Algeria: Blogger and Human Rights Activist Acquitted
Bryan Lourd
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), of which Bryan Lourd is Managing Director and Co-Chairman, represents many of the most successful professionals working in film, television, music, sports, theatre, video games, design, and the Internet. It provides a range of strategic marketing and consulting services to corporate clients. Mr. Lourd represents many of the world’s leading actors,…
Tunisia: An Interview With Myriam Bribri
Emma Lindsay
Emma Lindsay is an international lawyer with 20 years of experience in The Hague, Geneva, and New York, specializing in international arbitration, public international law and international human rights law. Most recently, Ms. Lindsay was a partner at the New York office of law firm Withers, where she was head of the firm’s international arbitration and…
Peru: Journalist Paola Ugaz Acquitted
Morocco: Journalist Pardoned
Göran Sluiter
He studied law at the University of Maastricht (1996) and obtained his PhD in international criminal law at Utrecht University (2002). He joined the University of Amsterdam as a senior lecturer in (international) criminal law in 2004 and became a Professor in international criminal law in 2006. From 2002 to 2010 he served as an…
Tim Otty KC
He was appointed Queens Counsel in 2006 and has wide experience as Leading Counsel at all levels of United Kingdom courts, other Commonwealth domestic courts, and a range of international courts and tribunals. He has appeared in more than 40 cases at the European Court of Human Rights and has also acted in an advisory…
The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
During his judicial service he was a commissioner of the WHO global commission on AIDS (1988-92); Special Representative of the UNSG for human rights in Cambodia (1993-6) and President of the International Commission of Jurists (1995-8). Since his judicial retirement, he has taken part in a large number of international activities. These have included member…
Sir Jeffrey Jowell KCMG KC
Jeffrey is a practicing barrister at Blackstone Chambers in London. From 2010-16 he was also the Founder-Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. He is Emeritus Professor of Public Law at University College London (UCL) (where he was twice Dean of the Law Faculty and a Vice Provost). He has authored numerous…
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein
With a professional background as a practitioner – a former senior diplomat representing his country Jordan – his knowledge is steeped in the global security environment. He served as president of the UN Security Council (in January 2014) and in 2002 was elected the first president of the governing body of the International Criminal Court…
Edward Fitzgerald KC
Previous commendations include Legal Aid Lawyer of the year 2009, winner of the Silk of the Year award 2005 and Times Justice Human Rights Award 1998. He specializes in criminal law, public law, judicial review, and international human rights law. In June 2008 he was awarded the CBE for services to human rights. Edward is…
Sarah Cleveland
She is a noted expert in international law and the constitutional law of U.S. foreign relations, with particular interests in the status of international law in U.S. domestic law, international and comparative human rights law, international humanitarian law, and national security. She also holds prominent roles as an independent expert on the U.N. Human Rights…
Justice Albie Sachs
His career in human rights activism started at the age of seventeen, when as a second-year law student at the University of Cape Town, he took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign. Three years later he attended the Congress of the People at Kliptown where the Freedom Charter was adopted. He started practice…
Juan E. Méndez
Juan E. Méndez is a Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence at the American University – Washington College of Law, where he is Faculty Director of the Anti-Torture Initiative, a project of WCL’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He was the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading…