Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Elizabeth Abi-Mershed

Former Assistant Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS), Washington, D.C.  

John Cerone

Visiting Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University & University of Windsor

David Crane

Founding Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone & Former Under Secretary General, United Nations

Helen Duffy

Founder, Human Rights in Practice, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Professor of human rights and humanitarian law, Leiden University

Siobhan McInerney-Lankford

Senior Counsel, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Tara Melish

Director and Professor of Law, Buffalo Human Rights Center, SUNY Buffalo Law School, State University of New York

Jens Modvig

Chairperson, Committee Against Torture, United Nations

Flavia Piovesan

Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.

Rochus J.P. Pronk

Deputy Ambassador in Baghdad, international lawyer and human rights defender Diplomat

Margaret Roggensack

Director of Market Engagement,
Humane Society International, Washington, D.C.

Eric Rosenthal

Founder and Executive Director, Disability Rights International, Washington, D.C. 

Macarena Saez

Faculty Director, Center for Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of
Law, Washington, D.C.

Gerald Staberock

General Secretary, World Organization against Torture, Geneva, Switzerland

Viviana Waisman 

Founder, President, and Executive Director, Women's Link Worldwide, Spain

Jamie Williamson

Executive Director, International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers' Association (ICoCa), Geneva, Switzerland

Victor Abramovich

Deputy Solicitor General, Supreme Court of Justice, Buenos Aires Argentina

Carlos Ayala

Vice-president, Executive Committee, International Commission of Jurists

Catalina Botero

Co-chair of Facebook's External Oversight Board, former Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS)

Laurence Burgorgue-Larson

Judge Constitutional Court of Andorra and Professor at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France

Antônio Cançado Trindade

Judge, International Court of Justice, UN, The Hague, The Netherlands

Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot

Judge, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS), San José, Costa Rica

Maria Clara Galvis

Vice-chair, Committee on Enforced Disappearances, United Nations

Felipe Gómez Isa

Professor of Public International Law, Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights, University of Deusto, (Bilbao), Spain

Felipe González

Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants, United Nations

Claudio Grossman

Member, International Law Commission, United Nations, and Dean Emeritus, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.

Daniela Kravetz

Former Special Rapporteur on the State of Affairs of Human Rights in Eritrea, United Nations

Viviana Krsticevic

Executive Director, Center for Justice and International Law, Washington, D.C.

Julissa Mantilla

Commissioner, Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS),
Washington, D.C.

Claudia Martin

Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C.

Juan Méndez

Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists and Professor, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.

Fausto Pocar

Ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice,
and Former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia

Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón

Member and Rapporteur, Committee Against
Torture (CAT), United Nations, Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in
residence, American University Washington College of Law,
Washington, D.C.

Pablo Saavedra

Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS), San José, Costa Rica

Elizabeth Salmón

Member, Human Rights Council Advisory
Committee, United Nations

Hélène Tigroudja

Member, Human Rights Committee, United Nations

Rodrigo Uprimny

Member, Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, United Nations

José Miguel Vivanco

Executive Director, Americas Division Human Rights Watch, Washington, D.C.