Aoife Nolan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3986231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aoife Nolan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aoife |
| FAMILY NAME | Nolan |
| SIGNATURE | NOLAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6617-2687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Recognizing future generations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: An overdue reappraisal
In the face of multiple threats to humanity’s future existence and well-being, international law is increasingly evolving in the direction of recognizing human rights obligations towards future generations (FG). This article explores whether the leading international human rights treaty protecting economic, social, and cultural rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, can be understood and interpreted to apply …
Children and Future Generations Rights before the Courts: The Vexed Question of Definitions
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the number of cases being brought before national courts addressing the constitutional rights of children and future generations (FG) in the context of environmental protection. These cases have required courts to devote increasing attention to a wide-ranging and complicated array of constitutional rights claims involving the short- and longer-term impacts of environmental harm on children and FG. This a…
Human rights and the cost-of-living crisis
This column explores the intersection between human rights and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. It opens with an overview of the crisis before turning to the current global state of affairs’ impact on human rights enjoyment. Having addressed key issues that arise in terms of State obligations and how international human rights law as it stands might be deployed to address them, it focuses on how the crisis constitutes an opportunity to advance …
Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice
The last three decades have seen an explosion of academic, advocacy and policy-maker interest in both the theory and the practice of children’s rights. There is a growing global body of strategic litigation focused on the advancement of those rights through positive legal and/or social change. In this context, child rights have primarily played an ‘outward-facing’ role: used as a schema that should constrain or mandate the actions of external dec…
Human rights and economic policy reforms
This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overview of the 2019 Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments for Economic Reform Policies, developed under the mandate of UN Independent Expert on debt and human rights. Having introduced the d…
Children’s Economic and Social Rights and Child Poverty: The State of Play
This article focuses on both economic and social rights ( esr ) and child poverty. In doing so, it identifies and considers key developments and gaps in child rights scholarship ( crs ) in these areas. The authors’ treatment of these issues together is logical (albeit certainly not inevitable) given the strong connection between esr and poverty. Both are areas which have been under-explored in crs : esr have been historically under-theorised and …
The United Nations Special Procedures System
The United Nations Special Procedures system is a key element of the evolving international framework for human rights protection and promotion. However, despite the system’s expansion, the range of roles and functions performed by mandate holders, and the mounting evidence of its strengths and limitations, there has been very little academic interrogation or analysis of Special Procedures. This lacuna is ever-more problematic given the growing p…
Economic and Social Rights after the Global Financial Crisis
Applying an International Human Rights Framework to State Budget Allocations: Rights and Resources
Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights. This book seeks to develop the human rights framework for such budget analyses, by exploring the international law obligations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Ri…
Jessie Hohmann, The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts and Possibilities
Do No Harm'? Exploring the Scope of Economic and Social Rights in Transitional Justice
Increasing numbers of academics and practitioners are employing the language of economic and social rights (ESR) when conceptualizing the aims, scope and implementation mechanisms of transitional justice. Their contributions have added to an evolving debate on the boundaries of transitional justice. However, when employing rights language, the current debate on the economic and social dimensions of transitional justice frequently suffers from ter…
Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights
This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much academic and political debate on economic and social rights implementation has focused on the role of the courts, this work places the spotlight squarely on those organs of …
Economic and Social Rights, Budgets and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Recent years have seen an explosion in methodologies for monitoring children’s economic and social rights (ESR). Key examples include the development of indicators, benchmarks, child rights-based budget analysis and child rights impact assessments. The Committee on the Right of the Child has praised such tools in its work and has actively promoted their usage. Troublingly, however, there are serious shortcomings in the Committee’s approach to the…
ConorGearty and VirginiaMantouvalou, Debating Social Rights, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010, 201 pp, hb £15.75
Aggravated Violations', Roma Housing Rights and Forced Expulsions in Italy: Recent Developments under the European Social Charter Collective Complaints System
The recent decision of Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions (COHRE) v Italy1 constitutes a key step in the evolution of the collective complaints jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social Rights.2 In addition to being a substantial addition to that body's existing jurisprudence on housing rights3 and Roma rights,4 it contains a number of new elements with major implications for human rights protection under the European Social Charter 196…
Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law
In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the development of state programs to address poverty and …
Addressing Economic and Social Rights Violations by Non-state Actors through the Role of the State: A Comparison of Regional Approaches to the 'Obligation to Protect
This article centres on the state's obligation to ensure that third party non-state actors do not interfere with the enjoyment of economic and social rights (ESR) by rights-holders. In it, the author analyses and compares the different ways in which regional bodies deal with the obligation to protect ESR, seeking to account for the variety in their approaches. Amongst other things, the article highlights the way in which the regional bodies in qu…
The Battle(s) over Children's Rights in the Irish Constitution
The paper centres on the battle(s) that have been, and are being, fought over children's rights under the Irish Constitution. The author assesses whether the Irish Constitution, as it stands, qualifies as a ‘children's rights constitution’ under which children are afforded special recognition in terms of their rights rather than their welfare. The likelihood that any constitutional amendment proposed in the near future will succeed in bringing th…
Economic and Social Rights, Budgets and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Recent years have seen an explosion in methodologies for monitoring children’s economic and social rights (ESR). Key examples include the development of indicators, benchmarks, child rights-based budget analysis and child rights impact assessments. The Committee on the Right of the Child has praised such tools in its work and has actively promoted their usage. Troublingly, however, there are serious shortcomings in the Committee’s approach to the…
Do No Harm'? Exploring the Scope of Economic and Social Rights in Transitional Justice
Increasing numbers of academics and practitioners are employing the language of economic and social rights (ESR) when conceptualizing the aims, scope and implementation mechanisms of transitional justice. Their contributions have added to an evolving debate on the boundaries of transitional justice. However, when employing rights language, the current debate on the economic and social dimensions of transitional justice frequently suffers from ter…
