Aoife Nolan is Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham. Her professional experience in human rights and constitutional law straddles the legal, policy, practitioner and academic fields. She is President of the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights. Professor Nolan has acted as an expert advisor to a wide range of international and national entities working on human rights issues, including the Council of Europe, UN treaty bodies, UN Special Procedures and the World Bank. She recently served as an advisor to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on its General Comment No.26 on children’s rights and the environment, as well as to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its forthcoming general comment on sustainable development and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She is an Academic Expert member at Doughty Street Chambers, where she co-leads the Children’s Rights Group. Her current academic work focuses on future generations rights and children’s rights in the context of climate justice.