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  • Contributors

Heiner Bielefeldt was born in 1958. He studied philosophy, theology, and history at the Universities of Bonn and Tübingen (Germany) where he received a Ph.D. He worked from 1983 to 1990 on the “Research Project on Human Rights” in Tübingen. He is currently employed at the Faculty of Law at the University of Heidelberg. Among his publications are several books on subjects of political philosophy and human rights.

Ineke Boerefijn is a researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM). Her research activities mainly concern the supervisory procedures established under the United Nations human rights treaties.

Catherine N. Niarchos received a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and an LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law. She worked in the US federal court system for four years, and is currently in private practice with Healy & Baillie in New York City.

Joe Oloka-Onyango is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Uganda, and spent the 1994–1995 academic year as a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Jo M. Pasqualucci is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the National Law Center at George Washington University and Assistant Director of the International Rule of Law Center. She was formerly an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her writing is in the area of International Human Rights Law and she is currently an S.J.D. Candidate in International Law at George Washington University.

Alison Dundes Renteln is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Southern California; B.A. Harvard-Radcliffe, History and Literature; Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley 1987; J.D. University of Southern California 1991.

Sylvia Tamale holds law degrees from Makerere University (Uganda) and Harvard Law School. She is currently a doctoral student in Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Geraldine Van Bueren is a Reader in Law and Director of the Program on International Rights of the Child, Faculty of Laws, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

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