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Hans Corell |
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Hans
Corell has been Under-Secretary-General
for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations
since March 1994. In this capacity, Mr. Corell is head of the
Office of Legal Affairs in the UN Secretariat. Before joining
the United Nations in 1994, Mr. Corell, a national of Sweden,
was Ambassador and Under-Secretary for Legal and Consular Affairs
in his country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1984 to 1994.
He served for 13 years in the Ministry of Justice, in the capacity
of Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs (1981-1984), Assistant Under-Secretary
(1979-1981), and Legal Adviser (in 1972 and from 1974 to 1979).
Interspersed with his service in the Ministry of Justice, Mr.
Corell served as an additional Member of the Svea Court of Appeal
(1973), as Associate Judge of Appeal (1974), and as Judge of Appeal
(1980). Mr. Corell was a member of his country's delegation at
the United Nations General Assembly from 1985 until he took his
current UN appointment in 1994. In addition, Mr. Corell was a
member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague from
1990. He has also been a member of various expert committees in
his country, within the Council of Europe, the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the Conference
on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), including the CSCE
Moscow Human Dimension Mechanism to Bosnia and Herzegovina and
Croatia (1992-1993), which presented the first proposal for the
establishment of an international criminal tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia. He was Chairman of the Working Group at the 1992 CSCE
Expert Meeting on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, held in Geneva.
He was the Secretary-General's Representative to the United Nations
Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment
of an International Criminal Court, held in Rome from 15 June
to 17 July 1998. Born in Västermo,
Sweden, on 7 July 1939, Mr. Corell received a Law degree at the
University of Uppsala. He holds an honorary Doctor of laws degree
at the University of Stockholm.
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Ziba Mir Hosseini |
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Ziba Mir Hosseini,
an Iranian Antropologist living in London, is an independent
consultant, researcher and writer on Middle Eastern issues,
specializing in gender, family relations, Islam, law and development.
She is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Near
and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. She also produced the award winning feature-length
documentaries Divorce Iranian Style (1998), based on
her first book Marriage on Trail: A Study of Family Law
in Iran and Morocco (I.N. Tauris, 1993) and Runaway
(2001). She is also the author of Feminism and the Islamic
Republic: Dialogues with the Ulema (Princeton,1999) and
Islam and Gender, the Religious Debate in Contemporary Islam.
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| Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter |
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Professor Anne-Marie
Slaughter was appointed the
Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs at Princeton University in 2002, holding a faculty position
in the School and in the Department of Politics. . She is a
highly regarded expert on international law, and serves as president
of the American Society of International Law. Prior to moving
to Princeton, she was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor
of International, Foreign and Comparative Law at Harvard University
where she was director of graduate and international legal studies
at the Harvard Law School and founder and faculty director of
the Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs. Her teaching
and research have focused on global governance, the politics
of international tribunals, and interdisciplinary analyses of
international legal issues. From 1990 to 1994, Slaughter was
a professor of law and international relations at the University
of Chicago Law School. Slaughter has written or co-edited four
books and more than 50 articles for scholarly and legal journals.
In addition to her scholarly work, she has been a frequent commentator
in the media on such topics as international tribunals, terrorism
and international law – including issues related to the
aftermath of Sept. 11. Among other honors, Slaughter gave a
set of Millennial Lectures at the Hague Academy of International
Law in 2000 and won the Francis Deak Prize awarded by the American
Journal of International Law in 1990 and 1994. She is a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the World Peace Foundation,
and a member of the editorial or advisory boards of six academic
and legal journals.
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| Justice Itsuo Sonobe |
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Justice
Itsuo Sonobe is a retired member
of the Supreme Court of Japan on which he served from 1989-1999.
Among the notable cases he participated in are the Ienaga lawsuit
concerning the administrative rejection of a history professor’s
school textbook that contained controversially blunt depictions
of Japanese wartime atrocities, and several cases concerning the
constitutionality of Japan’s electoral system. In addition
to his twenty year career in the judiciary, Justice Sonobe has
held academic posts at Tsukba University, Seikei University, and
Ritsumeikan University, where he is currently a Visiting Professor
of law. He was previously a visiting scholar at the University
of Michigan and at Columbia University. A leading expert in administrative
law, comparative judicial systems, and human rights, Justice Sonobe
is currently special counselor for the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
charged with instituting an administrative oversight system for
Japanese diplomats. He previously served on special ad hoc team
of the International Monetary Fund to address judicial reform
in Indonesia following the nation’s political crisis. Justice
Sonobe is the author of many articles and books, including Administrative
Law in Japan (1999), “Comparative Administrative Law: Trends
and Features in Administrative Law Studies (Japan),” in
Law in Japan: An Annual (1986); and “Human Rights and Constitutional
Review in Japan,” in Human Rights and Judicial Review: A
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| Judge Patricia Wald |
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Judge Patricia Wald,
a graduate of Connecticut College (B.A. 1948) and Yale
Law School (LL.B. 1951), was admitted to the Bar in 1952. She
served, among other positions, as a law clerk to Judge Jerome
N. Frank of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and as
Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs in the Department
of Justice prior to being appointed to the bench in 1979. Judge
Wald served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit from 1979 until 1999, serving as Chief Judge
of the Court from 1986 to 1991. She left the federal bench in
1999 to serve two years as a judge on the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Judge Wald is a Council
Member and First Vice President of the American Law Institute
and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the American Philosophical Society. . She also serves as
Chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Justice
Initiative. Judge Wald is the author of Law and Poverty (1965)
and co-author of Bail in the United States (1964) and Dealing
with Drug Abuse (1973), and she has also written numerous articles
on legal subjects. Judge Wald is a member of the Executive Board
of the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern
European Law Institute and has sat on the Board of Editors of
the ABA Journal. She has received some 20 honorary degrees and
has been honored as well by the American and Women’s Bar
Associations and the Environmental Law Institute.
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