Faculty From Previous Years

Philip Alston (2005, 2006)
Philip Alston is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, at New York University Law School, and External Professor of International Law, European University Institute, Florence. He is currently Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights on the subject of Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions as well as Special Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals. He chaired the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from 1991 to 1998 and prior to that was the Committee's Rapporteur from its inception in 1987 until 1990. He was elected to chair the Meeting of Chairpersons of United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies in 1990, 1993, and 1997-98, and was appointed as an Independent Expert by the UN Secretary-General, at the request of the General Assembly, to report on measures to ensure the long-term effectiveness of the UN human rights treaty bodies (reports submitted in 1989, 1993, and 1997). He is also President of the Board of Directors of the Center for Economic and Social Right and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law.

Kelly Askin (2004)
BS, JD, PhD (law). Director, International Criminal Justice Institute, Washington, DC, Senior Legal Advisor, International Justice, Open Society Justice Initiative; J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School. Dr. Askin has taught and served as a visiting fellow to Harvard University and Notre Dame Law School. She has also served as a legal advisor to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Trial and Appeals Chamber) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Appeals Chamber), and as the Acting Executive Director of the War Crimes Research Office, Washington College of Law. Books include War Crimes Against Women, Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals (1997) and the 4 volume treatise on Women and International Human Rights Law (1999-2003, co-edited).

M. Cherif Bassiouni (2004)
Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni is president of DePaul's International Human Rights Institute and also president of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa, Italy. In addition, he is president of the International Association of Penal Law. Since 1975, he has served as a consultant to the United Nations on many occasions. In 1992, he was appointed a member, and later a chairman, of the U.N. Commission to Investigate International Humanitarian Law Violations in the Former Yugoslavia. The author and editor of over 50 books, and the author of over 200 law review articles on U.S., international and comparative criminal law, Professor Bassiouni's most recent books are International Terrorism: Multilateral Conventions 1937-2001 (2001), Crimes Against Humanity In International Law (2d rev. ed. 1999), and International Criminal Law (2d rev. ed. 1999). Professor Bassiouni earned a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law in 1964 and an LL.M in international and maritime law from John Marshall Law School in 1966. He received an S.J.D. in international criminal law from George Washington University in 1973, and he has studied law at Dijon University, the University of Geneva and the University of Cairo. He was awarded the LL.D. degrees honoris causa in 2001 from The National University of Ireland, Galway; in 1997 from The University of Niagara, New York; in 1988 from the University of Pau, France; and in 1981 from the University of Torino, Italy. In 2001, the State of Illinois awarded him the Order of Lincoln, the highest civilian medal awarded by the state. In 1999 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong work for the International Criminal Court.

Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights at the Organization of American States. Mr. Bertoni is an Argentine lawyer and a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires. He has done graduate studies at Columbia University School of Law and is a former fellow of the Human Rights Institute there. He has also been appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the School of Law of Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on freedom of expression and criminal law. Before taking on office at the OAS, he has been a legal advisor for several nongovernmental organizations in his country, among them “Asociación Periodistas”, and he was a member at the “Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales” (CELS), “Instituto de Estudios Comparado en Ciencias Penales y Sociales” (INECIP) and “Foro para la Reconstrucción Institucional.” He has also worked as an advisor to the Department of Justice and Human Rights in Argentina. Mr. Bertoni has written several publications on the right to freedom of expression, he has given lectures and conferences in several countries.

Daniel Bradlow (Contributing Faculty 2004, 2005 and 2007, Faculty 2006)
Daniel D. Bradlow is Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at American University- Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. where he specializes in international economic law. His current scholarship focuses on the international financial institutions, the international legal aspects of sustainable and equitable development, and the legal aspects of debt and financial management. He is a Senior Special Fellow in the Legal Aspects of Debt and Financial Management Programme of the United National Institute on Training and Research (UNITAR), and a member of the Board of Directors of ILEAP (International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty) and of the Governing Board of the African Law Institute. He has worked as a Consultant to the World Dams Commission, MEFMI (The Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute for Eastern and Southern Africa), Pole-Dette, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and the MacArthur Foundation and served as a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on Accountability of International Organizations and as an advisor to the Rethinking Bretton Woods Project. In 1996 he was a Visiting Professor at the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has lectured in the United States and many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America on both the public and private aspects of international economic and financial law and on the negotiating and structuring of international economic transactions. Prior to joining WCL, Professor Bradlow was a Research Associate at the International Law Institute and a consultant to the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, as well as an attorney in private practice.His publications include books and articles on international financial law, the international financial institutions, foreign investment, the World Bank Inspection Panel, regulatory frameworks for dams and dam safety, globalization and its implications for global economic governance and the changing responsibilities of the World Bank and the IMF in the management of the global economy. Professor Bradlow holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and Northeastern University and Georgetown University in the USA and is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars.

