Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, editor
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin holds the Regents University Professorship and Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and is concurrently Professor of Law and Associate Director at Ulster University’s Transitional Justice Institute (Belfast). Her book Law in Times of Crisis, with Oren Gross (Cambridge University Press, 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 (Oxford University Press, 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 and 2007). She is Board Chair of the Open Society’s Women’s Program, and serves on the Board of the Center for Victims of Torture and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security. She was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism in August 2017.

Naomi Cahn, editor
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: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process (Oxford University Press, 2011). She has written or co-written numerous other books and articles, including Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Professor June Carbone).

Dina Francesca Haynes, editor
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 (Oxford University Press, 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, editor
Nahla Valji is the Senior Gender Adviser in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General. She was formerly the acting Chief/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 regard to the Security Council. During this time, she headed the Secretariat for the Global Study on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325, a comprehensive study requested by the Security Council for the fifteen-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), and a new pooled funding mechanism on women’s engagement in peace, security, and humanitarian assistance. Prior to joining the UN she worked in South Africa, where she founded and managed the International Journal of Transitional Justice and led the regional transitional justice work of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, including the African Transitional Justice Research Network and joint work with the African Union.