Contributors
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Conway W. Henderson is Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg. In addition to articles on political repression, he is the author of International Relations: Conflict and Cooperation at the Turn of the 21st Century (1998). This work has recently been translated and published in Chinese by Hainan Publishing House.
Paul Hoffman is the Chair of the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International. He is a civil rights and human rights lawyer with the Venice-based law firm of Schonbrun, DeSimone, Seplow, Harris & Hoffman LLP. He also teaches international human rights law at USC Law School and Oxford University.
Aileen Kavanaugh is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester, UK. She has a B.C.L. and M.A. from University College Dublin, a M.L.E. from the University of Hanover and a D.Phil. from Oxford. She specializes in constitutional law and theory.
Linda Camp Keith is Professor of Political Science at Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas. Her current research interests are human rights and the rule of law. She has published articles on this topic in Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, and Judicature and co-authored articles in International Studies Quarterly. She has contributed chapters to three edited volumes. She has also co-authored articles on the US Supreme Court in American Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and Social Science History.
Todd Landman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and Co-Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Essex.
Tiyanjana Maluwa is the H. Laddie and Linda P. Montague Professor of Law at The Penn State Dickinson School of Law. Maluwa joined the faculty after having served for the past two years as Legal Advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, a position to which he was appointed by the Secretary General during the tenure of Mary Robinson, the immediate past High Commissioner and former President of Ireland. Previously, he was the first Legal Counsel to the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union), a Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and an Extraordinary Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria Centre for Human Rights. An internationally acclaimed scholar of human rights and public international law, Maluwa is the author or editor of five books and more than fifty scholarly articles. In 1995, he was asked by the United Nations to serve as the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Nigeria following the execution of the famed poet-activist Ken Saro Wiwa. [End Page 1103]
Bronwen Manby is director of the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) at the Open Society Institute, based in London. AfriMAP is an initiative to monitor compliance with the commitments to good governance, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law undertaken by member states of the African Union. Until the end of 2003 she was the deputy director of the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, where she had worked in various capacities since 1992.
Kerstin Martens is a Ph.D. candidate at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and a researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany. In her dissertation she analyzes how human rights NGOs and humanitarian organizations interact with the United Nations. This paper presents some preliminary results of her Ph.D. project.
Marius Pieterse holds the degrees B.L.C., LL.B., and LL.M. from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He teaches and publishes primarily in the fields of constitutional law and human rights, and is one of the managing editors of the South African Journal on Human Rights.
Steven C. Poe is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of International Studies Quarterly. He recently co-edited a volume entitled Understanding Human Rights Violations: New Systematic Studies, with Sabine C. Carey (2004).
Mary Robinson is Executive Director of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Mrs. Robinson was United Nations High...
