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"Contributors" [2016] ELECD 1507; in de Brouwer, Anne-Marie; Smeulers, Alette (eds), "The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) vii

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Editor(s): de Brouwer, Anne-Marie; Smeulers, Alette

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784711696

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 9

Extract:

Contributors


Payam Akhavan LLM SJD (Harvard) is Professor of International Law
at McGill University and Visiting Fellow at Oxford University with prior
appointments at Université de Paris Ouest, European University Institute,
Sciences Po, University of Toronto, Leiden University and Yale Law
School. He is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and
served as the first Legal Advisor to the Office of the Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague,
and also served with the UN in Bosnia, Croatia, Cambodia, Guatemala,
Timor Leste and Rwanda. He has appeared as counsel in notable cases
before the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal
Court, the European Court of Human Rights, Arbitral Tribunals and
Mixed Commissions, and the Supreme Courts of Canada and the United
States. He has published extensively, including the widely cited "Beyond
Impunity: Can International Criminal Justice Prevent Future Atrocities?"
in the American Journal of International Law, selected by the Inter-
national Library of Law and Legal Theory as one of "the most significant
published journal essays in contemporary legal studies, and his human
rights work has been featured on BBC HARDtalk and the New York
Times.
Kai Ambos is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Compara-
tive Law and International Criminal Law at the University of Göttingen,
Germany. He is the author and editor of numerous publications on
German, comparative and international criminal law in different lan-
guages. Special mention should be made of his Treatise on International
Criminal Law ( ...