted the obligation of States to honor international law in countering terrorism. Noting that gendering counter-terrorism was not a marginal activity, she pledged to mainstream gender into her work. www.un.org

[8] Egypt's updated terrorism law opens the door to more rights abuses, says UN expert, Geneva (April 9, 2020), www.ohchr.org

[9] University of Minnesota , cv

[10] Royal Irish Academy [1]

[4] Guantanamo Bay attorneys : The Center for Constitutional Rights coordinated efforts by American attorneys to process the habeas corpus and other appeals against several hundred inmates at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detention center . Only US attorneys were allowed to visit detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Cuba. You need to go through the security clearance first. And they must agree that they cannot speak from the notes they made during their meetings with their clients until they are approved for approval.