Reed Brody (2004, 2005, 2006)
Reed Brody is Special Counsel for Prosecutions of Human Rights Watch. He coordinates the effort which led to the indictment in Senegal of the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré. He directed HRW's participation in the landmark case of Augusto Pinochet and wrote the HRW booklet The Pinochet Precedent: How Victims can Pursue Human Rights Criminals Abroad. He teaches a class at Columbia Law School on accountability for atrocities and is co-author of The Pinochet Papers: The Case of Augusto Pinochet in Britain and Spain (Kluwer, 2000). From 1998-2002 he was HRW Advocacy Director. He led the HRW delegation to the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban. Previously, he led United Nations teams investigating massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo and observing human rights in El Salvador, and coordinated an international legal team prosecuting human rights crimes in Haiti. He was Director of the International Human Rights Law Group and Executive Secretary of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). He is principal author of the ICJ book Tibet: Human Rights and the Rule of Law (1997) and author of Contra Terror in Nicaragua (South End Press, 1985). He is a frequent TV and radio commentator and his articles have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, le Monde, El País, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Independent, the Miami Herald, the Boston Globe, le Monde diplomatique, The Economist, the Independent, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the American Journal of International Law, Jeune Afrique and the Nation.

Sandra Coliver (2004, 2005)
Sandra Coliver is the Executive Director of the Center for Justice & Accountability. She has worked in the human rights field since she held a Ford Foundation fellowship with Amnesty International USA in 1979. After receiving her law degree from Boalt Hall (University of California, Berkeley, 1981), she clerked for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and worked in private practice for several years, specializing in criminal, constitutional and international law. She then served as the Law Program Director of Article 19, the International Center Against Censorship, based in London (1990-96); human rights expert for the UN mission in Bosnia (1996); Legal Advisor to the International Crisis Group, an advocacy think tank chaired by former Senator George Mitchell (1997-98); and Senior Rule of Law Advisor to IFES, an NGO dedicated to promoting fair elections and accountable governments (1999-2001). She has taught courses at WCL, Boalt Hall and other Bay Area law schools on human rights, humanitarian law, international law and women's rights. She has managed or participated in human rights and rule of law programs in Russia, the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Morocco, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and Rwanda. She chaired the International Committee of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA and now chairs committees of the ABA and San Francisco Bar Association.

Tom Farer (2004)
Dean Farer, the former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, has taught law at Columbia, Rutgers, Harvard, Tulane and American University and International Relations at Princeton, Johns Hopkins and American University and was President of the University of New Mexico. He has been a senior fellow of the Carnegie Endowment and the Council on Foreign Relations, an official of the Defense and State Departments, the legal consultant to the UN intervention force in Somalia (1993), advisor and trainer for the Somali National Police (1963-64), and consultant in the drafting of Uganda's Constitution. He is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law and the Human Rights Quarterly. He an is Honorary Professor of Peking University. Publisher of 11 books and monographs and over a hundred articles and book chapters, his shorter works have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Human Rights Quarterly and the New York and London Review of Books, and the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews. His hobbies are skiing (prudently), tennis (aggressively), hiking and biking."

Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi (2007)

Former Special Advisor to the Prosecutor, Office of the Prosecutor, International Crimininal Court

Diego García Sayán (2004)

Diego García-Sayán, is currently a Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Director General of the Andean Commission of Jurists (ACJ) and Chair of the UN's Working Group on Enforced Disappearances.
He was formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2001-2002) and Minister of Justice (2000-2001) of Peru, and Executive Director of the Andean Commission of Jurists (ACJ), (1982-1992; and 1994-2000). He has held the post of Director of the Human Rights Division of the United Nations ONUSAL, El Salvador (1992-1994) and was a Peace Negotiator in Guatemala (1991-1992). Mr. García-Sayán is also Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) (1987-2003). He has taught at the American University, Washington College of Law Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2003) and at the Inter American Institute for Human Rights (1990-2000). He has published extensively in the areas of law, human rights and international affairs. Among his most recent publications is "La tenaza de la democracia y los derechos humanos" en Foreign Affairs in Spanish. Volume 2 Number 3 (Otoño/Invierno, 2002) y "Una Nueva Política Exterior", Lima (2002, 362 pp.).

