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"Contributors" [2019] ELECD 2526; in Steiker, S. Carol; Steiker, M. Jordan (eds), "Comparative Capital Punishment" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) viii

Book Title: Comparative Capital Punishment

Editor(s): Steiker, S. Carol; Steiker, M. Jordan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

Contributors


Sandra L. Babcock is a Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and specializes in
international human rights litigation, access to justice, death penalty defense, international
gender rights and the application of international law in US courts. She is the Faculty Director
of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. Through her clinical teaching,
Professor Babcock has spent several years working on access to justice for death-sentenced
prisoners in Malawi and Tanzania, where her advocacy and the work of her clinic students has
led to the release of more than 140 prisoners formerly sentenced to death. From 2000 to 2006
she was the Director of the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program and was counsel to the
Government of Mexico before the International Court of Justice in the case of Avena and other
Mexican Nationals (Mexico v United States) and in the Supreme Court cases of Sanchez-Llamas
v Oregon and Medellin v Texas. She is the founder and editor of Death Penalty Worldwide,
a website and database that provide comprehensive information on the application of the death
penalty around the world. She received her BA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins
University in 1986 and her JD from Harvard Law School in 1991.
Sangmin Bae is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago,
IL). She teaches and conducts research in the areas of human rights, human security, capital
punishment, international organizations and East Asian politics. Her research focuses
particularly on the role of political ...