About the authors

• Author: Mark Freeman, Gibran Van Ert
• Pages: 622-622

About the Authors

Mark Freeman holds a BA in liberal arts from McGill University, an

LLB from the University of Ottawa, and an LLM from Columbia Uni-

versity. He has published extensively on human rights topics and is

currently co-authoring a book on procedural fairness and truth com-

missions (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Based in Toronto, he is

an independent consultant on human rights issues affecting states in

democratic and post-conflict transition. He has conducted missions to

a wide range of countries including Morocco, Kenya, Ghana, the

Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Sri Lanka, Colombia, and

Serbia and Montenegro. A member of the Law Society of Upper Cana-

da, he will be a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of

Law in January 2005.

Gibran van Ert holds a BA in history from McGill University, an MA in

law from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and an LLM from the Uni-

versity of Toronto. He is a former law clerk to Madam Justice Prowse

of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia (2001–2) and to Justices

Gonthier and Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada (2003). He is the

author of Using International Law in Canadian Courts (Kluwer Law

International, 2002). He is a member of the Law Society of British

Columbia and practises in Vancouver.

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