Nahla Valji Editor

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin holds the Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and is concurrently Professor of Law & Associate Director at Ulster University's Transitional Justice Institute (Belfast). Her book Law in Times of Crisis with Oren Gross (CUP 2006) was awarded ASIL's Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship (2007). She is co-author of On the Frontlines: Gender, War and the Post Conflict Process with Naomi Chan and Dina Haynes (OUP 2011). Ní Aoláin was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as Special Expert on promoting gender equality in times of conflict and peace-making (2003). She has served as Expert to the ICC Trust Fund for Victims (2015), and Consultant to UN Women and OHCHR on a Study on Reparations for Conflict Related Sexual Violence (2013). She was nominated twice by the Irish Government as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (2004 & 2007). Naomi Cahn is the Harold H. Greene Professor at George Washington University Law School. Her research and writing focus on gender issues in both domestic and international law. She first co-taught a "Women and International Law" course in 1992, at Georgetown University Law Center. With Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Dina Francesca Haynes, she is the co-author of On the Frontlines (OUP 2011). She has written or co-written numerous other books and articles, including Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family (OUP 2014)(with Professor June Carbone). Dina Francesca Haynes is Professor of Law at New England Law, Boston, where she teaches courses related to migration, refugees and human rights, as well as human trafficking and constitutional law. She has published numerous books, chapters and articles, including Deconstructing the Reconstruction: Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Postwar BiH (Ashgate 2008), and On the Frontlines (OUP 2011) with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Naomi Cahn. Prior to teaching law she served as Protection Officer with the UN High Commissioner of Refugees, Human Rights Officer with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Director General of the Human Rights Department of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Nahla Valji is the Senior Gender Adviser in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General. She was formerly the Deputy Chief, Peace and Security in UN Women's headquarters in New York, where she led at different points the organization's work on peacekeeping, peace negotiations, countering violent extremism, transitional justice, and rule of law, involving both global programming and policy work, particularly with regards to the Security Council. During this time, she headed the Secretariat for the Global Study on implementation of resolution 1325, a comprehensive study requested by the Security Council for the 15-year review of women, peace and security. Following the completion of the Global Study review, she headed the secretariats of the resulting Security Council mechanism the Informal Expert Group on Women, Peace and Security (established by resolution 2242).