"Contributors" [2013] ELECD 817; in White, Nigel; Henderson, Christian (eds), "Research Handbook on International Conflict and Security Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) vii

Book Title: Research Handbook on International Conflict and Security Law

Editor(s): White, Nigel; Henderson, Christian

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849808569

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 6

Extract:

Contributors


Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Edinburgh. She read
law at Selwyn College, Cambridge (1988) and gained an LLM in Law from Harvard
Law School (1990), supported by a Harkness Fellowship. She is a former Director of
the Human Rights Centre, Queen's University Belfast, and of the Transitional Justice
Institute, University of Ulster. Her research interests lie in the interface between
constitutional and international law, gender and conflict, and legal theory, with a
particular interest in peace processes and their agreements. She has participated in a
number of peace negotiations. In 2007 Christine won the American Society of
International Law's Francis Deake Prize for her article on `Peace Agreements: Their
Nature and Legal Status' which was published in the American Journal of International
Law. She has authored two books: On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex
Pacificatoria (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), which won the Hart Socio-legal
Book Prize, awarded by the Socio-legal Studies Association UK, and Peace Agreements
and Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Robert Cryer obtained his undergraduate law degree at Cardiff Law School, then
moved to the School of Law in Nottingham, where he obtained his LLM and PhD
degrees in 1996 and 2000 respectively. He was a Lecturer at the University of
Manchester from 1999­2001 before returning to the School of Law, University of
Nottingham in September 2001. He moved to Birmingham in April 2007 as Professor
of International and Criminal Law. ...