Professor Fionnuala 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 the Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.  Professor Ní Aoláin is the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors including the Leverhulme Fellowship, British Academy Awards, the Alon Prize, the Robert Schumann Scholarship, a European Commission award, Fulbright scholarship and the Lawlor fellowship. She is an elected fellow of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the British Academy. She has held visiting positions at Harvard Law School, Yale University, Princeton University, the Geneva Academy, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She 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. Professor Ní Aoláin was United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism (2017- 2023).  She was appointed K.C (Hons) in 2024.  She was elected counsellor to the American Society of International Law in 2025. Ní Aoláin was appointed Commissioner to the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic in 2025.