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  • Contributors

Kumaralingam Amirthalingam is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He received his LL.B. (Hons), and Ph.D. from the Australian National University.

Mac Darrow received his Master in International Law from the Australian National University and his Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht. He is the author of Between Light and Shadow: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and International Human Rights Law (2003). He is currently the Coordinator within the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of the HURIST (Human Rights Strengthening) joint program between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and OHCHR. His previous positions include Secretary to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination at OHCHR, and Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Roman David is an NRF post-doctoral research fellow at the School of Law of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his Ph.D. in politics at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic (1997). He lectured at the Masaryk University and the Charles University in Prague. The survey among former political prisoners in the Czech Republic was designed during his academic visit at Nuffield College, Oxford University (1998–1999). He reviewed draft legislation that served as one of the bases for compensation of Czech ex-political prisoners in 2001. Contact address: Law School, Wits University, Pvt. Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa; email: politologie@hotmail.com, davidr@law.wits.ac.za.

Madeleine Davis is Lecturer in Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. Her recent publications include (as editor) The Pinochet Case: Origins, Progress and Implications (London, Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003).

Angelina Snodgrass Godoy is Assistant Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice, and of International Studies, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology, at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she teaches courses on human rights and Latin America. She is currently working on a book, Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America, exploring the intersection of violence, politics, and criminal justice with particular attention to the Guatemalan case.

Miodrag A. Jovanović received LL.M and Ph.D. degrees from the Law Faculty, University of Belgrade, where he currently works as the senior lecturer in the Department of Theory of Law and State. He is currently working on a book entitled Constitutionalizing Secession in Federalized States: A Procedural Approach.

Tim Kelsall is Lecturer in African Politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Joint Editor of the journal African Affairs. [End Page 750]

Jonathan Klaaren is a Professor of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also Co-Editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights. He has authored several books and law journal articles and has edited volumes on public law, sociolegal studies, access to information, and migration and refugees studies. He received his B.A. from Harvard (1986), his M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Cape Town (1988), his J.D. from Columbia (1991), his LL.B. from Wits Law School of Johannesburg (1999), and his Ph.D. from Yale (2004).

Amira Mashhour received an M.A. in Understanding and Securing Human Rights (2003) from the University of London School of Advanced Studies. She received a B.A. in Political Science (1996) from Cairo University. She worked as a researcher and project coordinator in several human rights NGOs from 1995 through 1999, including the Arab Organization for Human Rights, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and the Alliance for Arab Women. From 1999 through 2002, she worked in the regional office of UNHCR in Cairo as an Assistant to the Regional External Relations Officer for the Middle East and North Africa. Mashhour is currently undertaking a graduate advanced diploma in film production, specializing in direction, at APA International Film School in Sydney, Australia.

Kurt Mills is Lecturer in International Human Rights at the University of Glasgow. He has also taught at Gettysburg College, James Madison University, Mount Holyoke College, and the American University in Cairo. He has published Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order: A New Sovereignty? as well as...

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