S. James Anaya

S. James Anaya is the the James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law andPolicy at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law. [http://www.law.arizona.edu/faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=31] In March2008, he was appointed by the United Nations as its Special Rapporteuron the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of IndigenousPeoples. [http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/this-week-in-review-james-anaya-new-special-rapporteur-for-indigenous-human-rights/]

Education and Work

Professor Anaya is a graduate of the University of New Mexico (B.A., 1980) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1983). He teaches and writes in the areas of international human rights, constitutional law, and issues concerning indigenous peoples. [http://www.law.arizona.edu/faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=31] Professor Anaya has served as a consultant for organizations and government agencies in numerous countries on matters of human rights and indigenous peoples, and he has represented indigenous groups from many parts of North and Central America in land mark cases before courts and international organizations. He was the lead counsel for the indigenousparties in the case of Awas Tingni v. Nicaragua, in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for the first time upheld indigenous land rights as a matter of international law. [http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/iplp/advocacy/awastingni/felix.cfm?page=advoc ] In addition, he directed the legal team that successfully achieved a judgment by the Supreme Court of Belize affirming the traditional land rights of the Maya people of that country. [http://uanews.org/node/16401]

Publications

* Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996, 2d. ed. 2004). ISBN: 0195173503

* International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice (4th ed. 2006) (co-authored with Richard B. Lillich, Hurst Hannun & Dinah L. Shelton) ISBN: 0316526878

* The Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Rights Over Lands and Natural Resources Under the Inter-American Human Rights System, 14 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 33 (2001) (co-author with Robert A. Williams, Jr.).

* The Native Hawaiian People and International Human Rights Law: Toward a Remedy for Past and Continuing Wrongs, 28 Ga. L. Rev. 309 (1994), reprinted in International Law and Indigenous Peoples 309 (S. James Anaya ed., 2003).

* A Contemporary Definition of the International Norm of Self-Determination, 3 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. 131 (1993).

References

External links

* [http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/rapporteur/ Office of the United Nations Office High Commissioner for Human Rights ]
* [http://www.law.arizona.edu/faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=31 Curriculum Vitae] .
* [http://www.law.arizona.edu/Depts/iplp/ Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program]
* [http://www.arizonanativenet.com/ ArizonaNativeNet ]