|
Human Rights in US Constitutional Litigation Panel
Prof. Sarah Cleveland, Univ. of Texas
Sarah H. Cleveland teaches in the areas of human rights, international law, foreign affairs and the Constitution at the University of Texas, where she is also faculty director of the Transnational Worker Rights Clinic. She studied history at Brown (AB 1987) and at Oxford as Rhodes Scholar (MSt 1989), then law at Yale (JD 1987). Thereafter, she clerked for Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the US Supreme Court and spent two years as a Skadden Fellow with Florida Legal Services litigating migrant worker rights in the Southeast. She has authored or co-authored amicus briefs in a variety of human rights cases in US courts, and serves on the legal advisory committees of several US human rights non-profit organizations.
Prof. Julian Ku, Hofstra Univ.
Julian G. Ku focuses his research on the intersection of international and domestic law, including constitutional aspects of foreign relations. He studied at Yale (BA 1994, JD 1998), and following law school clerked for Judge Jerry Smith of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was an Olin Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Virginia (1999-2000), and practiced law for two years in New York before entering law teaching fulltime at Hofstra in 2002.
Prof. A. Mark Weisburd, Univ. of North Carolina
A. Mark Weisburd focuses his research on international law and human rights. He studied at Princeton (AB 1970), then joined the Foreign Service and was stationed in Bangladesh 1971-73, before resigning to study law at Michigan (JD 1996). He was in private law practice in Washington for five years, before entering law teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1981.
Prof. Micheline Ishay, Univ. of Denver
Micheline Ishay is director of the interdisciplinary International Human Rights Program of the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver. She studied politics and international relations at Tel-Aviv University (BA 1980) and Rutgers (MA 1986, PhD 1992). She focuses her research on the theory and history of human rights, recently publishing The History of Human Rights, From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (2004) and editing The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Writings, Essays, Speeches and Documents from the Bible to the Present (1997).
Current Non-US Theoretical Views Panel
Dr. Pip Nicholson, Univ. of Melbourne
Penelope (Pip) Jane Nicholson focuses on the challenges of cross-cultural legal research and legal reform particularly within Socialist Asia at the Asian Law Centre of the University of Melbourne where she is Associate Director (Vietnam). She read Asian studies (BA 1987) and law (LLB 1988, PhD 2001) at the University of Melbourne, as well as public policy at the Australian National University in Canberra (MPP 1994). She has been a solicitor with the Victorian Legal Aid Commission (1990-92) and in private law practice (1994-96). More recently, she has served as consultant for several bilateral and multilateral legal reform projects in Vietnam, Mongolia and Indonesia. She recently co-edited Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform (2005).
Prof. Li Mei Qin, National Univ. of Singapore
Li Mei Qin is a member of the first generation of Chinese legal scholars educated in China and abroad following the Cultural Revolution. She is a graduate of Peking University Law School (LLB) and Columbia (LLM), following which foreign study she was in private law practice in three US law firms during the 1980s. Thereafter, she became a faculty member at the University of Peking for over ten years before moving to the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, where she currently teaches Chinese economic law and legal traditions. She has been an active participant from inside the legal sphere of China’s economic revival and international opening for over 25 years.
Prof. Erman Rajagukguk, Univ. of Indonesia
Erman Rajagukguk is a faculty member of the University of Indonesia Faculty of Law who specializes in international and economic law. He studied law at the University of Indonesia (SH) and the University of Washington (LLM, PhD). He also served as Deputy Cabinet Secretary (WASESKAB) of the Republic of Indonesia 1999-2005, and continues to serve as an advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Justice. The WASESKAB’s closest institutional analogue is Legal Counsel to the President in the US governmental system, and he served as the chief lawyer in the Indonesian executive branch responsible under four presidents for legal reform during a period of significant institutional, political and legal change as Indonesia emerged from its authoritarian New Order period 1965-98.
Prof. Alan Mittleman, Jewish Theological Seminary NYC
Alan Mittleman is director of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He studied at Brandeis University BA) and Temple University (MA, PhD). His research focuses on Jewish philosophy, and he has been an active participant in interfaith dialogue throughout his career.
