Contributors

Contributors Payam Akhavan is Professor of International Law at McGill University. He was previously Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Visiting Lecturer and Senior Fellow at Yale Law School and the Yale University Centre for International and Area Studies, and the first legal advisor to the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has published extensively, including ‘‘Beyond Impunity: Can International Criminal Justice Prevent Future Atrocities?’’ (American Journal of International Law, 2001), selected by the International Library of Law and Legal Theory as one of ‘‘the most significant published journal essays in contemporary legal studies.’’ He is also the author of the Report on the Work of the Office of the Special Adviser of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide (2005). His work has been featured in the New York Times, and, in recognition of his contributions to promoting accountability for human rights violations, he was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (www.younggloballeaders.org) in 2005. Michael J. Bazyler is Professor of Law and the ‘‘1939’’ Club Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Whittier Law School, California and Research Fellow at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority of Israel). Sévane Garibian is a PhD candidate in law (international criminal law, legal theory) at the University of Paris X (France) and the University of Geneva (Switzerland). The subject of her research is the legal concept of crimes against humanity. She is a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and the Association Internationale de recherche sur les crimes contre l’humanité et les génocides (AIRCRIGE). Recent publications include ‘‘Le génocide arménien hors-la-loi?’’ in Des crimes contre l’humanité en République française (1990–2002), edited by C. Coquio and C. Guillaume (L’Harmattan, 2006), and ‘‘Pour une lecture juridique des quatre lois ‘mémorielles’’’ (Esprit, 2006). Her article ‘‘Crimes against Humanity and International Legality in Legal Theory after Nuremberg’’ is forthcoming in the Journal of Genocide Research. Martha Minow is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor at Harvard Law School. Her books include Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Atrocity and Imagine Co-existence (co-edited with Antonia Chayes). She served on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History and a member of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton. He is the author, most recently, of the first two volumes of his multi-volume study, Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State (I.B. Tauris, 2005) but he is equally committed to linking his academic work with that of being a peace and environmental activist. See the Forum for the Contributors. Genocide Studies and Prevention 2, 1 (April 2007): 97–98. ß 2007 Genocide Studies and Prevention. Study of Crisis in the 21st Century (Crisis Forum), http://www.crisis-forum.org.uk, of which he is co-founder. Martin Mennecke, LLM (University of Edinburgh), is a doctoral candidate in international law at the University of Kiel, Germany. His dissertation concerns the recent evolution of the legal definition of genocide in the case law of various international and national tribunals. Working at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen, he has authored several articles on genocidal violence in Bosnia and Kosovo, the definition of genocide, and Holocaust remembrance in Denmark. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Danish delegation to international meetings concerning the International Criminal Court. William A. Schabas is director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he also holds a professorship in human rights law. Before moving to Ireland in 2000, he chaired and taught in the law school of the Université du Québec à Montréal and was a member of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal. He has also been a visiting or adjunct professor at universities in Canada, France, and Rwanda and has lectured at the International Institute for Human Rights (Strasbourg), the Canadian Foreign Service Institute, and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre...