Contributors
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Susan Aaronson, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow and Director of Globalization Studies at the Kenan Institute, Kenan Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina. Aaronson is the author of several books on trade and global corporate social responsibility issues. She is a co-author of an upcoming book on what governments do to promote human rights as they seek to expand trade called, Righting Trade: Public Policies at the Intersection of Trade and Human Rights.
Payam Akhavan received his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall; his LL.M., S.J.D. from Harvard. He is Associate Professor of International Law at McGill University in Montreal. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School and at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He served as the first Legal Adviser to the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda at The Hague, also served with the United Nations in Cambodia, East Timor, and Guatemala, and has been appointed as counsel in high-profile cases before international courts and tribunals including the Lord's Resistance Army Case before the International Criminal Court. He is Co-Founder and President of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre in New Haven. In recognition of his contributions to promoting accountability for human rights violations, he was selected by the World Economic Forum in 2005 as a Young Global Leader.
Roland Burke is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. His thesis examines the impact of decolonization on the international human rights project between 1950 and 1979. His work is based on original research from the Personal Papers of Charles Malik, as well as other documentary sources from foreign service archives in Australia, the United States, and United Kingdom.
David Cingranelli is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Binghamton University. He is the former President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. His research is focused on the human rights practices of governments from a cross-national comparative perspective. He is Co-Director of the CIRI Human Rights Data Project. His forthcoming Cambridge University Press book co-authored with Rodwan Abouharb is titled Structural Adjustment and Human Rights: The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank.
Eleni Coundouriotis is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel (Columbia UP 1999) and has published widely on African literature, diaspora, and nationalism. Her current project focuses on war narratives from Africa. [End Page 1093]
Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral is a Researcher at the Advanced Research Group SEJ177 "Human Rights: General Theory" of Plan Andaluz de Investigación y Desarrollo (PAIDI). He is an Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy of Law and Political Thought of Universidad Pablo de Olavide of Seville. He received his M.A. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) Geneva and is a now a Ph.D. candidate in International Law at GIIS. De la Rasilla, who has just been awarded a Ph.D. research grant from GIIS, is also Editor-in-Chief of the book review section of Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Político.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, B.A., University of Cambridge, M.A., University of Sussex, M.A.L.D. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a development economist working in the interdisciplinary framework of human development concerned with the central role of people and their human rights, in the development process. She is Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the New School University. Prior to that, she was a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. From 1995 to 2004, she was director of the United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Reports. Her publications include Readings in Human Development (edited with K.S. Shivakumar), Rethinking Technical Cooperation: Reforms for Capacity Building in Africa (with Elliot Berg), Capacity for Development (edited with C. Lopes & K. Malik), and numerous papers and book chapters on issues of poverty, gender, human...
