Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Quoted By Irish Times on Calls to Abolish Non-Jury Special Criminal Court

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was quoted by the Irish Times in an article covering her recent call as U.N. special rapporteur on human rights to abolish the non-jury Special Criminal Court in Ireland. With the initial reason for the Special Criminal Court being the Troubles, Prof. Ní Aoláin believes that circumstances of current day Ireland no longer require such a system, especially one that is typically indicative of non-democratic countries. Prof. Ní Aoláin posited, that if a democracy can't operate without the nedd of a special court, “how, really, can we expect non-democratic or even backsliding democracies to maintain their commitment to the integrity of the rule of law?”