DANIEL BRINKS is Assistant Professor of Government, in the fields of Comparative Politics and Public Law. Dan's research focuses on the role of the law and courts in supporting or extending the rights associated with democracy, with a primary regional interest in Latin America. His most recent projects address the judicial response to police violence in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, the use of courts and law to enforce social and economic rights in the developing world, judicial independence, and the role of informal norms in the legal order. He is also interested in the study of democracy more generally, and has written on the classification of regimes in Latin America, and on the global diffusion of democracy in the last quarter of a century. His research draws on his personal experience, as he was born and raised in Argentina and practiced law in the United States for nearly ten years before returning to academia.
KAREN ENGLE is Cecil D Redford Professor in Law at the School of Law and Director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She teaches, lectures and writes on international law, international human rights and employment discrimination. Her most recent international law articles include "Feminism and Its (Dis) contents: Criminalizing War-Time Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina" in the American Journal of International Law (2005), "Liberal Internationalism, Feminism and the Suppression of Critique: Contemporary Approaches to Global Order in the United States" in the Harvard International Law Journal (2005), "International Human Rights and Feminisms: When Discourses Keep Meeting" in International Law: Modern Feminist Approaches (2005) and "The Construction of Good Aliens and Good Citizens: Legitimizing the War on Terrorism" in the Colorado Law Review (2004).
CHARLES R. HALE is Associate Professor of Anthropology and was Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies from 2000-2003. He is currently the President of the Latin American Studies Association. He has received research fellowships from the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of "Más que un indio…" Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala (2006) and Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894–1987 (1994). He also is author of numerous articles and co-editor of several collections on identity politics, racism, ethnic conflict, and the status of indigenous peoples in Latin America.
BARBARA HARLOW is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature. Her research interests include Imperialism and Orientalism, Literature and Human Rights/Social Justice, 19th Century Novel, European Novel, Middle East Studies, African Studies, The ''Global South.''
BARBARA HINES is a clinical professor at School of Law and directs the immigration clinic. She has practiced in the field of immigration law since 1975 and is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Immigration and Nationality Law. She served as the first Co-Director of Texas Lawyer Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, and currently is of counsel to and a member of the Board of Directors of the organization. She has served as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. Hines has received numerous awards for her work, and, in 2000, was selected as one of the 100 outstanding lawyers of the century by the Texas Lawyer. She has also received several Fulbright awards to work on immigration and international human rights in Argentina.
NEVILLE HOAD teaches in the English department at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization. He has published extensively on sexuality and human rights in Southern Africa.
DEREK JINKS is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law specializing in public international law, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law. Prior to entering the academy, he worked in the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and also served in the delegation of the International Service for Human Rights at the Rome conference for the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court. He is the author of The Rules of War: The Geneva Conventions in the Age of Terror (forthcoming Oxford University Press 2006), International Humanitarian Law (forthcoming Oxford University Press 2007) (with Ryan Goodman), and Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights through International Law (forthcoming Oxford University Press 2008) (with Ryan Goodman).
JUDITH RHEDIN serves as an Assistant Director at the Performing Arts Center (PAC), where she oversees Community Relations /Education. She works with artists and multiple constituencies in developing collaborative partnerships with communities, major universities and organizations in the US and abroad. She also oversees the development of ArtesAmericas Educational materials which are provided for more than 50 presenting partners. She has served on national and state panels and boards including the National Academy of Television Arts and Science and National Endowment for the Arts. She recently was co-recipient of a Fulbright - Hays award. She holds a bachelor degree in Community Development and a doctorate in jurisprudence/master of science in administration.
SHANNON SPEED is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology. She has worked for the last decade in Chiapas, Mexico, on issues of human rights, indigenous rights and gender. She has published a number of articles on topics related to this research and is currently completing a book entitled Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Human Rights and Indigenous Resistance in Chiapas, as well as co-editing two volumes, Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Moral Engagements, and Culture Contentions (Duke 2008) and Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas (UT Press 2006).
GERALD TORRES is H. O. Head Centennial Professor in Real Property Law at the School of Law where he teaches and writes on indigenous rights, race and the environment. He is co-author of The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2002, with Lani Guinier) and author of many articles including "Translation and Stories" (Harvard Law Review, 2002), "Who Owns the Sky?" (Pace Law Review, 2001) (Garrison Lecture), "Taking and Giving: Police Power, Public Value, and Private Right" (Environmental Law, 1996), and "Translating Yonnondio by Precedent and Evidence: The Mashpee Indian Case" (Duke Law Journal, 1990). Torres served as deputy assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and as counsel to then U.S. attorney general Janet Reno. He is also immediate Past President of the American Association of Law Schools, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. Torres was honored with the 2004 Legal Service Award from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) for his work to advance the legal rights of Latinos.