Aisling is a consultant  to UN Women headquarters in New York as a 'Programme Analyst on Transitional Justice' in the Peace and Security Section of UN Women, supporting UN Women's work on promoting women's access to justice. Aisling completed her PhD fellowship at Transitional Justice Institute in December 2011.  Her doctoral thesis examined variations, continuums and the labelling of violence before, during and after armed conflict in the contexts of Northern Ireland, Liberia and Timor-Leste. Prior to the PhD fellowship Aisling spent over seven years working for international NGOs and the United Nations in Kosovo, Burundi, Timor-Leste and Darfur, Sudan (1999-2006).   She has spent an additional five years in technical advisory roles (2007-2011) providing consultancy to a range of international organisations and international programmes.  Aisling is an Associate at Dtalk Development Studies Centre and is a board member of the Centre for Global Education in Belfast.  Aisling was recently appointed as a Senior Gender Adviser to the United Nations Inter-Agency Standing Committee Gender Capacity roster.

Dr Fiona de Londras, University College Dublin

Fiona has been a lecturer at UCD School of Law since August 2008 and has held visiting positions in the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (2007), Emory Law School, (2006 and 2009), University of Peshawar (Pakistan; 2006), University of Minnesota School of Law (2010), and the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster (2011). She is a Global Affiliate of the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, based in Emory University, GA; an affiliate of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment; and a research fellow of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (2010-2012).

Professor Ruti Teitel, New York University Law School
Professor Ruti Teitel was in residence as Visiting Scholar in May 2009 where she will be guest lecturer on the LLM in Human Rights Law programme.  A nationally recognized authority on international law, international human rights, and constitutional law, Ruti Teitel is the author of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000), which examines the 20th century transitions from authoritarianism to democracy in many countries. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she provides expert commentary on such issues as the historic trial at the International Criminal Court at The Hague relating to “ethnic cleansing” in the former Yugoslavia.  An author and frequent speaker in academia and the media, Professor Teitel is the first Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School. She teaches international human rights and comparative and U.S. constitutional law.   Her extensive body of scholarly writing on comparative law, human rights, and constitutionalism encompasses articles published in some of the country’s most prestigious legal journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, and Columbia Human Rights Law Review.  For further information on Professor Ruti Teitel, click here.

Professor David Cole, Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Academic Director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. 
He is also a volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of five books, most recently Justice at War: The Men and Ideas That Shaped America’s “War on Terror.”  His previous books have won many awards, including the Palmer Civil Liberties Prize in 2007, the American Book Award in 2004, and Boston Review’s Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 1999. He has litigated many significant constitutional cases, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to flagburning.  Since 9/11, he has been involved in many of the nation’s most important cases involving civil liberties and national security.  New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis called David “one of the country’s great legal voices for civil liberties today,” and Nat Hentoff called him “a one-man Committee of Correspondence in the tradition of patriot Sam Adams.”  David has received numerous awards for his human rights work, including from the Society of American Law Teachers, the National Lawyers Guild, the ACLU of Southern California, the ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.  For further information on Professor David Cole, click here.

Professor Nina Pillard, Professor of Law, Georgetown University 
Professor Nina Pillard will be a Visiting Scholar to TJI in June 2009 during which time she will deliver a seminar on “Transnational Legal Theory”.  Professor Pillard joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1997 after a decade as an accomplished litigator.  She teaches civil procedure, constitutional Law, American and transnational legal theory, and various labor and employment courses.  Her current research interests include the constitutional and statutory law of equality with a focus on social welfare and work, and the legal theory of globalization. 

In 2008-2009, Pillard worked in London for Georgetown Law as founding Academic co-Director (with David Cole) and Professor at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS), a collaboration of top law schools from eleven different countries sending faculty and students to our London facility for an intensive semester studying international, comparative and transnational law.  For further information on Professor Nina Pillard, click here.