Academic Expert Professor Aoife Nolan re-elected Vice-President of the European Committee of Social Rights for the Council of Europe

Doughty Street Chambers is proud to announce that our Academic Expert Professor Aoife Nolan has been re-elected for a second six-year term as member of the European Committee of Social Rights for the Council of Europe, the leading European monitoring mechanism on economic and social rights. She has served as the Vice-President of that Committee since January 2021.

Aoife is an internationally recognised expert in human rights law, with a particular focus on economic and social rights and children's rights. She is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the School of the Law, University of Nottingham, where she is also Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre. In addition to her academic work, Professor Nolan has acted as an expert advisor to a wide range of international and national organisations and bodies working on human rights issues, including numerous UN Special Procedures, UN treaty bodies, the Council of Europe, the World Bank, multiple NHRIs and NGOs. She has also supported a number of different governments in their efforts to advance protection of human rights through law and policy reform. She has been a member of the European Committee of Social Rights since 2017.

Aoife co-leads Doughty Street Chambers' Children's Rights Group, which brings together barristers across all practice teams working on this crucial human rights issue.

Read Aoife’s full profile here.

Aoife says: “I am delighted to have been re-elected for a second term on the European Committee of Social Rights. Social rights have never been more important in Europe and it is an honour to have the opportunity to contribute in this way.”

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, of Doughty Street Chambers, says: “We are delighted that our colleague Professor Aoife Nolan has been elected to serve a second term on the European Committee of Social Rights. Aoife’s work on economic and social rights is ground-breaking and inspirational. We are lucky to have the benefit of Aoife’s deep expertise, intellectual rigour and strong leadership in her roles as Academic Expert at Doughty Street Chambers, and co-head of our Children’s Rights Group. Her re-appointment to the Committee comes at a vitally important time for the protection of social rights in Europe. Comghairdeas agus ádh mór.”