Notes on Contributors

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Tom D. Grant is a Senior Research Fellow of Wolfson College and Associate of
the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.
He publishes and teaches on a range of public international law topics. Among
his books are: Admission to the United Nations: Charter Article 4 and the Rise of
Universal Organization (Leiden: Nijho, 2009) and Aggression against Ukraine:
Territory, Responsibility, and International Law (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2015). Grant holds a PhD from Cambridge, where he studied under James
Crawford and Christopher Greenwood; a JD from Yale; and BA from Harvard.
He has held scholarships and fellowships under the Fulbright program,
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Max-Planck-Institute, U.S. Institute of
Peace, and Hoover Institution. His current research projects concern, inter alia,
the development of international law through encounters between Europe and
the rest of the world in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann is Canada Research Chair in International Human
Rights, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Global Studies and
the Balsillie School of International Aairs at Wilfrid Laurier University in
Waterloo, Canada. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2006
the Human Rights section of the American Political Science Association named
Dr. Howard-Hassmann its rst Distinguished Scholar of Human Rights. Since
arriving at Laurier in 2003 she has published Compassionate Canadians: Civic
Leaders Discuss Human Rights (2003), Reparations to Africa (2008) and Can
Globalization Promote Human Rights? (2010), and has also co-edited Economic
Rights in Canada and the United States (2006) and e Age of Apology (2008). She
established and maintains a website on political apologies, which can be visited
at political-apologies.wlu.ca.
Edward J. Larson holds the Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in law and is
University Professor of History at Pepperdine University, where he teaches
property law, science law, and the history of science. He received his B.A.
for Williams College, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in the
history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include
A Magnicent Catastrophe: e Tumultuous Election of 1800, Americas First
Presidential Campaign (2008), Evolution: e Remarkable History of a Scientic
eory (2004), Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (1995), Trial
and Error: e American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution (1985, 1989,
and 2002 expanded editions), the Pulitzer Prize winning Summer for the Gods:
e Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
(1997), and e Return of George Washington: 1783-1984 (2014). His book, An
Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science (2011) was

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