Sovereign Debt and Human Rights
Edited by Ilias Bantekas and Cephas Lumina
Author Information
Edited by Ilias Bantekas, Professor of Law, Brunel University and Northwestern University, and Edited by Cephas Lumina, University of Fort Hare, Professor of Law
Ilias Bantekas FCIArb is Professor of International Law and Arbitration at Brunel and Northwestern (HBKU Qatar) universities and a senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London. He has consulted governments, international organisations, private clients and NGOs in most areas of international law and regularly acts as arbitrator. Key works include: International Human Rights Law and Practice (2nd ed, CUP 2016 with L Oette); International Law (3rd ed, OUP 2017, with E Papastavridis); and Introduction to International Arbitration (CUP 2015).
Cephas Lumina is full Research Professor of Law at the University of Fort Hare, an Extra-Ordinary Professor of Human Rights Law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, an Advocate of the High Court of Zambia and the former United Nations Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights (2008-2014). His work, particularly the UN Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights, is considered as having changed the political and legal landscape in the area of sovereign debt and human rights. He has consulted for various regional and international organisations, governments and non-governmental organisations on human rights and related issues. He is currently a Member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017-2021).
Contributors:
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, United Nations Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights
Aline Darbellay Susso, Centre for Banking and Financial Law (CDBF), University of Geneva
Franz Christian Eber, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Bodo Ellmers, Policy and Advocacy Manager at European Network on Debt and Development
Maria Lucia Fattorelli, National Coordinator of Citizen Debt Audit Brazil
Matthias Goldmann, Goethe University Frankfurt and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Martin Guzman, Columbia University and Universidad de Buenos Aires
Barry Herman, member of the Board of Social Justice in Global Development
Robert Howse, NYU School of Law
Gail Hurley, Policy Specialist on Development Finance at the United Nations Development Programme
Tim Jones, Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer at the Jubilee Debt Campaign
Sarah Joseph, Monash University
Alexander Kentikelenis, Trinity College, University of Oxford and University of Amsterdam
Rosa María Lastra, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
Mulesa Lumina, Senior Associate at HURICON Ltd
Mauro Megliani, Catholic University of Milan
Kim Oosterlinck, Université libre de Bruxelles
Vassilis Paliouras, Queen Mary, University of London
Arturo C. Porzecanski, American University, Washington DC
María José Romero, Policy and Advocacy Manager at the European Network on Debt and Development
Margot E Salomon, London School of Economics and Political Science
Daniela Chimisso dos Santos, Principal Consultant at Invenient Solutions Consulting
Olivier De Schutter, Université Catholique de Louvain and Sciences Po
Francesco Seatzu, University of Cagliari
Sara L. Seck, Dalhousie University
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
Thomas Stubbs, Royal Holloway, University of London and University of Cambridge
Ben Warwick, University of Birmingham
