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Alison Brysk is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina (1994) and From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America (2000), and the editor of Globalization and Human Rights (2002). Her forthcoming book, Human Rights and Private Wrongs, will be part of Routledge’s Human Rights Horizons series.
Richard Falk has been a Visiting Professor in Global Studies at the UCSB since 2002. Prior to that he was Milbank Professor of International Law at Princeton University where he was a member of the faculty for forty years. He is currently Chair of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board of The Nation. His most recent books are The Great Terror War (2003) and Unlocking the Middle East (2003). He is also the author of Human Rights Horizons: The Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World (2000).
David Jacobson is Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University. His research is in political sociology from a global, comparative and legal perspective, with a particular interest in international institutions, immigration and citizenship. Jacobson, who was born in South Africa, was educated at the Hebrew University, the London School of Economics and Princeton University. He is the author of Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and Place and Belonging in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), and is editor of Identities, Borders and Orders: New Perspectives in International Relations (University of Minnesota Press, 2001, with Mathias Albert and Yosef Lapid); The Immigration Reader: America in Multidisciplinary Perspective (Blackwell, 1998); and Old Nations, New World: Conceptions of the World Order (Westview Press, 1994), among other publications. Jacobson is a member of the Cycladic Academy for Europe in Athens and Tinos, Greece.