Baltasar Garzón Real (2005)
Baltasar Garzón Real is Magistrate-Judge of the national court in Madrid, Spain. He obtained his law degree at the Hispalense University of Sevilla, and his judgeship in 1980. He is Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the Complutense University of Madrid Law School. As Magistrate- Judge of the national court, he reviews cases related to terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, economic crimes, and financial organized crimes. He has been in charge of several criminal investigations on terrorism, including those related to ETA and other Spanish terrorist organizations, and those related to Arab terrorist organizations, Algeria (Islamic Armed Group), Al Qaeda, and other Islamic groups active in Spain and other countries. In the area of massive violations of fundamental rights, he has been in charge of criminal investigations of crimes perpetrated during the military dictatorships in Chile and Argentina based on the principle of universal jurisdiction. Additionally, in coordination with several countries, he has conducted many investigations mainly related to drug trafficking, money laundering and financial economic organized crimes, as well as extraditions. He was Secretary of State for the National Drug Plan; Adviser for multiple international congresses; and Lecturer at the United Nations, the European Parliament, the European Commission, and at citizens' and academic forums. He has been granted the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by different United States, Latin American, and European Universities. Judge Garzón is author of various articles and essays on pertinent legal matters and of various books on the topics of drug trafficking, terrorism and judicial independence. He is developing different humanitarian activities with Latin American organizations working with indigenous nationalities and communities, as well as in the field of drug prevention and drug addiction.

José Antonio Guvara, received his JD degree in the Universidad Iberoamericana in México and his Doctorate degree in the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain. In his doctoral thesis he analyses the relationship between the secrets of the estate and their control over the estate itself, for which he was unanimously awarded his cum laude. He has taught courses such as International Treaties on Human Rights, the Procedural Clinic of the Inter-American Human Rights System, International Criminal Court, and International Judicial Framework and Comparative Law at both JD level and Doctorate level at the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has published several articles in specialized magazines and has dictated various conferences in México and abroad about International Law and Human Rights Issues.  Among his most important publications there is: Los secretos de Estado: razones, sinrazones y controles en el Estado de Derecho, Ed. Porrúa-Universidad Iberoamericana, México 2004; México frente al Derecho Internacional Humanitario, Ed. Universidad Iberoamericana, México 2004; La Corte Penal Internacional: Una Visión Iberoamericana, Ed. Porrúa-Universidad Iberoamericana (con Tarciso dal Maso Jardim), México 2005; Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos (semestral), Ed. Porrúa-Universidad Iberoamericana, (co-director Alejandro Anaya) México 2005; Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, Ed. Fontamara-Washington College of Law, American University-Universidad Iberoamericana (con Claudia Martin y Diego Rodríguez), México 2004; México frente al Sistema Interamericano de Protección de los Derechos Humanos, Ed. Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal-Universidad Iberoamericana, México 2004 (con Santiago Corcuera Cabezut); La Corte Penal Internacional, Ed. Universidad Iberoamericana-Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (con Mariana Valdés Riveroll), México 2001 y Justicia Penal Internacional, Ed. Universidad Iberoamericana (con Santiago Corcuera Cabezut), México 2002.

David Kinley (2004)
David Kinley is currently Professor of International Law, and founding Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University in Melbourne. He earned his Doctorate in human rights and constitutional law from Cambridge University, UK in 1990. He has taught at the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, the University of Tasmania, and Cambridge University. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh, Hong Kong and New South Wales and has been the Australian representative on the European Union Visitor's Program. He was awarded a Senior Fulbright Scholarship in 2003. Dr. Kinley has been a consultant and adviser for the Constitution Unit in the UK, the Australian Law Reform Commission, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Ford Foundation, AusAID, and the World Bank. He is author/editor of four books including: Human Rights in Australian Law (Federation Press; 1998) and Human Rights Explained (a book-length internet publication). He is also author of some 50 works on a range of legal matters, but especially on human rights law. Most recently he has written a book entitled Commercial Law and Human Rights (Ashgate/Dartmouth; 2002). He is currently working on a major Australian Research Council project (2002-4) on corporations and human rights and another project on corporate social responsibility and global governance funded by the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements.

