BOARD OF ADVISORS
Professor
Karima Bennoune is an Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers School
of Law (Newark). Professor Bennoune graduated from a joint program in
law and Middle Eastern and North African studies at the University of
Michigan, earning a J.D. cum laude from the law school and an
M.A. from the Rackham Graduate School, as well as a Graduate Certificate
in Women's Studies. She received a joint B.A. in history and semiotics
with honors from Brown University. In 1995 she served as a Center for
Women's Global Leadership delegate to the NGO Forum at the Fourth World
Conference on Women in Beijing. From 1995 until 1999, she was based
in London as a legal adviser at Amnesty International.
Professor Jerome
A. Cohen is a Senior Fellow for Asia, Council on Foreign Relations;
a law professor at New York University School of Law; and is of counsel
to the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison. Mr. Cohen specializes in the international legal problems
of East Asia. Mr. Cohen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale College
(B.A. 1951). He spent the academic year 1951-1952 as a Fulbright
Scholar in France and graduated in 1955 from Yale Law School, where
he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal and Order of the Coif.
He was Law Secretary to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme
Court in the 1955 Term and Law Secretary to Justice Felix Frankfurter
of the Supreme Court in the 1956 Term. He subsequently practiced
law, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia,
and was a consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
before beginning his academic career at the University of California
School of Law at Berkeley in 1959. He moved to Harvard Law School
in 1964 and remained a faculty member there until he joined Paul, Weiss
in 1981.
The Honorable
Irwin Cotler has been a Member of the Canadian Parliament since
1999, and served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
(2003-2006). Mr. Cotler is currently on leave as a Professor of Law
at McGill University, where he is Director of its Human Rights Programme,
and Chair of InterAmicus, the McGill-based International Human Rights
Advocacy Centre. An international human rights lawyer, Professor
Cotler served as Counsel to former prisoners of conscience in the Soviet
Union (Andrei Sakharov), South Africa (Nelson Mandela), Latin America
(Jacobo Timmerman), and Asia (Muchtar Pakpahan). He later served
as international legal counsel to imprisoned Russian environmentalist
Aleksandr Nikitin; Nigerian playwright and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka;
the Chilean-Canadian group Vérité et justice in the Pinochet
case; and Chinese-Canadian political prisoner, Professor KunLun Zhang.
More recently, he served as Counsel to Professor Saad Edin Ibrahim,
the leading democracy advocate in the Arab world. A feature article
on him in Maclean's magazine referred to him as “Counsel for the Oppressed.”
Professor J. Christopher McCrudden is Professor
of Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Lincoln
College, Oxford. He is a former Specialist Advisor to the British House
of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on Fair Employment; a
(non-practicing) Barrister-at-Law (Gray's Inn); former member of the
Northern Ireland Secretary of State's Standing Advisory Commission on
Human Rights; a current member of the European Commission's Expert Network
on the Application of the Equality Directives; and a member of the Northern
Ireland Minister of Finance taskforce on public procurement. Professor
McCrudden specializes in human rights (international, European, and
comparative), concentrating recently on the relationship between international
economic law and human rights. He earned an LL.B. from Queen's University,
Belfast, an LL.M. from Yale Law School, and a D.Phil. from Oxford.
Harry C. McPherson is Senior Counsel
with DLA Piper LLP (US) in Washington, D.C. Since joining the firm in
1969, he has represented and counseled businesses, nonprofit organizations,
foreign governments, and individuals on a wide range of matters before
the executive branch, the Congress, regulatory agencies, and other public
bodies. Mr. McPherson served as counsel, then special counsel,
to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1969. Previously he had
served as assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural
affairs; as deputy under-secretary of the Army for international affairs;
and as a member of the Department of the Army Secretariat. He was counsel
to the U.S. Senate Democratic Party Committee, the key legislative policy
organ on the Senate side for the Democratic Party. He earned an
LL.B. from the University of Texas Law School and a B.A. at the University
of the South.
Nuala Mole is the Founding Director of the AIRE
Centre ("Advice on Individual Rights in Europe') in London.
She has worked in human rights for almost twenty years and has been
involved in more than twenty-five cases before the European Commission
and Court of Human Rights. She earned her degree in law at Oxford University.
Professor
A.W. Brian Simpson is the Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor
of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He earned an M.A. and
a Doctorate of Civil Law from Oxford University. He was a fellow at
Lincoln College, Oxford, and is a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. His publications include
Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the
European Convention; A History of the Common Law of Contract;
A Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law; Cannibalism
and the Common Law; A History of the Land; Law, Legal
Theory and Legal History; In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention
Without Trial in Wartime Britain; and Leading Cases in the
Common Law.
The
Honorable Patricia M. Wald served for 20 years on the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1979-1999), including
five years as Chief Judge (1986-1991). Judge Wald serves on the Open
Society Institute's Justice Initiative Board (2002-present). Prior to
serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia,
Judge Wald was the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs
at the Department of Justice, an attorney with the Mental Health Law
Project, an attorney with the Center for Law and Social Policy, co-director
of the Ford Foundation Drug Abuse Research Project, an attorney with
the Neighborhood Legal Services Program, and an attorney with the Office
of Criminal Justice at the Department of Justice. Judge Wald clerked
for the Honorable Jerome Frank on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit. She received her B.A. from the Connecticut College for
Women and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Judge Wald has received more
than 20 honorary degrees.
