Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus

Contributors

Contributors William P. Alford is professor of law and director of the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. He holds a Master's degree in Chinese studies and another Master's in Chinese history, both from Yale University, together with law degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Harvard. Professor Alford is a specialist in Chinese and East Asian law, on which he has published extensivelyin legal journals. He served for several years as executive director of the China Center for American Law Study in Beijing, and serves as consultant to several bodies, including the World Bank's International Advisory Board, the Eord Foundation, and Asia Watch. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Nac im is associate professor of law, University of Khartoum, the Sudan, and was the Ariel F. Sallows Professor of Human Rights, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, from 1988 to 1991. He holds law degrees from the universities of Khartoum and Cambridge, England, and a Ph.D. in law from the University of Edinburgh , Scotland. His research interests are in human rights and Islam and human rights in cross-culturalperspectives. He is the author of Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties,Human Rights and International Law (1990) and coeditor of Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1990). Diane Bell is professor of Religion, Economic Development and Social Justice, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Prior to taking up this position, she was professor of Australian studies and director , Center for Australian Studies, Deakin University, Victoria,Australia. She received her B.A. in anthropology from Monash University, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Australia National University. Professor Bell is author of Daughters of the Dreaming (1983), Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers & Daughters (1987), and co-author of Law: The Old and the New (1980/4). She has also cocditecl several books and published numerous articles and chapters on women's issues, religion, and Aboriginal rights and 464 Contributors problems. She has written many papers and reports and participated in commissions and committees inAustralia. Manuela Carneiro da Cunha is professor of anthropology, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and the University of Chicago. She is a graduate of the Faculte des Sciences, Paris, and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Universidade de Campias, Brazil. Professor da Cunha has worked on issues relating to Brazilian Indian rights and on ethnicity since 1978, and was first president of Comissao Pro-Indio and president of the Brazilian Anthropological Association, 1986—1988. She is the author of four books, including Direitos dos Indios [Indian Rights] (1987). Richard Falk has been professor of international law and practice,Princeton University, since 1961. He holds degrees in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and in law from Yale University. His doctorate in law is from Harvard University. He is the author of eighteen books and editor or coeditor of another thirteen books. His books include the edited four-volume collection, The Vietnam War and International Law (1968-1976), and Human Rights and State Sovereignty (1981). Since 1959, Professor Falk has published many chapters and articles in edited volumes and in scholarly journals, in addition to countless contributions to other publications. His publications range from international law and international relations to environmental and peace issues. Hugo Fruhling is professor of law, Diego Portales University, and Human Rights Researcher, Academia Humanismo Cristiano, Chile. He holds a first degree in law from the University of Chile, and a Master's and doctorate in law from Harvard Law School. Professor Fruhling held the Human Rights Chair, Human Rights Research and Education Center at the University of Ottawa, in 1987. He is the editor of Political Repression and the Defense of Human Rights (1987) and author of several articles on human rights and political repression in South America. His most recent publication in English is "Human Rights Organizations as Opposition to Authoritarian Rule in Chile," in Nonprofit Organizations in International Perspectives (1988), cd. E. James. Rhoda E. Howard is professor of sociology, McMastcr University, Canada . She holds a B.A. in political science, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from McGill University. Professor Howard is the author of Contributors 465 Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa (1986), another book and eighteen articles, coeditor of International Handbook of Human Rights (1987), and current editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies. Her most...