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ELIZABETH ABI-MERSHED. COURSE: Women and International Human Rights Law (English)
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VICTOR ABRAMOVICH. COURSE: Litigio y Activismo en Derechos Humanos (Spanish) Victor Abramovich is currently the director of the masters program at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina. He has served as the Second Vice-president of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC) and was previously Commissioner and the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women for the IAHRC. Prior to his work with the IAHRC, he was the Executive Director of Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), a consultant for the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, a consultant of the Inter-American Development Bank, legal advisor of the Ombudsman office of Buenos Aires and he has worked with the U.N. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Committee. Abramovich instructs the Human Rights course and directs the Human Rights Law Clinic at the University of Buenos Aires, and teaches at Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina. Abramovich received his Juris Doctor from the University of Buenos Aires and his LLM from American University. He has written a number of articles, books and law reviews regarding human rights and the impact of litigation on economic, social and cultural rights. |
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ELIZABETH ANDERSEN. COURSE: International Justice for Human Rights Violations (English) Elizabeth Andersen is the Executive Director and Executive Vice President of the American Society of International Law. She has also served as the Executive Director of the American Bar Association's Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, where she had worked since 2003. Previously, 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 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. Ms. Anderson is a graduate of Yale Law School, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Williams College. |
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CARLOS AYALA CORAO. COURSE: Implementación de los Derechos Humanos en el Derecho Interno (Spanish) Carlos Ayala Corao is currently the President of the Andean Commission of Jurists. He has served as the Chairman of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and earlier he worked as the Rapporteur for Latin American Indigenous People Rights Matters. He has also been professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at Universidad Católica “Andres Bello”, at Universidad Central de Venezuela and at Universidad Iberoamericana de Mexico. Mr. Ayala has lectured extensively at Georgetown University and at the American University Washington College of Law. The UN High Commissioner assigned Mr. Ayala as an expert for the observation and monitoring process related to the selection and appointment of the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice of Ecuador (2005) and in Guatemala (2009). He has presented cases regarding the defence of human rights before several international organizations including IAHRC, UN and UNESCO. Carlos Ayala is the author of several publications on Constitutional Law and Human Rights. |
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ALMUDENA BERNABEU. COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia (Spanish) As International Attorney for CJA since early 2002, Ms. Bernabeu leads CJA’s Latin America program, serving on US-based civil Alien Tort Statute litigation against human rights abusers and universal jurisdiction criminal human rights prosecutions before the Spanish National Court. Ms. Bernabeu is also Director of CJA’s Transitional Justice Program. Almudena Bernabeu currently serves as the lead private prosecutor on two human rights cases before the Spanish National Court: one filed on behalf of survivors of the Guatemalan Genocide and the other brought against senior Salvadoran officials for the massacre of Jesuit priests in 1989. Ms. Bernabeu holds a Law degree from the University Of Valencia School Of Law, where she specialized in Public International Law. Trained in Spanish and US law, she is a member of the Valencia Bar Association and the International Bar Association. She is currently a PhD candidate in Public International Law at UNED University in Spain. Ms. Bernabeu has worked in human rights and international law for the past decade. In addition to her law practice, she has published several articles on human rights litigation in national courts and its effectiveness in the struggle against impunity, as well as on reforming Spanish asylum and refugee law. She has participated in numerous panels and conferences throughout Europe, Latin America, and the United States and has conducted numerous trainings for lawyers and government prosecutors. From 1995-99, she worked in private practice in Southern Spain and with two UNHCR-coordinated non-governmental organizations on asylum and refugee cases focusing on clients from Latin America, North and Central Africa, and the Balkans. Throughout the 1990s, Ms. Bernabeu worked pro bono for Amnesty International-Spain and served as an investigator for the European Court for Human Rights. Ms. Bernabeu was recently elected vice-president of the Spanish Association for Human Rights. (www.apdhe.org ) She also serves as a board member at a US based Human Rights organization called Equatorial Guinea Justice (www.egjustice.org ). She is a member of the advisory board of the Peruvian Institute of Forensic Anthropology (EPAF) (www.epafperu.org), a forensic group providing evidence on human rights violations investigations and prosecutions. |
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CATALINA BOTERO. COURSE: Libertad de Expresión (Spanish) Catalina Botero is the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Before assuming the position of Special Rapporteur, Ms. Catalina Botero worked as Auxiliary Magistrate at the Constitutional Court of Colombia on several different periods -between 2005 and 2008, 1995 and 2000, and 1992-1993-. She had previously held a number of public and private non-profit posts in Colombia, including: National Director of the Office for the Promotion and Dissemination of Human Rights, in the Office of the People's Defender of Colombia; Director of the Consultancy for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at the Social Foundation; adviser for the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Nation; and professor and researcher at the Law School of the Universidad de los Andes. She received her law degree in 1988 at the Universidad de los Andes and did postgraduate studies at that university, as well as in Madrid, Spain, at Universidad Complutense, the Center for Constitutional Studies and the Universidad Carlos III. |
