Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Quoted in Just Security About Holding the Aggressor Accountable on the Third Anniversary of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Regents Professor and Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, was quoted in Just Security regarding the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and whether international law has sufficiently protected the victim or delivered accountability for the aggressor. Prof. Ní Aoláin said, “The specter of the United States abandoning its traditional allies, voting against a resolution condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in the U.N. General Assembly, and maneuvering to reframe the widely accepted aggression of the Russian Federation against it neighbor has been widely covered in the mainstream media. It begs a fundamental question, whether in fact we ought to reconceive of the United States as a ‘rogue state,’ rethinking our perception and analysis of the threat posed by the United States to the stability of the global legal, political and economic order.”