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About the author

Andrew Clapham is Associate Professor of Public International Law, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.  He received his Ph.D. from European University Institute, Florence.  Prior to 1997, he was Amnesty International's representative to the United Nations in New York.  His current research relates to the role of non-state actors in international law and related questions in human rights and humanitarian law.  He is preparing, with Dr Susan Marks of Cambridge University, a comprehensive book on international human rights law to be published by Oxford University Press.  His published work includes: European Union: The Human Rights Challenge and Human Rights in The Private Sphere.  A fuller list of his publications is provided below.

Main Publications:

• European Union - The Human Rights Challenge Vol I, Human Rights and the European Community: A Critical Overview, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 1991, 327 p.
• Joint editor with A. Cassese and J.H.H. Weiler, European Union - The Human Rights Challenge Vol II, Human Rights and the European Community: Methods of Protection, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 1991, 647 p.
• Joint editor with A. Cassese and J.H.H. Weiler, European Union - The Human Rights Challenge Vol III, Human Rights and the European Community: The Substantive Law, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 1991, 467 p.
• Joint editor with K. Waaldijk, Homosexuality: A European Community Issue - Essays on Lesbian and Gay Rights in European Law and Policy, Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1993, 426 p.
• Human Rights in the Private Sphere, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993, 389p.
• (& Meg Henry), Peace-keeping and Human Rights, an Amnesty International report published January 1994, AI Index IOR, 40/01/94, 60 p.

Recent Publications:

• "UN Human Rights Reporting procedures: An NGO Perspective", in: P. Alston and J. Crawford, The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 175-198.
• "The Question of Jurisdiction under International Criminal law over Legal Persons: Lessons from the Rome Conference on an International Criminal Court", in: M. Kamminga and S. Zia-Ziarifi (eds), Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law, 2000, pp.139-195.
• "Where is the EU's Human Rights Common Foreign Policy, and How is it Manifested in Multilateral Fora?", in: P. Alston (ed.), The EU and Human Rights, 1999, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 627-683.
• "Mainstreaming Human Rights at the United Nations: The Task of the the First High Commissioner for Human Rights", Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, Hague, Kluwer Law International, 1999, Volume VII Book 2, pp. 159-234.
• The Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights is a Legitimate Concern of the International Community, with J. Bourke, H. Hadj-Saharoui, and L. Oldring, 1999, Report for the Japanese Government, Geneva, HEI, 80 p.
• "Globalization and the Rule of Law", Review of the International Commission of Jurists,1999, No 61, pp. 17-33.
• "Peace, the Security Council and Human Rights", in: Y. Danieli, E. Stamatopoulou & C. Dias (eds), The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond, New York, Baywood, 1998, pp. 375-388.
• (& F. Martin), "Smaller Missions Bigger Problems", in: Honoring Human Rights: From Peace to Justice - Recommendations to the International Community, Washington, Aspen Institute, 1998, pp. 131-161.
• Whither the State of International Human Rights: New Ways to Hold Non-State Actors Accountable (with the assistance of S. Danailov), Report for the International Council on Human Rights Policy, 1998, 42 p.