Elisa Massimino (2005, 2006, 2007)
Elisa Massimino (M.A., J.D.) is Washington Director of Human Rights First, formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Ms. Massimino is the organization's chief advocacy strategist, a national authority on refugee law and policy and an expert on a range of international human rights issues. Elisa testifies frequently before Congress, writes extensively for legal and popular publications, and serves as one of the organization's primary spokespeople with the media. Ms. Massimino taught philosophy at several universities in Michigan before embarking on a second career in law. As a litigation associate at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson, she was pro bono counsel in many human rights cases. She joined Human Rights First as a staff attorney in 1991 and has been the Washington Director since 1997. She holds philosophy degrees from Trinity University (B.A. 1982) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A. 1984), and a J.D. from University of Michigan Law School (1988). She has taught international human rights law at the University of Virginia School of Law and teaches refugee and asylum law at George Washington University School of Law.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo (2007)
Luis Moreno-Ocampo (born 4 June 1952, Buenos Aires) is the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is thus responsible for investigating and prosecuting war crimes against humanity and genocide. Born in Buenos Aires and a citizen of Argentina, he gained a reputation prosecuting abuses by senior military officials and for his work to combat corruption. In 1978 he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires Law School, from 1980 to 1984 Moreno-Ocampo was a law clerk to the Argentinean Solicitor General before rising to prominence as the assistant prosecutor of the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons in the 1984-1985 "Trial of the Juntas". The prosecution of nine senior figures, including three former heads of state, of the military dictatorship that ran the country from 1976 to 1983 resulted in five convictions. It was the first prosecution of senior commanders for the mass killing of civilians since the Nuremberg Trials followed the Second World War. Over the next few years, Moreno established a reputation for his willingness to confront the rich and the powerful of Argentina. In 1986 he was assistant prosecutor in the trial of senior members of the Buenos Aires Police Force, including General Ramón Camps, for gross human rights abuses. He was part of the extradition team that sent General Guillermo Suárez Mason to the U.S. state of California, led the prosecution of the leaders of two military rebellions (in 1987 and 1990), and was the Main Prosecutor of the review for the military trial for malpractice against the commanders of the Falklands-Malvinas War. In 1992, Moreno-Ocampo left his position as Main Prosecutor of the Argentine Federal Court to start a law firm specializing in corruption control, criminal law and human rights law. At the same time he became an Associate Professor of criminal law at the University of Buenos Aires. He has also been a guest professor at Stanford University and Harvard Law School. As well as his professional duties, he has been highly active in the anti-corruption NGO Transparency International, being the former president of its Latin America and Caribbean office and a current member of its global governing board. In 2003, he was elected unopposed to the position of ICC Prosecutor by a ballot of more than 70 countries and sworn in on 16 June 2003. His initial investigations have concentrated on the abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the formal end of the Second Congo War, the insurgency of the Uganda-based Lord's Resistance Army, the Darfur conflict of western Sudan and most recently, the Central African Republic.

Lyal Sunga (2005)
Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Sunga worked at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland for seven years, first to support the work of the UN Security Council's Commission of Experts on Rwanda to investigate and report on the genocide and associated violatons committed in that country in 1994. He subsequently advised the Office on all legal aspects of human rights field presences as well as on a range of other issues, including human rights and terrorism, restitution and compensation for human rights violations, the administration of criminal justice, and human rights defenders. He also served as Coordinator ad interim of the Asia-Pacific Geographic Team and represented the Office in the ICC preparatory commission conferences in New York and the Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of the International Criminal Court in Rome, and then in Tehran as Secretary for the Asia Preparatory Conference for the World Conference on Racism. Dr. Sunga is the author of "The Emerging System of International Criminal Law: Developments in Codification and Implementation" (1997) and "Individual Responsibility in International Law for Serious Human Rights Violations" (1992) as well as many book chapters and articles in scholarly legal journals. He also lectures widely in Europe and Asia on humanitarian law, human rights and international criminal law.

Brian Tittemore (2004, 2005, 2006)
Brian D. Tittemore is a Human Rights Attorney with the Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Tittemore practiced as a barrister and solicitor with the Civil Litigation Branch of the Canadian Department of Justice in Ottawa. He also held positions as Acting Executive Director and Senior Research Associate with the War Crimes Research Office in Washington D.C., and has lectured and published in the fields of international humanitarian law, international human rights law and civil litigation. Mr. Tittemore holds a B.Comm. and LL.B. from the University of Saskatchewan and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the American University in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the Law Society of Saskatchewan and the Law Society of Upper Canada.

