Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Nominated as Counselor for the American Society of International Law
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons) has been nominated to the role of Counselor for the American Society of International Law (ASIL). ASIL's mission is to foster the study of international law and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice. ASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization founded in 1906 by members of the American peace movement; its first president was U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root. The Society has functioned for over 120 years and is today home to an extraordinary group of scholars and practitioners with 3000 members from over 100 countries. It was chartered by Congress in 1950 and holds Special Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies. The nomination will be confirmed at ASIL’s annual meeting in April 2025 in Washington, D.C.
Ní Aoláin is Regents Professor, Robina Professor of Law, Public Policy and Society, and faculty director of the University of Minnesota Law School's Human Rights Center, as well as Professor of Law at the Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors including the Leverhulme Fellowship, British Academy Awards, Fulbright scholarship, the Alon Prize, the Robert Schumann Scholarship, a European Commission award, and the Lawlor fellowship. She is an elected fellow of the Royal Irish Academy. She has published extensively in the fields of emergency powers, counterterrorism and human rights, conflict regulation, transitional justice and sex-based violence in times of war. Her book Law in Times of Crisis (Cambridge University Press 2006) was awarded the ASIL's Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship in 2007. Ní Aoláin was United Nations Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights while countering terrorism (2017- 2023). She was elected to the International Commission of Jurists in 2023. She was appointed K.C. (Hons) in 2024 by King Charles III.
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