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Shedrack C. Agbakwa received a Ph.D. Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. LL.B. (Hons) (University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus), LL.M. (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada). He is currently the Harley D. Hallett Graduate Scholar and is a winner of the Walter Williston Essay Prize in Civil Liberties, Osgoode Hall Law School. His two most recent publications are: Reclaiming Humanity: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as the Cornerstone of African Human Rights, 5 Yale Hum. Rts. & Dev. L.J. 177–216 (2002); Re-Imagining International Human Rights Education in Our Time: Beyond Three Constitutive Orthodoxies, 14 Leiden J. Of Int’l L. 563–90 (2001).

Henry F. (Chip) Carey, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, has published essays on international organization and human rights, as well as democratization in Latin American and Eastern Europe. He has edited National Reconciliation in Eastern Europe (2002), Politics and Society in Post-Communist Romania (2002), co-edited NGOs and Peace Processes; and is guest-editing a special journal issue on NGOs and the Rule of Law.

Laurel E. Fletcher is Acting Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall); B.A., Brandeis University (1986); J.D., Harvard Law School (1990).

Mark Gibney is the Belk Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina–Asheville.

Geoff Gilbert, LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D., Head of Department, Department of Law, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. Prof. Gilbert’s main areas of interest are human rights, minority rights, refugee law, and international criminal law. He has published widely in those fields and he is the editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law. He teaches on the LL.M. in International Human Rights of which he is currently the Director and is Director of the Human Rights Centre’s OSCE Project. He has lectured on human rights and minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and North America. He served on the Editorial Board of the World Report on Freedom of Religion and Belief (Boyle & Sheen eds., Routledge 1997). He has worked for the Council of Europe and the United Nations in the Urals, Siberia, and the Kalmyk Republic in the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Kosovo.

Stephen A. Hansen, B.A., Anthropology, Oberlin College, M.A. Anthropology, The George Washington University in Washington, DC. is a Senior Program Associate in the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC. His work focuses on cultural [End Page 831] rights, traditional knowledge systems, and intellectual property rights. Mr. Hansen’s publications include the Thesaurus Of Economic, Social And Cultural Rights: Terminology And Potential Violations (AAAS, Washington, DC, 2000), and The Right to Take Part in Cultural Life: Toward Defining Minimum Core Obligations Related To Article 15 (1)(a) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in Building A Framework For Economic, Social And Cultural Rights (Chapman & Russell eds., forthcoming, Intersentia Press, Brussels).

Angelina Snodgrass Godoy is Assistant Professor in the Law, Societies, and Justice program, and in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, at the University of Washington, Seattle. She can be reached at agodoy@u.washington.edu.

Eric R. Jackson, received his B.S., from Ball State in 1988 and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University and an Adjunct Professor of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Jackson has published in several journals in multiple fields. Some of his works also has appeared in several multi-volume pieces, such as The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery and Organizing Black America: The Encyclopedia of African American Associations.

Obiora Chinedu Okafor is Assistant Professor and SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow on Peace and Security in a Changing World, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. Visiting Scholar, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School (Apr.–Aug. 1999 and Apr.–July 2001). LL.B. (Hons), LL.M. (University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus), LL.M., Ph.D. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada...

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