Professor Fionnula Ní Aoláin to deliver Law Society lecture
Professor Fionnula Ní Aoláin is to deliver the Law Society of Ireland’s annual human rights lecture for 2024.
This year’s lecture, to be delivered on Wednesday 11 September, 6pm via Zoom, will focus on human rights and international armed conflict.
Professor Ní Aoláin is concurrently regents professor and Robina professor of law, public policy and society at the University of Minnesota Law School and professor of law at Queen’s University Belfast.
She has received numerous academic awards, including the Leverhulme Fellowship, Fulbright scholarship, and the Alon Prize.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy and has published extensively in the fields of emergency powers, counter-terrorism and human rights, conflict regulation, transitional justice, and sex-based violence in times of war.
Her book Law in Times of Crisis won the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit in 2007.
From 2017 to 2023, she served as the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism. She is also an elected member of the International Commission of Jurists and was appointed an honorary KC in 2004.
More information and registration for the free event can be found on the Law Society website.