About the Speakers (in alphabetical order)


Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. His research interests include constitutionalism in Islamic and African countries, and Islam and politics. His publications include Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law (1990), Human Rights in Cross-cultural Perspectives: Quest for Consensus (1992), and African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006). Professor An-Na`im’s current project is a book manuscript on Secularism from an Islamic Perspective, which can be viewed at www.law.emory.edu/fs .

Juliette Apkarian (panel moderator)
Juliette Apkarian is Chair of the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University. In addition, she is Associate Professor of Russian and Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies.

Febe Armanios
Febe Armanios is Assistant Professor of History at Middlebury College, where she teaches courses on the history of Islam, politics and culture in the modern Middle East, Islam and human rights, and women in Islam. Her publications include “A Christian Martyr under Mamluk Justice: The Trials of Salib (d. 1512) according to Muslim and Coptic Sources,” co-authored with Bo?aç Ergene, in Muslim World (2006), “Women, Gender and Sectarianism/Confessionalism: Egypt,” in the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (2004), and “‘The Virtuous Woman’: Images of Gender in Modern Coptic Society,” in Middle Eastern Studies (2002).

Harold J. Berman (World Law Institute Co-Director)
Harold J. Berman is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University and James Barr Ames Professor of Law, emeritus, at Harvard University. His prize-winning book Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (1983) has been published in nine foreign languages, including Chinese and Russian. His other books include Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and Religion (1993) and Law and Revolution II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition (2003). He is Co-Director of the World Law Institute of Emory University. 

Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Elizabeth Heger Boyle is Associate Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Minnesota. She studies human rights, immigration, and international law, and is the author of Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community (2002).

Jimmy Carter (keynote speaker, via videotape)
Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth president of the United States, founded The Carter Center in partnership with Emory University in 1982. The Center is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health. Mr. Carter is University Distinguished Professor at Emory and the author of twenty-one books. On Dec. 10, 2002 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Mr. Carter “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”

Sharon Cohn
Sharon Cohn is Senior Vice President of Interventions for International Justice Mission, an international human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery and oppression. Prior to October 2001 she was an associate with the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC, representing private and governmental entities international trade matters as well as asylum candidates in hearings before the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. She was honored by President George W. Bush as a woman making a difference in the world for her work on behalf of victims of sex trafficking. Her efforts have resulted in the release of children in the Philippines, Thailand, India, Cote d’Ivoire, and Cambodia.

Stephanie Davis
Stephanie Davis serves as the Mayor of Atlanta’s Policy Advisor on Women’s Issues and is charged with helping to end child prostitution, empowering women through financial literacy, and institutionalizing the living wage. She currently serves on the board of The White House Project to promote women’s leadership in all spheres.

Walter R. Dowdle
Walter Dowdle is senior scientist at The Task Force for Child Survival and Development, Atlanta, Georgia, and consultant to the World Health Organization Global Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative. Prior to joining The Task Force, Dr. Dowdle was Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is author or co-author of 180 publications in virus research, vaccine development/evaluation, and public health policy, with current active interest in polio, influenza, and HIV.

David P. Fidler
David P. Fidler is Professor of Law at Indiana University and Senior Scholar at the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities. His publications include International Law and Public Health: Materials on and Analysis of Global Health Jurisprudence (2000), SARS, Governance, and the Globalization of Disease (2004), and Biosecurity in the Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law (2007, in press) (with Lawrence O. Gostin).

William H. Foege
William H. Foege is an epidemiologist who worked in the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. He has been Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, and Executive Director of The Carter Center. He is Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health of Emory University, emeritus, and Senior Medical Advisor for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Eugene J. Gangarosa
Eugene J. Gangarosa is a public health practitioner with academic training as physician, internist, microbiologist, and epidemiologist. He has worked in the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. He is Professor Emeritus in Emory’s Center for Global Safe Water and is a private consultant in matters dealing with food and waterborne diseases.

