Anthony Chase
Anthony Chase is Associate Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs at Occidental College. He is the co-editor of Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices (co-edited with Amr Hamzawy, University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2006), which focuses on the Arab world's internal articulations of human rights and their intersections with, respectively, Islam, globalization, transnational advocacy, and the politics of key states such as Egypt, Morocco, and Yemen. He was also guest editor of a Muslim World Journal of Human Rights special volume on “The Transnational Muslim World, Human Rights, and the Rights of Women and Sexual Minorities.” His current project is entitled Transnational Debates on Human Rights in the Muslim World: Politics, Economics, and Society, and explores when, how, and why the international human rights regime has mattered to some of the Muslim world’s most important debates – including those over free expression, economic development, and the treatment of minorities.
Aeyal Gross
Aeyal Gross is a professor and member of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. He holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University (1990) and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (1996). He is a member of the Board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Concord Center for the Interplay between International Norms and Israeli Law, and the Academic Committee of the Minerva Center for Human Rights in Tel Aviv University. From 2007-2009, he served as a research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and a visiting teacher at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is the author of numerous articles, including Rights and Normalization: A Critical Study of European Human Rights Case Law on the Choice and Change of Names (Harvard Human Rights Journal), The Politics of Rights in Israeli Constitutional Law (Israel Studies); and The Constitution in Reconciliation and Transitional Justice (Stanford Journal of International Law). He is the co-editor of Exploring Social Rights (Hart, 2007).
Hauwa Ibrahim
Hauwa Ibrahim is a senior partner at Aries Law Firm in Nigeria, serving as a lead attorney with a team devoted to the cause of human rights for women in Nigeria. Ibrahim has been a visiting professor at Saint Louis University School of Law and a World Fellow at Yale University, and in 2008-2009 was the Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute. Four years ago, she was honored by the European Parliament with the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, which honors individuals or organizations for their efforts on behalf of human rights and freedoms.
Charles Ngwena
Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow
Charles Ngwena, LL.M., LL.B., (May 2009 – December 2009) is the Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow with the Human Rights Program. He is a Barrister-at Law, and a Professor in the Department of Constitutional Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of the Free State. Prior to joining the University of the Free State in 2002, he taught law at Cardiff Law School
(University of Wales 1988-1994), the University of Swaziland (1995) and Vista
University (1996-2001).
Professor Ngwena has taught, researched and published widely on issues at the intersection between human rights, ethics and health care, including HIV/AIDS, reproductive health. In recent years, he has begun to research and publish on disability. He was a co-editor of the Butterworths Medico-Legal Reports (UK) for which he now serves as an advisory editor. He serves on the editorial board of Medical Law International. He is Section Editor of Developing World Bioethics and Chief Editor of the Journal for Juridical Science. He has co-edited of two books - Employment Equity Law (2001) with Professor JL Pretorius and Ms E Klink and Health and Human Rights (2007) with Professor RJ Cook.
Professor Ngwena serves on a number of national and international committees, including the Scientific and Ethical Review Group of the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction of the World Health Organization. His current work focused on and reproductive and sexual health and rights, and disability and equality in the workplace. He directs an LLM programme on
Reproductive and Sexual Rights which he initiated in 2005.
Deborah Popowski
Skirball Fellow
Deborah Popowski is the Skirball Fellow for Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program, where she will work on clinical and academic projects focusing on the role of medical professionals in human rights violations, particularly harsh interrogations and torture. She was previously a fellow with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, where she worked to develop alternative forms of accountability for U.S. health professionals involved in torture, both in domestic and foreign settings. Her past experience includes work with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, the UN Committee against Torture, and Justiça Global, a Brazilian non-governmental organization that litigates before the Inter-American system of human rights.
Siobhan Wills
Siobhan Wills is a Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland, where she teaches courses on international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and international human rights law. She is also a member of the executive board for the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at University College Cork. She also has a forthcoming book from Oxford University Press, Protecting Civilians: The Obligations of Troops, and has published articles in the British Yearbook of International Law, International Peacekeeping, and the Journal of Conflict and Security Law at Oxford University, among others.
Alicia Ely Yamin
Alicia Ely Yamin is currently the Joseph H. Flom Fellow on Global Health and Human Rights at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program, and an Instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the Executive Editor of the Critical Concepts section for the Health and Human Rights
Journal, and she serves as Special Advisor to Amnesty International’s global campaign on poverty, Demand Dignity (in particular, in relation to maternal mortality). She is Acting Chair of the Center for Economic and Social Rights and additionally serves on the advisory boards the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights, Human Rights Ahead, the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health, as well as several human rights advocacy organizations in Latin America. Prior to her fellowship, Yamin was the Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights, where she oversaw all of the organization’s field investigations.