International Law and Domestic Legal Systems Incorporation, Transformation, and Persuasion

Edited by Dinah Shelton, Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law, George Washington University Law School, Washington DC

Professor Dinah Shelton holds the Manatt/Ahn Professorship in International Law at the George Washington University Law School, where she has taught since 2004. She previously taught international law and was director of the doctoral program in international human rights law at the University of Notre Dame Law School (1996-2004). Professor Shelton is the author of three prize-winning books, Protecting Human Rights in the Americas (co-authored with Thomas Buergenthal), Remedies in International Human Rights Law, and the three-volume Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. She has also authored many other articles and books on international law, human rights law, and international environmental law. She is a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law. In June 2009, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States elected her to a four-year term as a member of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.

Contributors: 

Babafemi Akinrinade, Western Washington University
Evert Alkema, Leiden University
Stéphane Beaulac, University of Montreal
Alexander J. Belohlavek, Attorney-at-Law, Czech Republic
Shin Hae Bong, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
Giuseppe Cataldi, University of Naples <"L'Orientale>"
John H. Currie, University of Ottawa
Emmanuel Decaux, University Pantheon-Assas Paris II
Sanja Djajic, University of Novi Sad School of Law
Tímea Drinóczi, University of Pécs
Paul R. Dubinsky, Wayne State University Law School
Talia Einhorn, Ariel University Center
Ildikó Ernszt, Károli Gáspár University
Hans-Peter Folz, University of Augsburg
Sanzhuan Guo, Melbourne Law School
Elisabeth Handl-Petz, Austrian Federal Chancellery
Eugenio Hernández-Bretón, Universidad Central de Venezuela
John Hopkins, University of Canterbury Law School, Christchurch
Alice de Jonge, Monash University, Melbourne
Bianca Karim, Attorney, Washington, District of Columbia
Patrick Kinsch, University of Luxembourg
Dagmar Lantajová, Trnava University
Jerry Z. Li, attorney-at-law, China
Francisco António de Macedo Lucas Ferreira de Almeida, University of Coimbra.
Stephen C. Neff, University of Edinburgh
Henry Onoria, Makerere University
Tirza Theunissen, international consultant on governance
Yury Tikhomirov
Erika de Wet, University of Pretoria
Anna Wyrozumska, University of Lódz
Aggelos Yokaris, University of Athens