List of Contributors

David Fraser is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Notting- ham. He has taught at Law Schools in Canada, the United States and Australia. His major research interest is on the role of the legal profession in times of crisis, with particular reference to the Holocaust. He is the author of, among others, “Law After Auschwitz: Towards A Jurisprudence of the Holocaust” and “The Jews of the Channel Islands and the Rule of Law 1940-45”.

George Ginsburgs is Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) at the Rutgers University Law School, Camden, New Jersey. His current research interests inter alia are focussed upon the new Russian citizenship law; he also continues to work in the area of the extradition of political offenders in particular and, in general, in other matters of human rights law and international (public and private) law.

Sylvia Kierkegaard graduated with a Masters degree in EU Law and International Business from the Århus School of Business, Denmark. She also holds various Postgraduate Degrees in Law, Theology and Asian Studies from the US, UK and the Philippines and is also an alumnus of The Hague Academy of Interna- tional Law. She is currently completing work on her PhD degree in Denmark and is also engaging in research on the topic of the harmonization of contract law in the EU with particular interest in the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL), and the contract laws of England, France, Germany, Estonia, and the EU. Her speciﬁ c research interests at present are focused on e-commerce law, comparative contract law, copyright and arbitration. Ms. Kierkegaard has written extensively on various aspects of e-commerce and contract laws.

Irina Kireeva graduated in 1997 with an honors’ degree in law from Moscow State University (MGU); she is also a qualiﬁ ed attorney in Russia where she began her professional career after her graduation from the MGU Faculty of Law. Thereafter, she pursued the degree of Master in Laws (LLM) at Leuven University which she was awarded in 1998. As a trainee from October 2001 to February 2002 in the Legal Service of the European Commission, she was involved in the work of the WTO group within the RELEX unit concerned mainly with anti-subsidy and anti-dumping issues. Ms. Kireeva joined the Brussels law ﬁ rm of O’Connor and Company in March 2002. Ms. Kireeva’s areas of expertise—in particular—are in the law of the EU and other countries (including the Russian Federation) on the registration and protection of appellations of origin and geographical indications as well as—in general—in WTO law on agriculture and intellectual property. 560 29 Review of Central and East European Law 2004 No.4

Joop de Kort has worked at the universities of Tilburg and Groningen before joining Leiden Faculty of Law’s Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies and the Department of Economics in 1998. He specializes in Interna- tional Economics and the Economics of Transition.

Merja Norros is Deputy Director of the Unit for International Affairs of the Finnish Ministry of Justice. She holds a law degree from Helsinki University and in 2002 has been engaged in postgraduate studies that have culminated in the awarding to Ms. Norros of a Licentiate of Laws degree. Ms. Norros has extensive experience as a lawyer with various govern- mental agencies and has also worked as an assistant judge. Since 1995, she has been with the Ministry of Justice, where her unit is the Central Authority, the duties of which are set forth in a number of international conventions. Merja Norros has edited and written numerous publications on international legal assistance in civil and criminal matters in English, Finnish, and Russian. Her special ﬁ eld of expertise is judicial cooperation with Russia. During the period 1999–2002, she also led an European Union project on developing judicial cooperation in criminal matters in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Hans Oversloot is associate professor (universitair docent) at the Department of Political Science of Leiden University, where he teaches political theory. Since 1997 he works half-time at the Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies, also of Leiden University, where he teaches Russian politics.

Paolo R. Vergano is an international trade lawyer practicing in Brussels. He is a law graduate of the University of Torino; he also holds a Diplôme Supèrieur de Droit Comparè from the Facultè Internationale de Droit Comparè in Strasbourg and an LLM degree in International Business and Trade Law from Fordham University in New York City. His areas of WTO expertise are services, agriculture, and dispute settlement. Mr. Vergano teaches at the World Trade Institute in Bern and is a frequent lecturer on issues of international trade.

Vadim Volkov is Chairperson of the Sociology Department at the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg Branch) and Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the European Univer- sity (St. Petersburg [EUSP]). In 1999–2001, he was Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for the International Peace and Security Program. In 1998, he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Department of History. Dr. Volkov received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cam- bridge in 1995 and Diploma of Higher Education from Leningrad State Uni- versity, Faculty of Economics, in 1987. He is the author of Violent Entrepreneurs: