States As Human Rights: Monitors In Defense of Politicization

Dr Elvira Domínguez-Redondo (LLB, Dip. Business Management, M.Phil, PhD) is Associate Professor of International Law at Middlesex University, London (UK). She has held visiting positions at Columbia University (U.S.A.) and University Alcalá de Henares (Spain). In the past, Dr. Domínguez-Redondo held different academic positions, at the Transitional Justice Institute (University of Ulster, U.K.); the Irish Centre for Human Rights (NUI, Ireland); the University of Alcalá de Henares (Spain); and University of Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). She has worked as a consultant with the Special Rapporteur on torture at the Office of the High Commisisoner for Human Rights (Switzerland).

She is the author of a wide range of publications on international law and human rights topics, including three monographs: ‘In Defense of politicization of human rights’, ‘Minority Rights in Asia’ (co-authored with J. Castellino) and ‘Procedimientos Especiales de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos’.