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ELIZABETH ABI-MERSHED. COURSE: Women and International Human Rights Law (English)
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VICTOR ABRAMOVICH. COURSE: Implementación de los Derechos Humanos en Derecho Interno (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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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: Sistema de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas (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. Return to top |
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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. Return to top |
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Luisa Cabal is currently the Director of the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, based in New York, where she also coordinates international litigation and advocacy efforts regarding to women’s rights in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. She pioneered the Center’s first international litigation efforts, filing cases mostly before the UN Human Rights Committee and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. During the lasts nine years her work has focused on the comparative analysis of Latin-American constitutional law and international women’s rights, as well as international litigation and strategies for the protection of reproductive rights. She is co-founder of Red Alas, a network of Latin American law professors who are integrating a gender perspective and women’s rights into law school curricula in the region. Prior to joining the Center, she worked for Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher, LLP, and for the United Nations Development Program in Colombia. She is an expert member of the Advisor Committee on gender of the Department of Reproductive Health of the World Health Organization. Se has been author and co-author of book and reports, such as: “Más allá del derecho: justicia y género en América Latina”, “Cuerpo y derecho: Legislación y jurisprudencia en América Latina”; “Perseguidas: proceso político y legislación sobre aborto en El Salvador”; and “Mujeres del Mundo: América Latina y el Caribe: Suplemento 2000.” Ms. Cabal graduated from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia and received her LL.M. from the Columbia University School of Law. |
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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. COURSE: Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (Spanish) 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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DOUGLASS CASSEL. 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. He specializes in international human rights, international humanitarian and international criminal law. He was Legal Adviser to the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador and has been a consultant to the Organization of American States, the United States Department of State and Department of Justice, the Ford Foundation, and many NGOs. He lectures worldwide and his articles are published internationally. He is the former President of the Board of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, to which he was twice elected by the Organization of American States, and is the current President of the Due Process of Law Foundation in Washington, DC. He earned a B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his J.D. from Harvard. |
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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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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. Return to top |
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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. Return to top |
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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. Return to top |
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JONAS GRIMHEDEN. COURSE: Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Asia, Africa and the Americas (English) Dr. Jonas Grimheden is a research manager at the European Union Agency fo Fundamental Rights, at the department of Freedoms and Justice. Prior to working for the EU, he was a seniorresearcher and deputy head of the Academic Departmen of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden. He has taught law in Europe, Asia, and America and given lectures at Universities and to practitioners on various international human rights law and comparative law issues in a large variety of countries and settings. In 2005-2006, he taught Chinese law and human rights law at Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY, and 2007 human rights law at China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing. Project management and research stints have taken him for extensive periods to Japan, China and the U.S. |
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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. Return to top |
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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. Heynes 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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VIVIANA KRSTICEVIC. COURSE: Litigio y Activismo en Derechos Humanos (Spanish) Viviana Krsticevic is the Executive Director of The Center for Justice and International Law’s Washington D.C. Office. She has taught at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina and at Stanford University. She graduated from the University Of Buenos Aires School Of Law, received her Masters degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford University and her Masters in Law degree from Harvard University. |
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SCOTT LECKIE. COURSE: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (English) Scott Leckie is an international human rights lawyer and leading advocate on housing rights issues. He has founded and worked for several organizations focusing on economic and social rights issues including Displacement Solutions, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to assisting refugees and displaced people, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, the Oregon Green Party (now Pacific Greens) and the Housing Rights Committee of Habitat International Coalition. 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 an LL.M. degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex and a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon. |
