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Antony Anghie is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore and the S.J.Quinney School of Law, University of Utah. His research interests include the history and theory of international law, international economic law and globalization, and human rights. He is a member of the TWAIL network of scholars.

Radhika Balakrishnan is faculty director at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University. She was Commissioner for the Commission for Gender Equity for the City of New York and the Co-Chair of the Civil Society Advisory Committee for the United Nations Development Program. She is the co-author of Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: The Radical Potential of Human Rights with James Heintz and Diane Elson (Routledge, 2016). She is the co-editor with Diane Elson of Economic Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account (Zed Books, 2011). Balakrishnan’s work focuses on gender and development, gender and the global economy, human rights, and economic and social rights.

Mark Bray is an historian of human rights, terrorism, and politics in Modern Europe. He is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House 2017), Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero 2013), and the co-editor of Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader (PM Press 2018). His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Salon, Boston Review, and numerous edited volumes. He is currently a lecturer at Dartmouth College.

Daniel Brinks is Professor of Government and of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Until September 2019, he served as co-director of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Dan’s research focuses on the role of the law and courts in supporting and deepening democracy and human rights, with a primary regional interest in Latin America. His most recent book, with Abby Blass, is on the politics of constitutional and judicial design. Other books address the experience with uneven democracies in Latin America, the judicial response to police violence, and the enforcement of social and economic rights in the developing world. He has published articles in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and the Texas Law Review, among other journals.

Sergio Chaparro Hernandez works as Program Officer on Human Rights in Economic Policy at the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He is an economist, a philosopher and holds a Master in Law from the National University of Colombia. He is co-author of Irrational Punishments: Drug Laws and Incarceration in Latin America (CEDD, 2017) and Assessing Austerity: Monitoring the Human Rights Impacts of Fiscal Consolidation (CESR, 2018).

Dennis Davis is a judge of the high court of South Africa and judge president of the competition appeals court. He is an honorary professor at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of the Western Cape, as well as chair of the South African Tax Commission. His latest book (with Michelle le Roux) is Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.

Julia Dehm is a Lecturer at the La Trobe Law School, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to starting at La Trobe, Julia was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas in Austin and a Resident Fellow at the Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy. Her research addresses international climate change law and regulation, the governance of natural resources as well as human rights. She is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and she holds a BA, LLB (Hons), and PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Karen Engle is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law. Much of her work focuses on social movements and human...

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