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  • Contributors

Reza Afshari is Professor of History and Human Rights at Pace University and author of, among other publications, Human Rights in Iran: Abuse of Cultural Relativism (paperback edition with a new Afterword, 2011) and "On Historiography of Human Rights," 29 Human Rights Quarterly (2007).

Elizabeth Brundige is an Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School and Associate Director of Cornell Law School's Avon Global Center for Women & Justice. Professor Brundige was a law clerk for Justice Sandile Ngcobo of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 2006 and has worked on socioeconomic rights initiatives in South Africa and other countries.

Naomi Cahn is the John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. She has written numerous law review articles and several books in the areas of family law, international law, and feminism. Professor Cahn is a member of the Executive Committee of the Women in International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and is a member of the Yale Cultural Cognition Project.

Charli Carpenter (www.people.umass.edu/charli) is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts' Department of Political Science, and author of two books and numerous articles on human rights and human security. She blogs at duckofminerva.com and can be reached at charli.carpenter@gmail.com.

Simone Cusack works at the Australian Human Rights Commission and is co-author (with Rebecca J. Cook) of Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010).

Michael C. Davis, a Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong, has held visiting chairs at Northwestern University Law School (2005-2006) and Notre Dame Law School (2004-2005), as well as the Schell Senior Fellowship at the Yale Law School (1994-1995). His books include Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (1990), Human Rights and Chinese Values (1995), and International Intervention: From Power Politics to Global Responsibility (2004).

Susan Dicklitch is Professor of Government, Associate Dean of the College, and Director of the Ware Institute for Civic Engagement at Franklin & Marshall College. She is author of The Elusive Promise of NGOs in Africa: Lessons from Uganda, and several articles.

Bryan Dougan is a research assistant at Franklin & Marshall College. [End Page 689]

David P. Forsythe is the University Professor and Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and taught human rights there for thirty-seven years. He held the Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair in Human Rights and International Studies at the Danish Institute of International Studies in Copenhagen in 2008. He is the General Editor of The Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 5 volumes, 2009) which won the Dartmouth Medal as the best reference publication in the United States that year. His financial gifts recently started an endowment for the UNL program in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, now named in his honor.

Tony Gambino, an international consultant, first went to the Congo in 1979 as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He worked on the Congo as a volunteer for Amnesty International for many years. From 1997-2004, he served in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), including as the USAID Mission Director in the Congo from 2001-2004. In addition, he returned to the Congo in 2006 as an elections monitor with the Carter Center and has since been back numerous times on consultancies with international actors, including MONUSCO.

Claudia Geiringer is a Senior Lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Law, an Associate Director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law and a barrister specialising in the New Zealand Bill of Rights. This review is based on a "commentary" presented at the New Zealand book launch of Human Rights and Intellectual Property, at Victoria University of Wellington in May 2011.

Jonathan Graubart is Director of the International Security and Conflict Resolution Program and an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State specializing in the areas of international relations, international law, transnational activism, and human rights. Graubart's recent publications include Legalizing Transnational Activism: The Struggle to Gain Social Change From NAFTA's Citizen Petitions (Penn State University Press, 2008) and "Rendering Global Criminal...

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