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  • Contributors

Kai Chen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Non-Traditional Security and Peaceful Development Studies, College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, China. From November 2013 to May 2014, he was a visiting scholar at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. From 2009 to 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, China. His research focuses on international security, geo-strategic relations, and security governance in East Asia, especially Southeast Asia and China. His latest book is Comparative Study of Child Soldiering on Myanmar-China Border: Evolutions, Challenges and Countermeasures (Springer, 2014).

Xinyuan Dai received her Ph.D. from The University of Chicago and is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of International Institutions and National Policies (Cambridge University Press, 2007). She has published in American Political Science Review, World Politics, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Climate Policy.

Damiano de Felice is a doctoral student in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His dissertation focuses on why European donors have different approaches towards human rights conditionality. He is also active in the business and human rights field, where he concentrates on how to measure corporate respect for human rights and how to integrate human rights considerations into the activities of private and public financial institutions.

Stephen F. Diamond is Associate Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law; Professor Diamond’s most recent book is Rights and Revolution: The Rise and Fall of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Movement.

Yvonne Donders is a Professor of International Human Rights and Cultural Diversity and the Executive Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. She graduated from Utrecht University with a degree in International Relations and has a Ph.D. from Law Faculty of Maastricht University on cultural human rights and the right to cultural identity. Her research interests include public international law; international human rights law, in particular economic, social and cultural rights; and human rights and cultural diversity. She teaches courses on international law and international human rights law, and she gives lectures on cultural rights and cultural diversity. Donders is currently a member of the National Commission for UNESCO, member of the Editorial Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, member of the European Expert Network on Culture (EENC), member of the Board of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law, and Chair of the Dutch United Nations Association (Nederlandse Vereniging voor de Verenigde Naties, NVVN). [End Page 687]

Keri Ellis is an attorney qualified in the United States. She received her J.D. from the John Marshall Law School and her LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the University of Cape Town. Ellis clerked for the Honorable Charles P. Kocoras on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and served as a volunteer instructor in international humanitarian law with the American Red Cross. Her current work focuses on the right to water and the right to sanitation in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Email: keri.ellis.94.01.12@gmail.com.

Loretta Feris is a Professor of Law in the Institute of Marine and Environmental Law at the University of Cape Town and teaches natural resources law, pollution law, and international environmental law. She holds a BA(law), LL.B. and LL.D. from the University of Stellenbosch and an LL.M. from Georgetown University. Previously she was associate professor of law at the University of Pretoria, where she was also a research associate at the Centre for Human Rights. Feris is an NRF-rated researcher; her research interests include environmental rights and trade and environment. She is a Law Commissioner of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and a member of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. She consults in the area of environmental law and trade and environment.

Isabel Marcus teaches women’s human rights at SUNY Buffalo Law School and is a women’s rights advocate and activist. She also has taught extensively in...

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