Updated on May 21, 2004

All of the invited participants to this conference submitted a paper prior to the meeting to provide an opportunity for all perspectives to be considered.

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AFRICA

Dean Michael Olu Adediran
Obafemi Awolowo University
Faculty of Law
Ile-Ife
NIGERIA
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Professor Adebambo Anthony Adewopo
Lagos State University
Ojo, Lagos
NIGERIA
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Professor Ali Ahmad
Bayero University
Faculty of Law
Kano
NIGERIA
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Professor S.O. Akindipe
Department of Private & Business Law
Faculty of Law
Oyo State
NIGERIA
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Dean George N. Barrie
Rand Afrikaans University
SOUTH AFRICA
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Professor Fatou K. Camara
University Cheikh Anta Diop
Dakar
SENEGAL
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Dean Enefiok Effiong Essien
University of Uyo
Faculty of Law
Uyo
Akwa Ibom State
NIGERIA
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Professor Chuma Himonga
University of Cape Town
Faculty of Law
Rondebosch
SOUTH AFRICA
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Dean Philip F. Iya
University of Fort Hare
Alice
SOUTH AFRICA
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Dean J.K. Jegede
Nigerian Law School
Abuja
NIGERIA
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Dr. Ibrahim H. Juma
University of Dar es Salaam
Mkwepu Street
P.O. Box 953
Dar es Salam
TANZANIA
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Professor John Kaburise
University of Development Studies
Tamale
GHANA
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Professor Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo
University of Malawi
Zomba
MALAWI
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Dean Christo van Loggerenberg
University of Port Elizabeth
Faculty of Law
Port Elizabeth
SOUTH AFRICA
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Professor Vincent O. Nmehielle
University of the Witwatersrand
School of Law
Johannesburg
SOUTH AFRICA
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Professor Bolaji Owasanoye
Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Lagos
NIGERIA
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Professor Emmanuel Kwabena Quansah
University of Botswana
Department of Law
Gaborone
BOTSWANA
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Dr. Subhram Rajkhowa
Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa
ETHIOPIA
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Dr. Amy Tsanga
University of Zimbabwe
Harare
ZIMBABWE
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Professor John Ademola Yakubu
University of Ibadan
Faculty of Law
Ibadan
NIGERIA
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ASIA

Professor Hisashi Aizawa
Hokkaido University
School of Law
Hokkaido
JAPAN
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Professor M. Shah Alam
University of Chittagong
Bangladesh 
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Professor Mohammed Al-Moqatei
University of Kuwait
Safat
KUWAIT
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Professor Noor Aziah Haji Mohd Awal
Universiti Kebangsaan
Bangi
Selangor Darul Ehsan
MALAYSIA
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Dr. V.K. Bansal
Panjab University
Panjab
INDIA
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Dean Yanmin Cai
Sun Yatsen (Zhongshan) University
School of Law
Guangzhou
CHINA
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Professor Li Feinan
Zongshan University
Guangzhou
CHINA
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Yoseph Edrey
Haifa University
Mt. Carmel , Haifa
ISRAEL
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Professor Ron Harris
Tel Aviv University
School of Law
Tel Aviv
ISRAEL
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Dr. M. Rabiul Hossain
Rajshahi University
Department of Law & Justice
BANGLADESH
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Dean Vaijayanti Girish Joshi
ILS Law College
Maharashtra
INDIA
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Professor Shusuke Kakiuchi
University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Law and Politics
Tokyo
JAPAN
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Frans I Limahelu
Airlangga University
Faculty of Law
Surabaya
INDONESIA
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Dean Mariano F. Magsalin, Jr.
Arellano University
School of Law
Manila
PHILIPPINES
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Professor Yoshihiro Masui
University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Law and Politics
Tokyo
JAPAN
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N.L. Mitra
National Law School of India University
Nagarbhavi, Bangalore
INDIA
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Dr. V. Nagaraj
India University
National Law School
Nagarbhavi, Bangalore
INDIA
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Professor Soogeun Oh
Ewha Womans University
Seoul
KOREA
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Bolikhorloo Sarantuya
Project Implementation Unit
Ulaanbaatar
MONGOLIA
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Dean Amar Singh Sankhyan
Himachal Pradesh University
Summerhills, Shimla
INDIA
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Li Shuguang
China University of Politics and Law
CHINA
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Professor Yoshiko Terao
University of Tokyo
Faculty of Law
Tokyo
JAPAN
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Mr. Francis S.L. Wang
Professor
Kenneth Wang School of Law
Soochow University
Suzhou.
CHINA
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AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA


Professor Michael Adams
University of Technology
Sydney
AUSTRALIA
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Dean Duncan Bentley
Bond University
School of Law
Queeensland
AUSTRALIA
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Dean Martin Chanock
La Trobe University
School of Law and Legal Studies
Melbourne , Victoria
AUSTRALIA
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Professor Steven Freeland
University of Western Sydney
Penrith South
AUSTRALIA
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Professor Jeff Giddings
Griffith University
Law School
Nathan
AUSTRALIA
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Professor Terry Hutchinson
Queensland University of Technology
Faculty of Law
Queensland
AUSTRALIA
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William Kaputin
Legal Training Institute
Boroko
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
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Dean Sally Kift
Queensland University of Technology
Faculty of Law
Brisbane
AUSTRALIA
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Professor Catherine Iorns Magallanes
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
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Professor Stephen Parker
Monash University
Victoria
AUSTRALIA
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Professor Bobette Wolski
Bond University
Australia
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EUROPE


Dr. Markus Baumanns
Bucerius Law School
Hamburg
GERMANY
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Professor Michael Bogdan
University of Lund
Lund
SWEDEN
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Professor Marek Bojarski
University of Wroclaw
Uniwersytecka
POLAND
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Roger Burridge
University of Warwick
Coventry
UNITED KINGDOM
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Professor Bruce Carolan
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin
IRELAND
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Professor Krystian Complak
European Law Faculties Association (ELFA)
Wroclaw University
Uniwersytecka
POLAND
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Ambassador Hans Corell
Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Stockholm
SWEDEN
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Dr. Tomas Davulis
Vilnuis University
Vilnuis
LITHUANIA
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Professor Johan Erauw
Gent University
Gent
BELGIUM
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Professor Vincenzo Ferrari
University of Milano
Milano
ITALY
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Professor Raymond J. Friel
University of Limerick
School of Law
Limerick
IRELAND
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Dean Valentina Grohotova
Novgorod State University Law School
Novgorod
RUSSIA
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Professor Majken Hjort
University of Copenhagen
The Law Faculty
Copenhagen
DENMARK
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Professor Catherine Kessedjian
Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II
Paris
FRANCE
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Professor Jan Klabbers
University of Helsinki
Helsinki
FINLAND
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Professor Nikolai Mikhailovich Kropachev
St. Petersburg State University
St. Petersburg
RUSSIA
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Professor Valeriy Musin
St. Petersburg State University
St. Petersburg
RUSSIA
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Dean Simon Payne
University of Plymouth
Plymouth
UNITED KINGDOM
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Professor Valeria Szeplaki
ELTE University
Budapest
HUNGARY
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Professor Roberto Toniatti
Trento University
Trento
ITALY
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Professor Jan Wouters
Katholieke Uneversiteit
Leuven
BELGIUM
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Professor Feridun Yenisey
Bahcesehir University
Istanbul
TURKEY
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NORTH AMERICA


Mr. Maximo Carvajal Contreras
Association of Faculties of Schools of Right of Latin America
Mexico City
MEXICO
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Professor Sébastien Lebel-Grenier
University of Sherbrooke
Faculty of Law
Sherbrooke, Quebec
CANADA
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Dean Ian Holloway
University of Western Ontario
London , Ontario
CANADA
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Professor Allan C. Hutchinson
York University
Osgood Hall Law School
Toronto
CANADA
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Professor John Law
University of Alberta
Faculty of Law
Edmonton
CANADA
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Dean Louis Perret
Civil Law Section
University of Ottawa
Ottawa
CANADA
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Professor Craig Scott
York University
Osgoode Hall Law School
Ontario
CANADA
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UNITED STATES


