Notes on Contributors

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Philip C. Aka is professor of law and immediate past Dean of the

Faculty of Law at the International University of Sarajevo, a private

educational institution in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A member of the

Illinois State Bar in the USA, Dr. Aka earned six academic degrees in

law and political science, including a Ph.D. degree in political science

from Howard University, a J.D. from Temple University’s Beasley School

of Law, as well as an LL.M. (summa cum laude) and S.J.D. degrees from

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indianapolis,

where he is also an adjunct professor of law. He is a highly-regarded

legal scholar who has published broadly in the eld of human rights.

Rachel A. DeCapita is a native to Troy, New York. She did her

undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree at St. John Fisher College.

Soon aer, she studied her Masters in Business Administration at

Sage Graduate school. Following her M.B.A., she decided to go to law

school to pursue a legal career in International Business and Human

Rights at New England Law, Boston. roughout Ms. DeCapita’s

education and career she has exemplied her passion for human rights.

As an undergraduate as well as her post graduate degree she studied

business but focused mainly on company strategy and corporate

social responsibility. ese areas greatly lend themselves to the human

rights area purely for the company’s concern for how their business

aects people globally. Ms. DeCapita also pursed International law

and human rights studies in law school. She was recommended for an

internship in Jakarta Indonesia to study e United Guided Principle’s

by John Ruggie. Ms. DeCapita worked with Indonesia’s Attorney

General, Pak Marzuki Darusman, as well as other Indonesian ocials.

She also presented her work to the Indonesian Ministry of Fisheries.

She furthered her human rights career, by becoming a prosecutor in

her hometown Troy, New York. She experienced the national human

rights needs of the U.S. by seeing the foundational needs of American’s

in her role as a prosecutor. She later moved into the corporate world to

further her career in the area of business and human rights by pursuing

business related law which aects every day human rights.

Pranoto Iskandar is the founding director of the Institute for Migrant

Rights, Cianjur—Indonesia. Currently, he is co-developing the Cornell