Contributors
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Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen is Professor of Law at the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and co-director of the Institut de Recherche en droit international et européen de la Sorbonne (IREDIES). She also teaches in Madrid (Institute Ortega y Gasset, Master of Law and International Relations; University Autónoma, Master of European Law). She researches in the areas of Humans Rights Law, Comparative Law, and European and International Law. She has edited La France face à la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne (Bruylant, 2005); with L. Azoulai, L’Autorité de l’Union européenne (Bruylant, 2006); with A. Levade and F. Picod, Traité établissant une Constitution pour l’Europe. Commentaire article par article (Partie II, La Charte des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne, Bruylant, 2005 and Parties I et IV, L’architecture constitutionnelle, Bruylant, 2007). She is the author of L’Espagne et la Communauté européenne (ULB, 1995); Libertés fondamentales (LGDJ, 2003) and, more recently, with A. Úbeda de Torres, Les grandes décisions de la Cour interaméricaine des droits de l’homme (Bruylant, 2008). A synthesis has been published in Spanish (Las decisiones básicas de las Corte interamericana de los derechos humanos, Madrid, Civitas-Thomson-Reuters, 2009) and an English updated version is forthcoming (The Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Case-Law and Commentary, OUP, 2011).
Zanita E. Fenton is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law, where she teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Family Law, Torts, Race and the Law, and seminars in Critical Race Feminism and in the Reproductive Technologies. Professor Fenton’s scholarly interests cover issues of subordination, focusing on those of race, gender, and class. She explores these issues in the greater contexts of understanding violence and in the attainment of justice. She writes in these areas and regularly speaks concerning these and related topics in both national and international fora. She has long served as an advocate and consultant for survivors of domestic abuse. Fenton received an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal. After law school, she practiced briefly in the New York firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton before she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edward R. Korman, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Bonny Ibhawoh is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor in Social Justice and Equity Studies at Brock University where he teaches human rights. Previously, he was a Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York; Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen; and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has also taught at Ambrose Alli University and the University of Lagos [End Page 260] in Nigeria. His book, Imperialism and Human Rights: Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History (2007) was named an American Library Association’s Choice outstanding academic title.
Lena Khor is an Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she teaches courses in postcolonial studies, critical theory, and human rights and literature. Her research interests include humanitarian and human rights discourses, contemporary World Anglophone literature, and transnational storytelling.
Mark Koenig is a development professional currently working with the International Security Sector Advisory Team, a unit of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
Noam Lubell is a Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. In past years he has worked for human rights NGOs dealing with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, as International Law Advisor, and Director of a Prisoners & Detainees Project. He teaches international human rights law and the laws of armed conflict and is the author of Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010).
Anna Maedl is a conflict resolution specialist and clinical psychologist focusing on the...
