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David Abrahamson, MBE, qualified in medicine at Trinity College, Dublin and trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London. His principle aim as an NHS consultant from 1971 to 2002 was to combine practice and research to promote a satisfactory transition from mental hospital services, followed by community care that reflected pa- tients’ choices, needs and potential. Consequent developments, includ- ing a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team and a network of supported housing, provided a partnership with patients that he came to value highly in one of the most socially deprived districts in Europe. He is now exploring historical aspects of institutional and community care.

Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute, and a pro- fessor at Touro College in New York. She is on leave from her post as full professor at the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto. From 1996 to 1999, she was the director of York’s Centre for Refugee Studies, and from 1981 to 1996 was a professor of consti- tutional and international law at the University of Ottawa. She holds a BA, MA and LLB from the , and an M.Litt. from Oxford University. She is a barrister and solicitor of the Bar. She has launched a website, www.EYEontheUN.org, dedicated to the UN’s record on identifying and condemning human rights, and another, www.bayefsky.com, dedicated to enhancing the implemen- tation of the human rights legal standards of the .

381 382 2 Contributors Bayefsky has been awarded the National Fellowship in Human Rights Research (1992), and a MacArthur Foundation grant in Peace and International Cooperation (1995–96). She is a member of the International Law Association Committee on Human Rights Law and Practice, and editor-in-chief of the series Refugees and Human Rights published by Brill. Bayefsky is a frequent contributor to the edi- torial pages of numerous newspapers, periodicals and online journals. She is author or editor of several books, including: Human Rights and Refugees: Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant Workers (Martinus Nijhoff, 2006); How to Complain to the UN Human Rights Treaty System (Kluwer Law International and Transnational Publishers, 2002); The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads (Kluwer, 2001); The UN Human Rights Treaty System in the Twenty- First Century (Kluwer, 2000); Human Rights and Forced Displacement (Martinus Nijhoff, 2000); and Self-Determination in International Law: Quebec and Lessons Learned (Kluwer, 2000).

Louis Bloch, avocat honoraire, né à Strasbourg (France) où il vit avec sa femme Tirtsa née Serfaty de Marrakech (Maroc). Père de trois enfants. Représente le CCJO au Conseil de l’Europe et au Parlement européen à Strasbourg. Membre du jury au Concours européen des Droits de l’Homme “René Cassin”. Collabore au quotidien “La Voix du Luxembourg” ainsi qu’à des revues juives :“L’Arche” (Paris), “Unir” (Strasbourg), Almanach du KKL. A publié des ouvrages de poésie. Décoration: Officier des Palmes académiques.

Sidney Brichto is a leading Liberal rabbi who directed the Liberal Jewish movement from 1964 to 1989. He has been very active in communal life, particularly in his support for through the Israel Diaspora Trust. He has written Funny, you don’t look Jewish: A Guide to and Jewish Life, and edited with Richard Harries Two Cheers for Secularism, both published by Pilkington Press; he is also the author of Ritual Slaughter: Growing up Jewish in America, and has already completed a translation of fourteen books of the Hebrew Bible as well as most of the Christian Bible, published by Sinclair-Stephenson as part of the People’s Bible series. His translation with explanatory notes of the en- tire New Testament will appear next year.