Religious Freedom Roundtable
Syafa'atun Almirzanah, State Islamic Univ. Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Syafa’atun Almirzanah is a member of the faculty of the State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She enjoyed a traditional secondary Islamic education (Pesantren Pabelan, Magelang, Indonesia1982), then studied comparative religion (BA 1988) and Sufism (MA 1995) at UIN Sunan Kalijaga. She is currently studying towards a PhD at Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, and has been active in interfaith dialogue within Indonesia and internationally, serving as research coordinator for the Institute for Inter-faith Dialogue INTERFIDEI.
US Executive Branch Policy & Sources of Law Panel
Lt. Cdr. Todd Huntley, JAG, SOCOM, Tampa, formerly of Defense Institute for International Legal Studies
Lieutenant Commander Todd Huntley, USN JAGC, is currently assigned to U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, FL. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati (BA 1991, JD 1996), afterwards clerking for the Honorable Norbert Nadel, Hamilton County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas. He is currently enrolled in the Global Master of Arts Program at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and is scheduled to graduate in April, 2006. At SOCOM he provides legal advice on issues related to Information Operations and Psychological Operations. He was assigned 2002-05 to the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) in Newport, RI. DIILS is the designated institution within the Department of Defense which conducts seminars in the US and abroad on human rights, military law and rule of law for foreign government and military officials. As a Country Program Manager at DIILS, Lieutenant Commander Huntley was responsible for managing international training programs for 25 different countries including Iraq, Russia, Rwanda and Lebanon. He began his military career in the Air Force serving in the Security Forces in Frankfurt, Germany 1985-88.
Dean Marsudi Triatmodjo, Gadjah Mada Univ., Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Marsudi Triatmodjo is Dean of the Faculty of Law, Gadjah Mada University and a scholar of public international law. He studied law at Gadjah Mada University (S.H. 1984; Ph.D. 2001) and Dalhousie University-Canada (LL.M. 1990). He has been a researcher and teacher at leading Indonesian institutions of higher education and for the Indonesian government in the areas of public international law, the law of the sea and international environmental law. Most recently he participated in the government-sponsored drafting committee for statutory reform of Indonesian higher education, to move towards autonomous institutions of higher education.
Prof. David Linnan, Univ. of South Carolina
David Linnan is a scholar of comparative, economic and public international law with a special interest in the law of armed conflict. He studied humanities at Emory University (B.A. 1976) and law at the University of Chicago (J.D. 1979), where he was comment editor of the law review. He was in private law practice for six years in Los Angeles and has held research or visiting appointments at the University of Washington-Seattle, the Australian National University (RSPAS & Faculty of Law), the University of Indonesia Faculty of Law and Graduate Law Program (separately), and the Max-Planck-Institut (Strafrecht), Freiburg i.Br., Germany. 2000 to date he is the Program Director for the Law & Finance Institutional Partnership (http://www.lfip.org), a legal and financial sector reform project run from Jakarta via a consortium of Indonesian and foreign universities.
Legitimacy Roundtable
Gardel Feurtado, Citadel
Asia Regional Panel
Prof. Andrew Harding, Univ. of Victoria, BC
Andrew Harding is a specialist in Southeast Asian law, including public law in Thailand. He studied law at Oxford (MA 1974), the National University of Singapore (LLM 1984) and Monash University (PhD 1987). He is a former Head of Department and Professor of Law in the Law Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Chair of SOAS South East Asian Studies, who recently was appointed by the University of Victoria, BC in parallel to the Faculty of Law and the university-wide Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives.
Prof. Anne Hansen, Univ. Wisconsin Milwukee
Anne Hansen is a specialist in Theraveda Buddhist. She studied philosophy at St. Olaf College (BA 1983) and religion at Harvard (MDiv 1988, MA 1993, PhD 1999). Her research focuses on Buddhism and modernity, as well as violence and prophetic texts particularly in the Khmer (Cambodian) context. Her recent publications include How to Behave: Buddhism and Moderninty in Colonial Cambodia, 1860-1930 (2006).
