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Aaron Xavier Fellmeth received a B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, focusing on psychology and anthropology of law. After studying briefly at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), he enrolled in the Yale Law School (J.D. 1997) and Yale Graduate School (M.A. 1997–International Relations). At Yale, he was Editor-in-Chief of The Yale Journal of International Law and a senior editor of The Yale Law Journal. From 1997–2000, he practiced foreign trade law in the San Francisco office of a large international law firm.

Mayra Gómez is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.

Bonny Ibhawoh is a lecturer in African history and international development studies at the Edo State University in Nigeria and currently an Izaak Walton Killam scholar at Dalhousie University in Canada. He was formerly a guest research fellow at the Danish Center for Human Rights, Copenhagen and an associate member of the Center for African Studies of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is also a research consultant with the Constitutional Rights Project—a human rights NGO based in Nigeria.

Hans-Otto Sano is Senior Research and Development Analyst at the Danish Centre for Human Rights. He has a Ph.D. in economic history and was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Roskilde, Denmark, before joining the Danish Centre for Human Rights. He therefore possesses professional experience in the human rights field as well as the development field. He is presently involved in editing a book by Nordic researchers on human rights and good governance.

Bret Thiele received his J.D., cum laude, at the University of Minnesota Law School in 1999.

N.J. Udombana obtained his LL.B. (with Honors) degree from the University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria, in 1988, and a law degree from the Nigerian Law School. He received an LL.M. in 1991 from University of Lagos. In 1994, he joined the University of Lagos Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law. His research interests are in the areas of International Law (with specialization in Human Rights and Environmental Laws), Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Law.

David Weissbrodt is the Fredrikson and Byron Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and a Member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. [End Page 873]

Carl Wellman is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis and an Honorary President of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. His recent publications include A Theory of Rights: Persons Under Laws, Institutions, and Morals (1985); Real Rights (1995); and an Approach to Rights: Studies in the Philosophy of Law and Morals (1997).

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