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Jack Donnelly is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He has published extensively on the theory and practice of international human rights, including Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (1989) and International Human Rights (2d ed. 1998). His most recent work is Realism and International Relations: A Critical Engagement, to be published by Cambridge University Press next year.

Richard Fairbrother was a research assistant to Robert McCorquodale and now works for the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Deborah P. Maine, Ph.D., is an epidemiologist with training in anthropology. She has published numerous articles and monographs on reproductive health. In 1997, UNICEF, WHO, and UNFPA published Guidelines for Monitoring the Availability and Use of Obstetric Services, of which she is the lead author. From 1987 until 1997, Maine was Director of the Prevention of Maternal Mortality (PMM) Network.

Robert McCorquodale is Associate Professor in International and Public Law in the Faculty of Law, The Australian National University.

Harriet Samuels, LL.B. (Hons), London; LL.M. (Hons), Cantab.; Barrister at Law, is Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Westminster. She was formerly a University Lecturer, City University of Hong Kong.

Jeremy Sarkin, B.A., LL.B., Natal; LL.M., Harvard; LL.D., University of the Western Cape, is Associate Professor of Law, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and was Visiting Professor in 1998 at the Universities of Cincinnati, Maryland and Oregon. He served as the national chairperson of the Human Rights Committee of South Africa from 1994 to 1996 and is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and an attorney at law in the State of New York, USA.

Craig Scott is Associate Professor of Law, University of Toronto.

Brigit Toebes holds a Ph.D. from the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) of Utrecht University and is author of The Right to Health as a Human Right in International Law (Brussels/Oxford, Intersentia/HART, 1999). At present, she works at the T.M.C. Asser Institute for International Law in The Hague.

Geraldine Van Bueren is Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Program on International Rights of the Child, University of London, Queen Mary and Westþeld College. She helped draft the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Alicia Ely Yamin, J.D., M.P.H., is Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney in the Law & Policy Project at Columbia University School of Public Health. Her current work, which focuses on the intersections between health and development policies and human rights, takes her to Latin America for þeld work, fact-þnding, and consultation with NGOs on a regular basis. She has published widely in the þeld of human rights and is a member of the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights.

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