Global Justice Academy Annual Lecture 2026

Aoife Nolan Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham
About this Event

Speaker: Aoife Nolan, Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham
Professor Aoife Nolan is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Nottingham and 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 Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership. Her professional experience in child rights straddles the legal, policy, practitioner and academic fields. 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. She has held visiting positions at academic institutions in Europe, Africa, the US and Australia. In June 2026, she was elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (term commencing March 2027), following nomination by the Irish Government.

This event will take place in the Playfair Library and be followed by a reception.