Prof. Harkristuti Harkrisnowo, Univ. of Indonesia
Harkristuti Harkrisnowo is a criminologist and public commentator, plus human and women’s rights activist in Indonesia as the world’s most populous Islamic country. She studied law at the University of Indonesia (SH, LLM) and criminology at Sam Houston State University (MA, PhD). She teaches at the University of Indonesia where she leads its Center for the Study of Human Rights. Since 1999, she has been a member of the Indonesian National Law Commission, a reform body. She is also a senior advisor to the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission and has worked within government at the deputy secretary level in the short-lived Ministry of Human Rights. She is visiting at the University of South Carolina Law School Jan-Feb 2006 to teach in an intensive course entitled Women’s & Human Rights Under Islam.
Prof. Stephen Angle, Wesleyan Univ.
Stephen C. Angle is Director of the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies and Chair of the East Asian Studies Program at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He trained in East Asian Studies at Yale (BA 1987) and various language schools, and in philosophy at Michigan (PhD 1994). He specializes in Chinese philosophy and particularly traditional Chinese views of ethics and human rights, having recently published Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry (2002) and co-edited The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000 (2001).
Africa Regional Panel
Prof. Joe Oloka-Onyango, Makerere Univ., Kampala, Uganda
Joe Oloka-Onyango is director of the Makerere University Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC) in Kampala, Uganda. He studied law at Makerere (LLB 1982), the Kampala Law Development Center (DipLP 1983) and Harvard (LLM 1986, SJD 1989). He is a well-known scholar of human rights in the African context and former Makerere dean of law. He was in private law practice 1982-85, and has served in the UN system as a member of the UN Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Special Rapporteur on Globalization and Human Rights, as well as consultant to the UNDP, UNHCR and WHO. He also serves on the advisory or governing boards of a number of non-profit human rights organizations in North America, Europe and Africa. He recently edited Constitutionalism in Africa: Creating Opportunities, Facing Challenges (2001).
Prof. Simeon Ilesanmi, Wake Forest Univ.
Simeon Ilesanmi teaches in the religion and African studies programs at Wake Forest University, and is also an ordained Methodist minister. He studied religion at the University of Ife, Nigeria (BA) and Southern Methodist University (PhD), and law at Wake Forest University (JD). His research interests include human rights, religion and politics, and he focuses on comparative ethics and the religions of Africa, including Christianity, Islam and indigenous religions.
Prof. Jennifer Moore, Univ. of New Mexico
Jennifer Moore teaches immigration and refugee law at the University of New Mexico, where she also serves as director of its university-wide Peace Studies Program. Her research focuses on the relationship between international refugee protection and human rights. She studied international affairs at Amherst (BA 1983) and law at Harvard (JD 1987). She served as an Associate Protection Officer for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Guinea, West Africa 1991-93, and Associate Legal Officer at the UNHCR’s Washington Liaison Office 1993-95, before entering teaching in 1995 at New Mexico. She continues to serve as a consultant for the UNHCR and other agencies interested in refugee questions, particularly in areas of armed conflict.
Lt. Col. Kevin Govern, USMA at West Point
Kevin H. Govern is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army on active duty currently serving as a faculty member in the Department of Law at West Point. He studied history and German at Marquette University (B.A. 1984) and law at Marquette University (J.D. 1987), The Judge Advocate General’s School at Charlottesville, Virginia (LL.M. 1995) and University of Notre Dame (LL.M. 2004). He participates in the Barnes Symposium as military law practitioner who was
responsible for organizing humanitarian relief in Kurdish areas following the
first Gulf War. We have asked him to articulate similarly the legal analysis
for an analogous relief operation in the African context, employing Dafur as
current example. During the period 1990–2003 he has served in a legal advisory capacity for the 10th Special Forces Group in the U.S. and Turkey, for the 1st Armored Division/Task Force Eagle in Bosnia, the Command Operations Review Board of the U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base-Tampa, for the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg-North Carolina, and for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg. He is a frequent speaker within the military’s special operations community and at professional military conferences on legal aspects of civil affairs and special operations. He has published in professional military and legal journals on the topics of counterterrorism, POW treatment and humanitarian assistance as well as legal oversight of sensitive activities.
