The Eminent Jurists Panel
The Eminent Jurists
2006
Arthur CHASKALSON
(South Africa)
Chair of the Panel: Former Chief Justice of South Africa, Arthur Chaskalson has been a leading human rights lawyer during the apartheid period of his country, where he acted as counsel to key human rights cases. This included the Rivonia Trial in 1963-64 when Nelson Mandela and other African National Congress figures were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1994, Chaskalson was appointed first President of South Africa’s new Constitutional Court where he served in this capacity until 2005.
Georges ABI-SAAB
(Egypt)
Georges Abi-Saab is one of the world’s leading scholars in public international law. During his career, he served as a judge at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda and ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice. He is currently a member of the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body.
Robert K. GOLDMAN
(United States)
Professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law, Robert K. Goldman recently served as the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s expert on counter-terrorism and human rights. As a former member and President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, he brings particular expertise on past counter-terrorism policies in Latin America.
Hina JILANI
(Pakistan)
A lawyer of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Hina Jilani is founder and current Vice Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, one of the country’s most prominent non-governmental organizations. During her mandate as the first United Nations expert on human rights defenders, she has had wide exposure to the impact of counter-terrorism measures on human rights advocates and their work.
Vitit MUNTARBHORN
(Thailand)
A renowned Professor of Law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Vitit Muntarbhorn is also a Member of the Advisory Council of Jurists of the Asia-Pacific Forum. Former expert of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, Professor Muntarbhorn currently serves as the UN expert on the situation of human rights in North Korea.
Mary ROBINSON
(Ireland)
The first woman president of Ireland and a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson is a prominent human rights advocate. She is now head of the Ethical Globalization Initiative in New York and Vice-President of the Club de Madrid, organizer of the 2005 International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security. She became President of the ICJ in December 2008.
Stefan TRECHSEL
(Switzerland)
An expert in criminal law and criminal procedure, Stefan Trechsel served for more than 20 years as a member of the European Commission on Human Rights, including as its President. He has expertise on legal and justice reforms in the former Soviet Union and Russian Federation countries. He currently serves as judge ad litem at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
E. Raśl ZAFFARONI
(Argentina)
A widely respected jurist, E. Raśl Zaffaroni has served as a judge for 20 years. He is the author of a number of reforms of criminal codes in Argentina as well as in other Latin American countries. He has also served as Director of the United Nations Latin-American Institute on crime prevention (ILANUD). In 2003, Zaffaroni was appointed a Supreme Court Justice in his own country.
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