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Spring Semester 2009

Fernando Lozano Contreras

Fernando Lozano Contreras Fernando Lozano Contreras is Licenciate with Grade and Doctor cum laude in Law (Ph. D) from the University of Alicante (Spain) where he worked as an Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2007. He earned a Masters degree in Human Rights Law from University of Alcalá (Madrid) where he currently works as an Assistant Professor of Public International Law and European Community Law under the direction of Professor Carlos Jiménez Piernas (Jean Monnet Chair holder, Director of the Masters degree in Human Rights Law at the University of Alcalá and advocate at the ICJ). Fernando Lozano is Head of Studies for this Masters program.

Fernando is the recipient of a “José Castillejo” scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for a research stay in Notre Dame.

His writing covers matters of International Responsibility, European Community Law, Stateless, Peace Keeping Operations, as well as Human Rights Law. His publications include:

  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, El Caso Soria ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 52/1 REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL 264-268 (2000).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, La jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos en torno a la ilegalización de partidos politicos: el caso de Turquía, 54/2 REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL 1008-1012 (2002).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, Enforcement of the notion of due diligence in the report of Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe regarding his visit to the Autonomous Basque Community, 8 SPANISH YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 53-69 (2005).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, La noción de debida diligencia en Derecho Internacional Público (Book), Ed. Atelier, 340 p., Barcelona (2007), ISBN 8496758133.
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, Los obstáculos a la libertad de circulación derivados de las conductas de grupos de particulares a uno y otro lado del Atlántico: Unión Europea-MERCOSUR, 26 REVISTA DE DERECHO COMUNITARIO EUROPEO 105-124 (2007).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, Convicts in Air: Implementation by the CIA of the extraordinary rendition programme in European territory. Special reference to Spanish Practice, 12 SPANISH YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 53-69 (2008).
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, La condición juridica de los apátridas desde las perspectiva internacional y española, 360-380, in Ferrer Lloret, J. and Sanz Caballero S., Protección de personas y grupos vulnerables: Especial referencia al Derecho Internacional y Europeo, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia (2008), ISBN 9788484569954.
  • Fernando Lozano Contreras, Breve análisis de las Operaciones de Mantenimiento de la Paz a la luz del Derecho Internacional vigente, forthcoming in Publications of Instituto Universitario Gutiérrez Mellado (spring 2009).

Spring Semester 2008

laura olson Laura M. Olson

Laura M. Olson holds a LL.M. from New York University School of Law and a J.D. and M.A. in philosophy from the University of Iowa. From 1997-2008, she worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Her most recent position was as Legal Advisor to the ICRC Regional Delegation located in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, she was responsible for legal support to ICRC activities in the US and Canada, including for ICRC visits to the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Previously, within the ICRC, she held the positions of Legal Advisor at the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as the Delegate responsible for the program to academic circles and universities at the ICRC Moscow Regional Delegation. Her writing covers matters of international humanitarian law, transitional justice, as well as the relationship between international humanitarian and human rights law during armed conflict. Her publications include:

• Laura M. Olson, Practical Challenges of Implementing the Complementarity between International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law—Demonstrated by the Procedural Regulation of Internment in Non-international Armed Conflict, forthcoming CASE WESTERN RESERVE J. INT’L L. (2008).

• Laura M. Olson and Toni Pfanner, Cooperation between truth commissions and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 88 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 363-373 (June 2006) (See correction of authorship, 88 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 443 (Sept. 2006)).

• Laura Olson, Provoking the dragon on the patio – Matters of transitional justice: penal repression vs. amnesties, 88 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 275-294 (June 2006).

• Laura Olson, Mechanisms complementing prosecution, 84 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 173-189 (March 2002).

• Marco Sassòli and Laura Olson, The Judgment of the ICTY Appeals Chamber on the Merits in the Tadic Case: New Horizons for International Humanitarian and Criminal Law?, 82 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS 733-769 (Sept. 2000).

• Marco Sassòli and Laura Olson, Case Report: Prosecutor v. Tadic (Judgment), Case No. IT-94-1-A, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Appeals Chamber, July 15, 1999, 94 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 571-578 (July 2000).

• M. SASSÒLI AND A. BOUVIER, IN COOPERATION WITH LAURA M. OLSON, ET AL., HOW DOES LAW PROTECT IN WAR? (ICRC 1999).