2008 FACULTY
 |
ELIZABETH ABI-MERSHED COURSE: Women and International Human Rights Law, (English) Elizabeth Abi-Mershed is a Principal Human Rights Specialist for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). As an attorney with the IACHR Secretariat, she analyzes incoming petitions, manages a docket of pending cases, drafts case reports, coordinates on site visits and drafts corresponding country reports, and participates in the litigation of cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Her practice also includes providing technical support to the IACHR's rapporteurship on the rights of women, and participating in initiatives concerning standard-setting and implementation. In relation to her work on gender issues, she has published "The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Prospects for the Inter-American Human Rights System to Protect and Promote the Human Rights of Women," in Women and International Human Rights Law (Transnational Publishers; Kelly Askin and Dorean Koenig eds. 2000). She received her Juris Doctor from the Washington College of Law, and holds a Masters in Law in International and Comparative Law from the Georgetown University Law Center. |
XABIER AGUIRRE COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia, (Spanish) Senior Analyst , Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court |
COURSE: United Nations Human Rights System, (English) Gudmundur Alfredsson has a law degree from the University of Iceland (1975), an M.C.J.-degree from New York University School of Law (1976) and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (1982). He worked at the United Nations Secretariat for 12 years, with the Office of Legal Affairs in New York (1983-85) and with the Centre for Human Rights in Geneva (1985-95). He is currently a professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University in Sweden. In 2004, he was elected as an expert member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, the editor of several books and the author of over one hundred articles on a variety of human rights and international law issues. |
 |
|
COURSE: International Justice for Human Rights Violations, (English) Elizabeth Andersen is Executive Director and Executive Vice President of the American Society of International Law, the United States’ premier institution for advancing the study and use of international law. Ms. Andersen first joined the Society in 1995 and became its Executive Director in October 2006. Most recently she has served as the Executive Director of the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI), where she had worked since 2003. Prior to her position at the ABA CEELI, Andersen was the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division, where she had also worked as a researcher and director of advocacy for a total of eight years. Before joining Human Rights Watch, she served as Legal Assistant to Judge Georges Abi-Saab of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and as a law clerk to Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York. Andersen is a graduate of Yale Law School, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Williams College. Her area of expertise is international humanitarian, human rights, and refugee law and she has authored a number of speeches and articles on those topics. |
FEDERICO ANDREU-GUZMAN COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia (Spanish) Federico Andreu-Guzmán graduated from the Universidad Externado de Colombia School of Law. He is currently the Senior Legal Adviser of the Legal Affairs Department for the International Commission of Jurists. Before joining the Commission, he had previously served as the Legal Advisor for America and Asia at Amnesty International. Before that, Professor Andreu participated in the Mission of the United Nations in Rwanda, and in the Mission of the Organization of American States in Haiti. He was also the Director of the International Office of Human Rights Accion para Colombia, as well as the Senior Legal Adviser for Latin America at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). He has published and edited several articles in English, French and Spanish. The most well renowned are “Terrorism and Human Rights No2”, ICJ publication, 2003, “Human Rights Violation and Military Tribunals", ICJ and Colombian Commission of Jurists publication, 2003, The Work Group on Force Disappearances of the United Nations, in International Review of the Red Cross, No 848, 2002, and Human Rights In Colombia, edited by the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain 2001. |
|
|
COURSE: Litigio y Activismo en Derechos Humanos Dr. Ayala is the former chairman of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS). Prior to this appointment he was the Rapporteur for Latin American Indigenous People Rights Matters. Dr. Ayala served as President of the Venezuelan Association of Constitutional Law and was bestowed the honour of President Honoris Causa in 1998. He is a Member of the Board of the Latin American Institute of Constitutional Law and member and Director of the Andean Commission of Jurists. He is also a Member of the Institute of Research of the State at Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina and of the Argentinean, Colombian and Peruvian Constitutional Law Associations respectively. Currently he is a Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Universidad Catolica “Andres Bello” (UCAB) and Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) and has been the Head of the Department of Constitutional Law at UCAB since 1992. Dr. Ayala has also lectured extensively at Georgetown University and the Washington College of Law, American University. He is the author of several publications on Constitutional Law and Human Rights. |
