Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Executive Editor
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (@NiAolainF) is Executive Editor at Just Security. She served as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism from 2017-Nov 2023. She also concurrently serves as Regents Professor and Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the Queens University School of Law in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was elected to the International Commission of Jurists in 2023. She has published extensively in the fields of emergency powers, conflict regulation, transitional justice and sex based harms 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. On the Frontlines: Gender, War and the Post Conflict Process was published by OUP (2011), and the Handbook on Gender and Conflict published by OUP (2017). 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 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. In 2011, she completed a Study on Reparations for Conflict Related Sexual Violence for the OHCHR and UN WOMEN. She chaired the International Women’s Program of the Open Society Fund 2011-17. She has twice been nominated by the Irish government as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights. Ní Aoláin is also on LinkedIn.
Areas of Expertise: Public International Law, European Union Law, Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, International Women’s Rights, International Humanitarian Law
Articles by this author:
Seizing the Moment: Opportunities to Regulate Spyware and the ‘Pall Mall Process’
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Adriana Edmeades Jones
Oct 29th, 2024
Women Are at the Center of Ukraine’s Path to Justice and Recovery
by Kateryna Busol and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
May 17th, 2024
The Just Security Podcast: Harm to Women in War Goes Beyond Sexual Violence: `Obstetric Violence’ Neglected
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Viola Gienger and Paras Shah
Apr 26th, 2024
The Just Security Podcast: Counterterrorism and Human Rights (Part 2 Spyware and Data Collection)
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Paras Shah, Viola Gienger, Tiffany Chang, Michelle Eigenheer and Clara Apt
Nov 27th, 2023
The Just Security Podcast: Counterterrorism and Human Rights (Part I Root Causes, Guantanamo, and Northeast Syria)
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Paras Shah, Viola Gienger, Tiffany Chang, Michelle Eigenheer and Clara Apt
Nov 20th, 2023
Spyware Out of the Shadows: The Need for A New International Regulatory Approach
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Adriana Edmeades Jones
May 16th, 2023
Repatriating Alleged ISIS-Linked Men from Northeast Syria: The Start of Judicial Responses to the Political Stalemate
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Anne Charbord
Feb 16th, 2023
European Court Tackles the Thorny Issue of Family Repatriation From Northeast Syria
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Anne Charbord
Sep 22nd, 2022
Abusive “Counterterrorism” Crackdowns Choke Independent Civil Society in the Middle East
Aug 25th, 2022
Looks Are Deceiving: The Rebranding and Perpetuation of Counterterrorism Watchlisting in Multilateral Spaces
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Alyssa Yamamoto and Megan L. Manion
Jan 28th, 2022
Connecting the Dots: The Surge in Reprisals Against Women and the Rise of Counterterrorism
by Megan L. Manion and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Jan 19th, 2022
Human Rights Advocacy and the Institutionalization of U.S. “Counterterrorism” Policies Since 9/11
Sep 9th, 2021
Introducing a Symposium on the UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Kate Brannen
Jun 14th, 2021
Gendering the Boy Child in the Context of Counterterrorism: The Situation of Boys in Northeast Syria
Jun 8th, 2021
Families in the Crosshairs of National Security
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Jayne Huckerby
Feb 22nd, 2021
Defending Women’s Rights Is Not Terrorism: A Saudi Prosecution on Human Rights Day
by Mary Lawlor and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Dec 11th, 2020
Defending Human Rights Is Not Terrorism: The Egypt Arrests as a Case in Point
by Mary Lawlor and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Nov 30th, 2020
The Necessity of Enforcing Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in the Context of Counterterrorism
Oct 29th, 2020