Notes on Contributors
Gustavo Arosemena
is an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University. He researches the application of human rights to economic relations and the theory of human rights. He is the author of Rights Scarcity and Justice (Intersentia 2014) and A Rational Reconstruction of United Nations Human Rights Law (Ratio Juris 2017) among other publications. He obtained his PhD at Maastricht University.
Theo van Boven
is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Maastricht University (Netherlands). He served in various United Nations capacities in the field of human rights, He was the Netherlands representative to the UN Commission on Human Rights (1970-1975). Further, he was the Director of the UN Division of Human Rights (1977-1982) As an independent expert Theo van Boven was member of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights and the Sub-Commission’s Special Rapporteur on the Right of Victims to Reparation (1989-1993), member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1991-1999) and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2001-2004). Theo van Boven holds honorary doctorates from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, State University of New York at Buffalo and Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Yvonne Donders
is Professor of International Human Rights and Head of the Department of International and European Law at the University of Amsterdam. She also works as Commissioner at the Netherlands Human Rights Institute. Her research and teaching focus on international human rights law, in particular economic, social and cultural rights, and human rights and cultural diversity. Yvonne Donders is furthermore Chair of the Steering Committee of the Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research, Member of the Human Rights Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Member of the Editorial Board and Executive Editor of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Member of the Board of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Shelter City project for human rights defenders.
Laura M. Henderson
is Assistant Profession of International Law and Human Rights at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD in legal philosophy from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with a dissertation setting out a normative framework for judicial decision-making in times of crisis. Dr. Henderson has been a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and the European Union Institute in Florence, Italy. Her current research focuses on the ethics of legal decision-making.
Erica Howard
is Professor of Law at Middlesex University in London. She has conducted extensive research in the areas of freedom of religion and religious discrimination and of freedom of expression and religious hate speech and has published widely on these subjects. Her book on ‘Freedom of expression and religious hate speech in Europe’ was published in 2017 and examined anti-Muslim rhetoric by politicians in Europe and the human rights issues involved.
Carola Lingaas
is an Associate Professor of Law at VID Specialized University in Oslo (Norway). She holds a PhD in international law from the University of Oslo with a thesis on ‘The Concept of Race in International Criminal Law’ (published by Routledge, 2019). She has published within the areas of international criminal law, human rights law, and migration. Prior to joining academia, Carola Lingaas worked for several years for the Red Cross, nationally and internationally.
Luigi Lonardo
PhD candidate, King’s College London; Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London and Sciences Po Paris.
Amrei Müller
is currently a Leverhulme Trust early career researcher at the School of Law, Health & Human Rights Unit, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom. She has researched and published extensively in the area of international, European and domestic human rights law as well as international humanitarian law.
Yota Negishi
is LL.M. and Ph.D holder at Waseda University in Tokyo. He engaged in research projects of public law as doctoral and post-doctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2013–2017). To advance his researches, Dr. Negishi stayed at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg as a visiting scholar (2014–2017). Currently he has assistant professorship (public international law) at Senain Gakuin University in Fukuoka.
Stoyan Panov
is a lecturer in International Law and Jurisprudence at University College Freiburg, University of Freiburg. He received his PhD (Law) at University of Birmingham (the UK), LL.M. in Leiden University, Georgetown University, and DePauw University. His research interests cover the areas of EU Law, Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, Public International Law, the Rule of Law, and Anti-Corruption mechanisms. He has published on topics such as liability for international crimes, applicability of the EAW and the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, human rights protections in preventive seizure and confiscation of assets and property, among other topics.
Otto Spijkers
is University Lecturer of Public International Law at Utrecht University School of Law, Senior Research Associate with the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS), and with the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL).
Jure Vidmar
is Professor of Public International Law. He is also a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and Judge ad hoc of the European Court of Human Rights. Prior to coming to Maastricht, Prof Vidmar held teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, where he was most recently Research Fellow of St John’s College, Harvard Law School, University of Amsterdam and University of Nottingham. He is also affiliated with the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.