Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin

Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law

Fionnuala D. Ni Aoláin

344 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-624-2318

612-625-2011

niaol002@umn.edu

Queen's University Law Faculty, Belfast, Northern Ireland, LL.B., Ph.D.
Columbia Law School, LL.M.

Professor Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin is concurrently the Dorsey & 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 is co-founder and Associate Director of the Institute. Professor Ní Aoláin received her LL.B. and Ph.D. in law at the Queen's University Law Faculty in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She also holds an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School. Professor Ní Aoláin was a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School in 2003-04.

In 2008, she was invited to participate as an expert in an Expert Seminar organized by the Working Group "Protecting human rights while countering terrorism" of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force.

She has previously been Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (1993-94); Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School (1994-96); 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) and Visiting Fellow at Princeton University (2001-02). Professor Ní Aoláin is the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors, including a Fulbright scholarship, the Alon Prize, the Robert Schumann Scholarship, a European Commission award, and the Lawlor fellowship.

Her teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law, human rights law, national security law, and feminist legal theory. She has published extensively in the fields of emergency powers, conflict regulation, transitional justice, and sex-based violence in times of war. Her most recent book, Law in Times of Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2006), was awarded the American Society of International Law's preeminent prize in 2007: the Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship. She 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 2003, she was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as Special Expert on promoting gender equality in times of conflict and peace-making.

She has been nominated twice by the Irish government to the European Court of Human Rights, in 2004 and 2007, the first woman and the first academic lawyer to be thus nominated. She was appointed by the Irish Minister of Justice to the Irish Human Rights Commission in 2000 and served until 2005. She remains an elected member of the Executive Committee for the Belfast-based Committee on the Administration of Justice, and is also a member of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.

For more information, please read Professor Ní Aoláin's CV.


PUBLICATIONS

Books

Gender and the Post-Conflict Process (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010) (with Dina Hayes & Naomi Cahn)

International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process (LexisNexis, 4th ed., 2009) (with David Weissbrodt & others)

Selected International Human Rights Instruments and Bibliography for Research on International Human Rights (LexisNexis, 4th ed., 2009) (with David Weissbrodt, Mary Rumsey & others)

Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2006) (recipient of the American Society of International Law's 2007 Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship) (with Oren Gross)

The Politics of Force: Conflict Management and State Violence in Northern Ireland (Blackstaff Press, 2000)

Book Chapters

Gendered Under-Enforcement in the Transitional Justice Context, in Gender in Transitional Justice (Susanne Buckley-Zistel & Ruth Stanley, eds., Palgrave, forthcoming 2010)

Rights after Revolution: Progress or Backslide after the Good Friday Agreement?, in Human Rights & Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, & Northern Ireland (Eileen F. Babbitt & Ellen L. Lutz, eds., Syracuse University Press, 2009) (with Maggie Beirne)

Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal, in Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism 221-239 (Margot Young, Susan Boyd, Gwen Brodsky & Shelagh Day, eds., UBC Press, 2007) (with Grainne McKeever)

The Battle for Transitional Justice: Hegemony, Iraq and International Law in Judges, Transition, and Human Rights (John Morison, Kieran McEvoy & Gordon Anthony, eds., Oxford University Press, 2007) (with Christine Bell & Colm Campbell)

The Individual Right of Access to Justice in Times of Crisis: Emergencies, Armed Conflict, and Terrorism, in Access to Justice as a Human Right 57-93 (Francesco Franconi, ed., Oxford University Press, 2007)

The European Convention on Human Rights and its Prohibition on Torture, in Torture: A Collection 213-228 (Sanford Levinson, ed., Oxford University Press, 2004)

To Know Where We Are Going, We Need to Know Where We Are: Revisiting States of Emergency, in A Human Rights Agenda for the 21st Century 79 (Angela Hegarty & Siobhan Leonard, eds., Cavendish Publishing Limited, 1999) (with Oren Gross)

Journal Articles

Gender and Post-Conflict Remedies, Baltimore Law Review (forthcoming 2010) (with Naomi Cahn & Dina Hayes)

Violence and Gender Accountability in Post-Conflict Settings, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law (forthcoming 2010) (with Naomi Cahn & Dina Hayes)

Putting Masculinities in the Post-Conflict Frame, New England Law Review (forthcoming 2010) (with Naomi Cahn)

Towards a Feminist Theory of Harm in Post-Conflict Societies, Queen's Law Journal (forthcoming 2009)

Women, Security, and the Patriarchy of Internationalized Transitional Justice, 31 Human Rights Quarterly 1055 (2009)

Gender and the Rule of Law in Transitional Societies, 18 Minnesota Journal of International Law 380 (2009) (with Michael Hamilton)

Gendering the Declaration, 24 Maryland Journal of International Law 335 (2009)

A Skeptical View of Deference to the Executive in Times of Crisis, 41 Israel Law Review 545 (2008) (with Oren Gross)

Hamdan and Common Article 3: Did the Supreme Court Get It Right?, 91 Minnesota Law Review 1523 (2007)

