Notes on Contributors
Terry O. Adido
PhD (2017), University of Alberta (Canada), is an attorney and expert on international law, health law and policy. Trained in two jurisdictions, he specializes in the development of principles, policies and laws surrounding transplant tourism and affiliated practices such as medical tourism, organ donations, organ commercialization, human trafficking and organ trafficking. Terry is also interested in hiv/aids-related research, especially as it relates to the duty of employers to provide reasonable accommodation to people living with hiv/aids in the workplace. His first book, Terry Adido, Transplant Tourism: An International and National Law Model to Prohibit Travelling Abroad for Illegal Organ Transplants (Brill/Nijhoff, Leiden, 2018), remains one of the only sustainable scholarly treatments on transplant tourism practices. He is currently an intergovernmental health policy analyst where he engages in policy development: from the identification stage, to analysis, to communication, to implementation, and finally to review/evaluation, across governments and ministries.
Xavier Aurey
is a lecturer in law at the University of Essex (United Kingdom). In his PhD dissertation (September 2015, University Pantheon-Assas Paris 2, France, recipient of PhD prize from the University 2016), Xavier has questioned the capacity of the traditional human rights framework to protect individuals from exploitation in the biomedical field. He has demonstrated that, in the biomedical economy, when there is a lack of transparency and unjust collective benefits sharing, the implementation of universal principles such as dignity and autonomy is never sufficient to protect the most vulnerable from exploitation. Between 2006 and 2016, Xavier taught French Public Law, International and European Human Rights Law, and French Public Liberties at the University of Caen Normandie (France). Realizing that French law students can greatly benefit from Clinical Legal Education, he established, in 2009, the first French law clinic focused on human rights. Since 2013, he also developed a Francophone network for clinical legal education (
Farid Azadbakht
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law & Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah Branch, Tehran (Iran). His publications include the monograph Philosophy of International Law Science (Khorsandi Publishing, Tehran, 2019); academic articles: ‘Interdisciplinary Paradigm of International Law; A Systemic Approach to International Relations’, 9 Quarterly Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (2010); ‘The International Tribunal for the law of the Sea: the Saiga Case’, 5(2) International Studies Journal (2008); and book contributions: ‘Ethics and International Relations’, in Mehdi Zakarian (ed.), Epistemological Analysis of Ethics and International Law (Imam Sadiq University Press, Tehran, 2012); ‘New Concepts of Human Rights’, in Mehdi Zakarian (ed.), The Normativity of Human Rights (Mizan Publishing, Tehran, 2004).
Edwin Bikundo
is a Senior Lecturer at the Griffith Law School, Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia). Edwin’s current teaching and research interests lie in International and Comparative Law as well as Legal Theory. Before joining Griffith University he was a doctoral student and then a sessional member of the Law Faculty at the University of Sydney. Prior to that he studied at the University of Pune in India, Utrecht University in the Netherlands and at the Kenya School of Law. Edwin also practiced as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and taught at the Faculty of Law at the University of Nairobi and the Faculty of Arts at Egerton University in Kenya. He is a past Secretary of the Law Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia and was a visiting lecturer at the Strathmore University Law School in Kenya. His most recent works include: The Faustian Pact in International Law (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2020); ‘Enslavement as a Crime Against Humanity: Some Doctrinal, Historical and Theoretical Considerations’ in Kevin Jon Heller, Jens Ohlin, Sarah Nouwen, Frédéric Mégret, and Darryl Robinson (eds)., The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming 2020); with Charles Lawson and Kieran Tranter, ‘The Perils of Parliamentarism: The World Intellectual Property Organisation and Indigenous Peoples’, 39(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2019) 285–315.
Vanessa Bonilla-Tovar
Law degree with a minor in Human Rights, Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia). She is currently completing her Master degree in International Studies at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia).
Inez Braber
graduated in philosophy and in international law from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and is currently pursuing a PhD in criminal law on the topic of money laundering. In the past, she worked inter alia as an anti-money laundering analyst for ABN Amro Bank (The Netherlands) and as a researcher on the legal and ethical aspects of global drug development and regulation from a human rights perspective at the Ethics Institute and the International Law Department of Utrecht University (The Netherlands). She has also worked for the law firm Prakken d’Oliveira Human Rights Lawyers and as an independent researcher on terrorism and international criminal law.
Nicolás Eduardo Buitrago-Rey
Law degree, Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia); ma International Studies (Cum Laude), llm International Law (Cum Laude), Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). He has gained considerable practical experience as a consultant on the prevention of money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the fight against fraud and corruption. He has also acquired academic experience as a lecturer and researcher in International Law and Constitutional Law at the Universidad del Rosario.
