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Faculty News

—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been selected to join the University of Minnesota's Grand Challenges Research Strategies Group to help shape grand-challenges research priorities. This group has been charged with…
—The U.K.-based Research Exercise Framework (REF), which ranks institutions for research outputs, research environment and research impact and overall rankings in each discipline, issued its results and rankings.…
—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was quoted in a New Republic article entitled "It's Time the U.S. Paid Reparations to the Prisoners It Tortured." The article stated: "'If you admit you committed a violation…
—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin attended the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, held June 10-13 in London and co-chaired by British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for…
—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin will present at the Carlson School of Management's forum entitled "Global Prosperity and Democracy: Challenges for Corporations, Government, NGOs, and Civil Society." Her panel…
—The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard an oral argument in Doe v. Nestle, brought on behalf of child labor victims in the Ivory Coast. At the argument, the judges extensively discussed an…
—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin serves as associate director of the University of Minnesota Law School and the University of Ulster Transitional Justice Institute's second international gender and conflict…
—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin's book On the Frontlines: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process (with Dina Francesca Haynes and Naomi Cahn) was named one of the ten must-read books on sexualized…
—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is part of the founding group of editors that launched a new blog entitled "Just Security." The new online platform provides a forum for high-level discussion of law, rights, and U.…
—Professors Oren Gross and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin's book, Guantanamo and Beyond: Exceptional Courts and Military Commissions in Comparative Perspective, has just been published. The book provides a deep policy…
—Dean David Wippman and Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin were quoted in a MinnPost article entitled "Case of Drone Killings Provokes Fear among Minnesota Muslims, Debate in Local Legal Circles."
—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been nominated for the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for her latest book, On the Frontlines: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict…