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Andre Nollkaemper is Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law at the faculty of Law of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Previous academic positions include Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Visiting Scholar at the School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle and Research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) / Institute of Public International Law, University of Utrecht. Prof. Nollkaemper also lectures widely at foreign universities. He is member of the Advisory Commission on Public International Law of the Netherlands; the Standing Committee of Experts in International Refugee and Criminal Law; and counsel at Bohler, Franken Koppen Wijngaarden advocaten in Amsterdam. Editorial positions include Editor in Chief of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; member of the Editorial Board of Legal Issues of Economic Integration; and the Paperbacks on International and European Law (Kluwer Law). His practical experience includes cases before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, courts of the Netherlands and consultancy for a variety of international and national organisations. Prof. Nollkaemper has published on issues of the relationship between international and domestic law, state responsibility, international environmental law, international water law and international criminal law. Erika de Wet, is Professor of International Constitutional Law at the Amsterdam Center for International Law. Prof. De Wet currently also holds the position of Extraordinary Professor at the Faculty of Law, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa and of Privatdozentin at the Faculty of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland. She completed her basic legal training (B.Iur., LL.B.) as well as her doctoral thesis (LL.D.) at the University of the Free State (South Africa). She also holds an LL.M. from Harvard University and completed her Habilitationsschrift, at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in December 2002. It was published with Hart Publishing (United Kingdom) in 2004 under the title The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council. Before focussing on international (institutional) law, she specialised in Comparative Constitutional Law, with a doctoral thesis on The Constitutional Enforceability of Economic and Social Rights: the Meaning of the German Constitutional model for South Africa (Butterworths, South Africa, 1996). From 1991 to 1993 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany). Thereafter she was employed at the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva (Switzerland) and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne (Switzerland). She also lectured at Brandeis University (USA) in the spring of 1999 and held the position of Associate Professor of the Law of International Organisations at Leiden University during 2000 and 2001. Her editorial positions include membership of the Editorial Board of the Netherlands International Law Review; the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal; as well as the International Advisory Board of the African Human Rights Law Journal.

Alison was brought up in the wilds of Suffolk, where an inspirational primary school teacher helped her to manage the interruption that school posed to the important business of having adventures. Whilst studying for a degree in English and Drama Alison and her friends converted an old chapel into a performance venue and spent long summers doing children's shows and taking plays to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Andreas R. Ziegler has studied international economics, international relations and law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), the Institut d'Etudes Polititques de Paris (France), the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and the University of London (UK). After undertaking post-doctoral research at Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA) and the Max-Planck-Institute in Heidelberg (Germany) he taught European, international trade Law and environmental law at the Chicago Kent College of Law (USA), the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and the University of St. Gallen. For several years he was a worked in the Swiss administration (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs), the European Commission (DG Internal Market) and in the Secretariat of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) on international trade and investment issues. He was also a delegate to WTO, UNCTAD and OECD. He is currently a professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and off counsel with the law firm of von Blum und Partners (Zurich, Switzerland). He is also a panellist at the WTO for the Principality of Liechtenstein. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) since 1997 and the Universita commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Milan, Italy) since 2005.

For the past five years, Professor Czarniawska has been leading a research project on globalization and the management of cities. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, or a location of economic activity, or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as an action net. An action net of this sort includes various organizations-municipal, state, private, and voluntary-and non-organized individuals. Such an approach was designed to avoid the fallacy of viewing the big city as one big organization. The city is thus conceived as a particularly complex and disorderly action net; a seamless web of interorganizational networks, where the city administration proper constitutes just one point of entry and by no means provides a map of the entire terrain. The research focuses on three European capitals: Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome. At the outset, leading politicians and officials in each city listed the major problems and projects that the city was engaged in, for example environmental reforms, improvement of public utilities, privatization, financial targets, etc. The author selected a number of these for more detailed study, reporting upon interesting similarities and differences between the approaches taken. The book aims to explore organizing processes in their local context while following the connections between such contexts.

Professor Claudia Martin Professorial Lecturer in Residence and co-director of the Academy on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C.

Colin Mayer is Peter Moores Dean of the Said Business School, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies and Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre. Mayer has been at the Said Business School since its inception in 1994 and was its first professor. He has built an international reputation within the field of finance, has published widely on corporate finance, taxation and governance, and on the regulation of financial markets. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and was instrumental in creating the largest and most prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Mayer was one of two founding partners of Oxford Economic Research Associates (Oxera), now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK. He has also consulted for numerous large firms, such as the BBC, British Airports Authority, British Gas, the London Stock Exchange and United Utilities. He has directed the European Science Foundation Network in Financial Markets and the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. In addition to having held visiting fellowships at Stanford, MIT and Brussels University (ULB), where he was the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance, he is a Delegate of Oxford University Press and Chairman of Oxera.

Dave has organised and taught on more than a hundred teachers courses in over 30 countries. He works as an international consultant for the Council of Europe, the British Council and the Department for International Development. He is a Visiting Fellow of the University of East Anglia, Chair of MATSDA, Deputy Co-ordinator of the IATEFL TEASIG and an author for Oxford University Press.

William T. Kerr is Chairman of the Meredith Corporation, one of the nation's leading media and marketing companies, with businesses centering on magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, integrated marketing and interactive media. He previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2006 and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 1998. Prior to this, Kerr was President and Chief Operating Officer, a post he was named to in 1994. He has also been a member of the Meredith Board of Directors since 1994. Before joining the Meredith Corporation in 1991, Kerr was a Vice President of The New York Times Company and President of its magazine group, a position he held since 1984. He also served as the head of strategic planning and corporate development at The New York Times and as President of its Books and Information Group. Previously, Kerr held posts with Dillon, Read & Co., and McKinsey and Company, where he specialized in financial institutions and media companies. A native of Seattle, Kerr is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington . He earned a degree in modern history as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University , and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was a Baker Scholar. Kerr also is a member of the board of the Principal Financial Group and the Whirlpool Corporation. He is immediate-past Chairman of The International Federation of the Periodical Press, and serves on the board of The Business Committee for the Arts. He is also a Trustee of Oxford University Press (USA) and serves on the board of Harvard Business School Publishing. Kerr is a past Chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America and in 2004 was awarded the organization's Henry Johnson Fisher award in recognition of his lifetime achievements and service to the magazine industry.