We are presently in the process of finalizing our faculty roster for Summer Institute 2012.  Check back here for updates later in the Spring.  Meanwhile, we are pleased to announce a partial list of expert faculty we tentatively expect to participate in this year's Summer Institute.

Dr. Philip Cook
Philip Cook is the founder and current Executive Director of the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) in British Columbia, Canada.  Since 1994, Dr. Cook has overseen the Institute’s growth as a leader in linking children’s rights and healthy development to broad issues of human development and participatory governance across diverse cultures and situational contexts. During this time, IICRD has been working in partnership with a cross section of UN agencies, governments, and international non-governmental organizations, and children’s organizations. These partnerships have resulted in policy design, community based research initiatives, school based programs and projects with marginalized children, youth and their communities on various issues including: child participation in local governance, youth leadership and development, support for Indigenous children, child participation monitoring and evaluation, intergenerational programs, promoting the rights of sexually-exploited children and caring for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Professor David Cohen
Professor Cohen is Professor of Rhetoric and Classics at UC Berkeley, and the former Professor of Law and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He has monitored and reported extensively on the East Timor trials before the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in Dili and the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court in Jakarta. He currently directs trial monitoring projects at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia as well as an international project on the World War II war crimes trials in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe. He is also writing a book on a comparative study of international criminal hybrid tribunals in East Timor, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Kosovo and on war crimes from World War II to today.

Mr. Marzuki Darusman
Born in Bogor in 1945, Mr. Darusman graduated from Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung in 1974, majoring in international law of the sea. He was a member of the Executive Committee and former Vice-Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Geneva and for a long time has been a strong advocate of human rights and democratization in Indonesia championing these causes while with GOLKAR where he has been a Member of Parliament since the 1980s. He has developed an international reputation for being an outspoken critic of the government’s human rights record. He has served as Chairperson of the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), and as Indonesia’s Attorney General. In 2009, The United Nations chose Mr. Darusman as one of the UN team to investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Sidney Jones is senior adviser to the Asia program of the International Crisis Group, based in Crisis Group's South East Asia office in Jakarta. Before joining Crisis Group in 2002, she worked for the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and New York (1977-84); Amnesty International in London as the Indonesia-Philippines researcher (1985-88); and Human Rights Watch in New York as the Asia director (1989-2001).  She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and conducted doctoral research in Kediri, East Java on Nahdlatul Ulama -- but never completed the degree. She lived in Shiraz, Iran for one year as a university student, 1971-72, and studied Arabic in Cairo and Tunisia.  She received an honorary doctorate in 2006 from the New School in New York. A  native of Albany, New York, she is now resident in Indonesia. Her areas of expertise include Islamic movements; sources of communal and ethnic conflict; and terrorism, all in Southeast Asia.

James Steven Kallman

James Steven Kallman, President Director, Mazars Indonesia and Head of Global Business Unit for the Emerging Markets.  James Kallman is a Senior Partner of Global Accounting and Consulting Firm, Mazars. A 30-year veteran of the Emerging Markets, James also is the Partner-in-Charge of Mazars Emerging Markets Practice globally.

In recent years James has been passionately involved in the field of Human Rights Audit, in March moderating a session about “Human Rights at the heart of economic requirements” at the Osons La France, a business forum geared towards small and medium enterprises. The speakers at the session were François Zimeray, Ambassador for Human Rights at the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, and Marie-Ange Debon, General Secretary of Suez Environment.

Together with Marzuki Darusman, James conceptualized and oversaw the development of a proprietary Human Rights audit methodology based upon the UN Guiding Principles and international agreements and conventions. This methodology was recently awarded the ‘Audit Innovation of the Year’ by the international accountancy magazine, International Accounting Bulletin, the judges commenting, “Mazars has taken a lead role in assessing audit clients against the Mazars Indicators for Human Rights Compliance. These indicators measure how well a company is complying with basic human rights. They are assessed against local laws and consolidated at an international level. Judges felt the Mazars Human Rights Audit was pertinent, innovative and could set a benchmark for global best practice.” Mazars has asked James to lead this practice for Human Rights auditing and consulting worldwide.

Christine Kaufmann
Since September 1st 2003 Christine Kaufmann is full professor for constitutional, administrative and public international law at the University of Zurich. She also is a member of the Board des WTI.
Since 1993 she is a staff member of the editorial department of the journal, Aktuelle Juristische Praxis“ ("Current juridical praxis"). She officiates as chairwomen of the Swiss association Morbus Bechterew. Since 1999 she is a member of the advisory board of the Zurich section of the European Law Students’ Association, ELSA. In September 2002 she was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute.

Christine Kaufmann significantly contributed to the founding of the University of Zurich Competence Center for Human Rights in the beginning of 2009. Her main research interests concern the impacts of globalization on constitutional law, the interfaces between international trade law and human rights, as well as the relations between the international trade and finance system.

Daniel King
Daniel King, Asia Legal Director, EarthRights International, coordinates ERI’s legal program in the Mekong sub-region, including the Mekong Legal Advocacy Institute and Mekong Legal Network programs. Prior to joining ERI, Daniel worked as a legal advisor to Cambodian public interest lawyers representing urban, rural and indigenous communities fighting for their land rights. He has experience with international legal advocacy and community engagement. Daniel has also worked as a lawyer in the environment and planning jurisdiction in Australia, representing both corporate and public interest clients. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences and Bachelor of Laws from Sydney University and is completing a Masters of Public and International Law at Melbourne University. He is admitted to legal practice in New South Wales, Australia. Daniel speaks basic legal Khmer and is learning Thai.

Mr. Mahdev Mohan
Mahdev Mohan is Assistant Professor of law at the Singapore Management University. He is also an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court and an Associate of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Mahdev is also the co-founder of Access to Justice Asia LLP, an NGO comprising of scholars and lawyers dedicated to legal representation, social justice and capacity-building for victims of mass crime in Asia. He served as amicus curiae to the UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal, which is currently trying former Khmer Rouge leaders for grave war crimes ad crimes against humanity. Last year, Mahdev was appointed international counsel for victims by the Tribunal and the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC). He is the first Singaporean/ Asian to be so appointed. Mahdev’s research interests lie in public international law, international criminal law, transitional justice and human rights, State-building in Asia, and the administration of criminal justice in Singapore.

Ms. Cynthia Morel
Cynthia Morel began her work before regional mechanisms upon joining the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in 2000. She later established Minority Rights Group International’s strategic litigation programme in 2002. In her capacity as founding legal officer, and later as senior legal advisor, she spearheaded the development of landmark cases such as Finci v Bosnia and Herzegovina before the European Court of Human Right’s Grand Chamber, and the Endorois case before the African Commission. In 2008, she joined the Open Society Justice Initiative where she litigated against ethnic profiling and statelessness. In 2011, she joined Access to Justice Asia as a senior associate on business and human rights. She concurrently serves as an independent consultant to various bodies dedicated to the strengthening of the African and ASEAN human rights mechanisms. Ms Morel is an advisor to the Asian Peace-Building and Rule of Law programme, as well as an advisory member to the International Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales.

James Nayagam
James Nayagam.  Current Position:  Commissioner - Suhakam - Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.  Others areas of work - Council member for the welfare and protection of children in Malaysia; Council member of the Council for Anti Human Trafficking.  Has been working with poor families and abused children for the past 30 years

His achievements include setting up an school for young prisoners in the Kajang prison; is a founding member of the Shelter home which provides care and protection for children in need; implemented the food aid program as part of the community services to preserve the family unit, set up a drop in center for teenagers to provide a healthy hangout alternative that focuses on the personal development of youth; established a Single Mothers support group; and set up schools for refugee and stateless children. 

Mr. Nayagam earned his Master of Science from the University of Leicester, LL.B.(Honors) from the University of London, and has diplomas in counseling psychology and administration.

Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, oversees the organization's work throughout Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, North Korea and Japan. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 2009, he worked for more than a decade in Southeast Asia on human rights, labor rights, protection of migrant workers, and counter-human trafficking efforts with a variety of non-governmental organizations, international and regional trade union federations, and UN agencies. As program manager of the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP), he oversaw the successful negotiation of the first regional inter-governmental agreement on human trafficking in the greater Mekong sub-region. Prior to UNIAP, he led the Mainland Southeast Asia office of the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center, working on trade union rights, democratic political reform, and rights of migrant workers, focusing primarily on Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Thailand. A 1997 graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, he is fluent in Thai and Lao.

Kevin YL Tan LLB (Hons); LLM, JSD (Yale), taught at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore from 1986 to 2000. He resigned in 2000 to start Equilibrium Consulting Pte Ltd. He is active in many organizations including the Singapore Heritage Society  and the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA). He has published over 25 books and over 50 articles on law, history and politics. He is currently Adjunct Professor at both the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.

Thomas Thomas
Thomas Thomas is the Executive Director of the Singapore Compact for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the national CSR society in Singapore. As the national society for CSR, the Singapore Compact through its multi stakeholder partnership further strengthens the CSR process in Singapore.  Thomas was the co-chair of the National Tripartite Initiative for CSR, formed in 2004 and initiated the formation of Singapore Compact for CSR. 

Thomas is the Singapore focal point for UN Global Compact. Thomas is also the CEO of the ASEAN CSR Network, a network of CSR networks in ASEAN to achieve sustainable socio economic development as the ASEAN Community 2015 is formed.  Singapore Compact serves as the secretariat for this network.

Thomas had been involved in the ISO26000 process from the beginning in 2004.  He was the convenor of the Singapore Mirror Working Group for ISO26000 and a member of the Chair’s Advisory Group for the development of this standard.  After the publication of this standard, Thomas serves as a member of the ISO’s Post Production Organisation responsible for monitoring and providing guidance on the implementation of the standard.

Thomas is an Honorary Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility with the Nottingham University Business School in the United Kingdom.

To inquire about the program, please contact Penelope Van Tuyl at summerinstitute@eastwestcenter.org.