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Robert K. Goldman is Louis C. James Scholar; co-director, Center for Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law; faculty director, the War Crimes Research Office; and professor of
law. He holds expertise in international and human rights law; U.S. foreign policy;
terrorism; and law of armed conflict. From 1996 to 2004 he was a member of the
Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and its
president in 1999. From July 2004 to July 2005, Goldman was the UN Human Rights
Commission's Independent Expert on the protection of human rights and fundamental
freedoms while countering terrorism. In October 2005, the International Commission of
Jurists named him one of the eight jurists on the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism,
Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights. He is author of The Protection of Human Rights:
Past, Present and Future (1972); co-author of Middle East Watch's book, Needless Deaths
in the Gulf War, a 1991 publication that assessed civilian casualties during the 39-day air
campaign and assigned responsibility for violations of the laws of war; and co-author of
The International Dimension of Human Rights: A Guide For Application in Domestic
Law (2001). He is also the author of scores of reports, papers and articles on human rights
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