Yash Pal Ghai CBE is a Kenyan academic in constitutional law. As of 2007 he is the head of the Constitution Advisory Support Unit of the United Nations Development Programme in Nepal. Until 2008,he was a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Cambodia on human rights. In September 2008,he resigned his post,following bitter arguments with the Government of Cambodia. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2005. Yash Pal Ghai is a writer and a poet .His known texts majoring in constitutional law discourse in Africa
Stephen Myron Schwebel,is an American jurist and international judge,counsel and arbitrator. He previously served as judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal (2010–2017),as a member of the U.S. National Group at the Permanent Court of Arbitration,as president of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal (1993–2010),as president of the International Court of Justice (1997–2000),as vice president of the International Court of Justice (1994–1997),and as Judge of the International Court of Justice (1981–2000). Prior to his tenure on the ICJ,Schwebel served as deputy legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State (1974–1981) and as assistant legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State (1961–1967). He also served as a professor of law at Harvard Law School (1959–1961) and Johns Hopkins University (1967–1981). Schwebel is noted for his expansive opinions in momentous cases such as Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua and Oil Platforms.
Christopher John Robert Dugard is a South African professor of international law. His main academic specializations are in Roman-Dutch law,public international law,jurisprudence,human rights,criminal procedure and international criminal law. He has served on the International Law Commission,the primary UN institution for the development of international law,and has been active in reporting on human-rights violations by Israel in the Palestinian territories.
Philip Geoffrey Alston is an Australian international law scholar and human rights practitioner. He is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law,and co-chair of the law school's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. In human rights law,Alston has held a range of senior UN appointments for over two decades,including United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial,summary or arbitrary executions,a position he held from August 2004 to July 2010,and UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights from 2014-2020.
Vitit Muntarbhorn is an international human rights expert and professor of law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok,Thailand. Muntarbhorn was designated in September 2016 as the first UN Independent Expert on violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity by the Human Rights Council before succeeded by Victor Madrigal-Borloz in 2018.
Sarah Hull Cleveland,an American judge,lawyer,law professor,and former State Department official,is a judge on the International Court of Justice and the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School.
Martin Scheinin is an international law scholar who served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism in 2005–2011. He was selected for this position after serving for eight years (1997–2004) as member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee,the independent expert body monitoring states' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. While on the committee,he was known as a defendant of the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples and opponent of capital punishment,as well as the drafter of the committee's General Comment No. 29 on states of emergency.
Iulia Antoanella Motoc is a Romanian judge and international law expert,currently a Judge of the International Criminal Court. Before beginning her service at the Court,she was a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights,a professor at the University of Bucharest and a Judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania.
William Anthony Schabas,OC is a Canadian academic specialising in international criminal and human rights law. He is professor of international law at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom,professor of international human law and human rights at Leiden University in the Netherlands,and an internationally respected expert on human rights law,genocide and the death penalty.
Ben Saul is the current Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He has appeared as an advocate in international,regional and national courts outside Australia,and he is also admitted to practice as a barrister in New South Wales. His research interests include international law,in particular,international aspects of anti-terrorism law,humanitarian law,human rights law,among others.
Christoffel Hendrik Heyns was a Professor of Human Rights Law,Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria and a South African member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial,summary or arbitrary executions from 2010 to 2016. Heyns was a visiting professor at American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2006–2012).
Rajsoomer Lallah was a Mauritian lawyer and judge who played a leading role in International Human Rights cases.
Michael Benedict Emmerson CBE KC is a British barrister,specialising in public international law,human rights and humanitarian law,and international criminal law. From 2011 to 2017,he was the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism. Emmerson is currently an Appeals Chamber Judge of the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals sitting on the Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has previously served as Special Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court,and Special Adviser to the Appeals Chamber of the ECCC.
Monica Feria Tinta is a British/Peruvian barrister,a specialist in public international law,at the Bar of England &Wales. She practises from Twenty Essex,London.
Subedi is one of the surnames of both Brahmin and Chhetri Varna in Nepal. In ancient days,people who could recite Veda easily were called by the surname Subedi. It is also believed that they originated from the same Village called Subeda which lies in the Rolpa,Bajhang District of Far Western Nepal which is why they are called Subedi. They belong to the Bharadwaja Gotra. Subedi are mostly found in the hilly region of Nepal. They are also found in kingdom of Bhutan and Myanmar.
Rhona K. M. Smith is a British legal academic. She is professor of international human rights and former head of Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University and was the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia.
The Judiciary of Cambodia is independent from the rest of the government of Cambodia,as specified by the Cambodian Constitution. The judiciary follows civil law tradition,the instruction being entrusted to a judge and the prosecutors contenting themselves with requesting the application of the law.
Roberto Córdova was a Mexican jurist,international judge,and diplomat. Córdova served as a judge for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) between 1955 and 1964. He was the second Mexican to serve as an ICJ judge,following Isidro Fabela.
Felipe González Morales is a Chilean lawyer and academic,specializing in international human rights law.
Chaloka Beyani is a Zambian lawyer and legal scholar,who is an associate professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has worked and published extensively in the fields of international human rights law,international criminal law and international humanitarian law,as well as on issues relating to humanitarian assistance and population displacements,in particular internal displacement. In 2023 Beyani was nominated by Zambia for election to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Netherlands co-nominated Beyani. Zambia had previously put Beyani forth for the 2017 International Court of Justice judges election,but withdrew his name prior to the candidate selection process. If elected,he would have been the first Zambian judge at the ICJ. After five rounds of voting in the Security Council and one round of voting in the General Assembly,Beyani was not elected.
