Eibe Riedel is Emeritus Chair of German and Comparative Public Law and European and International Law at the University of Mannheim, Germany, Swiss Human Rights Chair at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva. He studied law and theology at King's College London, and law at the University of Kiel. He obtained his Dr. iuris in 1974 and Dr. iur. habil. in 1983. He has been a Professor of Public Law and International Law at the University of Mainz, then at the University of Marburg, then at Mannheim. Prof. Riedel has recently been appointed a Judge at the Hague Court of Arbitration. He is a Director of the Inland Navigation Law Institute, and the Director of the Institute of Medical Law, Bioethics and Public Health. He was Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Mannheim from 1996-2000.
Dr Gilles Giacca is a Research Fellow at the Law Faculty and Co-ordinator of the Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations programme. He holds a MA from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and a LLM from the University of Essex and holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Geneva and IHEID. Between 2006 and 2012, Gilles Giacca was teaching assistant and then research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. Gilles has advised States, international organizations and NGOs on matters of international law. He has also provided training on international law to diplomats and practitioners. His teaching interests include the law of armed conflict and international human rights law.
Dr Christophe Golay is Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. From 2001 to 2008, he was the Legal Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He teaches courses on ESC rights, the right to food, and human rights and development in different universities. He has published extensively on ESC rights in general and the right to food in particular.
Contributors:
Christine Chinkin - London School of Economics and Political Science
Stéphanie Chuffard - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Ioana Cismas - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Allison Corkery - Center for Economic and Social Rights
Olivier De Schutter - UN Special Raporteur on the right to food, Columbia Law School
Mary Dowell-Jones - University of Nottingham
Michelle Foster - Melbourne Law School
Frank Haldemann - Geneva Academy
Hans Morten Haugen - Diakonhjemmet Høgskole University
Holger P. Hestermeyer - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Tahmina Karimova - Geneva Academy of International humanitarian law and human rights
Rachelle Kouassi - Geneva Academy
Malcolm Langford - Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
Aoife Nolan - Nottingham University
Sandra Ratjen - International Commission of Jurists
Ignazio Saiz - Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights
Nico Schrijver - Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University
Sigrun Skogly - Lancaster University
Larissa van den Herik - Leiden University
Jorge E. Viñuales - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Simon Walker - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Sally-Anne Way - University of Essex
Duncan Wilson - Scottish Human Rights Commission