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REED BRODY. COURSE: International Justice for Human Rights Violations (English) Reed Brody is Counsel and Spokesperson for Human Rights Watch in Brussels. His work as lead counsel for the victims in the case of the exiled former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, who faces trial in Senegal, and in the prosecution of Augusto Pinochet has been featured in three films, including “The Dictator Hunter”. He is author of three HRW reports on U.S. treatment of prisoners in the “war on terror.” Before joining HRW, he led United Nations teams investigating massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo and monitoring human rights in El Salvador and helped to prosecute human rights crimes in Haiti. He coordinated International Commission of Jurists report “Tibet: Human Rights and the Rule of Law” (1997). His 1984 investigation uncovered atrocities by the U.S.-backed “contras” against Nicaraguan civilians. |
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ANTONIO CANÇADO TRINDADE. COURSE: Human Rights and International Tribunals (English) Antônio Cançado Trindade is a Judge with the International Court of Justice (Brazil). Previously, he worked with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as Judge ad hoc, Judge, Vice-President, and President. He was also the Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights for several years, where he had been a Member of the Board of Directors and the External Legal Adviser. He has been an Adviser of UNDP and UNEP for special projects as well as a Legal Adviser to the Council of Europe. Judge Cançado is a Member of several Commissions and, until 2008, was Arbitrator for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. He has held a significant role representing Brazil in many international human rights meetings, regional and world conferences including those of the United Nations and the Organization of American States. He is also in a leadership position for several journals of international law. Judge Cançado received his PhD and his LL.M. in International Law from the University Of Cambridge and his LL.B. from Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. |
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Santiago Cantón is the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS). He was previously the OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression. In 1998, he was the Director of Public Information for the OAS. From 1994 to 1998, before beginning work with the OAS, Dr. Cantón was Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) in Washington, DC. Mr. Canton was also a political assistant to Mr. Carter in the election processes in El Salvador and Dominican Republic. He holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a Masters degree in International Law from the Washington College of Law of the American University. |
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ROBERTA COHEN. COURSE: The Rights of Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Groups (English) Roberta Cohen is a nonresident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She is a specialist in human rights, humanitarian, and refugee issues and a leading expert on the subject of internally displaced persons. She co-founded and co-directed The Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement for over a decade and now serves as senior advisor to The Brookings Institution – University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement and as senior adviser to Walter Kälin, the Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. She has published about 100 articles on human rights and humanitarian issues and a series of opeds in leading newspapers. In 2002, she was awarded the DACOR (Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired -- State Department) Fiftieth Anniversary Award for Exemplary Writing on Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy, in particular on "refugees and internally displaced persons. She is on the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford). She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (Switzerland), an M.A. “with distinction” from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Washington DC and Bologna, Italy) and a B.A. from Barnard College (Columbia University, New York), where she majored in History and minored in Government, and which awarded her its Distinguished Alumna Award in 2005. |
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REBECCA COOK. COURSE: Women and International Human Rights Law (English) Rebecca Cook is a Professor of Law and Faculty Chair in International Human Rights at the Toronto Faculty of Law, where she also serves as a Co-Director, International Program on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law. 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. Ms Cook has earned a number of academic degrees including A.B. (Barnard College), M.A. (Tufts U.), M.P.A. (Harvard U.), J.D. (Georgetown U.), and J.S.D. (Columbia U.). |
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CHRISTIAN COURTIS. COURSE: Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (Spanish) Christian Courtis is a Human Rights Officer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, where he coordinates the working team on economic, social and cultural rights. He is a law professor at the University of Buenos Aires Law School and invited professor at ITAM Law School (Mexico). He has been visiting professor and researcher at different universities in Europe, Latin America and the United States. He has served as a consultant for the World/Panamerican Health Organization, UNESCO, the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights. He was previously the director of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project of the International Commission of Jurists (Geneva). |
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MAC DARROW. COURSE: Human Rights and Development (English) Mac Darrow is the Chief of the Millennium Development Goals Section of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN/OHCHR), working on policies, programming tools, advocacy and capacity building strategies to mainstream human rights within the UN system. He has extensive experience on human rights and development issues in policy, operational and academic settings, and has published monographs, chapters in edited volumes and articles in refereed journals on international human rights law, international organisations and development. He has previously worked as a consultant for various United Nations agencies including, in 2010, producing a report for the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency on the inter-relationships between the international human rights and environmental legal regimes relevant to climate change, and their policy implications for climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. |
