In this Issue
Salvo Andò is Rector of the University of Enna, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Libera
Università San Quinto of Rome and visiting Professor of Public Law at the University of
Malta. His most recent publications treat human rights and legal problems relating to
international security, as well as the debate on constitutional reform in Italy.
Marta Albert (1973) is a professor of Philosophy of Law at the University “Rey Juan Carlos”
University of Madrid (Spain). She is the author of Los valores jurídicos del
Constitucionalismo español (2004, Córdoba: Excma. Diputación Provincial) /Derecho y
Valo, Una Filosofia Juridica Fenomenológica (2004, Madrid: Encuentro). She has
published other works on juridical phenomenology, like La Teoria de los conceptos
juridicos de Adolf Reinach (Problemas actuales de Filosofia juridical y politica), 2005,
Cordoba, SFD). She is also co-author of El camino a Europa del Profesorado
Universitario, (2005, Cordoba, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cordoba)
and of other contributions on the new European Higher Education System.
Kevin Aquilina Dip. Phil., B.A. (Rel. Stud.), B.A. Hons. (Patr. Stud.), M.A. (Dipl. Stud.),
LL.M. (I.M.L.I.), LL.D., Ph.D. (Lond.) (L.S.E.) is a Senior Lecturer in Public Law in the
Faculty of Law of the University of Malta. He graduated Doctor of Laws from the
University of Malta in 1988. In 1989 he obtained the warrant to exercise the profession of
Advocate in the Superior Courts. He subsequently obtained a Master‟s degree in
International Maritime Law from the International Maritime Organisation‟s International
Maritime Law Institute in 1990 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the London
School of Economics and Political Sciences, University of London, in 1997. He
possesses a diploma in Philosophy, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies, a
Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Patristic Studies and a Master of Arts degree in
Diplomatic Studies. He has, between 1992 and 2003, also served as Chairman of one of
the Panels of the Planning Appeals Board.
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex. Her
recent work has focused on human rights and is characterized by a readiness to combine
theoretical questioning and practical understanding. She is currently finishing a
monograph provisionally entitled Who Believes in Human Rights? The European
Convention in Question. She is co-editor of Culture and Rights: Anthropological
Perspectives and the author or over twenty articles. Also an anthropologist, her first
monograph was on the Belgian Congo.
Giuseppe Di Federico is Director of the Research Institute on Judicial Systems of the Italian
National Research Council (IRSIG-CNR); Professor Emeritus of the University of
Bologna; Member of the Italian Superior Council of the Magistracy. He has served as
consultant for judicial reforms in Europe, Latin America and South East Asia on behalf
of various international organization, such as the World Bank, UNDP, USAID. He is the
author of numerous publications in various languages. Among his more recent books:
Processo Penale e diritti della difesa (Criminal proceedings and the rights of the
defence); Recruitment, Professional Evaluation and Career of Judges and Prosecutors in
Europe: Austria, France, Germany Italy, The Netherlands and Spain (the text of this book
can be found on the website www.irsig.cnr.it).
Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos is a lecturer in law at Brunel University in London, where he
teaches Criminal Law, Evidence and International Human Rights. He possesses an LL.B.
and an LL.M. in Criminal Law and Procedure from the School of Law at the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens. He also holds an LL.M. (D.E.A.) in Criminal Studies
and Criminology as well as a Diploma of Comparative Legal Studies from the University
of Aix-Marseille III. He received an M.Phil in Evidence from Brunel University in 2002.
and is now concluding his doctoral thesis at the École Doctorale de Droit Comparé at the
University of Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I). He has previously published many articles in
the field of criminal evidence and procedure, in Greek and French and carried out various
research projects.
Klejda Mulaj obtained her Ph.D. in International Relations at the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE) where she is currently a post-doctoral fellow at
the Centre for International Studies. She has taught International Relations at the LSE,
and Goldsmiths College, both of the University of London, and at the University of
Malta. She has also presented papers at the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham, Bath,
Kent, and North London in the U.K., and at Philipps-University in Germany. Her
publications include: „A Recurrent Tragedy: Ethnic Cleansing as a Tool of State Building
in the Former Yugoslav Setting‟, Nationality Papers, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2006; „On Bosnia‟s
Borders and Ethnic Cleansing‟, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 11, No.1, 2005;
and „Ethnic Cleansing in the Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s: A Euphemism for
Genocide?‟ in Steven Béla Várdy and T. Hunt Tooley eds., Ethnic Cleansing in the
Twentieth Century Europe, Boulder: Social Science Monographs of Columbia University
Press, 2003.
Agata Alma Cappiello is a lawyer who practices her profession in Italy‟s Corte di
Cassazione, specialising in family and child law, civil rights and contract. She also
teaches law at University level. She has been the Vice-President of the Equal
Opportunities Committee at the Ministry of Labour and co-ordinator of the National
Commission on Equality. In 1987, she was elected a member of the Italian Parliament
and in 1992 she was elected to the Senate, where she sits on various commissions. She
has published a book entitled Infrangere il tetto di vetro – Quindici anni di politica per le
donne and has co-authored various other books and journal articles.
Alfred Grech graduated in Law from the University of Malta in 1975. He is in private law
practice, and specialises mainly in family law and human rights law. He completed the
course of Magister Juris in European and Comparative law at the University of Malta in
1997.Lecturer and tutor in the course of Human Rights and Democratisation at the
University of Malta as well as tutor in family law. He is at present reading for Ph.D. at
the University of Malta.
Qinglan Long obtained his Bachelor Degree of Law and Masters of Law at the Southwest
University of Political Science and Law, ChongQing, China. He also graduated as
Master Degree of Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law. He has
worked on research at the United Nation, Headquarters in New York City, USA. His
publications include Comparative study in German and Chinese Code Civil, in the
Journal of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, 08/2000.
Stan (Constantine) Starygin is professor at the Faculty of Law and Economics at
Pannasastra University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He is advisor to multiple legal reform
projects. He is also a member of a working group on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and is
predominantly involved in defense rights related issues. He attends various conferences
and workshops on various legal reform issues in Cambodia, particularly, legal issues
related to the establishment and functioning of the Extraordinary Chambers in the courts
of Cambodia.