LUISA CABAL COURSE: Mujeres y el Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, (Spanish) Luisa Cabal is Director of the International Legal Program. She currently coordinates the Center’s international litigation and advocacy efforts in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. For 6 years she coordinated the Latin America program, litigating cases before the UN Human Rights Committee and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She has also designed and coordinated regional research and advocacy projects in Latin America, and has published articles on the role of courts and litigation in advancing women’s rights. She is co-founder of a network of Latin American law professors who are integrating reproductive rights into law school curricula (RED ALAS). Her recent publications include “Using Litigation to Address Gender Violations in the HIV/AIDS Context” (UC Davis Journal of International Law & Policy); Más allá del derecho: justicia y género en América Latina (co-editor); and Cuerpo y derecho: Legislación y jurisprudencia en América Latina (co-editor). Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Cabal worked for Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher, LLP, and for the United Nations Development Program in Colombia. Ms. Cabal graduated from the Universidad de los Andes and received her LL.M. from the Columbia University School of Law. |
|
|
COURSE: Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Asia, Africa and the Americas, (English) Antonio Cançado Trindade is Judge and a former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He obtained his PhD in International Law at Cambridge University, Great Britain where he developed his 1978 York Prize awarded thesis "Developments in the Rule of Exhaustion of Local Remedies in International Law" (in 2 volumes, 1.728 pages). Professor Cançado Trindade obtained his Masters degree in International Law at Cambridge University (1973); he is a lawyer from Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil (1st Prize in Civil Law, 1969); he is an alum of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France, 1974); he obtained the Certificates from the Research Center of the International Law Academy of the Hague (1974) and of the Seminary of the United Nation's International law Commission (Geneva, 1975), amongst others. Published works of Professor Cançado Trindade include: "Co-existence and Co-ordination of Mechanisms of International Protection of Human Rights"(volume 202 of the "Recueil des Cours de l'Académie de Droit International", The Hague 1987); "The Application of the Rule of Exhaustion of Local Remedies in International Law", Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983 (based on the author's Ph.D. thesis); "Repertório da Prática Brasileira do Direito Internacional Público" (volumes I-VI), Brasilia, FUNAG/MRE, 1984-1988; "Princípios do Direito Internacional Contemporâneo", Brasilia, Ed. Universidad de Brasilia, 1981; "O Esgotamento de Recursos Internos no Direito Internacional", Brasilia, Ed. Universidad de Brasilia, 1984 (1st. ed.) and 1997 (2nd. ed.). |
COURSE: Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, (Spanish) Santiago Cantón is Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, OAS. He studied law at Universidad de Buenos Aires and he performed a Master in International Law in American UniversityWashington College of Law. During 1998, he was director of the OAS Public Information Office. Between 1994 and 1998he was the Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Instituto Nacional Democrata, an organization established in Washington D.C and dedicated to the development of democracy. Santiago Cantón also worked as aPolitical Assistant for former president Jimmy Carter at the Democratic Development Programs in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. He has been invited to several international events, and is author to a number of articles concerning democratic development in Latin America. |
|
|
COURSE: International Justice for Human Rights Violations, (English) Douglass Cassel is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School. Prior to this, he had been Clinical Professor and Director for the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law. Specializing in international human rights and international criminal law, he was the Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law and of its Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan Program for Human Rights in the Americas from 1990 until 1998. He has also been a consultant to the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the United States Department of State, and the Ford Foundation. He lectures worldwide and his articles are published internationally in English and Spanish. His commentaries on human rights are published in the Chicago Tribune and broadcast weekly on National Public Radio in Chicago. In 2000, Professor Cassel was elected to the board for the Justice Studies Center for the Americas, Santiago, Chile, serving most recently as its President. Since 2000, he has been the President of the Due Process of Law Foundation in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and a consultant to Transitional Justice. Professor Cassel earned a B.A. cum laude from Yale in 1969 and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard in 1972. After serving as a Lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps for the United States Navy for two years, he worked for Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, first as a staff counsel and then as general counsel, until 1991. From 1992 until 1993, he served as Legal Adviser to the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador, advising the commission, supervising its investigations, and acting as principle editor of its report. His research interests cover a wide range of issues in international human rights, international criminal law and international humanitarian law. Currently, he is involved with efforts to strengthen the Inter-American system for protection of human rights and to ensure respect for human rights in counter-terrorism programs.