Islamic Views of Democracy Panel
Prof. Mark Cammack, Southwestern Law School
Mark Cammack is a scholar of Islamic law in Southeast Asia as well as human rights. He studied Asian studies at Brigham Young (BA 1979) and law at Wisconsin (JD 1983), following which he clerked for Justice Roland day of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and was an assistant district attorney in New York before entering law teaching in 1990 at Southwestern Law School.
Muzamil, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera Indonesian National Parliament representative
Prof. Fajrul Falaakh, Gadjah Mada Univ., Yogyakarta, Indonesia & Nadhlatul Ulama
Mohammad Fajrul Falaakh teaches public law at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He studied law at Gadjah Mada University (SH), SOAS and the LSE. He is a member of the Indonesian National Law Commission and served 2003-04 on the National Constitutional Commission. He has served also as an advisor to the UNDP for the justice and governance sectors. His recent publications include Islam in Pluralist Indonesia (2003).
Prof. Kristen Stilt, Univ.of Washington
Kristen Stilt focuses her research on the Middle East and law. She studied law (JD 1993) at Texas, and Middle Eastern studies at Texas (BA 1989) and Harvard (PhD 2004). She was in private practice in New York 1993-96, and entered law teaching fulltime at the University of Washington in 2004.
Prof. Bahman Baktiari, Univ. of Maine
Bahman Baktiari is Director of the International Affairs Program at the University of Maine-Orono, where his research focuses on Islamic affairs and particularly Iranian socio-political developments. He studied international relations at UVa (PhD). His recently published work includes “Dilemmas of Reform and Democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran” in Remaking Muslim Politics (Heffner ed 2005) and Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: Institutionalization of Factional Politics (1997).
Prof. Henry Steiner, Harvard Univ.
Henry J. Steiner founded the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School in 1984 and served as its director for 21 years. He studied history (BA 1951), literature (MA 1955) and law (LLB 1955) at Harvard. Thereafter, he clerked for Justice John M. Harlan, was in private law practice and government service until entering teaching at Harvard Law School in 1962, serving as the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law until becoming emeritus in June 2005. He served as Chair or Co-Chair of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, 1994-2002, as well as convenor of numerous human rights discussions in the US and overseas during the past 20 years.
Women's & Human Rights Under Islam Panel
Prof. Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin, State Islamic Univ. Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin teaches at the State Islamic University (UIN)Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia where she is also head of the Women’s Studies Center. She studied sharia law at UIN Sunan Kalijaga (LLB 1988), and sociology at Monash (MA 1993) and Gadjah Mada University (2004). Her research focus is Islam and women, and she has been a consultant to a variety of multilateral and bilateral institutions.
Dr. Sri Natin, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Sri Natin is director of the interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Center at Gahjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, as well as a traditional law scholar in UGM’s Faculty of Law. She studied law at Gadjah Mada University (SH, LLM). Her research focuses on women in development, and she is visiting at the University of South Carolina Law School Jan-Feb 2006 to teach in an intensive course entitled Women’s & Human Rights Under Islam.
Lily Zakiyah Munir, Centre for Pesantren and Democracy Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia
Lily Zakiyah Munir is an Islamic feminist and leading Indonesian Moslem human rights activist. Following a traditional Islamic secondary education, she studied management at Northern Illinois University and anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on issues of Islam, politics and gender, and she is the founding director of the Centre for Pesantren and Democracy Studies. She is also a national board member of Muslimat Nahdlatul Ulama, the women’s wing of Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest mass-based Islamic organization with over 30 million members within Indonesia. She is visiting at the University of South Carolina Law School Jan-Feb 2006 to teach in an intensive course entitled Women’s & Human Rights Under Islam.
Dr. Robin Bush, Asia Foundation Regional Director, Islam & Development, Jakarta, Indonesia
Robin Bush is the Regional Director, Islam and Development, at the Asia Foundation’s Jakarta office. She studied political science at the Universities of South Carolina (BA) and Washington (PhD 2002) and international affairs at Ohio University (MA). Her areas of responsibility include civil society, democracy, gender and anti-poverty programs that work with and through Moslem organizations.
