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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 has been the Second Vice-president of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC), since January 2006. He 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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GUDMUNDUR ALFREDSSON 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 UN Secretariat for 12 years, with the Office of Legal Affairs in New York (1983-85) and the Centre for Human Rights in Geneva (1985-95). He is now Professor at the Law Faculty of Lund University and Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (on paternity leave 2005-2006). He is a member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (from 2004). 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. |
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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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FEDERICO ANDREU-GUZMAN. COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia (Spanish) Federico Andreu Guzmán is General Counsel for the International Commission of Jurists. He has served as a Legal Advisor for America and Asia at Amnesty International, was in charge of national investigations at the Colombian Commission of Jurists, and consulted for the National Center for Cooperation to Development in Belgium. He was previously Director of the International Office of Human Rights, Acción para Colombia, and Senior Legal Adviser for Latin America at the International Federation for Human Rights. He has been, for many years, involved in the successful initiative to create a UN Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances. He participated in the Mission of the United Nations in Rwanda and in the Mission of the Organization of American States in Haiti. Mr. Andreu graduated from the School of Law at Universidad Externado de Colombia. He has published and edited several articles in English, French and Spanish on the subjects of Terrorism and Human Rights. |
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CARLOS AYALA CORAO. COURSE: Litigio y Activismo en Derechos Humanos (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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ANTONIO CANÇADO TRINDADE. COURSE: Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Asia, Africa and the Americas, (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 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, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 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 holds a number of academic degrees including A.B. (Barnard University), M.A. (Tufts U.), M.P.A. (Harvard U.), J.D. (Georgetown U.), and J.S.D. (Columbia U.). |
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Santiago Corcuera Cabezut 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. He has been in the post of Vice President for International Affairs of the Mexican Commission of Human Rights (Spanish initials – CMDH). He has taken part in a number of conferences and has given talks related to National and International Human Rights Law. At the end of 2000 he was appointed Councillor of the Federal District Commission of Human Rights (Spanish initials – CDHDF). |
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Dr. Mac Darrow is the Coordinator of the Millennium Development Goals Unit of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN/OHCHR), Geneva, Switzerland, leading the work of UN/OHCHR in integrating human rights within the development policies and programmes of the United Nations system. His was previously Secretary to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and prior to that, Research Fellow at the Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Florence. He has been on leave from the United Nations since May 2009, working as an independent researcher and consultant to the World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Dr. Darrow has worked extensively on the theory and practice of human rights-based approaches to development and has designed and delivered learning programmes on this subject for UN Country Teams and the UN Resident Coordinator system. He has published monographs, chapters in edited works and articles in refereed journals on topics including the theory and practice of mainstreaming human rights in development and aid policies, human rights in the context of UN reform and the policies and programmes of the international financial institutions, poverty and human rights, socio-economic rights, children's rights, the right to water, and climate change. |
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ASBJØRN EIDE. COURSE: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (English) Asbjørn Eide is a senior fellow, founder, and former director of the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, at the University of Oslo. He was previously the Secretary-General of the International Peace Research Association in Oslo. He has been a member of the United Nations (UN) Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, and since 1995, he has served as chair of the UN Working Group on the Rights of Minorities. As special rapporteur for several UN studies he focused on topics including conscientious objection as a human right, food as a human right, the new international economic order and the promotion of human rights, and the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples. From 1988 to 1989, he was chairman of the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery. In addition, he has published extensively on human rights issues. |
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LARRY GARBER. COURSE: Election Observation and the Right to Political Participation (English) Larry Garber is currently a CEO/Executive Director of the New Israel Fund, which seeks to strengthen Israel’s democracy by conducting programs focusing on human rights and supporting programs that bridge social and economic gaps, foster tolerance for all inhabitants, and enable different forms of religious practice to thrive. He previously served as a senior policymaker with United States Agency for International Development (USAID), including serving as a 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. He has written extensively on issues relating to human rights, democratization, election monitoring, and Palestinian political and economic development. He received a joint master’s degree in international affairs and a law from Columbia University in 1980. |
