Hurst Hannum is Professor of International Law, teaching courses in international organizations, international human rights law, peacekeeping, and nationalism and ethnicity. From 1980 to 1989, he served as Executive Director of The Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, in Washington, DC, and he was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace in 1989-90. He received his A.B. and J.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Hannum has served as counsel in cases before the European and Inter-American Commissions on Human Rights and the United Nations; he also has been a member of the boards of several international human rights organizations. He has written about and/or participated in meetings concerned with minority rights generally, as well as particular situations in the Russian Federation (Tatarstan and Chechnya), Cyprus, Turkey, Northern Ireland, South Tyrol, India, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Sudan, Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia), Greenland, the Balkans, Tibet, and U.S. dependent territories. He currently serves as a consultant to the United Nations negotiations on East Timor. Among other publications, Professor Hannum is author or editor of Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (Univ. of Pennsylvania, rev. ed. 1996); International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Process (Little, Brown, 3d ed. 1995, with Richard Lillich); Guide to International Human Rights Practice (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1984, 3d ed. forthcoming 1999); New Directions in Human Rights (1989, with Ellen Lutz and Kathryn Burke); Materials on International Human Rights and U.S. Criminal Law and Procedure (1989); The Right to Leave and Return in International Law and Practice (1987); and Materials on International Human Rights and U.S. Constitutional Law (1985). He serves as General Editor of a multi-volume series of books on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which have been published by Martinus Nijhoff since 1999.