Richard B. Lillich
Richard B. Lillich is the late Howard W. Smith Professor of International Law at the University of Virginia.
Hurst Hannum
Hurst Hannum is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and has taught courses in public international law, international organizations, international human rights law, peacekeeping, and nationalism. In 2006-2008, he was also the Sir Y.K. Pao Professor of Public Law, University of Hong Kong. From 1980 to 1989, he served as Executive Director of The Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, in Washington, DC, and he was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace in 1989-90. He received his A.B. and J.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Hannum has been counsel in cases before the European and Inter-American Commissions on Human Rights and the United Nations; he also has been a member of the boards of several nongovernmental human rights organizations. He has served as a consultant to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN Department of Political Affairs, on minority rights generally and on the situations in Afghanistan, East Timor, and Western Sahara.
Among other publications, Professor Hannum is author or editor of Guide to International Human Rights Practice (4th ed. 2004); Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (rev. ed. 1996); International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Process (3d ed. 1995, with Richard Lillich); New Directions in Human Rights (1989, with Ellen Lutz and Kathryn Burke); Materials on International Human Rights and U.S. Criminal Law and Procedure (1989); The Right to Leave and Return in International Law and Practice (1987); and Materials on International Human Rights and U.S. Constitutional Law (1985). He serves as General Editor of a multi-volume series of books on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, published by Martinus Nijhoff.
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S. James Anaya
S. James Anaya is the James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law (USA). He teaches and writes in the areas of international human rights, constitutional law, and issues concerning indigenous peoples. Among his numerous publications is his book, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford University Press, 1996, 2d. ed. 2004). Professor Anaya received his B.A. from the University of New Mexico (1980) and his J.D. from Harvard (1983). He was on the law faculty at the University of Iowa from 1988 to 1999, and he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Toronto, and the University of Tulsa. Prior to becoming a full time law professor, he practiced law in Albuquerque, New Mexico, representing Native American peoples and other minority groups. Professor Anaya has lectured in many countries in all continents of the globe. He has been a consultant for numerous organizations and government agencies in several countries on matters of human rights and indigenous peoples, and he has represented indigenous groups from many parts of North and Central America before courts and international organizations. He was the lead counsel for the indigenous parties in the landmark case of Awas Tingni v. Nicaragua, in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights upheld indigenous land rights as a matter of international law.
Dinah L. Shelton
Professor Shelton joined the Law School faculty in 2004. Before her appointment, she was professor of international law and director of the doctoral program in international human rights law at the University of Notre Dame Law School from 1996-2004. Prior to joining the faculty of Notre Dame, she taught at University of California, Davis, and Santa Clara University, and was a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, the University of Paris, and the University of Strasbourg, France. She is the author of two prize-winning books, Protecting Human Rights in the Americas (winner of the 1982 Inter-American Bar Association Book Prize and co-authored with Thomas Buergenthal) and Remedies in International Human Rights Law (awarded the 2000 Certificate of Merit, American Society of International Law). She has also authored many other articles and books on international law, human rights law, and international environmental law. She is a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law and is a counsellor to the American Society of International Law.
Professor Shelton also serves on the boards of many human rights and environmental organizations. From 1987 to 1989, she was the director of the Office of Staff Attorneys at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has also served as a legal consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme, UNITAR, World Health Organization, European Union, Council of Europe, and Organization of American States.