Contributors
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Kevin Bales is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull, UK. He was Co-Founder of Free the Slaves, the US Sister organization of Anti-Slavery International and is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University in London. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Cocoa Initiative. His book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy published in 1999, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and has now been published in ten other languages.
Nicola Bruch obtained her LL.B in 2000, and her M.A. in Human Rights in 2006, both at University College London. She has also worked as a policy adviser in the Public Law section of New Zealand's Ministry of Justice, specializing in human rights and access to justice. She is currently a caseworker at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in the United Kingdom.
Başak Çalı is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Department of Political Science, University College London, and Director of Judgment Watch, an international NGO committed to support, promote, and campaign for the implementation of human rights judgments. Başak Çalı was the Principal Investigator of the ESRC funded research project, The Judicial Legitimacy and Authority of Human Rights Courts: A Comparative and Cross Sectional Analysis of the European Court of Human Rights, RES-061-25-0029 between 2008-2011. Anne Koch and Nicola Bruch were research assistants on the same project.
Monti Narayan Datta is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. He received his Ph.D., UC Davis, MPP, Georgetown University, B.A., UC Berkeley. His current book project, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, focuses on the consequences of anti-Americanism. He is also working on several projects on human trafficking and modern day slavery with Free the Slaves and Chab Dai.
Mijke de Waardt is a Ph.D. candidate at inter-university Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) and the Free University of Amsterdam. The data upon which the results of this article are based were collected in the course of Ph.D. research. However, the author has also been a participant-observer in research and volunteer projects in Peru since 2002. Much of the basis of the Ph.D. research is based on these experiences, as subjected to later reflection and analysis.
Larissa Fast is Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Kroc Institute and Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of AID IN DANGER: RECLAIMING HUMANITY AMIDST THE CRISIS IN HUMANITARIANISM (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). Her publications have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations and the journal Disasters. Fast's research has been funded by [End Page 1049] the United States Institute of Peace, the US Agency for International Development, and the Swiss government.
David P. Forsythe is the Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He taught human rights there for almost forty years where one now finds the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. During the 2013-2014 academic year he is a Phi Beta Kappa National Visiting Scholar, visiting various campuses to lecture on human rights and international relations.
Nazila Ghanea (Ph.D.) teaches International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford and is a member of the OSCE Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Her publications include nine books, five UN publications as well as a number of journal articles and reports including: Are Religious Minorities Really Minorities?; Does God Believe in Human Rights?; and Human Rights, the UN and the Bahá'ís in Iran. She is co-author in a forthcoming monograph entitled Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality: Britain in Global Contexts. She has acted as a human rights consultant and expert for a number of governments, the UN, UNESCO, OSCE, the Council of Europe and the EU. Her professional profile can be found at http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/nazila.ghanea.
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