Michael Davis
is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology (iit), Chicago (USA). Before coming to iit in 1986, he taught at Case-Western Reserve, Illinois State, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1985–86, he held a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Since 1991, he has held – among other grants – four from the National Science Foundation to integrate ethics into technical courses. Davis has published more than 240 articles and chapters. He has also authored seven books: To Make the Punishment Fit the Crime (Westview, 1992); Justice in the Shadow of Death (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996); Thinking Like an Engineer (Oxford University Press, 1998); Ethics and the University (Routledge, 1999); Profession, Code, and Ethics (Ashgate, 2002); Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation (Mellen, 2002); and Code Writing: How Software Engineering Became a Profession, (Center for the Study of the Professions, 2009). He has also co-edited four other books: Ethics and the Legal Professions (Prometheus, 1986) and a second edition (Prometheus, 2009); aids: Crisis in Professional Ethics (Temple, 1994); and Conflict of Interest in the Professions (Oxford University Press, 2001) and edited one other, Engineering Ethics (Ashgate, 2005).
Tyler K. Fagan
received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), and is currently Lecturer of Philosophy at Elmhurst University (Elmhurst, Illinois, USA). His research comprises three main topics: how minds think about other minds; how animal minds work, and how we study them scientifically; and how a better understanding of cognition might reshape our conceptions of agency, responsibility, and moral status. He has published on topics including juvenile justice, international law, legal insanity, moral agency, and animal cognition. Most recently he is the author, with William Hirstein and Katrina Sifferd, of Responsible Brains: Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability (mit Press, 2018). With support from the John Templeton Foundation through the Philosophy and Science of Self-Control project (directed by Al Mele), the book offers a comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility that can be applied to morality and the law.
Caroline Fournet
is Professor of Comparative Criminal Law and International Justice at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Criminal Law Review (Brill) and one of the co-editors of the academic journal Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Manchester University Press). In 2016, she took up a Visiting Professional position in Chambers at the icc. Her main publications include three monographs: International Crimes: Theories, Practice and Evolution, with an Introduction by Professor Malcolm N. Shaw QC (Cameron May, 2006); The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide: Their Impact on Collective Memory (Ashgate, 2007) and Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Confusions and Amalgams in French Practice (Hart Publishing, 2013), which was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for its completion. Since her involvement as co-investigator on the erc-funded multidisciplinary research programme ‘Corpses of Genocide and Mass Violence’ (2012–16), her work has taken a more interdisciplinary turn to explore the relevance and significance of mass graves and of corpses of victims of atrocities. Her current research analyses the dual use of forensic evidence in the investigation and prosecution of mass violence crimes on one hand and in the identification of victims and the building of post-atrocity memory on the other.
William Hirstein
is Professor of Philosophy at Elmhurst University (Elmhurst, Illinois, USA). His research centers on the philosophy of mind, approached from an empirical perspective. One research focus is on our abilities to make reliable knowledge claims about our minds, bodies, and memories. He is the author of Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation (mit, 2005) and the editor of Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2009). A second research focus is directed at our abilities to understand our conscious minds in a robustly physicalist way. In his book Mindmelding: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind’s Privacy (Oxford University Press, 2012), he argues that our conscious states are not, contrary to the claims of a large percentage of philosophers and scientists, metaphysically private, in the sense that no person can ever directly experience the conscious states of another. He received his PhD from the University of California, Davis (USA) in 1994, studying with Richard Wollheim and John Searle, and, as a postdoctoral researcher, with V. S. Ramachandran. He is currently revisiting his studies in the philosophy of art, initially undertaken with Wollheim and Ramachandran, in a project that addresses the question of why art is so universally loved and created, despite the lack of any clear evolutionary advantage to these practices.
Ryan Long
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). His primary research interests are ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. His publications include ‘Luck Egalitarianism, Responsibility, and Political Liberalism’ (Dialogue, 2016), ‘Responsibility, Authority, and the Community of Moral Agents in Domestic and International Criminal Law’ (International Criminal Law Review, 2014), ‘The Burqa Ban: Legal Precursors for Denmark, American Experiences and Experiments, and Philosophical and Critical Examinations’ (International Studies Journal, 2018) and ‘The Incompleteness of Luck Egalitarianism’ (Social Philosophy Today, 2011).
