Alfred de Zayas

Alfred de Zayas is a former UN Independent Expert on international order (2012-18), senior lawyer with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee and Chief of the Petitions Department. Zayas grew up in Chicago, studied history and law, holds mehr anzeigen a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in medieval and modern history from the University of Gttingen. A retired member of the New York and Florida Bar, author of 9 books and more than 200 scholarly articles, President of P.E.N. International Centre Suisse romand (2006-9 and 2013-17) he is currently Professor of international Law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy. weniger anzeigen