The United Nations and Human Rights

Frédéric Mégret is a Full-Professor and Dawson Fellow at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He holds a Phd in international law from the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Graduate Institute of International Studies of the University of Geneva. He is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the author of many articles on international human rights law, public international law, international criminal law and the laws of war.

Philip Alston is an international lawyer whose teaching focuses primarily on human rights law and the law of international organizations. He directs the recently-established NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, part of the Institute for International Law and Justice. He is currently John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, NYU School of Law.

Zehra Arat, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva

Andrew Byrnes, Professor, University of New South Wales

Vincent Chetail, Director of the Global Migration Centre and Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Andrew Clapham, Professor of Public International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Suzanne Egan, Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law and Director of the Centre for Human Rights, University College Dublin

Christine Evans, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Rosa Freedman, Professor of Law Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading

Olivier de Frouville, Professor of Public Law, University of Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and Director, Paris Center for Human Rights (C.R.D.H.)

Andrzej Gadkowski, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Geneva and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

Ludovic Hennebel, Professor, Faculty of Law, Aix en Provence University

Madeleine Heyward, Health Adviser, Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva

Janet Lord, Senior Researcher, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, USA

Georges Minet, independent researcher, formerly of the United Nations

Bruno Simma, Professor, University of Michigan Law School

Michael Ashley Stein, Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, and Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria Faculty of Law Centre for Human Rights

Patrick Thornberry, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Politics, Philosophy, International Relations & Environment Department, University of Keele