Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Honorary Kings Counsel
Regents Professor
Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society
Faculty Director, Human Rights Center
Professor, Queen's University of Belfast, School of Law, Northern Ireland
Ní Aoláin Awarded British Academy Grant
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was awarded a British Academy Research Grant award to further a project she is working on with Professor William Twining (UCL & Miami Law School), Professor An-Na'im (Emory Law School), Professor Baxi (Warick Law School), Professor Yash Ghai (UNDP Advisor) and Dr. Francis Deng (Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide) amongst others on the question of Southern Voices in Human Rights discourse.
Part of the grant award will support a symposium on Human Rights and Southern Voices arising from a scholarly awareness that Western human rights theorising, despite claims to universality pays little systematic attention to the views and interests of non-Western societies as articulated in the writings of leading “Southern” intellectuals.
The British Academy, established in the United Kingdom by Royal Charter in 1902, is the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing fellowship of more than 800 scholars, elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences.
Part of the grant award will support a symposium on Human Rights and Southern Voices arising from a scholarly awareness that Western human rights theorising, despite claims to universality pays little systematic attention to the views and interests of non-Western societies as articulated in the writings of leading “Southern” intellectuals.
The British Academy, established in the United Kingdom by Royal Charter in 1902, is the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing fellowship of more than 800 scholars, elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences.
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