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PROF AMITA DHANDA
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Prof Amita Dhanda
Amita Dhanda is Professor Emerita at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India. She has been working on questions of exclusion and discrimination with a special focus on disability and gender. Her book Legal Order and Mental Disorder studied how the law reinforced social stereotypes and permitted the use of insanity labelling as a means of regulating dissent, deviance, and disorder. She has taught a mandatory course on Law and Poverty to undergraduate students for more than two decades. The course she holds confronts students with the economic and social deprivation prevalent in the country and provokes them to assume the ethical obligations arising from their privileged positions.
DR MAHAMAN TIDJANI ALOU
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Mahaman Tidjani Alou
Mahaman TIDJANI ALOU holds a doctorate in political science and an Habilitation to Direct Research from Montesquieu Bordeaux IV University in France. He graduated from the faculties of law and political science. He is currently a full professor of political science at Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Legal Sciences (2010-2017). In addition, he is a researcher at the Laboratory for Studies and Research on Social Dynamics and Local Development (LASDEL) in Niamey, which he directed during its first six years (2001-2007). In this context, he directed and co-directed several research programs. He has taught in several European universities (France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Italy) and participates in international research programs. His publications deal with questions of international relations, the dynamics of the State, public policies, the construction of civil society, democratic governance, local authorities, in Africa, methodological questions in the social sciences. His field of research is generally anchored in Western countries.
PROF DAMILOLA OLAWUYI
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Prof Damilola Olawuyi
Professor Damilola S. Olawuyi, SAN is a professor of petroleum, energy, and environmental law at the HBKU Law School, Qatar, and chancellor’s fellow at the Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES Institute), Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. In 2020, he was appointed as an Independent Expert on the African Union’s Working Group on extractive industries, environment, and human rights. A prolific and highly regarded scholar, Professor Olawuyi has published over 100 influential peer-reviewed articles, books, and reports on energy finance, sustainable development law, and extractive resource governance. Professor Olawuyi was formerly an international energy lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Calgary, where he served on the firm’s global committee on extractive resource investments in Africa. He has lectured on energy and environmental law in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Professor Olawuyi serves on the executive committees and boards of several organisations. He is Vice-Chair of the International Law Association globally.
PROF CÉSAR RODRÍGUEZ-GARAVITO
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César Rodríguez-Garavito
César Rodríguez-Garavito is Professor of Clinical Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Open Global Rights. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Brown, the University of Melbourne, European University Institute, University of Pretoria, the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), and the Andean University of Quito. He has published widely on international human rights, comparative constitutional law, climate litigation, Indigenous rights, socio-environmental conflicts, and business and human rights. His books include Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action (Cambridge Univ. Press, ed.) and Radical Deprivation on Trial: The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in the Global South (Cambridge, co-auth.). Rodríguez-Garavito has served as an expert witness of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an Adjunct Judge of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon, and a lead litigator in climate change, socio-economic rights, and Indigenous rights cases.
MS MARI MARGIL
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Ms Mari Margil
Mari Margil is the Executive Director of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER). She works with civil society; national, state, and local governments; tribal nations; and indigenous communities in the U.S., Ecuador, Australia, the Philippines, Nepal, and elsewhere, to advance Rights of Nature frameworks. She also consulted with Ecuador’s Constituent Assembly, helping to draft the world’s first Rights of Nature constitutional provisions. Margil received her master’s degree from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and is a co-author of The Bottom Line or Public Health (Oxford University Press 2010), Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (Wakefield Press 2011), and Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change (Oregon State University Press 2021). Her writing has also been featured in publications including The Guardian, YES! Magazine, Earth Island Journal, Mongabay, Democracy Journal, World Policy Journal, and Common Dreams.
PROF SARAH JOSEPH
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Prof Sarah Joseph
Sarah Joseph is a Professor of Human Rights Law and commenced at Griffith University in March 2020. Prior to her Griffith appointment, Sarah had been a Professor of Law at Monash University from 2005-2019 and was the Director of the prestigious Castan Centre for Human Rights Law for those 15 years.
Her publications focus on human rights internationally and in Australia, with particular expertise on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, business and human rights, trade and human rights, and issues concerning the media (and social media) and human rights. Recently she has written about human rights in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also published in the area of Australian constitutional law. She has taught human rights courses in Australia, the United States (Washington DC), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Switzerland (Geneva) and New Zealand (Auckland). She has conducted numerous human rights consultancies, including training programs in Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar, and in Australia for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and courses funded by AusAID (including for Iraqi government officials).