Roger I. Glass
June 2006, Dr. Roger I. Glass was appointed as Associate Director for International Research and Director, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH). He spent thirty years in the Public Health Service at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the Environmental Hazards Branch, then at the International Center for Diarrheal Diseases in Bangladesh, again at NIH in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and most recently, as Chief of the Viral Gastroenteritis Unit at CDC.

Richard A. Goodman
Richard A. Goodman is Co-Director of the Public Health Law Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has degrees both in medicine and in law, and is Professor (Adjunct) at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and Professor of Law at Georgia State University. He is the lead editor of Law in Public Health Practice, published by Oxford University Press.

Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence Gostin is Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He is also Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center for Law & the Public’s Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities as well as Adjunct Professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and Research Fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University. His latest books are: Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (2nd ed. forthcoming 2007), Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy and Practice (2007), The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (2004), and The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different But Equal (2003).

John Hardman
John Hardman is executive director of The Carter Center. He has held faculty appointments in psychiatry and pediatrics at the Emory University Medical School, was the medical director of Peachford Hospital, and has held prominent positions with professional and community organizations.

James M. Hughes
James M. Hughes holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the Rollins School of Public Health, serving as Director of the Emory Center for Global Safe Water, Director of the Emory Program in Global Infectious Diseases, and Associate Director of the Southeastern Center for Emerging Biological Threats. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He serves on the IDSA Board of Directors and on the Global Health Diagnostics Forum of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Joseph B. Hughes
Joseph B. Hughes is the Chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Material Science Engineering. His research specializes in the area of Environmental Biotechnology, in particular determining how the novel metabolic capabilities of living organisms can be harnessed to improve the environment in which we live.

Keith P. Klugman
Keith P Klugman is the William H. Foege Professor of Global Health in the School of Public Health at Emory University. He is also the Director of the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit in Johannesburg, South Africa. His principal area of research is the treatment and prevention of pneumonia in children and adults in developing countries.

Ferenç Mádl (keynote speaker)
Ferenç Mádl, President of the Republic of Hungary from 2000 to 2006, has taught law at the ELTE University in Budapest and has taught or done research in law at universities in Strasbourg, Munich, Berkeley, and elsewhere. His main fields of scholarly interest have been private international law and European law. Before becoming President he served as Minister of Culture and Education of the post-Communist Hungarian Republic. The many honors he has received include the Jean Monnet Prize, named after one of the architects of European unity.

Zachary Manfredi
Zachary Manfredi, a fourth year student at Emory University, has received a Rhodes Scholarship and will pursue a degree in politics, focusing on political theory and international relations, at Oxford University next year. At Emory he serves as the president of the Amnesty International Chapter, is co-founder of the non-profit organization Paperclips for Peace in Sudan, and is chair of the Student Activist Coalition. He has worked as an intern in the democracy program at The Carter Center.

Reynaldo Martorell
Reynaldo Martorell is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition and Chair of the Department of Global Health of the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Developing Countries, Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Pan American Health Education Foundation, Member of the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, and Member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research in Rome, Italy.

Bonita Meyersfeld
Bonita Meyersfeld is a South African lawyer who received her doctorate in law at Yale Law School. She has worked as a legal advisor to the South African NGO entitled People Opposing Woman Abuse and has been a gender consultant for the International Center for Transitional Justice. Currently she works in England as a parliamentary legal officer at the Odysseus Trust for Lord Lester of Herne Hill.

Thomas J. Murray
Thomas J. Murray is a partner in the family law firm of Murray & Murray, Sandusky, Ohio, and has been engaged in trial and appellate practice in federal and state courts since 1965. In 1992, he co-founded the United States/Russia Information Resource Institute, a Moscow-based joint venture to facilitate investment and to promote democracy and the rule of law in Russia. He co-founded the World Law Institute in 1996 and initiated the construction of a state-of-the-art maternity clinic in Balashikha, Moscow Region, Russia in 2004.

