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Ruth V. McGregor served on the Arizona Supreme Court from 1998 until 2009.
She was the Court’s Chief Justice from 2005 until her retirement. She was also a member of the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1989 to 1998, and served as Chief Judge from 1995 to 1997. Justice McGregor received both B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Iowa, a J.D., summa cum laude, from Arizona State University, and an LL.M. from the University of Virginia. Before her appointment to the bench, Justice McGregor practiced law as a member of the Fennemore Craig law firm in Phoenix, AZ. She also served as law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor during Justice O’Connor’s first term on the United States Supreme Court. Justice McGregor has participated extensively in professional activities, including service as an officer and a member of the board of trustees for the American Inns of Court Foundation, as an officer and board member for the National Association of Women Judges, as a board member of the Conference of Chief Justices, and on the Legal Council of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, the accrediting body for American law schools.

Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh is a lecturer of international law in the Irish Centre for
Human Rights. She received a B.A. in political science from the University of
Connecticut, an LL.M., with distinction, from the Queen’s University of Belfast,
Northern Ireland, and a Ph.D. in comparative politics from the London School
of Economics and Political Science. She has held visiting positions at Hebrew
University, Boston University, and Oxford University. She is also chair of the Executive Committee of Amnesty International (Ireland) and a member of the International Policy Committee of Amnesty International. She has undertaken numerous missions on behalf of Amnesty International to Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and, more recently, Iraq, among other countries. She has conducted trainings for governmental as well as nongovernmental organizations throughout the Middle East (Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Israel/Occupied Territories, Lebanon, and Sudan), India, and the Republic of Ireland.

Dr. Shane Darcy is a lecturer in international human rights law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. He holds a B.A. in law and accounting from the University of Limerick, and LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Prior to joining the academic staff of the Centre, he was a lecturer at the University of Ulster, a Government of Ireland Scholar, and a doctoral fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. In 2007, he was awarded the Eda Sagarra Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is director of the Ph.D. program at the Centre. Darcy has participated in training, workshops and research projects in China, Iran, South Africa, India, Cambodia, South Africa and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He is an associate editor of Criminal Law Forum. He is currently conducting research projects that explore the judicial development of international criminal law and humanitarian law.

Philip K. Hamilton is a professor of law at New England Law | Boston and currently teaches Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Legal History: The Development of Human Rights Law. He has also served as associate dean and as director of New England Law’s clinical program. Before joining the New England Law faculty, he was a legal services lawyer for eight years. He received an A.B. in history from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Before attending law school, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil. In 2005, while on sabbatical in England, he was a reader in Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, studying ancient Celtic law.

Dina Francesca Haynes is an associate professor of Law at New England Law | Boston, where she teaches courses in immigration, international law, ethics, refugee and asylum law, and Constitutional law. She has also taught at Georgetown University Law Center, American University’s Washington College of Law, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Prior to teaching law, she spent a decade practicing international law, including positions as director general of the Human Rights Department for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and as human rights advisor to the OSCE in Serbia and Montenegro. She has also worked for the United Nations, serving as a protection officer with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Croatia) and in positions with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Rwanda and Afghanistan). Haynes was also an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and she clerked for the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Her research and writing covers immigration law, human rights law, human trafficking, public international law, international organizations, international civil service and UN law, post-conflict reconstruction, humanitarian law and migration.

Ann Juergens is professor of law and co-director of clinics at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN, where she teaches civil advocacy clinic, professional responsibility, advocacy, and work of the lawyer in small firms and nonprofit organizations.  These courses include classroom, client representation clinic, externship and simulation teaching. She represented William Mitchell at the 1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, and she lectured at three laws schools in Moldova in 2005, at the Global Alliance for Justice Education conference in Manila in 2008, and at the University of Warsaw in 2009. She has focused on best practices in ethics and justice education, especially in clinical education. She is the author of teaching materials and articles on legal education and has written several histories of early activist women lawyers in Minnesota. Before beginning her teaching career, Juergens worked in a community-based private practice, as an associate city attorney in Berkeley, CA, and as a VISTA attorney with the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, CA. She received a B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.

Kenneth Klein is a professor of law at California Western School of Law. He was born and raised in Dallas, TX, where he also began his career as a practicing lawyer. He received a B.A. from Rice University and a J.D. with highest honors from the University of Texas School of Law. From 1984 through 2008, Professor Klein was a commercial litigator, except for two years (1994-1996) when he served on the full-time faculty of New England Law | Boston. In 2008, Klein resigned his partnership with Foley & Lardner LLP (where he was both the pro bono partner and the professional responsibility partner in its San Diego office) to join the faculty of California Western School of Law. Klein has published several law review articles on the jury as defined by the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. During his time in private practice, Klein was a multiple recipient of the Wiley Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services, and was the 2008 recipient of the State Bar of California's President's Pro Bono Service Award.

Dr. Ray Murphy is a member of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway. He received a B.A. and an LL.B. from the National University of Ireland, Galway; a B.L. from King's Inns, Dublin; an M. Litt. in international law from Dublin University, Trinity College; and a Ph.D. in international law from the University of Nottingham, England. He is a former practicing barrister and captain in the Irish Defense Forces, and he served with UN forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 1981 to 1982 and in 1989. He has worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union, Amnesty International, and the Irish government in human rights and election monitoring in Africa and Europe. His main teaching and research interests include international peace operations and international humanitarian law.

Professor William A. Schabas is the director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights and holds the chair of human rights law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Schabas is also a global legal scholar at the University of Warwick School of Law. Schabas holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from the University of Toronto and LL.B., LL.M., and LL.D. degrees from the University of Montreal. He is the author of more than 20 books dealing in whole or in part with international human rights law, as well as numerous articles in academic journals. Schabas has participated in many international human rights missions at the request of nongovernmental organizations and served as a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is the chair of the board of trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, and chair of the International Institute for Criminal Investigation. Schabas is editor-in-chief of Criminal Law Forum, the quarterly journal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. He is also president of the Irish branch of the International Law Association. Schabas has been awarded honorary degrees and honorary professorships by universities in Canada, the U.S., and China.