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FELIPE GONZÁLEZ MORALES. COURSE: Implementación de los Derechos Humanos en Derecho Interno (Spanish) Felipe González Morales is the Second Vice 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, 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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CLAUDIO GROSSMAN. 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. Dean Grossman is currently First Vice President of the IACHR and the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Populations. Dean Grossman has previously 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 where he was elected a President for a one-year term in 1996. Dean Grossman has received numerous awards for his work in 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. |
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CHRISTOF HEYNS. COURSE: Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Asia, Africa and the Americas (English) Christof Heyns is 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 awarded a Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship as well as the University of Pretoria’s Chancellor’s Award for Teaching. |
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Professor Sarah Joseph is the Director for the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. Her teaching and research interests are International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Law.She has published a number of books including Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Hart 2004), co-authoring The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Commentary and Materials (OUP, 2nd ed., 2004), Federal Constitutional Law: a contemporary view (Thompson, 2nd ed., 2006), and A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN (OMCT, 2006).She was a lead investigator on an ARC linkage project on Multinational Corporations and Human Rights (2002-4), and is the lead investigator on a Discovery project on the WTO and Human Rights. In 2006 she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Board to the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University, Washington DC. Since 2005 she has been a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Establishment of a new Law School in New Delhi, India. Sarah has also conducted numerous professional human rights training courses for overseas and Australian Government officials. Areas of expertise are Human rights, International humanitarian law, and Constitutional law. |
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Julissa Mantilla is a lawyer and professor at the Law School and the Gender Diploma of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Currently she works as a specialist in the issue of Gender Justice at the program Women, Peace and Security, UNIFEM, Colombia. Previously she was the Manager of the Gender Line of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation, Peru. 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 studies. |
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FERNANDO MARIÑO MENÉNDEZ. COURSE: Sistema de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas (Spanish) Fernando Mariño Menéndez is member of the Committee against Torture of the United Nations, where he was elected president for the period between 2003 and 2005. He is also a professor of Public International Law in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; and Director of “Francisco de Vitoria” Institute of International and European Studies there. Professor Mariño Menéndez was a Jean Monnet Lecturer of European Law assigned by the European Commission and a visiting professor at several Latin-American and European universities, such as University for Peace of UN (1991), Oxford University (2005), and University Pantheon-Sorbonne of Paris (2006). He has also been President of the Association for Human Rights of Spain (1999-2002). In addition, he has advised on more than twenty doctoral theses in Public International Law and Law of the European Union and has published several books, such as: "Nociones de Derecho Internacional Público"; "Derecho Internacional Público. Parte general" and "Protección Internacional de las minorías" as well as papers and articles concerning International Public Law, International Law of Human Rights, and European Law. |
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CLAUDIA MARTIN. COURSE: Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (Spanish) Claudia Martin is a 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, 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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Carlos Medina of the legal team One Voice is the Executive Director of the Ateneo Human Rights Center. He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila School of Law, where he currently teaches. He has an LLM from the University of London and an MPA from Harvard University. He is also the Secretary-General of the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism, and the Chairperson of the GRP Joint Monitoring Committee on the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law between the GRP and NDF. |
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JUAN E. MENDEZ. COURSE: International Justice for Human Rights Violations (English) Juan Méndez is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in New York. He was President of the International Center for Transitional Justice between 6/1/2004 and 5/31/2009. For 15 years, he worked with Human Rights Watch mostly in the Western Hemisphere and in 1994 became General Counsel in charge of human rights law and policy issues world-wide. Mr. Méndez was also the executive director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica and was professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. In addition, Mr. Méndez was for several years a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States and served as president in 2002. From 2004 to 2007, and concurrently with his position at the ICTJ, he served as the United Nations special adviser to the Secretary-General on the prevention of genocide. Mr. Méndez obtained his law degree in Universidad Católica Stella Maris in Mar del Plata, Argentina. |
