Contributors
- Contributors
Reza Afshari, born in Iran, now an American citizen, received his education in Iran and the United States. He participated in and observed the Iranian Revolution of 1979–80. He is now a professor at the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University. He teaches contemporary history and human rights. His publications have appeared in numerous journals including International Journal of Middle East Studies, Alternatives, Humanity and Society, Critique, Journal of Critical Studies of the Middle East, and Human Rights Quarterly.
Daniel A. Bell taught political philosophy for three years at the National University of Singapore. In 1994–1995 he was a Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values. In January 1996 he joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong to teach political philosophy. He is the author of Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford 1993) and the co-author of Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia (St. Martin’s Press, NY; Macmillan/St. Antony’s College, Oxford 1995). At the present he is working on a new book titled Liberal Democracy: A University Ideal? This book explores the question of the universalizability of democracy, focusing upon the cases of Singapore and the People’s Republic of China. He is also co-editor of the book that is to emerge at the end of a multi-year Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs project on The Growth of East Asia and Its Impact on Human Rights.
Rachel Brett holds an LL.M (with distinction) in international human rights law from the University of Essex, UK. Since 1993 she has been Associate Representative for Human Rights at the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva. She is a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex; she was the originator and, until 1993 principal researcher, of the Essex Human Rights Centre CSCE Project.
Winfried Brugger is Professor of Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Heidelberg University, Germany. He received his J.D. and S.J.D. from the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and his LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Stanley Cohen is Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1980 to 1995 he was Professor of Criminology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and remains active in human rights organizations in Israel. His books include Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Visions of Social Control and Against Criminology.
Richard Lewis Siegel, Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, received his Ph.D. in Public Law and Government at Columbia University. He has published Employment and Human Rights: The International Dimension (1994) as well as various articles, chapters, and books on socioeconomic human rights, the right to development, civil liberties, global and comparative policy, and the evaluation of foreign policy. He served on the National Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union between 1975 and 1988.