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CATARINA DE ALBUQUERQUE. COURSE: Economic, Social and Cultural Righst (English) Catarina de Albuquerque is the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation (formerly Independent Expert).She was appointed by the Human Rights Council in September 2008, having started her mandate on 1 November that year. Between 2004 and 2008 she presided over the negotiations of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which the UN General Assembly approved by consensus on 10 December 2008. De Albuquerque is an invited Professor at the Law Faculties of the Universities of Braga and Coimbra and a Senior Legal Adviser at the Office for Documentation and Comparative Law, an independent institution under the Prosecutor General’s Office. She was awarded the Human Rights Golden Medal by the Portuguese Parliament (10 December 2009) for outstanding work in the area of human rights. Her work in human rights was also honoured by the Portuguese President of the Republic (October 2009) with the Order of Merit, which is a recognition of an individual’s personal bravery, achievement, or service. |
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OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER. COURSE: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (English) Mr. De Schutter is an expert on social and economic rights and on trade and human rights. Between 2004 and 2008, he served as a Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). He was appointed Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food by the Human Rights Council in March 2008 and assumed his functions on May 1, 2008. He is Professor of Law at the University of Louvain (UCL) and at the College of Europe (Natolin). He holds a LL.M. from Harvard University, a diploma cum laude from the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Louvain. He has been lecturer in law at the University of Leicester (UK) and has been teaching European Union law, International and European Human Rights Law and legal theory at numerous universities in New York, France, Finland, Portugal, Benin and Puerto Rico. |
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SILVIA FERNANDEZ DE GURMENDI. COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia Internacional (Spanish) Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi has over 20 years practice in international and humanitarian law and human rights. Coming to the Court from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where she was the Director General for Human Rights, Judge Fernández de Gurmendi acted as a representative of Argentina in cases before the Inter American Commission of Human Rights and the Inter American Court of Justice. She also represented Argentina before universal and regional human rights bodies and advised on transitional justice issues related to the prevention of genocide and other international crimes. Her academic experience includes professorships of international criminal law at the universities of Buenos Aires and Palermo and as an assistant professor of international law at the University of Buenos Aires. Judge Fernández de Gurmendi has also published a number of national and international publications related to the International Criminal Court including, amongst others, the role of the Prosecutor, criminal procedure, and the definitions of victims. |
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FELIPE GONZÁLEZ MORALES. COURSE: Implementación de los Derechos Humanos en Derecho Interno (Spanish) Felipe González Morales is the President and the Rapporteur on Migrant Workers and their families at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He is also a Professor of International Law and Constitutional Law at Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile and was the Founder and Director of the Human Rights Center there. He is also the founder and former Director of a Latin American Network of Human Rights Legal Clinics. Professor González played a leading role in the creation of a system of consultative status for NGOs at the Organization of American States. He was the former Legal Officer and Representative for Latin America with Global Rights in Washington, DC. He has been a visiting professor at many universities throughout the Americas and in Europe. Mr. González holds an LL.M. in International Law from American University and a Master in Advanced Human Rights Studies from University Carlos III in Madrid, Spain. He is the co-author of “Protección Democrática de la Seguridad Interior,” among other publications. |
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FRANÇOISE HAMPSON. COURSE: International Humanitarian Law (English) Francoise Hampson is Professor of Law at the University of Essex. She has taught, researched and published widely in the fields of armed conflict, international humanitarian law and on the European Convention on Human Rights. She was an independent expert member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights from 1998-2007. She has acted as a consultant on humanitarian law to the International Committee of the Red Cross, and she represented Oxfam and SCF (UK) at the Review Conference for the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention. Professor Hampson has successfully litigated many cases before the European Court of Human Rights and, in recognition of her contribution to the development of law in this area, was awarded Human Rights Lawyer of the Year in 1998, jointly with Professor Kevin Boyle. |
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CHRISTOF HEYNS. COURSE: Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Asia, Africa and the Americas (English) Christof Heyns is the UN Special Rapporteur on Disappearances, as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria and the former Director of the Centre for Human Rights. Mr. Heyns teaches on a regular basis in the human rights programmes at Oxford and at the American University Washington College of Law. He has served as a consultant of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Organization of African Unity/African Union and the South African Human Rights Commission. Mr. Heyns is the founding editor of the African Human Rights Law Reports and founding co-editor of the African Human Rights Law Journal. He serves on editorial boards of international journals based in the UK, The Netherlands, Uganda, Brazil and Costa Rica. His academic degrees include PhD (University of the Witwatersrand); LLM (Yale Law School), MA in Philosophy, LLB (University of Pretoria). He was awardeda Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship as well as the University of Pretoria’s Chancellor’s Award for Teaching |
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VIVIANA KRSTICEVIC. COURSE: Litigio y Activismo en Derechos Humanos (Spanish) Viviana Krsticevic is Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Internatinal Law. Ms. Krsticevic received her law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, and an LLM from Harvard University. She has led numerous conferences and workshops in the Americas and Europe on the international protection of human rights. Ms. Krsticevic has also litigated cases before both the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She is the author of numerous articles, which have been published in the US, Latin America and Europe. |