Walter A. Orenstein
Walter A. Orenstein joined the Emory University School of Medicine in March 2004 as Director of the Emory Program for Vaccine Policy and Development, after a 26-year career at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he led the National Immunization Program. He also holds faculty appointments in Pediatrics and in the Departments of International Health and Epidemiology in Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. He served as the CDC liaison member to the National Vaccine Advisory Committee for more than 14 years, playing a major role in the development of critical immunization policy documents. Together with Stanley Plotkin, he co-edited Vaccines, 4th edition, the leading textbook in the field.

Christa Rautenbach
Christa Rautenbach is Professor of Law at North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa, where she teaches courses in Legal Pluralism and Administration of Estates. Formerly a prosecutor in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, she is now an advocate of the High Court and Commissioner of the Small Claims Court of Potchefstroom. She has studied the legal position of South African women under various personal legal systems including customary law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Jewish law, with special reference to the relationship between the state and unofficial legal orders. She is co-editor and co-author of a textbook entitled “Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa”.

Managay Reddi
Managay Reddi is Associate Professor of Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Her areas of specialisation include Gender and the Law and International Criminal Law.

Stan P. Riepe
Stan P. Riepe is Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, teaching in the section of Digestive Diseases, and Clinical Director of Gastroenterology at Emory University Hospital and The Emory Clinic. He entered Emory University School of Law in 2001, graduating in 2005. In 2006 he joined the Weathington law firm in Atlanta.

Thomas S. Robertson
Thomas S. Robertson is Chair of International Strategy at Emory University, having been Dean of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University from 1998 to 2004 and before then the Pomerantz Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Marketing Faculty at The Wharton School. He is an authority in marketing strategy, innovation, market entry and market defense, and his clients have included leading British, Japanese, French, and Thai business firms and The Federal Trade Commission. He holds a number of awards for his research and publications.

Mary Robinson (keynote speaker, via videotape)
Mary Robinson is the President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. She served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and as President of Ireland from 1990-1997. She is Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders and Vice President of the Club of Madrid. She chairs the International Board of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Fund for Global Human Rights. She is Honorary President of Oxfam International and is Patron of the International Community of Women Living with AIDS (ICW). She is a professor of practice at Columbia University and member of the Advisory Board of the Earth Institute and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Before her election as President. Mrs. Robinson served as a Senator for 20 years. In 1969 she became Reid Professor of Constitutional Law at Trinity College, Dublin and now serves as Chancellor of Dublin University.

Mark Rosenberg
Mark Rosenberg is Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a non-profit public health organization working to build coalitions to promote global health and human development. Prior to leading the Task Force, Dr. Rosenberg served 20 years with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he worked on smallpox eradication, diarrheal diseases, AIDS, and violence and unintentional injury prevention. He has been on the Board of Delegates and Board of Directors of the National Safety Council and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. He is the U.S. representative on the Commission on Global Road Safety and Director of the Global Road Safety Forum.

Charity Scott
Charity Scott is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Health & Society at the College of Law of Georgia State University. She has taught and written on antitrust law in the health care field, bioethics and the law, medical privacy, tort law, and health policy. She has served in leadership roles in the Health Law Section and Special Committee on Bioethics of the American Bar Association and has chaired the Health Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia.

Amelia Kinahoi Siamomua
Amelia Siamomua is Senior Program Advisor (Women's Empowerment and Gender Equity) with CARE USA. Previously she was the Regional Program Director for the United Nations Development Fund for Women for the Pacific Region, and before then was the Head of the Pacific Women's Bureau at the Secretariat for the Pacific Community in New Caledonia. She has worked in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific region with governments and civil society organizations on development assistance for poverty reduction.

Kathryn Yount
Kathryn Yount is a Social Demographer and Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health and in the Department of Sociology at Emory University. She is also affiliated with the Department of Women’s Studies and is a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Center for Myth and Ritual in American Family Life at Emory University. She has been engaged in international research on gender, family, and global health, primarily in the Middle East, Africa, and Central America. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on family change in the Middle East.