Contributors
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Les Allamby is the Chief Commissioner for the NIHRC since September 2014. His term of office finishes in August 2021. He was formerly the Director of Law Centre(NI). He has been involved in election monitoring for international organizations in Bosnia, Pakistan, and Georgia and has written extensively on legal and social policy issues and is the author of Rights in Progress–A Guide to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act now in its fourth edition.
Heiner Bielefeldt is Professor for Human Rights at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). From 2003 to 2009, he was director of Germany's officially accredited National Human Rights Institution. From 2010 to 2016, he served as UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. He co-authored (with Michael Wiener) Religious Freedom Under Scrutiny (University of Pennsylvania Press 2019).
Michelle Carmody, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne. She is a historian and sociologist of Latin America in the world. Particular topics of expertise include human rights, democratization, transitional justice, internationalism, development, and the Cold War and its impacts in Latin America. She is currently an Academic Specialist in Latin America at the University of Melbourne. Before that she was an Assistant Professor in International Studies at Leiden University. misha.carmody@gmail.com.
Cheah W.L. is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore since 2007. She attended the National University of Singapore (LL.B., LL.M.), Harvard Law School (LL.M.), European University Institute, and Oxford University (D. Phil). Her research interests lie at the intersection of public international law, international criminal law, and human rights law, with a focus on historical and contemporary legal responses to mass atrocity and structural violence. She is specifically interested in how competing cultural understandings of harm, responsibility, and difference influence legal actors working in the fields of international criminal law and human rights.
David Cingranelli is a Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University, SUNY and Co-director of the university's Human Rights Institute. He and his students developed some of the earliest quantitative measures of national human rights practices. He has written widely on human rights, democracy, governance, and the scientific study of human rights. His 2007 book with Rodwan Abouharb, Human Rights and Structural Adjustment, (Cambridge University Press) demonstrated the negative human rights impacts of World Bank and IMF program lending in developing countries. He is a former President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. Until 2012, he served as the co-director of the Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project, the largest and most widely used human rights data set in the world. Presently, he, Mikhail Filippov, and Skip Mark are co-directing a successor to the CIRI project, which is called the "CIRIGHTS" data project. [End Page 621]
Eleni Coundouriotis is Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on postcolonial literatures, the narration of war, and human rights approaches to literature. She is the author most recently of Narrating Human Rights in Africa (Routledge 2020).
Isaac Cui graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. in Physics and Politics and is an MSc Regulation student at the London School of Economics. He is a 2020 Marshall Scholar.
Janos Fiala-Butora is a Lecturer, National University of Ireland Galway, Centre for Disability Law and Policy; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Sciences, Legal Studies Institute, Hungary.
Rosa Freedman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development at the University of Reading.
Heidi Nichols Haddad is an associate professor of Politics and International Relations at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Email: Heidi.Haddad@pomona.edu.
Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the International Relations Department, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University.
Emily Logan served as Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission from October 2014, completing her term in October 2019. Currently Commissioner at the Garda Síochána (Police) Ombudsman Commission and Adjunct Professor (Human Rights Practice) at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. She was formerly...