|
COURSE: Women and International Human Rights Law, (English) Rebecca Cook, A.B. (Barnard), M.A. (Tufts), M.P.A. (Harvard), J.D. (Georgetown), J.S.D.(Columbia), called to the Bar of Washington, D.C., is a Professor of Law, & Faculty Chair in International Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Co-Director, International Program on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law, University of Toronto. She is Ethical and Legal Issues Co-editor of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and a member of the editorial Board of the Human Rights Quarterly. Her publications include over one hundred and fifty books, articles and reports in the areas of international human rights, and women's health and feminist ethics law. Her most recent book, co-authored with Bernard M. Dickens and Mahmoud F. Fathalla, is Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics and Law.
|
|
|
Santiago Corcuera was born on April 16 1960. He graduated in Law at the Ibero American University (Spanish initials – UIA) with the thesis: The Freedom of Conscience – Some Jus-Philosophical and Constitutional Aspects. He studied his Masters Degree in Law at Cambridge University, England, where he also was a guest researcher of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law. His work on human rights has taken place at the UIA where he is the Law Department Director and in charge of the Human Rights Area, where he has written a number of articles, he has also been the university’s Coordinator for the Human Rights Program. As a Professor he has taught Constitutional Law I, Human Rights, Introduction to Contemporary Juridical Systems and Economic Law, among others. Following the UIA Rector’s decision, in August 1998, he has been coordinating the Human Rights Program, which answers to the Students and Communitarian Affairs Direction. Moreover, he developed the Study Plan project for the Interdisciplinary Masters Degree in Human Rights, which started in 2000, which he also coordinated from the Law Department. |
COURSE: Litigio y Activismo en Derechos Humanos Ernesto de la Jara is a historian and lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Perú (PUCP). He has taken several post-graduate courses in the Universities of Bologna, Salamanca and in the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law. He is one of the founders of the Legal Institute of Defense (IDL), which for 25 years has been dedicated to work in subjects that involve human rights and public policy (justice, defense, security, and anti-corruption). The IDL also simultaneously implements strategies in regards to litigation (national and international), incidence, communications, education, research, network creation, among others. Mr. De la Jara has several times been director of the IDL, and he is currently the director of Justicia Viva, a consortium that the IDL has with the Law School and the Rights Department of the PUCP. He also directs Ideele Magazine which has continuously been published for more than 18 years. He has participated as a representative for Peru’s Human Rights Movement in important settings such as the Ad Hoc Commission to indult victims of false imprisonment, the commission created by the OAS for Peru’s democratic transition, the Constitutional Reform Commission, among others. He belongs to different networks such as Eurolatin, LAEH network, and other human rights organizations which meet with the purpose of sharing experiences. He currently teaches courses about Justice and Human Rights at PUCP and at the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. Mr. de la Jara is continuously producing and publishing new articles, one of his most important books is La huelga: dos modelos normativos en debate. Memoria y Batallas en nombre de los inocentes, Perú 1992-2001 y Ensayos sobre Justicia y Derechos Humanos. |
|
COURSE: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, (English) Asbjørn Eide, b. 1933, is former Director and presently Senior Fellow of the Norwegian Center for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. He was previously a Director of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, and former Secretary-General of the International Peace Research Association. He has authored numerous books, contributions to books, articles in periodicals and studies for the United Nations concerning peace and conflict issues as well as human rights. Among the books he edited there is ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Common Standard of Achievement’ (with Gudmundur Alfredsson’) and ‘Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A textbook’ (with C.Krause and A.Rosas).He has been Torgny Segerstedt Professor at the University of Gøteborg, Sweden and is presently a visiting professor at the University of Lund. He was for 20 years, until 2004, an expert member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, and from 1995 to 2004 Chairman of the United Nations Working Group on the Rights of Minorities. For some years until June 2006 he was also member and President of the Advisory Committee on the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. |
COURSE: Election Observation and the Right to Political Participation, (English) Since July 2004, Larry Garber has served as CEO/Executive Director of the New Israel Fund (NIF), which seeks to strengthen Israel’s democracy by supporting programs that safeguard civil and human rights, bridge social and economic gaps, foster tolerance for all inhabitants, and enable different forms of religious practice to thrive. Before joining NIF, Garber served as a senior policymaker with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from 1993-99 and as Director of USAID’s West Bank and Gaza Mission from 1999-2004.Between 1982 and 1993, Garber worked with the National Democratic Institute, the International Human Rights Law Group, and Steptoe and Johnson law firm. He has served as a consultant on election-related matters for the Organization of American States, United Nations, and Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, and has taught at the Washington College of Law, and has written extensively on issues relating to human rights, democratization, election monitoring, and Palestinian political and economic development. Garber was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Queens College with a bachelor’s degree in 1976 and received a joint master’s degree in international affairs and a law degree from Columbia University in 1980. |
|
|
COURSE: International Humanitarian Law, (English) Robert K. Goldman is Professor of Law and Louis C. James Scholar at American University's Washington College of Law, where he has taught since 1971. Professor Goldman is also Co-Director of the Law School's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Faculty Director of the War Crimes Research Office. He was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights from 1996 to 2003 and it’s President from March 1999 to March 2000. From July 2004 to August 2005, he was the U.N. Human Rights Commission's Independent Expert on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism. Professor Goldman teaches and publishes on subjects relating to International Law, Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law. He is co-author, with Claudio Grossman, Claudia Martin and Diego Rodriquez, of The International Dimension of Human Rights: A Guide for Application in Domestic Courts (2002).
