Robert Goldman
Robert K. Goldman is Louis C. James Scholar; co-director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law; faculty director, the War Crimes Research Office; and professor of law. He holds expertise in international and human rights law; U.S. foreign policy; terrorism; and law of armed conflict. From 1996 to 2004 he was a member of the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and its president in 1999. From July 2004 to July 2005, Goldman was the UN Human Rights Commission's Independent Expert on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. In October 2005, the International Commission of Jurists named him one of the eight jurists on the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights. He is author of The Protection of Human Rights: Past, Present and Future (1972); coauthor of Middle East Watch's book, Needless Deaths in the Gulf War, a 1991 publication that assessed civilian casualties during the 39-day air campaign and assigned responsibility for violations of the laws of war; and coauthor of The International Dimension of Human Rights: A Guide For Application in Domestic Law (2001). He is also the author of scores of reports, papers and articles on human rights and humanitarian law related issues.

Dean Claudio Grossman
Claudio Grossman is Professor of Law and Dean of American University Washington College of Law (WCL) and the Raymond Geraldson Scholar for International and Humanitarian Law. He is the author of numerous publications regarding international law and human rights (see wcl.american.edu/dean/cv.cfm). In April 2008, Dean Grossman was elected Chair of the United Nations Committee against Torture, where he has been a member since 2003 and previously served as Vice Chair (2003-2008). He is also a member of the Commission for the Control of Interpol's Files (since February 2005) as well as Chair of the Committee on International Cooperation of the Association of American Law Schools. Dean Grossman served as President of the College of the Americas (COLAM), an organization of colleges and universities in the Western Hemisphere, from November 2003-November 2007. He was also a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) from 1993-2001. He was twice elected its President, first in 1996 and again in 2001. He also served twice as the IACHR's First Vice President (2000-2001, 1995-1996) and Second Vice President (1999-2000). He was the IACHR's Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women (1996-2000), Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Populations (2000-2001), and Observer of the AMIA Trial (2001-2005). Representing the IACHR, Dean Grossman participated in missions to Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Peru, among others. On behalf of international and non-governmental organizations, he has also chaired or participated in missions to observe elections in Nepal, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Romania, Surinam, and the Middle East.

He has also received numerous awards for his work with human rights and international law, including the René Cassin Award from B'nai B'rith International in Chile and the Harry LeRoy Jones Award from the Washington Foreign Law Society. In October 2000, Dean Grossman was named Outstanding Dean of the Year by the National Association of Public Interest Law (now known as Equal Justice Works). In addition, the Inter American Press Association named Dean Grossman as the recipient of the Chapultepec Grand Prize 2002 for his achievements in the field of human rights and his work and commitment to promoting and protecting the freedom of expression and of the press for all people. In 2007, Dean Grossman received the Simón Bolívar Award from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in recognition of his lifetime achievements in promoting human rights, and the Charles Norberg International Lawyer of the Year Award from the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Inter-American Bar Association. Dean Grossman is a member of numerous associations, including the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, for which he is a member of the Board of Directors.

Diane Orentlicher
Diane Orentlicher is co-director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law; professor of international law. She holds expertise in Public international law; United Nations law; International Criminal Court and other war crimes tribunals. Orentlicher is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, American Society of International Law, and American Society for Political & Legal Philosophy. In addition, she is on the Board of Directors or Advisory Council of several organizations, including Open Society Justice Initiative of the Open Society Institute, and Coalition for International Justice as well as on the Advisory Council of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and International Human Rights Law Group. In September 2004, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Diane Orentlicher as an independent expert on combating impunity.

Herman Schwartz
Professor Herman Schwartz has worked for human rights both in the United States and abroad for over four decades. He is currently advising numerous former Soviet bloc countries on constitutional and human rights reform; he has recently analyzed proposed revisions of the Armenian and Georgian constitutions. In February and March of 1994 and 1995, he was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the 50th and 51st Sessions of the UN Human Rights Commission, and in June, 1993, he was one of four public members of the U.S. Delegation to the UN World Human Rights Conference in Vienna. In 1983, he founded and now administers the US/Israel Civil Liberties Law program, which is designed to train and develop a human rights bar in Israel; in recent years the program has been expanded to include lawyers from Central and East Europe and has been replicated at Columbia University Law School with his assistance. In 1987, he organized and chaired a Human Rights Watch Committee project on prisons throughout the world and has personally visited and reported on prison conditions in East Europe and Latin America. He is a Co-Director of the Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and a member of the boards of the Foundation for a Civil Society, Helsinki Watch, and other domestic and foreign public interest organizations.

Richard Wilson
The consistent focus of Professor Richard Wilson's scholarly work has been the tension between the "haves" and the "have-nots" of the law, whether they are individuals, countries, or entire legal cultures. Professor Wilson seeks to improve access to justice by improving legal training of public interest advocates, including public interest and clinical offerings in law school curricula, opposition to the death penalty, developing models of legal representation of the poor, and effective use of international human rights law in domestic and international law. Professor Wilson is active in the development of legal aid, public defense, public interest NGOs and law school clinics throughout the world. He recently co-authored a report for the International Human Rights Law Group entitled Promoting Justice: A Practical Guide to Strategic Human Rights Lawyering (2001), which draws from regional meetings of human rights NGO lawyers from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Professor Wilson is also interested in new developments in the law, procedures and structures for providing appointed defense counsel in international war crimes trials and international criminal tribunals. He recently completed a book chapter on that subject, Will History Repeat Itself? Case Studies of Systemic Constraints on Defense Counsel in International War Crimes Trials and the Need for Resource Parity, in Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights: Economic Sanctions, Use of National Courts and International Fora, and Coercive Power (David Barnhizer, ed.).