PROF MARTA ARRETCHE
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Prof Marta Arretche
Marta Arretche is a Full Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of São Paulo and a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies. She was director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies (2009-2020), editor-in-chief of the Brazilian Political Science Review (2012-2018) and vice-provost for research at the University of São Paulo (2016-2017). Her most recent publications include: As Políticas da Política: desigualdades e inclusão nos governos do PSDB e do PT (2019); Paths of Inequality: a half-century of changes (Springer. 2018) and Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis; Place Equality Regimes and Fiscal Choices in Eleven Countries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), co-edited with Sellers, J; Kübler, D.; Razin, E., besides several articles and book chapter on the political determinants of inequality policies, federalism, and voters’ preferences on inequality.
PROF JOHANNES MASING
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Prof Johannes Masing
Johannes Masing is a Professor of Public Law at Freiburg University (Germany) since 2007. He served as a justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court from 2008 to 2020. From 1998 to 2007 he was a Law Professor in Augsburg/Bavaria. Before going to Augsburg, he studied law, philosophy, and piano in Freiburg and clerked at the German Federal Constitutional Court between 1992 and 1996. He passed his habilitation in 1997, his doctoral exam in 1996, and his legal exams in 1989 and 1985. Johannes Masing has also graduated in piano and passed postgraduate studies at the academies of music in Freiburg and Stuttgart. After high school, he studied French as a second language at the University of Grenoble (France). Born in 1959 he grew up in Hamburg.
Today his research is focused on German, European, and comparative constitutional law and constitutional history. He was visiting professor, at the Jagellonian University (Poland), at the universities Paris I, II, and Lyon III (France), and at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was awarded the Prix Gay Lussac-Humboldt in 2008. In 2020, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany was bestowed upon him.
PROF DANIELLE PAMPLONA
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Prof Danielle Pamplona
Full Professor of the Post-Graduate Program of the Law School at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná – PUCPR on Business and Human Rights; Professor of the Graduate Program at PUCPR on Constitutional Law and Human Rights; Postdoctoral at the American University (Washington, DC); Visiting Researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights (Oxford); Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute of Compared Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg); PhD at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Master at Pontificia Universidade Catolica de São Paulo – PUCSP; Director of the Human Rights Clinic at PUCPR; Former Director of the School of Law; Lawyer; Vice-Director of the Latin-American Business and Human Rights Scholars Association; Consultant for Business and Human Rights.
PROF CORA CHAN
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Prof Cora Chan
Cora Chan is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. She has written extensively on proportionality, judicial deference, national security and rights, and China-Hong Kong constitutional relations. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Law Quarterly Review, Legal Studies, and Public Law. She is the co-editor (with Fiona de Londras) of China’s National Security: Endangering Hong Kong’s Rule of Law? (Hart, 2020).
Cora is on the Council of the International Society of Public Law, the advisory boards of the International Journal of Constitutional Law and the Springer series in Contemporary Chinese Civil and Commercial Law, and the editorial boards of Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory Series, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Hong Kong Law Journal, Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, and Revista de Investigações Constitucionais. She was appointed by Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee as a member of the Law Panel for the Research Assessment Exercise 2020. Her accolades include the Society of Legal Scholars Best Paper Prize (2012), the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Early Career Award (2013), and the inaugural Rosie Young 90 Medal for Outstanding Young Woman Scholar (2021).
PROF OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER
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Prof Olivier De Schutter
Olivier De Schutter is a professor at UCLouvain and SciencesPo and the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He was between 2015 and 2020 a member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and was the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food between 2008 and 2014. He chaired the EU Network of independent experts on fundamental rights (2002-2007) and was a member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency between 2013 and 2018.
DR SERGEI A. BELOV
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Dr Sergei A. Belov
Dr Sergei A. Belov is the Dean of the Law Faculty, St. Petersburg State University (Russia). He graduated from the Law School of St. Petersburg State University in 2000. He was employed on the state civil service (in the Legislative Assembly, Charter Court and Administration of St. Petersburg), and in 2004 joined the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University. Sergei holds the degree of Candidate of law (PhD) from the same University (2003). His research interests in Constitutional Law include constitutional adjudication, constitutional review, axiology of constitutional law. One of the recent researches concerned the legacy of socialist constitutions in the context of the universality of constitutionalism and constitutional identity (inter alia identity of Russia), the other – precedents (stare decisis and jurisprudence constante) in constitutional courts. Professor Belov is also active in legal expertise, took part in the official Working Group on Amendments to the Russian Constitution in 2020, he is responsible for the project of studying law-enforcement (mainly judicial) practice at his university.