Menno T Kamminga Editor & Author

Menno T. Kamminga is Professor of International Law at Maastricht University and Director of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights. He is also Chair of the Netherlands Government Advisory Committee on International Law and a member of the Netherlands Government Advisory Committee on Human Rights, and Co-rapporteur of the International Law Association Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice. As of Autumn 2008, Martin Scheinin will be Professor of Public International Law at the European University Institute, Florence. He was a Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee from 1997-2004, and has been United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism since 2005. He has been Chair of the Committee of Human Rights Law and Practice of the International Law Association from 1997-2008 and Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law since 2007.