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Ademola Abass Upendra Baxi Jacqueline Cheltenham Ben Chigara Andrew Choo Dr Assafa Endeshaw Fidelis Oditah QC Abimbola Olowofoyeku Abdul Paliwala Gail Price Khawar Qureshi QC Javaid Rehman Shaheen Sardar Ali

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Ademola Abass

Ademola Abass is a Professor of Law at Brunel University.

Upendra Baxi

Upendra Baxi has been the Professor of Law in Development at the University of Warwick since 1996. He was previously Professor of Law at the University of Delhi for 23 years and was its Vice-Chancellor from 1990 until 1994. He was also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Gujarat, in Surat, from 1982 until 1985; the Honorary Director (Research) at The Indian Law Institute from 1985 until 1988; and the President of the Indian Society of International Law from 1992 until 1995. Professor Baxi graduated from Rajkot (Gujarat University), read law at the University of Bombay, and holds Master of Laws degrees from the University of Bombay and the University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley also awarded him a Doctorate in Juristic Sciences. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates in Law by the National Law School University of India, Bangalore and the University of La Trobe, Melbourne. Professor Baxi has taught various courses in law and science, comparative constitutionalism and social theory of human rights at Universities of Sydney, Duke University, The American University, the New York University Law School Global Law Program and the University of Toronto.

Jacqueline Cheltenham

Jacqueline Cheltenham is the Director of the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law, London.

Ben Chigara

Ben Chigara is the Research Professor of International Laws and Deputy Head of School at Brunel University in London. His main fields of interest are international institutions, development and enforcement of international human rights law and legal theory. Before his appointment at Brunel, Professor Chigara held lectureships at Warwick (2001-2003); Leeds (1999-2001); Oxford Brookes (1998132

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1999); and a Research Fellowship at Brandeis Law School, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA (2000). He has also worked in Dansk AFS, Denmark, and for Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Higher Education. He is an author and his books include Land Reform Policy: The Challenge of Human Rights Law, published in 2004 and Amnesty in International Law: The Legality Under International Law of National Amnesty Law, published in 2002.

Andrew Choo

Andrew Choo is a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick and has had a part-time practice, encompassing crime and criminal due process and human rights law, at Matrix Chambers as an academic barrister since 2002, when he was called to the Bar. After studying for degrees in commerce and law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney from 1981 until 1985, Andrew then qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1986. He gained his Doctorate from Oxford University in 1991 and has been an academic since then. He was a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and then a lecturer (1991 until 1994) and reader (1995 and 1996) at the University of Leicester. Before joining to Warwick in January 2006, he had been a Professor of Law at Brunel University from 1997 until 2005. As an academic, Andrew’s research interests include evidence and procedure (especially criminal evidence). He is the author of numerous articles and of four books.

Dr Assafa Endeshaw

Dr Assafa Endeshaw is a Reader in Law at Oxford Brookes University. He graduated from London University in intellectual property policy and technology-related legal disciplines, such as information technology and transfer of technology laws as well as in international trade and franchising. He was previously a legal attorney and adviser in Government departments and a legal researcher and consultant in a law firm in Ethiopia. Subsequently, he taught at the Nanyang Business School of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, for nine years first as BLACK LETTER LAW 2007

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Lecturer and later as Associate Professor of law. Dr Assafa has written several articles and conference papers that have appeared in local and international publications. He has authored Intellectual Property Policy for Non-Industrial Countries (Dartmouth, 1996), Intellectual Property in China: The Roots of the Problem of Enforcement (Acumen, 1996), (jointly) Marketing and Consumer Law in Singapore (1999) and Internet and E-Commerce Law: with a focus on Asia-Pacific (Prentice Hall, Pearson Education Asia, 2001). His areas of interest are: intellectual property, information technology (including regulation of the Internet and ECommerce), international trade law, franchising law, transfer of technology law, consumer protection law.

Fidelis Oditah QC

Fidelis Oditah QC was previously a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton College, Oxford but is now a visiting professor at Oxford University. Read more about him within the Queen’s Counsels section.

