Contributors
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Derya Bayır is a member of the GLOCUL: Centre for Culture and Law at Queen Mary, University of London and is a litigator before the European Court of Human Rights. She holds a doctorate from Queen Mary. E-mail: deryabayir@gmail.com.
Heiner Bielefeldt (*1958) is Professor of Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (since October 2009). Before taking the newly established chair for Human Rights, he was Director of the German Institute for Human Rights (based in Berlin), which is the officially accredited national human rights institution of Germany. Bielefeldt's research interests include different interdisciplinary facets of human rights theory and practice. In August 2010 he assumed the position of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief.
Eva Brems (LL.M. Harvard 1995, Ph.D. KU Leuven 1999) is a Professor of Human Rights Law at Ghent University (Belgium). She leads the project "Strengthening the European Court of Human Rights: More Accountability through Better Legal Reasoning", funded by the European Research Council. Her research interests include most areas of human rights law, in European and international law as well as in Belgian and comparative law. She is also a member of the Belgian parliament. E-mail: eva.brems@ugent.be.
Joshua Castellino is Professor of Law and Dean of the School of Law at Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom, and Adjunct Law Professor at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Ireland. He worked as a journalist in India and completed his Ph.D. in International Law at the University of Hull, United Kingdom in 1998. He has authored five books and is completing the third in a five-book series with Oxford University Press on issues concerning Global Minority Rights, International, and Comparative Law. He was part of the EU-China Experts & Diplomatic Dialogue and regularly engages with multilateral organizations, such as the United Nations, Law Societies, and NGOs around the world, on issues of human rights advocacy.
Roger S. Clark is Board of Governors Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, Camden, New Jersey. Between 1978 and 1999 he was deeply involved at the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly of United Nations and at its Special Committee on Decolonization ("Committee of 24") on behalf of the International League for Human Rights and the International Platform of Jurists for East Timor in arguing for the right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence.
Margaret M. deGuzman, Associate Professor, Temple University Beasley School of Law. She teaches criminal law, international criminal law, and transitional justice. Her research engages questions about the appropriate role of international criminal law in the global legal order, with a particular focus on the concept of gravity. Professor deGuzman is a graduate of Yale Law School, the Fletcher School of Law [End Page 267] & Diplomacy, and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Senegal and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Irish Center for Human Rights of the National University of Ireland.
Ben Dorfman is Associate Professor of intellectual and cultural history in the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University (Denmark).
Jonathan Graubart is Director of the International Security and Conflict Resolution Program and an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State specializing in the areas of international relations, international law, transnational activism, and human rights. Graubart's recent publications include Legalizing Transnational Activism: The Struggle to Gain Social Change From NAFTA's Citizen Petitions (Penn State University Press, 2008) and "Rendering Global Criminal Law an Instrument of Power: Pragmatic Legalism and Global Tribunals" (Journal of Human Rights, 2010). He is presently working on an extensive critical study of international criminal tribunals and the "Responsibility to Protect" global initiative.
Laurens Lavrysen (Master in Law Ghent University 2010) is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University, working on "Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights". His research is funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and takes place within the larger framework of the project "Strengthening the European Court of Human Rights: More Accountability through Better Legal Reasoning...
