Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
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

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 improve the law. The institute’s membership—consisting of eminent judges, lawyers, and law professors from the United States and around the world—is limited to 3,000, excluding life, honorary, and ex-officio members.

Prof. Ní Aoláin specializes in the fields of international law, human rights law, law of armed conflict, national security law, transitional justice, and feminist legal theory. She 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.