Professor Donna E. Arzt
Syracuse University
Syracuse , NY
UNITED STATES
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Professor Daniel Bradlow
American University
Washington , DC
UNITED STATES
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Professor Sherri Burr
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
UNITED STATES
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Professor Charles Calleros
Arizona State University
Tempe , AZ
UNITED STATES
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Professor Paolo G. Carozza
Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame, IN
UNITED STATES
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Professor Oscar G. Chase
New York University
New York , NY
UNITED STATES
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Professor Mary C. Daly
Fordham University
New York , NY
UNITED STATES
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Professor Louis F. Del Duca
The Penn Dickinson School of Law
Carlisle , PA
UNITED STATES
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Professor William Dodge
University of California, Hastings
San Francisco, CA
UNITED STATES
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Professor Norman Dorsen
New York University
New York , NY
UNITED STATES
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Professor Lawrence Foster
University of Hawaii
Honolulu , HI
UNITED STATES
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Professor Mareyllen Fullerton
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn , NY
UNITED STATES
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Professor Kenneth Gallant
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, AR
UNITED STATES
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Dean Claudio Grossman
American University
Washington , DC
UNITED STATES
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Professor Helen Hershkoff
New York University
New York , NY
UNITED STATES
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Professor Stephen C. Hicks
Suffolk University
Boston , MA
UNITED STATES
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Professor Patrick Ryan Hugg
Loyola Law School
New Orleans , LA
UNITED STATES
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Dean Mary Kay Kane
University of California , Hastings
San Francisco , CA
UNITED STATES
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Professor Robert Lutz
Southwestern University
Los Angeles , CA
UNITED STATES
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Professor Margaret E. McGuinness
University of Missouri-Columbia (starting Summer 2003)
Columbia , MO
UNITED STATES
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Professor Elliott Milstein
American University
Washington, DC
UNITED STATES
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Carl Monk
Association of American Law Schools
Washington , DC
UNITED STATES
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Professor Michael Olivas
University of Houston
Houston , TX
UNITED STATES
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Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker
University of the Pacific
McGeorge School of Law
Sacramento , CA
UNITED STATES
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Dean David Frederick Partlett
Washington and Lee University
Lexington , VA
UNITED STATES
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Mathias W. Reimann
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
UNITED STATES
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Joyce Saltalamachia
Association of American Law Schools
Washington , DC
UNITED STATES
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Professor Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers
Center of International and Comparative Law
Baltimore , MD
UNITED STATES
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Professor Anna Shavers
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
UNITED STATES
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Professor Edward Sherman
Tulane Law School
New Orleans, LA
UNITED STATES
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Professor Daniel L. Simmons
University of California at Davis
Davis , CA
UNITED STATES
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Professor Linda Smiddy
Vermont Law School
South Royalton , VT
UNITED STATES
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Mr. Gerald Sumida
Carlsmith Ball, LLP
Honolulu , HI
UNITED STATES
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Professor James P. White
Indiana University-Indianapolis
Indiana, IN
UNITED STATES
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Professor Margaret Y.K. Woo
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
UNITED STATES
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Professor Stephen Zamora
University of Houston
Houston , TX
UNITED STATES
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SOUTH AMERICA


Professor Marcelo Alegre
University of Palermo
Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA
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Dr. René La Fuente Baspineiro
Universidad Mayor, Real Y Pontificia
De San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca
Sucre
BOLIVIA
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Professor Roberto MacLean
Miranda & Amado Abogados
Lima
PERÚ
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Cecily Halpern Montecino
Director of the Law School, Faculty of Law
Universidad del Desarrollo
Santiago
CHILE
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Professor Monica Pinto
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA
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Professor Flavia Piovesan
Catholic University of Sao Paulo
Faculty of Law
Sao Paolo
BRAZIL
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Dean Efrén Rivera-Ramos
University of Puerto Rico
San Juan , PR
UNITED STATES
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Dr. Ruben Dario Sanabria Ortiz
Universidad de San Martin de Porres
Lima
PERU
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Professor Ximena Moreno de Solines
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador
Quito
ECUADOR
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Dr. Jose Vicente Troya-Jaramillo
Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar
Quito
ECUADOR
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Ms. Margarita Uprimny
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Bogatá
COLOMBIA
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