Professor Susan Breau is Professor of International Law at Flinders University, Australia. She was formerly the Dorset Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Reader in International Law at the University of Surrey. Her monograph entitled Humanitarian Intervention: The United Nations and Collective Responsibility was published by Cameron May in 2005. Professor Breau is also co-author of K. Yildiz and S. Breau, The Kurdish Conflict: Political Context, the Law of Armed Conflict, and Post-Conflict Mechanisms (Routledge 2010); co-editor of E. Wilmshurst and S. Breau (eds), Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and J. Rehman and S. Breau (eds), Religion, Human Rights and International Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2007). She has published several chapters and articles on various aspects of international law and the international protection of human rights.
Professor Susan Bright is a Professor in Land Law at New College, Oxford University. The majority of her publications are in the field of real property law. Her most recent book, Landlord and Tenant Law in Context (Hart, 2007), weaves together discussion of law and policy in both the residential and commercial property sectors. In her current research she is exploring legal models for the delivery of affordable housing, and the challenge of ‘greening’ commercial tenanted property.
Dr Antoine Buyse is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University, where he teaches the courses International Human Rights at University College, and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the human rights LL.M. programme. His research interests are the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), human rights in post-conflict situations, housing rights, and the freedom of expression. He is author of Post-Conflict Housing Restitution: The European Human Rights Perspective, with a Case Study on Bosnia and Herzegovina (Intersentia: Antwerpen 2008), as well as several journal articles. His work has been awarded the Erasmus Research Prize 2008, the Max van der Stoel Award 2008, the G.J Wiarda Prize 2008.
Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand is Professor of Law at Northeastern University. Professor Dyal-Chand’s research and teaching focus on property law, poverty and economic development. Her recent projects examine credit, including microlending and credit card lending, as a means of economic development. Her current research explores property formalization and wealth accumulation by the poor in the United States. Professor Dyal-Chand’s article, “Human Worth as Collateral,” won the 2006 Association of American Law Schools’ scholarly papers competition for new law teachers. Her work has appeared in journals including the Stanford Journal of International Law, Tennessee Law Review, and Rutgers Law Journal. She teaches Modern Real Estate Development, Intellectual Property and Property.
Professor Lorna Fox O’Mahony is Professor of Law at Durham University. She is author of Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies (2006, Hart Publishing), which was awarded First Prize in the Society of Legal Scholars’ Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (2007), and was shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Studies Association Book Prize (2008). Her work to develop a legal concept of home is often cited as laying the foundations for new approaches to the idea of home in law, including giving content to rights to housing and home. Lorna is Associate Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopaedia of Housing and Home (Elsevier Publishing, 2011) and co-editor of Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions: Protecting the Vulnerable (Cambridge University Press, 2010) (with M. Kenny and J. Devenney). Her new monograph, Home Equity and Older Owners: Between Risk and Regulation will be published by Hart Publishing in 2011.
Dr Padraic Kenna lectures in land law and housing law and policy at the School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published widely in the area of housing rights, socio-economic rights and related topics. Books include Housing Law and Policy in Ireland (Dublin: Clarus Press, 2006), Housing Rights and Human Rights (Brussels: FEANTSA, 2005) and Housing Law, Rights and Policy (Dublin, Clarus Press, 2010). A key area of his research work involves the development of socio-economic rights and their implementation in the areas of housing, land and property across the national and regional systems and approaches. His book, Housing Law and Policy in Ireland addresses both traditional legal areas as well as the developing issues arising from the International Law, ECHR, European Law and the movement towards equality, inclusion and rights-based approaches, both in the public and market spheres. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of the Law in the Built Environment. Padraic has worked within a range of statutory and NGO agencies in the UK and Ireland in an advocacy role and in the development and management of housing.
Dr James A. Sweeney is Senior Lecturer in Law at Durham University. He is the founder and convenor of the ‘Law and Conflict at Durham’ research group. His research is about the after-effects of conflict; principally human rights law in transitional democracies and the rights of refugees. His work on the rights of asylum seekers to be free from destitution has been cited by the highest court in the UK. During 2009 he advised the European Union’s Committee of the Regions as it drafted its responses to proposed amendments of the Common European Asylum System. His monograph The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition will be published by Routledge in 2011. Dr Sweeney has acted as an expert advisor to the Council of Europe on democratic transition and freedom of assembly in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kosovo.
Professor A. J. van der Walt holds the South African Research Chair in Property Law at Stellenbosch University. He has been the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship on several occasions and has been a visiting fellow commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge. Professor Van der Walt is author, co-author or editor of and contributor to more than 20 books on legal history, research methodology and property law, and has published more than 100 articles in legal journals. His most recent work is mainly concerned with constitutional property, land reform and property theory. His most recent books include Constitutional Property Clauses: A Comparative Analysis (Kluwer 1999); Constitutional Property Law (Juta 2005) and Property in the Margins (Hart 2009).