Contributors
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Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz is a Professor-researcher at the Department of Social, Political, and Legal Studies and Coordinator of the M.A. in Human Rights and Peace at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers. He holds a Ph.D. in Government and an M.A. in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, England. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Human Rights Program of the University of Minnesota and Mexico Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington DC. He is author of three single-author books, co-editor of one book and author of dozens of journal articles and book chapters. His research has focused on the interaction between Mexico and its international critics and on the influences of international organs and norms over domestic processes in the area of human rights. He is associate editor of the International Journal of Human Rights, and founder of the database "International Human Rights Recommendations to Mexico" (www.recomendacionesdh.mx).
Shreya Atrey is a Lecturer, University of Bristol Law School. D.Phil. (Oxon)., BCL (Dist) (Oxon), B.A. LL.B. (Hons) (NALSAR).
Jennifer A. Brobst is an Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law. She is a former felony prosecuting attorney specializing in sex offense litigation in Indiana, a statewide nonprofit trainer on anti-sexual violence initiatives in North Carolina, a Supervising Attorney for a Civil Domestic Violence Protection Order Clinic in North Carolina, and Legal Director for a medical and mental health center focusing on child trauma. All of these previous roles involved a large number of clients who were new immigrant women or children. She is currently a member of the Advisory Council for the National Crime Victim Law Institute based in Portland, Oregon. Her published scholarship includes a focus on crime victim rights and the barriers to public prosecution.
Doug Cassel is Emeritus Professor of Law and Presidential Fellow Emeritus at Notre Dame Law School. Among his relevant publications is White Paper: Options for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights 6 Notre Dame J. Int'l & Comp. Law, Iss. 1, art. 1 (2015), co-authored with Anita Ramasastry.
Lilian Chenwi is a professor of law at the University of the Witwatersrand, School of Law, South Africa. She obtained her LL.D. from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. She has published widely, taught and supervised postgraduate students on economic, social and cultural rights, international human rights law, public international law and international criminal law, among other areas. Her publications include being author of Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa, Pretoria University Law Press, 2007, co-editor of Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa: International, Regional and National Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2016, and co-editor of Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations from an African Perspective, Intersentia, 2018. She is an editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights. She participated in the discussions and drafting processes of two key international documents: the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In 2012, she was co-recipient of the Vera Chirwa Human Rights Award in recognition of her contributions to the development of economic, social and cultural rights in South Africa, mainly through academic research, teaching and litigation. In the same year, she was voted among the Top 35 Under 35 Young African Leaders in International Affairs by the YPIA (Young People in International Affairs). In 2013, she was among the Mail & Guardian 200 young South Africans or permanent residents aged 35 and under who are doing extraordinary things.
Amanda B. Edgell is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on regime formation and survival, political institutions, and gender equality both globally and within sub-Saharan Africa. Her current research agenda includes the role of institutions under authoritarianism and the implementation of...
