Contributors
- Contributors
Fateh Azzam is a Program Officer for Rights and Social Justice at The Ford Foundation’s office for The Middle East and North Africa, Cairo, Egypt. Until very recently, he was a member of Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights, and had served as Director and Program Coordinator of Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organization in Ramallah, West Bank. He received a B.A. in Community Planning from the University of Massachusetts, and an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from Essex University. He has researched the Arab human rights movement, and published a number of articles and studies on law and human rights in Arabic and English.
Camilla Christensen obtained her M.A. in Law from the University of Copenhagen in 1995. She was employed as a Project and Education Officer at the Danish Centre for Human Rights until September, 1996 when she joined INTERIGHTS on a year-long placement as part of the Human Rights Officers Programme administered by The Danish Centre for Human Rights, during which time the present article was researched and written. The authors have jointly and separately conducted cases before the African Commission.
Michael C. Davis (mcdavis@cuhk.edu.hk) is a Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 1994 to 1995 he was the Senior Fellow at the Orville Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at the Yale Law School. He is the author of Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (Macmillan Press 1990) and editor of Human Rights and Chinese Values (Oxford University Press 1995).
Mario Gomez (LL.B, LL.M., Ph.D) teaches law at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was the Founding Director of the Legal Aid Centre, University of Colombo.
George A. Lopez is a faculty fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research work on human rights and related issues has appeared in various edited collections and in Human Rights Quarterly, the International Journal of Human Rights, the Fletcher Forum, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Ved P. Nanda is Vice Provost, Thompson G. Marsh Professor of Law, and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at the University of Denver.
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, a member of the Nigerian Bar since 1988, obtained his LL.M. from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. A former Director of Projects and Planning and head of Legal Resources at the Civil Liberties Organization of Nigeria, he is currently the Senior Legal Officer responsible for Africa at INTERIGHTS, (the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights) in London.
Ron Pagnucco is an assistant professor of sociology at Mt. St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He is currently part of an international team doing research on Pax Christi International, the Roman Catholic peace and international human rights NGOs.
Todd Salzman completed his doctorate in Moral Theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1994. He taught ethics at the University of San Diego for two years (1995–1997), and is currently an Assistant Professor at Creighton University, Omaha, NE. His interest is in ethical theory, how it pertains to contemporary social issues such as the atrocities committed in the former Yugoslavia, and what can be done to both prevent such atrocities in the future and to seek justice for the victims of those atrocities.
Jerome J. Shestack is President of the American Bar Association. He is a past United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
Richard Lewis Siegel is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate of the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Jackie Smith is an assistant professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Her research focuses on transnational social movements and organizations, and it has appeared in Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Voluntas, Peace Review, and in various edited collections.