|
COURSE: Implementación de los Derechos Humanos en Derecho Interno, (Spanish) Felipe González is Director of the Human Rights Program of Universidad Diego Portales, where he also is professor of International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Law. Between 1991 and 2003, he was in chargeof the International Human Rights Law Group to Latin America first in Washington and then in Santiago, litigating cases before the Inter-American Human Rights systemand before the United Nations organs and also taking part of the preparation of several international instruments. He is the author of a number of publications. He obtained his LL.M. at American University in 1991 and he has been professor of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law since 2001. He has been also Tinker Visiting Professor in the University of Wisconsin and Visiting Professor of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, in the University of Deusto and in the Univesidad de Alcalá de Henares. In 2004 he obtained the Peter Cicchino Prize for Outstanding Advocacy in the Public Interest,awarded by American University. |
 |
 |
COURSE: Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, (Spanish) Claudio Grossman is Professor of Law and Dean of American University, Washington College of Law and the Raymond Geraldson Scholar of International and Humanitarian Law. He is the author of numerous publications regarding international law and human rights. In addition, Dean Grossman has served as the General Rapporteur of the Inter-American Bar Association, and is currently a member of the Council of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. In 1993, Dean Grossman was elected to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States where he was elected President for a one-year term in 1996. Dean Grossman is currently First Vice President of the IACHR and the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Populations. Dean Grossman has received numerous awards for his work with human rights and international law, including the Rene 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.
|
 |
COURSE: Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Asia, Africa and the Americas, (English) Christof Heyns is Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and the former Director of the Centre for Human Rights. PhD (University of the Witwatersrand); LLM (Yale); MA (Philosophy); LLB (University of Pretoria). He teaches on a regular basis in the human rights programmes at Oxford and the American University, Washington DC. He has served as consultant to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on a number of occasions. He served as leader of a major study on treaty reform into the impact of the UN human rights treaties in 20 countries around the world. He has also served as consultant to the Organization of African Unity/African Union and the South African Human Rights Commission. His books include Human Rights Law in Africa (Martinus Nijhoff, Netherlands) and The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level (Kluwer Law). He is founding editor of the African Human Rights Law Reports and founding co-editor of the African Human Rights Law Journal. His academic articles have been published in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Afrikaans. He serves on the editorial boards of international journals based in the UK, The Netherlands, Uganda, Brazil and Costa Rica. He has won Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships as well as the University of Pretoria’s Chancellor’s Award for Teaching. |
COURSE: Litigio y Activismo en Derechos Humanos, (Spanish) Viviana Krsticevic is the Executive Director of The Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), Washington Office. She graduated from the University Of Buenos Aires School Of Law, received a Masters degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford University and a Masters in Law degree from Harvard University. She has taught at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Stanford University.
