Please join Dorsey & Whitney LLP and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights’ Death Penalty Project

for our bi-monthly lunchtime speaker series:

European View on the Death Penalty in the Context of the War on Terror

presented by

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
12:00-1:00 P.M.

at

Dorsey & Whitney

15th Floor, Seattle Room

50 South 6th Street

Minneapolis, MN 55402

European Human Rights Law, particularly through the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, has developed strong prohibitionary views on the use of the death penalty.  This talk will assess the contemporary European 'view' on the right to life in this context, underscoring the potential pressures which the war on terror may exert on an absolutist prohibition position. This event is a brown bag lunch. Beverages will be provided. Application will be made for one CLE credit.

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is concurrently the Dorsey and Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Professor of Law at the University of Ulster’s Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is co-founder and Associate Director of the Institute. Professor Ní Aoláin received her LL.B. and Ph.D. in law at the Queen’s University Law Faculty in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She also holds an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School. Professor Ní Aoláin is the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors including a Fulbright scholarship, the Alon Prize, the Robert Schumann Scholarship, a European Commission award, and the Lawlor fellowship. Her teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law and human rights law. She has published extensively in the fields of emergency powers, conflict regulation, and sex-based violence in times of war.

R.S.V.P. to Rosalyn Park at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights by Tuesday, May 9, 2006.

Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 106 • Email: rpark@mnadvocates.org