Securing Human Rights?
Achievements and Challenges of the UN Security Council
Edited by Bardo Fassbender
Author Information
Bardo Fassbender is Professor of International Law at the Bundeswehr University in Munich. He studied at the University of Bonn and holds an LL.M from Yale Law School and a Doctor iuris from the Humboldt University in Berlin. Before joining the Bundeswehr University, he taught in Berlin, St Gallen, and Munich (Ludwig Maximilians University). His principal fields of research are international law, United Nations law, German constitutional law, comparative constitutional law and theory, and the history of international and constitutional law. Among his many publications are the books UN Security Council and the Right of Veto: A Constitutional Perspective (The Hague/London/Boston, 1998), Der offene Bundesstaat: Studien zur auswartigen Gewalt und zur Volkerrechtssubjektivitat bundesstaatlicher Teilstaaten in Europa (Tubingen, 2007), and The United Nations Charter as the Constitution of the International Community (Leiden/Boston, 2009).
Contributors:
Annalisa Ciampi, Professor of International Law at the University of Verona
Erika de Wet, Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa and Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
Bardo Fassbender, Professor of International Law at the Bundeswehr University in Munich
Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Honorary Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva
Daphna Shraga, Principal Legal Officer, Office of the Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations
Salvatore Zappalà, Professor of International Law at the University of Catania (Italy)