Hadar Harris
Hadar Harris is the Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC.  She is an international human rights attorney and specializes in issues of civil and political rights, gender equality, prevention and punishment of genocide, and domestic implementation of international norms. She has worked extensively in assessing and reviewing national compliance with international human rights treaties working both with NGOs and governmental bodies. In Spring 2002, she piloted an assessment tool developed by the American Bar Association/CEELI to review national compliance with the provisions of the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).  The pilot project was run in Armenia and the final report was submitted for review to the United Nations and to the Armenian government.  She has also consulted on implementation of the assessment tool in Serbia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Macedonia.  She assisted in developing shadow reports to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and since 2004 has worked with the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Treaty Implementation of the Government of Botswana to assist it in developing its State Party report to the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) as well as its State Party report to CEDAW. She has also assisted UNMIK and the Government of Kosovo in preparation of a supplemental report to CEDAW.  She serves on the National Coordinating Task Force for US Treaty Compliance, providing technical assistance on preparation of coordinated shadow reports being developed by a large coalition of US-based organizations on United States compliance with the ICCPR and ICERD. She is also on the Training Committee of the US Human Rights Network. In addition, Ms. Harris has worked on a variety of other human rights issues.  In 2002, she consulted on proposed reforms to the Moroccan Criminal Procedure Code which resulted in 70% of recommended changes being adopted by the Moroccan parliament.  In 2001, she was involved in a trial on behalf of four Bosnian Muslims suing their Serbian torturer in US Federal Court in Atlanta, Georgia which resulted in nearly $140 million in damages being awarded to the victims. Over the past three years, she has helped to create the first-ever network of legal academics and activists discussing gender mainstreaming and legal education in India, the Gender and Law Association of India (GALA). Ms. Harris has worked as an international election observer with the UN/OSCE joint mission in Azerbaijan and taught law at Khazar University in Baku.  She also lived and worked in Jerusalem where she was the Director of Program and Resource Development for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI).  She formerly served as the Executive Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, a bipartisan legislative service organization of the United States House of Representatives. Ms. Harris has her BA in Political Science from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and her Juris Doctor in Law from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 

Ann Jordan
Ann Jordan is Director of the Program on Forced Labor and Trafficking in the Center on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University’s Washington College of Law.  She is an international human rights attorney who specializes in issues of human trafficking, forced labor and women’s rights.  She was the Director for ten years of the Initiative against Trafficking in Persons at Global Rights and spent eight years in Hong Kong and China teaching women’s rights, human rights, criminal law and torts and advocating for and writing about women’s rights in China and Hong Kong.  She actively participated with an international coalition of NGOs in the development of the UN Trafficking Protocol and with a U.S. NGO coalition in the development of the U.S. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act. She was a member of the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court, which successfully advocated during the negotiation process for the inclusion of women and women’s issues at all levels of the Court. She works with a broad international coalition of advocacy and grassroots organizations on building local capacity to develop and advocate for human rights-based programs on human trafficking and forced labor and to carry out evidence-based research and programming that addresses and supports the needs and rights of the affected persons.  She has worked in or on projects in China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Bosnia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Ukraine.  The Program supports the creation of networks, promotes conceptual clarity and trains on rights-based laws and policies.  Currently, the Program focuses on transparency and accountability in U.S. anti-trafficking policies and grant making and on developing materials to promote a greater understanding of the complexity of human trafficking and its intersection with labor migration policies, sexual rights, health rights and women’s rights.  Ms. Jordan was intimately involved in developing the Freedom Network (USA) to Empower Trafficked and Enslaved Persons, premier U.S. NGO anti-trafficking network of service providers and advocates. In addition, she is on the board of advisors of the Open Society Institute Sexual Health and Rights Program and also the central and eastern European anti-trafficking network, La Strada.  She earned her law and undergraduate degrees at Columbia University and serves as an advisor to several NGOs and networks. 

Amelia Parker
Amelia Parker is the Program Coordinator of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC. Amelia received her J.D. in 2006 from WCL, where she served as co-founder of the Genocide Teaching Project. Prior to coming to WCL, Amelia received a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) in Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity and a second major in Italian. After receiving the Patrick Stewart Human Rights Scholarship in 2000, she traveled to Ghana and worked for the Legal Resources Centre, where she researched the right to work of Sierra Leonean refugees, as well as the human rights implication of water privatization in Ghana. Most recently, Ms. Parker’s focus has been on the domestic implementation of human rights laws in the U.S. In 2007, she published an article in the Human Rights Brief concerning racial inequalities in the U.S. public education system and U.S. non-compliance with international treaty norms, which led to her being a contributing author to the U.S. Human Rights Network’s shadow report on U.S. compliance to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in 2008.

Maria Lokshin
Maria Lokshin is the Program Coordinator of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. Maria received her J.D. in 2009 from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.