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  • Contributors

Michael K. Addo, School of Law, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, is editor of International Law of Human Rights (Ashgate 2006) and author of The Legal Nature of International Human Rights (Nijhoff 2010).

David Cingranelli is a former President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. For the past ten years, he has served as the co-director of the Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. He conducts global, comparative, econometric research examining the causes and consequences of variation in government respect for various types of human rights. His most recent book with Rodwan Abouharb, Human Rights and Structural Adjustment, Cambridge University Press, 2007, showed how the structural adjustment programs negotiated by the World Bank and IMF have negatively affected human rights performance in the developing world.

Raymond Steenkamp Fonseca is a Ph.D. candidate at the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. He has done graduate work at the University of Cape Town and The National University of Ireland. In Fall 2009 he was a visiting scholar at the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights.

Emma Gilligan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, and teaches in the areas of twentieth century Soviet History, human rights, and genocide. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago from 2003–2006. Her first book Defending Human Rights in Russia; Sergei Kovalyov Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969–96 (Routledge, 2004) analyzes the rise of Sergei Kovalev, Russia’s first human rights commissioner under the presidency of Boris Yeltsin and the impact of former Soviet dissidents on the discourse of human rights in the post-Soviet era. Her second book, Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War (Princeton University Press, 2009) examines the war crimes committed by Russian soldiers against the civilian population of Chechnya. Gilligan is the author of articles for the Chicago Tribune, “Why there is no Peace in Chechnya,” 2005 and “US Loses High Ground on Human Rights,” 2006 for the International Herald Tribune.

Patricia Goedde is an Assistant Professor at Sungkyunkwan University Law School in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Goedde received her J.D. and Ph.D. in Asian and Comparative Law at the University of Washington (UW) School of Law, and M.A. in Korean Studies at the UW Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Goedde is a licensed attorney of the Washington State Bar and has also practiced in Seoul with the law firm of Kwangjang (also known as Lee & Ko). [End Page 777]

Sylvie Langlaude is a lecturer in the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and a member of its Human Rights Centre. She teaches public law and human rights law. She has published in the areas of religious freedom and children’s rights, including The Right of the Child to Religious Freedom in International Law (Brill, 2007).

David Lempert is a California lawyer and social anthropologist who has been working in international legal development, human rights protections, and democratic transitions in more than thirty countries over the past twenty-five years, for the Soros Foundation, the UN system, and several international donors and NGOs. He is the founder of Unseen America Projects, Inc., an NGO designing and implementing democratic experiential education curricula at the university level throughout the world and is the author of several books and publications.

Janet E. Lord is senior partner at BlueLaw International, LLP, a service-disabled, veteran-owned international law and development firm. A research associate at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, she is an expert in international disability rights law and participated in the negotiation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as legal advisor to Disabled Peoples’ International and several lead governments. She has designed, managed, and implemented disability and development programs in more than twenty-five countries worldwide. She is currently Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law and has also taught courses in international law and international human rights at the University...

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