Ruti Teitel is Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law,  New York Law School;  Visiting Professor, London School of Economics; and Affiliated Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  She is the author of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000) and many articles and book chapters on international and comparative law, often focusing on political transitions.   Her latest work is Humanity’s Law (OUP, 2011).  She is founding co-chair of the American Society of International Law Interest Group on Transitional Justice and Rule of Law, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the ILA International Human Rights Law Committee.Next year, she will be a Fellow at
New York University Law School’s Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice (2012-2013).