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  • Contributors

Rebecca J. Cook, J.D., J.S.D., holds the Faculty Chair in International Human Rights, the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She is ethical and legal issues co-editor of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and serves on the editorial advisory boards of Human Rights Quarterly and Reproductive Health Matters. Her most recent book, co-authored with B.M. Dickens and M. F. Fathalla, is Reproductive Health and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Eleni Coundouriotis is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel (Columbia University Press 1999) and has published widely on African literature, diaspora, and nationalism. Her current project focuses on war narratives from Africa.

Philippe Cullet is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS). He is also the Executive Director of the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC). He studied law at the University of Geneva and King's College London (LL.M.). He received an M.A. in development studies from SOAS and went on to receive his doctoral degree in international environmental law from Stanford Law School, Stanford University. His current research interests include biodiversity law, biosafety, water as well as the socioeconomic aspects of intellectual property rights. He is the author of Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) and Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development: Emerging Issues (New Delhi: Butterworths, 2005) as well as many articles and book chapters about which more information can be found at www.ielrc.org.

Simone Cusack obtained her B.A./LL.B. (Hons) from Monash University, Australia. She is currently completing her Masters of Law at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she is focusing on the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Jack Donnelly is the Andrew Mellon Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver.

Keith Doubt is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Wittenberg University. He has written Understanding Evil: Lessons from Bosnia (Fordham University Press 2006) and Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice (Rowman and Littlefield 2000) and is co-editor of the interdisciplinary, international, bilingual, online, journal, Duh Bosne/Spirit of Bosnia, found at www.spiritofbosnia.org.

Rosemary Foot is Professor of International Relations and Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia, St Antony's College, University of [End Page 544] Oxford. A number of recent publications have examined the relationship between human rights and counter-terrorist action, including her 2004 monograph Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism in America's Asia Policy.

Monica Feria practices public international law and is currently representing victims before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. She litigated the Brothers Gómez Paquiyauri case and more recently the Miguel Castro Castro prison case on behalf of 800 victims. She holds a LL.M. (with merit) (London) and was awarded the Diplome of the Hague Academy of International Law (2000). Her subject paper for the Hague Diplome was the "Proliferation of International Tribunals and the Role of the Jurisprudence." She received further training in international law at the UN International Law Commission Thirty-Sixth Seminar in international law—Fellowship Program in Geneva; at the Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg; and at the Institute of Human Rights at the Abo Academy in Finland. She worked at the ICTY (Chambers) in 1999 and at the International Court of Justice in 2000. She formed part of the State Delegation of Comoros Islands (legal counsel) during the Rome Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court. She was Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law at the University of Cambridge and taught Public International Law at LSE and at the South Bank University. Expert opinions provided in different international fora has included a joint Amicus Curiae with Professor John Dugard (former Special Rapporteur on Diplomatic Protection at the ILC) for the Appeals Court of Amsterdam, in the Bouterse case, and expert comments on behalf of the Redress Trust...

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