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JOANNE MARINER. COURSE: Terrorism & Human Rights (English) Joanne Mariner is a director of Human Rights Watch's Terrorism and CounterterrorismProgram. She is an expert on counterterrorism laws and policies. She closely follows developments at Guantanamo and has conducted extensive research on rendition and CIA prisons. In 2006, she testified before the European Parliament about CIA activities in Europe.She drafted Human Rights Watch's 1999 submission to the House of Lords in the Pinochet case, and is the author of a ground-breaking 2001 report on prison rape. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Mariner served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, received a JD from Yale Law School.Mariner speaks French and Spanish.Return to top |
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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. Return to top |
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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. Return to top |
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JUAN E. MENDEZ. COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia (Spanish) 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 Catolica Stella Maris in Mar del Plata, Argentina. |
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MANFRED NOWAK. COURSE: United Nations Human Rights System (English) Manfred Nowak is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the University of Vienna, and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights. 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. Return to top |
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HÉCTOR OLÁSOLO. COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia (Spanish) Dr. Héctor Olásolo is currently a Professor of International Criminal Law and Procedure at the University of Utrecht. He has also been a legal Officer in Chambers at the International Criminal Court (2004-2009). He is a former member of the Legal Advisory and Appeal Sections of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Office of the Prosecutor (2002-2004). He graduated University of Salamanca with law degree in 1996 and obtained his Ph.D in 2003. He received his LL.M. from Columbia University in New York in 2001 and was pronounced as a Kent Scholar in 2002. Some of Dr. Olásolo’s recent publications include: T‘Corte Penal Internacional: ¿Dónde Investigar?’ (Tirant lo Blanch, 2003), ‘The Triggering Procedure of the International Criminal Court’ (Brill Publishers, 2005), ‘Ataques contra Personas y Bienes Civiles y Ataques Desproporcionados’ (Tirant lo Blanch 2007), ‘Terrorismo Internacional y Conflicto Armado’ (with Prof. A Pérez Cepeda; Tirant lo Blanch 2008), ‘Unlawful Attacks in Combat Situations’ (Brill Publishers, 2008),The Criminal Responsibility of Senior Political and Military Leaders as Principals to International Crimes (Hart Publishers, 2009) and‘Diez Años de Ensayos sobre la Corte Penal Internacional: Desde su Creación hasta la Expiración de la Reserva Jurisdiccional de Colombia sobre Crímenes de Guerra’ (Universidad Javeriana de Bogota/Dyke,2009).. Return to top |
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DIEGO RODRÍGUEZ-PINZÓN. COURSE: Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (Spanish) Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon 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 (WCL). He holds a LL.M. degree from WCL and an SJD degree from George Washington University Law School. He teaches courses in the fields of international law and human rights law. He was recently appointed Ad Hoc Judge to sit in the Inter-American Court on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. He also works as a correspondent for the British periodical Butterworths Human Rights Cases where he covers the Americas and reports on the inter-American system for the Netherlands Human Rights Quarterly. He has served as international legal consultant for international organizations and agencies including the Inter-American Development Bank and the Organization of American States. |
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YVES SANDOZ. COURSE: International Humanitarian Law (English) Yves Sandoz received his Doctor of Laws from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. From1968 to 1972 he completed numerous missions in the field for the International Committee of Red Cross, notably in Nigeria, Israel and Occupied Territories, Bangladesh and South Yemen. Later, from 1975 to 2000, Sandoz was based at the ICRC Headquarters where he was the Director of International Law and Policy beginning in 1983. Since 2002 he has been a member of the ICRC. Also, since 2001, Yves Sandoz has been a professor of international humanitarian law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Professor Sandoz is the author of numerous publications in International Humanitarian Law, in Penal Law and on the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |
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SYLVIA STEINER. COURSE: Impunidad y Justicia (Spanish) Sylvia Steiner is Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She was elected for a nine year term by the Latin American and Caribbean Group of States and is assigned to the Pre-Trial Division. Steiner was previously a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal. She is a founding member of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences and has been a member of the Brazilian Judges for Democracy Association, the Executive Council of the Brazilian Section of the International Jurists Commission, the Brazilian Delegation to the Preparatory Commission of the International Criminal Court, and Official Working Group on the Implementation of the Rome Statute. She has also been Deputy Director of the Brazilian Criminal Sciences Journal and has written extensively on human rights, the rights of women and children, criminal law and international criminal law. Steiner received her law degree and master’s degree in international law at the Law School of São Paulo University, and her specialist degree in criminal law at Brasilia University. |