Human rights and economic policy reforms
This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overview of the 2019 Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments for Economic Reform Policies, developed under the mandate of UN Independent Expert on debt and human rights. Having introduced the d…
The Battle(s) over Children's Rights in the Irish Constitution
The paper centres on the battle(s) that have been, and are being, fought over children's rights under the Irish Constitution. The author assesses whether the Irish Constitution, as it stands, qualifies as a ‘children's rights constitution’ under which children are afforded special recognition in terms of their rights rather than their welfare. The likelihood that any constitutional amendment proposed in the near future will succeed in bringing th…
The Battle(s) over Children's Rights in the Irish Constitution
The paper centres on the battle(s) that have been, and are being, fought over children's rights under the Irish Constitution. The author assesses whether the Irish Constitution, as it stands, qualifies as a ‘children's rights constitution’ under which children are afforded special recognition in terms of their rights rather than their welfare. The likelihood that any constitutional amendment proposed in the near future will succeed in bringing th…
Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law
In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the development of state programs to address poverty and …
Addressing Economic and Social Rights Violations by Non-state Actors through the Role of the State: A Comparison of Regional Approaches to the 'Obligation to Protect
This article centres on the state's obligation to ensure that third party non-state actors do not interfere with the enjoyment of economic and social rights (ESR) by rights-holders. In it, the author analyses and compares the different ways in which regional bodies deal with the obligation to protect ESR, seeking to account for the variety in their approaches. Amongst other things, the article highlights the way in which the regional bodies in qu…
Aggravated Violations', Roma Housing Rights and Forced Expulsions in Italy: Recent Developments under the European Social Charter Collective Complaints System
The recent decision of Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions (COHRE) v Italy1 constitutes a key step in the evolution of the collective complaints jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social Rights.2 In addition to being a substantial addition to that body's existing jurisprudence on housing rights3 and Roma rights,4 it contains a number of new elements with major implications for human rights protection under the European Social Charter 196…
ConorGearty and VirginiaMantouvalou, Debating Social Rights, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010, 201 pp, hb £15.75
Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights
This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much academic and political debate on economic and social rights implementation has focused on the role of the courts, this work places the spotlight squarely on those organs of …
Economic and Social Rights, Budgets and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Recent years have seen an explosion in methodologies for monitoring children’s economic and social rights (ESR). Key examples include the development of indicators, benchmarks, child rights-based budget analysis and child rights impact assessments. The Committee on the Right of the Child has praised such tools in its work and has actively promoted their usage. Troublingly, however, there are serious shortcomings in the Committee’s approach to the…
Economic and Social Rights after the Global Financial Crisis
Applying an International Human Rights Framework to State Budget Allocations: Rights and Resources
Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights. This book seeks to develop the human rights framework for such budget analyses, by exploring the international law obligations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Ri…
Jessie Hohmann, The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts and Possibilities
Do No Harm'? Exploring the Scope of Economic and Social Rights in Transitional Justice
Increasing numbers of academics and practitioners are employing the language of economic and social rights (ESR) when conceptualizing the aims, scope and implementation mechanisms of transitional justice. Their contributions have added to an evolving debate on the boundaries of transitional justice. However, when employing rights language, the current debate on the economic and social dimensions of transitional justice frequently suffers from ter…
The United Nations Special Procedures System
The United Nations Special Procedures system is a key element of the evolving international framework for human rights protection and promotion. However, despite the system’s expansion, the range of roles and functions performed by mandate holders, and the mounting evidence of its strengths and limitations, there has been very little academic interrogation or analysis of Special Procedures. This lacuna is ever-more problematic given the growing p…
Human rights and economic policy reforms
This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overview of the 2019 Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments for Economic Reform Policies, developed under the mandate of UN Independent Expert on debt and human rights. Having introduced the d…
Children’s Economic and Social Rights and Child Poverty: The State of Play
This article focuses on both economic and social rights ( esr ) and child poverty. In doing so, it identifies and considers key developments and gaps in child rights scholarship ( crs ) in these areas. The authors’ treatment of these issues together is logical (albeit certainly not inevitable) given the strong connection between esr and poverty. Both are areas which have been under-explored in crs : esr have been historically under-theorised and …
Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice
The last three decades have seen an explosion of academic, advocacy and policy-maker interest in both the theory and the practice of children’s rights. There is a growing global body of strategic litigation focused on the advancement of those rights through positive legal and/or social change. In this context, child rights have primarily played an ‘outward-facing’ role: used as a schema that should constrain or mandate the actions of external dec…
Human rights and the cost-of-living crisis
This column explores the intersection between human rights and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. It opens with an overview of the crisis before turning to the current global state of affairs’ impact on human rights enjoyment. Having addressed key issues that arise in terms of State obligations and how international human rights law as it stands might be deployed to address them, it focuses on how the crisis constitutes an opportunity to advance …
Children and Future Generations Rights before the Courts: The Vexed Question of Definitions
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the number of cases being brought before national courts addressing the constitutional rights of children and future generations (FG) in the context of environmental protection. These cases have required courts to devote increasing attention to a wide-ranging and complicated array of constitutional rights claims involving the short- and longer-term impacts of environmental harm on children and FG. This a…
Recognizing future generations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: An overdue reappraisal
In the face of multiple threats to humanity’s future existence and well-being, international law is increasingly evolving in the direction of recognizing human rights obligations towards future generations (FG). This article explores whether the leading international human rights treaty protecting economic, social, and cultural rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, can be understood and interpreted to apply …
Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Human rights (12 works) · Human Rights and Development (11 works) · Law and economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Fundamental rights (4 works)