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  • Contributors

Hauke Hartmann has a M.A. in Latin American and Carribean Studies from the State University of New York at Albany, and a M.A. in North American Studies from the Free University of Berlin. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis on US human rights policy under Carter. He is working as a program officer for local democracy and immigration polcies at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh, Germany.

Ursula Kilkelly, B.A., L.L.M., Ph.D. is a College Lecturer at University College Cork, where her teaching includes human rights and the child and family in international law. She is a graduate of Queen's University Belfast where she was awarded a Ph.D. in 1998. Her doctoral thesis on the Child and the European Convention was published by Ashgate Publishers in November 1999. She has published in international, UK and Irish human rights and family law journals on the ECHR and the CRC.

Mahmood Monshipouri (Ph.D. Georgia) is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Quinnipiac University. He specializes in human rights, ethics, and globalization. His latest book is Islamism, Secularism and Human Rights in the Middle East (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998). His most recent articles have appeared in Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Journal of Church and State, and Ethics and International Affairs.

Bruce P. Montgomery is the founder and director of the Human Rights Initiative (HRI) currently at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 1992, he founded HRI to document the international human rights movement and human rights affairs. HRI has since developed into the world's largest collection of human rights archives. He is currently looking to relocate the project to another research institution.

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu is Senior Legal Officer, INTERRIGHTS, The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH.

Judy Scales-Trent is a professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has written extensively on the complicated nature of "race" in this country. This includes articles on the intersection of race and gender in US law, as well as a book on the relationship between race and color. More recently, Scales-Trent has moved beyond US borders to study the intersection of race and gender in France, by exploring legal and policy issues confronting African immigrant women in that country. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Senegal for 2000-2001, she is studying the professional lives of women lawyers in that country, and will also teach law school at Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.

Christian Tomuschat is a Professor at Humboldt University, Berlin; he is the former coordinator of the Commission for Historical Clarification in Guatemala. [End Page 480]

Claude E. Welch (Ph.D. Oxford) is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science. He specializes in African politics and civil-military relations. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the forthcoming NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). He is the Director of the Human Rights Center of SUNY-Buffalo. Several of his previous articles have appeared in Human Rights Quarterly dealing with the African Commission on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights, and on the rights of African women. [End Page 481]

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