Contributors

Upendra BAXI, former Vice Chancellor of University of Delhi, and South Gujarat, is currently Professor of Law, Warwick University. He has pioneered and contributed, through acts of public interest interventions, to the development of social action litigation before the Supreme Court of India.

Frederick Chao-Chun LIN, is an Assistant Professor of Law at the National University of Kaohsiung. Professor Lin earned his SJD degree from Northwestern University of Law and has been a visiting scholar both at Harvard University Law School and the University of Tokyo.

John GILLESPIE is an associate professor in the Law School, Deakin University, Melbourne, specializing in Asian comparative law. He teaches courses on comparative Asian commercial law and has published widely, especially on Vietnamese legal reform. In addition, he has worked as a consultant on legal reform projects for the World Bank, UNDP, IFC and AusAid in Vietnam, Laos, and Indonesia.

Chaihark HAHM is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies, Korea. Dr. Hahm received his early training in law at Seoul National University, and went on to receive advanced law degrees from Yale, Columbia, and Harvard. He also holds an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School. Hihmahanto JUWANA is a Professor of Law, and currently Dean, at the University of Indonesia. He received his LLB from University of Indonesia (1987), LLM from Keio University, Japan (1992) and PhD from University of Nottingham, UK (1997).

H P LEE is the Sir John Latham Professor of Law at Monash University. He teaches and researches in Australian constitutional law and comparative constitutional law. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Australian Press Council.

Shigenori MATSUI is a Professor in Osaka University’s School of Law. He received his LLB from Kyoto University (1978), an LLM from Kyoto University (1980), a JSD from Stanford Law School (1986), and an LLD from Kyoto University (2000).

Vitit MUNTARBHORN is Law Professor at Chulalongkorn University and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and the General Rapporteur for the Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.

Dinusha PANDITARATNE is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong. She gained a BA in Jurisprudence from Balliol College, University of Oxford in 1996, and a LLM from Yale Law School in 1999. She is the co-editor of The Draft Constitution of Sri Lanka: Critical Aspects (1998).

Raul PANGALANGAN is Dean of University of the Philippines Law School, Member of Supreme Court Committee on Legal Education, and opinion writer for a leading national newspaper. He is a leading constitutional scholar who has written extensively on human rights and jurisprudential issues.

Guy SCOFFONI, Professor of Law at the University Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III , has been teaching Constitutional Law, European Law and Comparative Law since 1979. He is currently in charge of the Center of North-American and Comparative Studies in his University and is also responsible for various programs in Comparative Law and Fundamental Rights at a post-graduate level. THIO Li-ann is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Formerly Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law, she is currently an Editor with the Singapore Yearbook of International Law and an Advisory Board Member of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law.