Americas Regional Panel
Judge Ricardo Colmenares Olivar, Univ. of Zulia, Venezuela & Superior Criminal Court
Ricardo Antonio Colmenares Olivar focuses on indigenous rights and legal systems under domestic law in South America. He studied criminal law and penal sciences at the Central University of Venezuela and the University of Zulia (MS 1992, PhD 1998). He is titular judge of the Superior Criminal Court of Zulia State, Venezuela, Professor of Criminal Law and Researcher for the Legal Anthropology Section of the Institute of Philosophy of Law, University of Zulia, and Coordinator of the Commission of Jurists of the Inter-American Forum on Human Rights (FIDEH). His recent publications include Administration of Justice and Indigenous People (2003) and Indigenous People’s Rights in Venezuela (2001).
Prof. Nicolas Espejo Yaksic, Diego Portales Univ., Santiago de Chile
Nicolas Espejo Yaksic is a human rights scholar and activist who teaches at the Diego Portales University Faculty of Law in Santiago, Chile. He studied law at Diego Portales (LLB 1996) and human rights law at Oxford (MSt 2003) and Warwick (PhD candidate). He has a particular interest in social and economic rights in the South American context, works together with a variety human rights NGOs, and served 1998-2000 as chief lawyer at the Diego Portales University Public Interest Law Clinic.
Prof. Christine Kovic, Univ. of Houston Clearlake
Christine Kovic teaches at the University of Houston-Clearlake, where her research focuses on religion and human rights among the indigenous peoples of Latin America. She studied anthropology at Rice (BA 1989) and CUNY (PhD 1997), and conflict transformation at Eastern Mennonite University (1999-2000). She recently published Mayan Voices for Human Rights: Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas (2005) and co-edited Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope (2003).
Chief Joe Linklater, Vuntat Gwitchin First Nation, Yukon, Canada
Joe Linklater is three-time elected Chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in Yukon, Canada. He is also former VFGN Department of Natural Resources Manager, and has worked for years at negotiating tables opposite the United States on such issues as protection of salmon and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, birthplace of the Porcupine Caribou Herd. For the VGFN, such issues are not merely ones of environmental preservation, but, more acutely, ones of international indigenous human rights relating to the intersection between their traditional way of life and habitat degradation. Chief Linklater is coming as activist in this context to show the North American side of indigenous rights.
Islamic Minorities in the West
Prof. Jocelyne Cesari, CNRS and Harvard Univ.
Jocelyne Cesari specializes in the sociology of religion, and particularly Islam in Europe, North America and North Africa. She studied sociology (BA 1983), Islamic affairs (MA 1987) and political science (PhD 1991) at the University of Aix-en-Provence, France, from which she also received the de venia legenda in religion and sociology of politics (1991). Since 1992, she has been a senior research fellow of France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, La Sorbonne, Paris. She is currently a visiting faculty member at Harvard Divinity School, serving also as Harvard University Coordinator of the Provost Interfaculty Program on Islam in the West and Research Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. She has served as a technical adviser on Islamic affairs and integration to the EU.
Prof Hakan Yavuz, Univ. of Utah
Hakan Yavuz focuses his research on Moslem minorities as well as Islam in Turkey and Central Asia. He studied international relations at the University of Ankara, Turkey (BA 1987) and political science at Wisconsin (MA 1989, PhD 1998). His recent publications include Islamic Political Identity in Turkey (2003), and he co-edited Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Guelen Movement (2003).
Imran Lum, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam, University of Melbourne
Imran K. Lum is a research assistant with Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam (CSCI) and a PhD candidate in Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne. He completed his undergraduate degree at Adelaide University and a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Islamic Studies at the University of New England. His research interests include Islamic banking and finance, minority fiqh and Muslim communities in the West. He is a Director of the Islamic Foundation Australia Inc. and is on the Media Committee of the Islamic Council of Victoria.
Juliane Hammer, Elon University
Juliane Hammer teaches Islamic studies at Elon University. She studied at Humboldt University, Berlin (MA 1997, PhD 2001), and came to the US as post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University (2002-03). Her research has focused upon questions of Moslem identity in Europe and the US, as well as among Palestinean and Turkish groups.
|