Anja Matwijkiw
is the 2019–20 Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Public International Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law & Faculty of Law, Lund University (Sweden); Professor of Ethics & Human Rights, Indiana University Graduate School and Department of Philosophy and Philosophy Program, IU Northwest (USA). She serves on the Editorial Boards for the Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press), International Criminal Law Review (Brill) and International Studies Journal (Tehran, Iran). In the area of human rights, Professor Matwijkiw was listed, in 2003, among ‘our friends at the University of Chicago who inspired, founded and nurtured the [Scholars at Risk] Network’. Furthermore, her research has been cited in documents on international principles like The Lexington Principles on the Rights of Detainees (2009). In 2010, she designed ethics recommendations as a contributor to the first global post-World War ii study on international criminal justice (directed by M. Cherif Bassiouni), The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice: A World Study on Conflicts, Victimization, and Post-Conflict Justice. As a co-pioneer (with Bronik Matwijkiw) of the position called Stakeholder Jurisprudence, her interdisciplinary publications include top tier journals, e.g., International Journal of Applied Philosophy. Her emphasis on basic rights and post-conflict measures for the protection of these also characterize her new work on legal burqa ban trends and popular nationalism.
Bronik Matwijkiw
is a Lecturer of Philosophy and Professional Ethics at Southeast Missouri State University (USA). He completed his PostDoc at the University of Chicago (2002). In the past, Dr. Matwijkiw has taught at different public and private universities in Denmark and the United States. He has secured numerous publications in highly competitive scholarly outlets, such as The Philosophical Forum, International Criminal Law Review, Revue Internationale De Droit Pénal, and Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap [Journal of Legal Science]. Dr. Matwijkiw is the Assistant to the Editor for the Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press). In 2018–19, his commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship on philosophy, law and ethics was an instrumental factor in the Yearbook’s adoption of ‘Legal Philosophy and Ethics’ as a field. Since 2010, he has worked to develop the position called Stakeholder Jurisprudence with Anja Matwijkiw. A recent fruit of this collaboration is ‘[Human] Values and Ethics in Environmental Health Discourse and Decision-Making: The Complex Stakeholder Controversy and the Possibility of ‘Win-Win’ Outcomes’, in Environmental Health in International and EU Law: Current Challenges and Legal Responses (Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law, Turin-Abingdon, 2019). Dr. Matwijkiw is also recognized as an art expert in Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon [Danish Art Index & Weilbach’s Art Dictionary], and his current research interests include political economy and philosophy of religion.
Stefania Negri
is Associate Professor of International Law at the School of Law of the University of Salerno (Italy) and former holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Health, Environmental and Food Safety Law (2016–2019). She is the founder and – since 2010 – the director of the Observatory on Human Rights: Bioethics, Health, Environment, an international network of Italian and foreign academics and experts from Europe and the Americas. Dr. Negri serves as Italy’s National Contact Point for the European Association of Health Law, just as she is co-convener and member of the Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on International Health Law at the European Society of International Law, co-convener of the Interest Group on International and EU Health Law for the Italian Society of International Law. Furthermore, Dr. Negri is a member of the Committee on Global Health Law at the International Law Association. Her research interests focus on human rights, international criminal law, international health law and biolaw, environmental health and food safety. She has recently published Salute pubblica, sicurezza e diritti umani nel diritto internazionale, Giappichelli, Torino, 2018. Other examples include European Union and Health. Values, Principles and Standards of Quality (with Giacomo Di Federico), Cedam-Wolters Kluwer, Padova, 2019; Environmental Health in International and EU Law: Current Challenges and Legal Responses (ed.), Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law, Turin-Abingdon, 2019.
Héctor Olasolo
Law Degree, University of Salamanca (Spain); Theology Degree, Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia); llm, Columbia University (USA); PhD. in Law, University of Salamanca (Spain). Professor Olasolo holds the Chair in International Law at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia), is chairman of the Ibero-American Institute of The Hague for Peace, Human Rights and International Justice (The Netherlands) and is a senior lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands). He is also director of the Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal/Ibero-American Yearbook of International Law (anidip), the postgraduate Programmes (Especialización and Maestría) in International Law and the International Law Clinic at Universidad del Rosario. Professor Olasolo previously held the Chair in International Criminal and Procedural Law at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands; 2010–2012) and served as Legal Officer in Chambers of the International Criminal Court (2004–2010) and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2002–2004). He was Legal Adviser to the Spanish Delegation to the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (1999–2002) and expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Professor Olasolo has published the following monographs with publishers included in the top two levels in the Norwegian and Finnish Lists: International Criminal Law, Transnational Criminal Organizations and Transitional Justice (Brill/Nijhoff, 2018), Essays on International Criminal Justice (Hart Publishing Ltd., 2012), The Criminal Responsibility of Political and Military Leaders as Principals to International Crimes (Hart Publishing Ltd., 2009), Unlawful Attacks in Combat Situations (Brill/Nijhoff, 2007) and The Triggering Procedure of the International Criminal Court (Brill/Nijhoff, 2005). He has also published eight monographs in Spanish in the top-10 publishers according to Scholarly Publishers Indicators (spi), has edited several collective books, and has published around eighty book chapters and research articles in prestigious law journals, including more than twenty articles published in journals included in Scopus.
Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička
is Assistant Professor at the Department of criminal law, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (Croatia). She teaches criminal law, transitional justice, bioethics and human rights. She obtained her PhD as a doctoral candidate of the Criminology Department at Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (Germany). Her book, based on her doctoral research, Prosecuting serious economic crimes as international crimes, a new mandate for the icc? was published in 2017. Dr. Vidlička is the Head of the Croatian Unit of the unesco Chair in Bioethics and a member of unodc Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative. She also headed the Jean Monnet Project Advanced Seminar in EU Criminal Law and Policy (2016–2019). In 2011, she received the Annual Award for the best young scientist in social sciences by the Society of Professors and Scientists at the University of Zagreb. She is one of the model course developers of unodc (E4J) in the area of peace, corruption and security. In 2018, she received the acknowledgment Education for Justice (E4J) Champion for teaching University Module on Integrity and Ethics. She publishes primarily in areas that interlink the protection of human rights with (international) criminal law.
Katrina Sifferd
is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Elmhurst University (Elmhurst, Illinois, USA). She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of London, King’s College (United Kingdom). After leaving King’s, Katrina held a post-doctoral position as Rockefeller Fellow in Law and Public Policy and Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire USA). Before becoming a philosopher, Katrina earned a Juris Doctorate and worked as a senior research analyst on criminal justice projects for the National Institute of Justice. Katrina is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on criminal responsibility, folk psychology and law, and punishment. Katrina and her colleagues William Hirstein and Tyler Fagan published a book titled Responsible Brains: Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability (mit Press, 2018).
Dragana Spencer
is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich (London, United Kingdom). She holds a PhD in International Criminal Law and her research interests and teaching practice lie in international criminal law, public international law, human rights and public law. Specifically, her areas of expertise are in procedures and practices of international criminal courts and tribunals with a focus on defence rights and sentencing practices. She has published widely in international journals on various aspects of international and transitional criminal justice including articles in the International Criminal Law Review, Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, and International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. In 2017, she was awarded the Peter Harris Research Grant for research on language rights in war crimes trials. She has advised governmental bodies and non-governmental agencies in the UK and abroad on implementation of procedural human rights and law reform. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (United Kingdom).
Mehdi Zakerian
is Professor of International Human Rights Law. Faculty of Law and Political Science, Department of International Relations, Islamic Azad University, Science & Research Branch, Terhan (Iran). Previously, he was fellow at the Hague Academy of International Law; visiting professor fellow at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (isim), Leiden (The Netherlands, 2007); professeur invité, faculté de Droit, Université Paris ii Panthéon-Assas (France, 2012–2013); visiting professor, School of Law, Pennsylvania University (USA, September 2010–January 2011). He is an associate member of the Centre for Iranian Studies, soas (London, United Kingdom, 2012 to date) and President of the Fondation internationale sur les dialogues et les études mondiales (fidem). He was elected as the first president of the Iranian International Studies Association (2007–09) and re-elected in the same capacity (2009–11). He is the editor-in-chief of the International Studies Journal (isj), published in Persian and English. He is also editor-in-chief of Tolerance in Islam (TIR) and of Journal of International Criminal Law (JICL). He was the chairman of Studies on Israel & US (1997–2008) and sits on several editorial boards. He is the author of 40 books and 200 articles in English, Persian, Arabic, and French. Professor Zakerian has conducted several projects with international organizations including the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. He runs several international seminars with the isj, fidem and the United Nations Information Centres (unic) in Iran, notably on cross-cultural dialogue, transitional justice, and Islam and tolerance.
Susan Zinner
is a Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (spea) at Indiana University Northwest (iun) in Gary, one of the regional campuses of Indiana University (USA). She joined spea in 1998. She teaches undergraduate and graduate law, ethics and health administration courses. She has an msj in journalism from Northwestern University (USA) and a law degree (jd) and a master’s degree in health administration (mha) from Washington University in St. Louis (USA). She publishes frequently on issues involving medical ethics, vulnerable populations (with an emphasis on pediatric ethics), administrative ethics and law and speaks at national and international conferences. She has served as the university Faculty President since 2016, where she oversees 25 faculty committees and represents faculty on over 30 university committees.