John Tobin (2006)
John Tobin has a law degree with honours from the University of Melbourne, Australia and an LLM with distinction from the University of London. He teaches several law subjects at the University of Melbourne including International Law and Children's Rights, Human Rights, Human Rights Litigation and Advocacy and International Law. He also co-ordinates the Graduate International Legal Internship program. He has published numerous reports and articles on children's rights and provided advice as a consultant and on a pro bono basis to organisations such as UNICEF, law reform commissions, NGOs and Government Departments. He is a Director of Childwise, a leading NGO which campaigns against the sexual exploitation of children in the Asia Pacific and an Advisory Committee member of the the first Human Rights Legal Resource Centre established in Australia. He has also worked as a legal aid lawyer defending children in juvenile justice proceedings. He is currently working on a comprehensive commentary to the Convention on the Rights of the Child with Professor Philip Alston to be published by Oxford University Press in 2007.

Katarina Tomaševksi (2005)
Katarina Tomaševksi is Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University of Lund (Sweden) and external professor at the Centre for Africa Studies (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). In 1998-2004, she was the Special Rapporteur on the right to education of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and is founder of the Right to Education Project (www.right-to-education.org). She has coordinated a number of cross-national research projects ranging from the first global survey of imprisoned children, to freedom from hunger and the right to food, or human rights impact assessment in international development cooperation. She has published extensively in English, French, Spanish, and Slavic languages and her books have also been published in translation to Japanese and Chinese. Alongside more than 180 articles, her publications include El asalto a la educación (Intermón, Barcelona, 2004), Education Denied: Costs and Remedies (Zed, London, 2003), Responding to Human Rights Violations, 1946-1999 (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000), Between Sanctions and Elections (Pinter Publishers/Cassell, London, 1997), Thematic Guide to Human Rights of Women (Martinus Nijhoff, 1995), Foreigners in Prison (HEUNI, Helsinki, 1994), Human Rights in Population Policies (SIDA, Stockholm, 1994), Women & Human Rights (UN/NGLS and Zed Press, London, 1993), Development Aid and Human Rights Revisited (Pinter Publishers, London, 1993), Prison Health. International Standards and National Practices in Europe (HEUNI, Helsinki, 1992), Development Aid & Human Rights (Pinter Publishers, London,1988), The Right to Food: Guide through Applicable International Law (Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht, 1987), and Children in Adult Prisons: An International Perspective (Pinter Publishers, London, 1986).

Fried Van Hoof (2007)

Professor of International Law, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and University Lecturer, Utrecht University.

Carlos Villán Duran (2005, 2006, 2007)
Carlos Villán Duran obtained his Law Degree in the University of Oviedo (Spain), he was profesor of Internacional Public Law in the Universities of Oviedo and Leon (1972-1982). Between 1982 and November 2005 he was member of the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. He has researched the human rights situation in most Latin American countries as well as various counties in Afrca, Asia and Europe. He has also represented the United Nations in more than 170 human rights conferences worldwide, and has drafted a substantial number of reports for this organization. He has published 104 scientific articles about human rights issues including his Human Rights International Law Course (Madrid, Trotta, 2002 -reprinted: 2006-, 1.028 p.), and (with C. FALEH PÉREZ), Prácticas de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos (Madrid, Dilex, 2006, 773 p. más tres Anexos). He is a diplomate of the Centre d'Etudes de Droit International et Relations Internationales de l'Académie de Droit Internacional in the Hague, visiting professor (2007) of the Institut International des Droits de l’Homme (Strasbourg) y del Raoul Wallenberg Institute(Lund, Sweden). Since 2004 he has been the codirector of the Masters in the Protection of Human Rights of the University of Alcalá (Madrid). He is a member of scientific societies such as the Spanish Society of Proffessors of International Law and International Relations, the American Society of International Law, the Latin American Association of the Ombudsman and the Internazionale Jaques Maritain Institute of Rome. Since 2004 he is the president and founder of the Spanish Foundation for the Development and Application of the Human Rights International Law (www.aedidh.org).

Richard Wilson (2004, 2005)
Richard J. Wilson is a Professor of Law and founding director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University Washington College of Law where he has taught since 1989. He was the director of the law school’s summer study program in Chile in 1995 and 1996. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in law at Daito Bunka University in Tokyo, Japan and at the Catholic University in Lima, Peru, and was a Fulbright Scholar in the Republic of Colombia. He is a co-author of textbooks on international human rights law and practice, and on international criminal law and procedure. His scholarly interests focus on public interest law, legal services and access to justice for the poor, as well as the global movement toward the adoption of clinical legal education methods and principles throughout the world. He has lived or consulted in several Latin American countries and has lectured or consulted in the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, and Asia. He served as Legal Advisor to the Consulate of the Republic of Colombia in Washington during 1998. Professor Wilson has presented three cases at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica. Professor Wilson taught at CUNY Law School in New York City from 1985-1989. He was director of the Defender Division at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association in Washington from 1980-85.