Ana-Maria Salinas de Frias is Professor of Public International Law at Malaga University, Spain. She has recently completed a two year secondment as Legal Advisor to the Directorate General of Legal Advice and Public International Law at the Council of Europe, including on anti-terrorism matters. She specializes in, and has published extensively on, human rights, European Community, and immigration matters.

Katja Samuel is a barrister specializing in security and armed conflict, international human rights and criminal law. With military, practitioner, NGO, and academic experience, she focuses in particular on counter-terrorism matters; and co-directs the current Rule of Law and Terrorism project together with Nigel White under the umbrella of the World Justice Project.

Nigel White is Professor of Public International Law, Nottingham University, UK, and is a leading expert in security and armed conflict, international institutional, peacekeeping, and arms control law. He has authored and edited a significant number of publications on these issues, most recently Democracy Goes to War: British Military Deployment under International Law (OUP, 2009); is the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Conflict and Security Law; and is the editor of the Oxford Reports on International Law online module International Law in the Domestic Courts for the UK.

Contributors:

Olympia Bekou (Greece) - Associate Professor, and Head of the International Criminal Justice Unit of the Human Rights Law Centre, School of Law, Nottingham University
Ilaria Bottigliero (Italy)- Senior Researcher, International Development Law Organization, - Rome
Colm Campbell (Northern Ireland) - Director of the Transitional Justice Institute, - Ulster University
Silvia Casale (UK) - adviser to Council of Europe>'s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture (formerly President of the CPT and UNSPT monitoring teams)
Christina M Cerna (USA/Nicaragua) - Principal Human Rights Specialist, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Michèle Coninsx (Belgium) - Vice President, Eurojust and Chair of its Counter-Terrorism Team
Hans Corell (Sweden) - formerly Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations; - currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University, - Sweden
Helen Duffy (UK) - Litigation Director, Interights
Martin Ewi (Cameroon) - Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria
Sergio García Ramírez (Mexico) - former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights-; now Professor at the Universidad Autónoma of Mexico
Augustus Invictus (USA) - Fellow, International Human Rights Law Institute, De Paul's University
Tassaduq Hussein Jillani (Pakistan) - Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (suspended when martial law was declared in 2007, and subsequently reinstated in 2009 following the restoration of democracy)
Ibrahima Kane (Senegal) - head of the African Union Advocacy Programme, Open Society Initiative for East Africa
Chris Kannady (USA)- judge advocate, US Marine Corps; (including defence of Guantanamo Bay detainees)
Nicole el Khoury (Lebanon) - terrorism prevention expert, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (Terrorism Prevention Branch), Vienna
Steve Kostas (USA) - lawyer on Security and Rule of Law program, Interights
David Kretzmer (Israel) - Professor Emeritus of International Law, Hebrew University, - Jerusalem
César Landa (Peru) - recent President of the Constitutional Court of Peru; former Deputy Minister of Justice and ad hoc Judge to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; currently Professor of Constitutional Law, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Lima
Claudia Martin (Argentina/USA) - Co-Director, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and Professorial Lecturer, American University Washington College of Law
Peter Masciola (USA) - judge advocate, US Air Force-Air National Guard reserves; recently Chief Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions, Guantanamo Bay
Thomas R Mockaitis (USA) - Professor of History, DePaul University Daniel Moeckli (Switzerland) - Oberassistent in Public Law, Zurich University
Nuala Mole (UK) - Director, AIRE Centre
Egbert Myjer (The Netherlands) - judge, European Court of Human Rights
Jarmo Oikarinen (Finland) - policy analyst, Policy Department for EU external relations, EU Parliament
Michel Paradis (USA) - adjunct professor, Georgetown University Law School; - defense counsel, US Department of Defense, Office of Military Commissions
Jelena Pejic (Serbia) - Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross
Fernando Perpiñá-Robert (Spain)- Spanish diplomat; recent Secretary-General, Club of Madrid (membership of 75 former heads of state from over 50 democratic countries)
Anton du Plessis (South Africa) - head of the International Crime in Africa Programme, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria
Richard Pregent (USA)- judge advocate, US Army (including recent Chief of the International and Operational Law Division, US Army's Office of The Judge Advocate General)
Kim Prost (Canada) - Ombudsperson the Security Council Al Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Committee
Rod Rastan (UK/Iran) - Legal Adviser, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
Nigel Rodley (UK) - Professor of Law and Chair of the Human Rights Centre, Essex University of Essex; Vice-Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee
Allan Rosas (Finland) - judge, Court of Justice of the European Union
Ben Saul (Australia) - Co-Director, Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney
Gerald Staberock (Germany) - Deputy Secretary General of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Geneva
Charles Tucker- Jr (USA) - international human rights, governance and rule of law practitioner, including formerly with the US Army and De Paul's University
David Turns (UK)- Senior Lecturer in International Laws of Armed Conflict, Defence Academy of the UK (Cranfield University)
Kees Wouters (The Netherlands) - senior refugee law advisor, Division of International Protection, UN High Commissioner for Refugees

"A valuable comprehensive reference resource that brings together leading experts on the spectrum of legal issues involved in formulating and applying counter-terrorism policies domestically and internationally." -- Joshua Sinai, Perspectives on Terrorism