|
 |
COURSE: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, (English) Scott Leckie (45) is an international human rights lawyer and leading advocate on housing rights issues within the global human rights community. He has founded several international organizations and institutions including Displacement Solutions (a not-for-profit organization dedicated to assisting refugees and displaced people), the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (a leading international human rights organization which he headed from 1991 to 2007), the Oregon Green Party (now Pacific Greens) and the Housing Rights Committee of Habitat International Coalition. He has more than 20 years of experience working on housing rights issues working with slum dwellers and marginalized communities in more than 65 countries. He has assisted in drafting international standards on housing rights issues and his publications include nine books and over 150 journal articles and reports. He has served as an advisor on housing rights issues to UN agencies, UN Special Rapporteurs, the World Bank and the Council of Europe. He has also advised The Bodyshop on their human rights award and he drafted a human rights policy for British Petroleum (BP), the first such policy considered by a large global corporation. He has an LL.M. degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex (UK) and a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon (USA). He speaks English, Dutch, German and Spanish. He currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand.
|
COURSE: Sistema de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, (Spanish) Fernando Mariño Menéndez received his Doctor in Law degree from the University of Bolonia (Italy, 1970) where he graduated Suma Cum Laude with Extraordinary Award. He attended The Hague’s Academy of International Law where he received his Diploma in Public Law and participated in the Research Center Programme. Mr. Mariño has lecture in International Public Law in the Universities of Cordoba and Zaragoza and continues to do so at the Universidad Carlos II de Madrid. In 1994, he became the Director of the “Francisco de Vitoria” Institute of International and European Studies of the Universidad Carlos II de Madrid. He also directed the lecture “Cátedra Concepción Arenal” about the Legal Protection of Less Favored Persons and Groups. Later, the Commission of European Communities designated him as a Jean Monnet Lecturer of European Law. Between 1999 and 2002, he was elected president of the Association for Human Rights of Spain. Since 2002, he is member of the Committee against Torture of the United Nations, where he was elected president for the period between 2003 and 2005. Mr. Mariño has directed more than twenty doctoral theses in International Public Law and Community European Law. He has been invited to lecture by several Latin American and European universities including the University for Peace of the United Nations (1991), Oxford University (2005) and the University of Pantheón-Sobonne of Paris (2006). His scholarship includes diverse books among the most notorious include: Nociones de Derecho Internacional Público. Zaragoza, 3ª edición, 1990. Derecho Internacional Público. Parte general, Madrid, 4ª edición 2005. Protección Internacional de las minorías (Ed.) Madrid, 2001. Similarly, he has Published more than eighty papers and articles concerning International Public Law, International Law of Human Rights, and European Law.
|
|
 |
COURSE: Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, (Spanish) Claudia Martin is professorial lecturer in residence and co-director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law. She holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and an LL.M. from American University Washington College of Law. She has also completed graduate studies in international relations at a program sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina and the Government of Italy. She teaches and specializes in international law, international and comparative human rights law and inter-American human rights law. She has co-authored the case books “The International Dimension of Human Rights, a Guide for its Application in Domestic Law” (with Claudio Grossman, Robert K. Goldman, and Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón), Inter-American Development Bank (1999) and Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos [International Human Rights Law] (with Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón and José Antonio Guevara), Distribuciones Fontamara (2004). Her recent publications include: The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System: A Handbook for Victims and their Advocates; (published in English, Spanish and Portuguese), OMCT Handbook Series, World Organization Against Torture, Geneva (2006) (co-authored with Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón); Catching Up with the Past: Recent Decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Addressing Gross Human Rights Violations Perpetrated During the 1970 1980s, Human Rights Law Review Volume 7 Number 4, Oxford University Press (2007); The Reform Debate in the Inter-American Human Rights System Ten Years After: Successes and Failures, Proceedings of the 7th Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues of International Law - 2005, 30 June – 2 July 2005, T.M.C. Asser Instituut , The Netherlands (2006); and The Moiwana Village Case: A New Trend in Approaching the Rights of Ethnic Groups in the Inter-American System, 19-2 Leiden Journal of International Law (2006). She serves as a Member of the Editorial Board, Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford University Press and Amsterdam Center for International Law; a Member of the Advisory Board of the Human Rights Program, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico; a Member of Advisory Board of the Impact Litigation Project, American University Washington College of Law, and a Member of the Editorial Board, Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. She is also a contributor on Inter-American Human Rights Law for the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights.