Foreword, Transitional Justice: (Re)Conceptualising the Field, 3 International Journal of Law in Context 81-88 (2007) (with Christine Bell & Colm Campbell)

Gender, Truth & Transition, 16 UCLA Women's Law Journal 229-279 (2007) (with Catherine Turner)

The No-Gaps Approach to Parallel Application in the Context of the War on Terror, 40 Israel Law Review 563 (2007)

Underenforcement and Intersectionality: Gendered Aspects of Transition for Women, 1 International Journal of Transitional Justice 338-354 (2007) (with Eilish Rooney)

Political Violence and Gender in Times of Transition, 15 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 829-849 (2006)

The Paradox of Transition in Conflicted Democracies, 27 Human Rights Quarterly 172 (2005) (with Colm Campbell)

Justice Discourses in Transition, 13 Social & Legal Studies 305-328 (2004) (with Christine Bell & Colm Campbell)

Looking Ahead: Strategic Priorities and Challenges for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 35 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 469 (2004), reprinted in International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals (Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan Goodman, eds., Oxford University Press, 3d ed., 2007)

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Enforcing Socio-Economic Rights in Northern Ireland, [2004] 2 European Human Rights Law Review 158-180 (2004) (with Grainne McKeever)

Balancing Human Rights: International Legal Responses to Terrorism in the Wake of September 11, 33 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 63 (2003)

Local Meets Global: Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland, 26 Fordham International Law Journal 871 (2003) (with Colm Campbell)

The Frontiers of Legal Analysis: Reframing the Transition in Northern Ireland, 66 Modern Law Review 317-345 (2003) (with Colm Campbell & Colin Harvey)

Truth Telling, Accountability and the Right to Life in Northern Ireland, [2002] 5 European Human Rights Law Review 572-590 (2002)

Emergency, War and International Law - Another Perspective, 70 Nordic Journal of International Law 29 (2001) (with Oren Gross)

From Discretion to Scrutiny: Revisiting the Application of the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine in the Context of Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights, 23 Human Rights Quarterly 625 (2001) (with Oren Gross)

The Evolving Jurisprudence of the European Convention Concerning the Right to Life, 19 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 21-42 (2001)

Rethinking the Concept of Harm and Legal Categorizations of Sexual Violence During War, 1 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 307 (2000)

Sex-Based Violence and the Holocaust--A Reevaluation of Harms and Rights in International Law, 12 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 43 (2000)

The Relationship between Situations of Emergency and Low-Intensity Armed Conflict, 28 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 97 (1999)

The Fractured Soul of the Dayton Peace Agreement: A Legal Analysis, 19 Michigan Journal of International Law 957 (1998), reprinted in Reconstructing Multiethnic Societies: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Florian Bieber & Dzemal Sokolovic, eds., Ashgate Publishing, 2001)

Radical Rules: The Effects of Evidential and Procedural Rules on the Regulation of Sexual Violence in War, 60 Albany Law Review 883 (1997)

Beyond the Laws of War: Peacekeeping in Search of a Legal Framework, 27 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 293 (1996) (with Robert O. Weiner)

The Fortification of an Emergency Regime, 59 Albany Law Review 1353 (1996)

Where Hope and History Rhyme--Prospects for Peace in Northern Ireland?, 50 Journal of International Affairs 63 (1996)

The Emergence of Diversity: Differences in Human Rights Jurisprudence, 19 Fordham International Law Journal 101 (1995)

Book Reviews & Review Essays

Buying Social Justice, American Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2009)

Expanding the Boundaries of Transitional Justice, 22 Ethics & International Affairs 213 (2008) (reviewing Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies (Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff, eds., Social Science Research Council, 2007) and What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations (Ruth Rubio-Marin, ed., Social Science Research Council, 2006))

Terror Conflated?, 25 Constitutional Commentary 131 (2008) (reviewing Eric A. Posner & Adrian Vermeule, Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts (Oxford University Press, 2007))

The Power of Voice Narrative at the End of Conflict, 28 Journal of Law and Society 311 (2000) (reviewing Bill Rolston, Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth (Beyond the Pale Publications, 2000))

Book Review, 8 European Journal of International Law 539 (1997) (reviewing Michael O'Flaherty & Liz Heffernan, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: International Human Rights Law in Ireland (Brehon Publishing, 1995))

Book Review, 6 European Journal of International Law 156 (1995) (reviewing Henry Murdoch, A Dictionary of Irish Law (Topaz Publications, rev. 2d ed., 1993))

The Entrenchment of Systematic Abuse - Mass Rape in the Former Yugoslavia, 8 Harvard Human Rights Journal 285 (1995) (reviewing Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Former Yugoslavia (Alexandra Stiglmayer, ed., University of Nebraska Press, 1994))

COURSES

Courses

Public International Law
European Union Law
Human Rights Law
International Criminal Law

Seminars

Feminist Legal Theory
International Humanitarian Law/Law of War
International Women's Rights
European Human Rights Law