Faculty in the News

Faculty News

Prof. Ní Aoláin Co-Authors Op-Ed in The Washington Post About Saudi Arabia’s Counterterrorism Efforts

—

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin co-authored an op-ed in The Washington Post with Bob Graham—former Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida who chaired the Senate Select Committee on…

Prof. Ní Aoláin’s U.N. Report on Effects of French Anti-Terrorism Law Featured in Le Monde

—

A report to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights—authored by Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin,…

Prof. Ní Aoláin’s Leading Human Rights Work Profiled in Star Tribune  

—

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin’s career work fighting for human rights law was profiled in the Star Tribune. Highlighting her recent appointment to the United Nations as its Special Rapporteur on…

Prof. Ní Aoláin Selected to the 2017 Irish Legal 100

—

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been selected to the 2017 Irish Legal 100, an annual compilation of the most distinguished legal professionals in the United States of Irish descent. Founded in 2008, the…

Prof. Ní Aoláin Profiled in the Connacht Tribune

—

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was featured in a profile in the Connacht Tribune focused on her personal and professional path starting in Galway, Ireland. The article also highlights her new…

Prof. Ní Aoláin Reviews International Legality of U.S. Bombing of Syria

—

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, in the aftermath of the recent U.S. bombing of Syria, wrote a section about the legality of the military operation and its consequences for constitutional and international law…

Prof. Ní Aoláin Elected to the American Law Institute

—

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and…

Prof. Ní Aoláin Receives 2016 SLS Research Activities Fund Award

—

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin received the 2016 Society of Legal Scholars Research Activities Fund Award to advance research on her project on "Conceptualizing and Quantifying Maternal Harms." The award…

Prof. Ní Aoláin Attends Launch of Global Study on Women, Peace and Security

—

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin attended the launch of the Global Study on Women, Peace and Security,…

Prof. Ní Aoláin's Blog Post on 'Petitions, Human Rights, and Government Service' Cited in Huffington Post

—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin's "Just Security" blog post on "Petitions, Human Rights, and Government Service," was cited in a…

Prof. Ní Aoláin Selected as Member of UMN Grand Challenges Research Strategies Group

—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been selected to join the University of Minnesota's Grand Challenges Research Strategies Group to help shape grand-challenges research priorities. This group has been charged with…

Prof. Ní Aoláin's Transitional Justice Institute Ranked Highly in U.K.-Based Research Exercise Framework

—The U.K.-based Research Exercise Framework (REF), which ranks institutions for research outputs, research environment and research impact and overall rankings in each discipline, issued its results and rankings.…