|
 |
COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia (Spanish) Juan Méndez is currently the President of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). For 15 years, he worked with Human Rights Watch, concentrating his efforts on human rights issues in the western hemisphere. In 1994, he became general counsel of Human Rights Watch, with worldwide duties in support of the organization's mission, including responsibility for the organization's litigation and standard-setting activities. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Méndez was the executive director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica, and between October 1999 and May 2004 he was professor of Law and director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Between 2000 and 2003 he was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, and served as president in 2002. In July 2004, Mr. Méndez was appointed the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide, a post that was complementary to his full-time position as the president of the ICTJ. Mr. Méndez served as special adviser until March 31, 2007.
|
COURSE: Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Asia, Africa and the Americas, (English) Vitit Muntarbhorn is a Professor of Law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He is an eminent expert in human rights with more than 1000 publications and combines the qualities of a scholar, an educator, a policy-making adviser and a grass-root human rights activist. He has served in various capacities for the United Nations system. In 1990-1994, he was Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Professor Muntarbhorn was recently nominated Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
 |
COURSE: Terrorism and Human Rights, (English)
|
|
 |
COURSE: Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, (Spanish) Diego Rodriguez-Pinzón is Professorial Lecturer in Residence and Co-Director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University, Washington College of Law (WCL). He hold a Masters degree (LL.M.) from WCL and a Doctoral degree (SJD) from George Washington University Law School. He teaches courses in the fields of international law and human rights law. His most recent books are The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System (with Claudia Martin) (2006), published in three languages –English, Spanish and Portuguese--, and Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos (International Human Rights Law), (co-editor), (2004). He co-authored (with Claudio Grossman, Robert K. Goldman and Claudia Martin) the casebook The International Dimension of Human Rights: A Guide for Application in Domestic Law published by the Inter-American Development Bank (2001). His recent articles include Reparations of the Inter-American Human Rights System in Cases of Gross and Systematic Violations of Human Rights: The Colombian Cases (2007), The International Human Rights Status of Elderly Rights (2003), The 'Victim' Requirement, The Fourth Instance Formula and the Notion of 'Person' in the Individual Complaint Procedure of the Inter-American Human Rights System (2001); and Presumption of Veracity, Nonappearance, and Default in the Individual Complaint Procedure of the Inter-American System on Human Rights (1998). He was recently appointed Ad Hoc Judge to sit in the Inter-American Court on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. As correspondent for the British periodical Butterworths Human Rights Cases, Professor Rodríguez-Pinzón covers the Americas; he also reports on the inter-American system for the Netherlands Human Rights Quarterly. He has served as international legal consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Organization of American States (OAS), among other institutions.
|
COURSE: Terrorism and Human Rights, (English) Martin Scheinin graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Turku, Finland, in 1982, and received a Licentiate of Law degree from the same university in 1987. He got his Doctorate in Law from the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 1991. From 1993 to 1998 he was Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at University of Helsinki, before being appointed, in 1998, Armfelt Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the Åbo Akademi University. As of 1 August 1998 he has also served as Director of the Åbo Akademi University Institute for Human Rights. He spent the academic year 1997–98 as a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law of University of Toronto, Canada. In 1997–2004 he was a member of the Human Rights Committee, acting under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In 2001–2004 he was the Committee's Special Rapporteur on New Communications under the Optional Protocol. In July 2005 he was appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism. This mandate continues under the newly established Human Rights Council. He leads the Finnish Graduate School in Human Rights Research, as well as the Nordic School of Human Rights Research. His publications include the books Aseistakieltäytymisoikeus [The Right to Conscientious Objection] (1988), Ihmisoikeudet Suomen oikeudessa [Human Rights in Finnish Law] (1991), International Human Rights Norms in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (1996, ed.), Perusoikeudet [Fundamental Rights Commentary (1999, with other co-authors], The Jurisprudence of Human Rights Law — A Comparative Interpretative Approach (2000, ed. together with Theodore S. Orlin and Allan Rosas), Operationalizing the Right of Indigenous Peoples to Self-Determination (2000, ed. together with Pekka Aikio), Constitutionalism and the Welfare State in the Nordic Countries (2001, ed.) and Leading Cases of the Human Rights Committee (2003, ed. together with Raija Hanski, revised 2nd edition 2007) as well as some 180 articles.