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RODRIGO UPRIMNY YEPES. COURSE: Implementación de los Derechos Humanos en Dercho Interno (Spanish) Rodrigo Uprimy Yepes is the Director of Centro de Estudios de Derechos, Justicia y Sociedad (DeJuSticia). He is also a professor of Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Theory of the State in Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, where he is the Director of the Master’s Program in Law. Previously, Mr. Uprimny was Auxiliary Judge the Constitutional Court in Colombia. He has published many articles regarding democracy, administration of justice, conflict resolution and human rights. Among his publications there are: “El laboratorio colombiano: narcotráfico y administración de justicia en Colombia”; “Legitimidad y conveniencia del control constitucional de la economía”; “Violence, Power and Collective Action: A Comparison between Bolivia and Colombia” (Violencia, Poder y Acción Colectiva: Una Comparación entre Bolivia y Colombia), and “Tribunal Constitucional e emancipacao social na Colombia” (Corte Constitucional y emancipación social en Colombia). He is also the co-author of “¿Justicia para todos? Derechos sociales, sistema judicial y democracia en Colombia” (2006); co-author and editor of “¿Justicia transicional sin transición? Verdad, justicia y reparación para Colombia” (2006) and “Libertad de información y derechos fundamentales en Colombia” (2006). Professor Uprimny holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Amiens Picardie, a DSU in Sociology of Law from the University of Paris II, and a master's degree in Social Economy of Development from the University of Paris I. Return to top |
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ALEJANDRO VALENCIA VILLA. COURSE: Derecho Internacional Humanitario (Spanish) Alejandro Valencia Villa is a Colombian lawyer dedicated to the promotion and defence of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He is currently an advisor for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia. Mr. Valencia Villa has conducted research in humanitarian law for the Center of International Studies of Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, where he also taught as a professor on Human Rights. He has also worked as a lawyer of the Colombian Section of the Andean Commission of Jurists (today known as the Colombian 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 Defender Office in Colombia and was in charge of the special research team for the Truth Commission in Guatemala. Mr. Valencia Villa also worked as an advisor to the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights and the Reconciliation and Truth Commission in Peru, among others. He is author of several books and articles on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Return to top |
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FRIED VAN HOOF. COURSE: United Nations Human Rights System (English) Fried van Hoof is currently a professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands (since 1990). Throughout his career at Utrecht University he has been a professor of law and Director of the Netherlands Institute of Social and Economic Law Research, a senior lecturer and lecturer in International Law. From 1979 to 1980 he was a visiting scholar in the United States at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and he has other teaching experience in the U.S.A and outside of Western Europe including teaching courses in the former Soviet Union, China, Indonesia and South Africa. He holds an M.A., LL.M. and Ph.D. from Utrecht University. In addition to his academic career, Professor Van Hoof is currently (since 1993) a barrister at the Utrecht Bar in the Netherlands, a member of the Advisory Commission for Foreigners Affairs to the Minister of Justice of the Netherlands and a member of the board of Commissioners of the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein in the Netherlands. He was also a member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights from 2000 to 2004. He has many publications as both an author and an editor. Return to top |
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PATRICK VAN WEERELT. 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, 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, where he also worked 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. |
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| photo to come... | JAMIE WILLIAMSON. COURSE: International Humanitarian Law (English) Jamie Williamson is a British citizen and member of the ICRC Delegation in Washington, D.C. who is legal counsel to the Washington delegation. This delegation handles visitations of U.S.-held prisoners from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as all diplomacy between the ICRC and the Canadian and U.S. governments. Return to top |
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JOSEPH ZOGBY. COURSE: Terrorism and Human Rights (English) Joseph Zogby is the Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and Chief Counsel to Senator Dick Durbin, the U.S. Senate’s Assistant Majority Leader. Previously, Joe was Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law. He has also been Special Counsel on Post-9/11 Discrimination in the U.S. Department of Justice and Senior Trial Attorney in the Justice Department’s Special Litigation Section. Prior to that, Joe was a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He is a recipient of the Department of Justice's Special Achievement Award, the International Peace Prayer Day’s Man of Peace Award, the Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship, and Georgetown University Law Center's Deborah Hauger International Public Interest Law Fellowship. Joe received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Public Service Award, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. |
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LEO ZWAAK. COURSE: European Human Rights Law (English) Leo Zwaak is a Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Utrecht University and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights where he is also the Course Coordinator of the LL.M.. 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 is the author of several major publications and numerous articles. He is currently involved in two major projects: the Digest of Strasbourg Case Law Relating to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe and a project on Gross and Systematic Violations of Human Rights in Europe: the Case of Turkey. He 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. He 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. Return to top |