Abimbola Olowofoyeku

Abimbola Olowofoyeku is a Professor of Law at Brunel University, and has been Head of the Brunel Law School since 2006. His research interests lie in the fields of comparative constitutionalism, administrative law, revenue law and torts. He teaches revenue law and public law. Professor Olowofoyeku started his academic career as a lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic (1987-88). He thereafter spent 12 years at Keele University, where he was a Lecturer (1988-95), Senior Lecturer (1995-1999) and Reader (19992000). He took up a Chair in Law at Brunel University in July 2000. He has, during academic career, held a number of Visiting Fellowships in Australia. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University (March-August 1995), and Visiting Fellow at the 134

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Abdul Paliwala

Abdul Paliwala is a Professor at the University of Warwick. He is Director of International Development Law and Human Rights, Law Courseware Consortium and Electronic Law Journals. He is also the Senior Consultant (ICT) at the UK Centre for Legal Education and an Associate at the Centre for Globalisation and Regionalisation. He is on the Justice Sector Consultant Panel, Department for International Development and was the lead EU Consultant, Democratisation and Human Rights in Malawi in 1996-7. He has held a wide range of consultancies on human rights resource centres and on C&IT development and given advice in Hungary and India. Professor Paliwala previously held posts at the University of Papua New Guinea, the University of Dar-es-Salaam and the Queen’s University, Belfast. His main current research is in the areas of globalisation and legal regulation of the digital divide, law and economy in Developing countries and information technology in legal education. He is the author of numerous publications.

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Gail Price

Gail Price is an Associate Professor at the College of Law, London and has been at the College since 1999. She teaches Business Finance and is also a course designer and team leader for the Housing Law and Practice elective at the College of Law. She is the co-author, with Colin Barton, of Housing Law & Practice, published in 2007, a publication that is designed for students doing the Housing Law elective as well as Housing Law practitioners.

Khawar Qureshi QC

Khawar Qureshi QC is a practising barrister at Serle Court Chambers and is a visiting professor in commercial law at SOAS, London since 2004. Read more about him within the Queen’s Counsel section.

Javaid Rehman

Javaid Rehman has been a Professor of International Law at Brunel University and Director of Research at Brunel Law School since 2005. He is an internationally recognised expert on Islamic law, international human rights law and international terrorism (in particular terrorism emerging from the Middle East and South-Asia). His first degree was in History and English Literature at Government College Lahore, Punjab University. He then read Law at the University of Reading. He completed a PhD in International Law in 1995 and became a full-time lecturer in 1996 at the Law Department, Leeds University, becoming a Senior Lecturer there in 2002. He was invited to a Readership in International Law by the University of Leeds. In December 2002, he was appointed to a Chair in Law at Ulster University. His current research is focused on Islamic law and international terrorism. As a qualified lawyer, he also provides legal opinions pertaining to matters of international law, constitutional law and Islamic law. Javaid is the author of numerous books, including Islam, “War on Terror” and the Future of Muslim Minorities in the United Kingdom: Dilemmas of Multi-Culturalism in the aftermath of the London Bombings, published in 2007. BLACK LETTER LAW 2007

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Shaheen Sardar Ali

Shaheen Sardar Ali is a Professor at Warwick University. She was formerly a Professor of Law at the University of Peshawar, in Pakistan. She regularly acts as a consultant for a range of international bodies, including DFID, NORAD, UNICEF, UNIFEM, to name a few. She was also a member of the British Council Task Force on Gender and Development and has served on the National Commission of Inquiry on Women as well as the Prime Minister’s Consultative Committee on Women in Pakistan. She has served as Minister for Health, Population Welfare and Women’s Development in the Government of the North West Frontier Province (Pakistan) and Chair of the National Commission on the Status of Women of Pakistan. Shaheen is one of the founder members and Co-ordinator of the South Asian Research network on Gender, Law and Governance (SARN). She is the author of many books and has received numerous distinctions and awards, including the British Muslims’ Annual Honours achievement plaque in the House of Lords in May 2002 and two Commonwealth scholarships to study at the University of Hull – one for her Masters studies and one for her Doctorate. She regularly contributes to radio and television programmes as a commentator or in discussions on current affairs, Islamic law, Muslim world, Pakistan, South Asia and Human Rights.

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