|
|
|
COURSE: Implementacion de los Derechos Humanos en Dercho Interno, (Spanish) Rodrigo Uprimy, Colombian lawyer, Ph.D. in Political Economics. Between 1994 and 2004 he was Auxiliary Judge and occasionally Judge of the Constitutional Court. He is co-judge of that court. Since 1993 he is professor at the law school of Universidad Nacional. Since January 2005 he conduct the Centro de Estudios de Derechos para Justicia y Sociedad (DeJusticia). He has published articles regarding constitutional law, democracy, justice administration, conflict resolutions and human rights. The following are some of his recent publications: The Constitutional Court and Control of Presidential Extraordinary Powers in Colombia" in Siri Gloppen, Roberto Gargarella and Elin Skaar (Eds) The Accountability Function of Courts in New Democracias, Frank Cass Publishers, 2004. “The Enforcement of Social Rights by the Colombian Constitutional Court: Cases and Debates” in Roberto Gargarella, Pilar Domingo and Theunis Roux (Eds). Courts and Social Transformation in New Democracies: An Institutional Voice for the Poor? Ashgate. 2006; Bloque de constitucionalidad, garantías procesales y proceso penal. Bogotá, Escuela Judicial Lara Bonilla, Consejo Superior de la Judicatura, 2006. Co-author with Mauricio García y Cesar Rodríguez. ¿Justicia para todos? Derechos sociales, sistema judicial y democracia en Colombia. Bogotá, Norma, 2006. Co-author y editor: ¿Justicia transicional sin transición? Verdad, justicia y reparación para Colombia, Bogotá, DeJuSticia. 2006. Coauthor and editor. Libertad de información y derechos fundamentales en Colombia. Bogotá, Andiarios, DeJuSticia y Konrad Adenauer, 2006. |
ALEJANDRO VALENCIA VILLA COURSE: Derecho Internacional Humanitario, (Spanish) Colombian lawyer dedicated to the promotion and defense of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He has conducted research in humanitarian law for the Center of International Studies of the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and taught Human Rights in this institution. He was a lawyer of the Colombian Section (today known as the Colombian Commission of Jurists) of the Andean Commission of Jurists and of the Center for Justice and International Law in Washington D.C. He was the first National Director of the office in charge of receiving and processing complaints at the Public Defenders Office in Colombia and he was in charge of the special research team for the Truth Commission in Guatemala. He has been advisor to the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights and the Reconciliation and Truth Commission in Peru, among others. His scholarship includes various books and articles about Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He currently is the advisor for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia.
|
 |
 |
COURSE: Human Rights and Development, (English) Patrick van Weerelt is the Human Rights Adviser in the Democratic Governance Group of the Bureau for Development Policy in United Nations Development Program (UNDP), New York. He obtained his LL.M degree from Maastricht University (the Netherlands), and a Master of International Law degree from the University of Lund/Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden. Prior to joining UNDP in 1998 (for which he also served in South Africa and Geneva), Mr. van Weerelt worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Law Faculty of the University of Maastricht. |
COURSE: European Human Rights Law, (English) Leo Zwaak is a Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer at Utrecht University and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) where he holds principal responsibility for teaching and organizing international and national courses on the protection of human rights and is the Course Coordinator of the LL.M. program within this area. He is also Partner and visiting Professor in the Masters program on human Rights and Democratization at the University of Malta and Partner and visiting Professor at the Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the Washington College of Law, American University. Professor Zwaak has extensive international teaching experience and has taught in many countries including Central and Eastern Europe; Poland; Albania; Bosnia; Herzegovina; South Africa; Zimbabwe; Tanzania; Ghana and Morocco. Professor Zwaak is the author of several major publications and numerous articles. Professor Zwaak is currently involved in two projects: the Digest of Strasbourg Case Law Relating to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe, which is designed to meet the needs of all those who are required to be, or have an interest in becoming, familiar with the case law of the organs of the European Convention on Human Rights; and a project on Gross and Systematic Violations of Human Rights in Europe: the Case of Turkey, which addresses the question of whether the mechanisms under the European Convention on Human Rights will be effective in case of gross and systematic violations of human rights. Professor Zwaak also serves as Co-editor of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights and National Correspondent to the Directorate of Human Rights of the Council of Europe. Professor Zwaak is a member of the Advisory Board, Kurdish Human Rights Project, London and a Member of the Board of International Experts of the Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago.
|
|
