"Authors and contributors" [2019] ELECD 1478; in de la Vega, Connie; Mirza, Alen (eds), "A Practical Guide to Using International Human Rights and Criminal Law Procedures" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) viii

Book Title: A Practical Guide to Using International Human Rights and Criminal Law Procedures

Editor(s): de la Vega, Connie; Mirza, Alen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Authors and contributors

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Authors and contributors


Authors

Connie de la Vega ­ Marshall P. Madison Chair, Professor of Law
and Academic Director of International Programs, University of
San Francisco. She received her B.A. from Scripps College and her
J.D. from the University of California School of Law. Professor de la
Vega has worked with international organizations and participated at
United Nations bodies since 1977 when she worked as an Intern at the
International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a
co-founder of Human Rights Advocates (HRA) in the early 1980s and
has been a member of the Board of Directors since then. She applied
for ECOSOC accreditation for HRA at the UN which was granted
in 1985. In 2005 she established the Frank C. Newman International
Human Rights Law Clinic at the University of San Francisco and has
been supervising her students' participation at United Nations bodies
since then. She has participated in various human rights mechanisms
of the United Nations and has filed petitions before the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights. She has written extensively on the
topic of international human rights law and has filed briefs in United
States courts raising those standards. Her brief was cited by the U.S.
Supreme Court in Roper v. Simmons, [2005] USSC 2017; 543 U.S. 551 (2005), which held
that the death penalty for juvenile offenders is unconstitutional. She
was awarded the 2016 Warren M. Christopher International Lawyer of
the Year by the International Section of the California State Bar.

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