Professor Aoife Nolan
Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Email: aoife.nolan@nottingham.ac.uk
Profile
Professor Aoife Nolan is Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham. She is President of the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights, the leading European monitoring mechanism on economic and social rights. Aoife is an Academic Expert at Doughty Street Chambers, where she co-leads the Children's Rights Group and sits on the Steering Group of Doughty Street International. She has published extensively in the areas of human rights and constitutional law, particularly in relation to children's rights and economic and social rights. From 2020-2023, Aoife a led major international research collaboration on ‘Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation’, involving a range of academic and advocacy partners in Europe, Africa and Asia, which developed a model of child rights-consistent strategic litigation practice that has been embraced by strategic litigators internationally. Professor Nolan has acted as an expert advisor to a wide range of international and national organisations and bodies working on child rights issues, including governments, numerous UN Special Procedures, UN treaty-monitoring bodies, the Council of Europe, multiple NHRIs and NGOs.