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FRANK LA RUE. COURSE: Libertad de Expresión (Spanish) Frank William La Rue is, as of December 2010, the currently serving UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, a position he has held since August 2008. He is the founder of the Center for Legal Action for Human Rights (CALDH), a Guatemalan NGO, and has been involved in the promotion of human rights for 25 years. He was nominated for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize by Mairead Corrigan, Irish peace activist and 1976 laureate. |
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MARGARETTE MACAULAY. COURSE: Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Africa, America and Asia (English) Margarette Macaulay is a Women’s and Children’s Rights advocate, and an Attorney-at-Law and has been in practice from 1976 to date. She was elected as a Judge of the Inter American Court of Human Rights in June 2006 and sits on the Court in Costa Rica in ordinary sessions and in other member States in Extraordinary Sessions. Current Chairperson of Jamaica Coalition of the Rights of the Child (JCRC). She was awarded most outstanding Jamaican Scholar Award at Norman Manley Law School, 2 years after arriving in Jamaica from West Africa. She is the Chair and Member of a number of Committees of the Jamaican Bar Association, Member of the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council, Member of a number of international women’s human rights organizations, including the Coalition for an International Criminal Court and the Women’s Gender Initiative both at the Hague. Mrs. Macaulay has presented in international, regional and national conferences and has facilitated in training sessions. |
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JULISSA MANTILLA. COURSE: Mujeres y el Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos (Spanish) Julissa Mantilla is a lawyer and professor at the Law School and the Gender Diploma of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She obtained her master degree (LLM) from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) of the University of London in 2000. She received a scholarship from the World Bank and from LSE in order to accomplish her post graduate |
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CLAUDIA MARTIN. COURSE: Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (Spanish) Claudia Martin is a professional 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, an LL.M. from American University Washington College of Law, and 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 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, the 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 also writes on Inter-American Human Rights Law for the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights. |
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GAY MCDOUGALL. COURSE: The Rights of Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Groups (English) Gay McDougall was Executive Director of Global Rights, Partners for Justice (1994 to 2006). In August 2005, she was named the first United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues. She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1999 for her "innovative and highly effective" work on behalf of international human rights. In 1998, she was elected to serve as an independent expert on the United Nations treaty body that oversees the International Convention on the elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. She was the first American to be elected to the body of 18 international experts who oversee compliance by governments worldwide with the obligations established under the treaty. At its 1996 session, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights elected her to serve a four year term as a member (alternate) of the U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the Human Rights commission. She also served as Special Rapporteur on the issue of systematic rape, sexual slavery, and slavery-like practices in armed conflict, in which capacity she presented a study to the United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights that called for international legal standards for prosecuting acts of systematic rape and sexual slavery committed during armed conflict. As Special Rapporteur she also toured Sierra Leone with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to assess the devastating impact the civil war had on civilian populations. Prior to joining Global Rights, Gay McDougall served as one of five international members of South Africa's 16-member Independent Electoral Commission which successfully organized and administered that country's first non-racial elections. During southern Africa's apartheid era, she was director of the Southern African Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law from 1980 until early 1994 and gave direct assistance to the defense of thousands of political prisoners in South Africa and Namibia by financing the defense and collaborating with attorneys. |
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JUAN E. MENDEZ. COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia (Spanish) Juan E. Méndez is a Visiting Professor of Law at the American University – Washington College of Law, and an advisor on crime prevention to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He is also Co-Chair of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. Until May 2009 he was the President of the International Center for Transnational Justice (ICTJ) and in the summer of 2009 he was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in New York. Concurrent with his duties at ICTJ, the Honorable Kofi Annan named Mr. Méndez his Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, a task he performed from 2004 to 2007. |
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MANFRED NOWAK. COURSE: United Nations Human Rights System (English) Manfred Nowak is Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Vienna, and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights. He was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004-2010. Nowak’s other work with the UN includes serving as a member of the Austrian delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights and contributing to UN initiatives as an expert member in several capacities. Nowak has been a judge, with one year as vice president, of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina; Chairperson of the European Master Programme on Human Rights and Democratization in Venice; Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at the University of Utrecht; and was the 2002-2003 Olof Palme Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Lund. In 1994, he was awarded a UNESCO prize for the teaching of human rights. Nowak holds an LL.M. from Columbia University in New York and a PhD from Vienna University. He has published more than 350 books and articles in the fields of human rights, public law and politics. |
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