Samuel B. ABAD YUPANQUI
Samuel B. Abad Yupanqui is a lawyer for the Papal Catholic University of Peru. He graduated in Constitutional Law from the Center for Constitutional Studies of Spain, has a doctorate in law from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and has been a professor of constitutional law at the Catholic University of Peru Law School. Abad has worked as coordinator of the Democratic Institutions area of the Andean Jurists´ Commission. He is currently an assistant director of Constitutional Affairs in the Peruvian Public Defender´s Office. Abad is author of numerous articles and essays concerning constitutional law, human rights and constitutional procedural law. He has published the books El proceso constitucional de amparo and Introducción al derecho procesal constitucional. In addition, together with other professors, he has written the book Código procesal constitucional.

You can contact Samuel B. Abad Yupanqui at: sabad@ombudsman.gob.pe

Alberto ARELLANO MÉNDEZ
Alberto Arellano Méndez graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Law School. He was an assistant in the Coordination Division of the Masters Degree Program of the Legal Research Institute (IIJ-UNAM) and a member of the editorial board of the electronic magazine for scholarship holders Eureka. Arellano has taken different courses in bioethics research and was a lecturer at the UNAM Law School on the issues of genetics, cloning and law, as well as a speaker at the 5th National Congress and 1st International Congress on the Right to Information. He is currently on a scholarship in the research support program at the Health and Law Studies Nucleus of the Legal Research Institute (IIJ-UNAM).

You can contact Alberto Arellano Méndez at: armeal_lex25@yahoo.com.mx

Jaime CÁRDENAS GRACIA
Jaime Cárdenas Gracia is a doctor of law, professor at the Postgraduate Studies Division of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Law School. He is a researcher at the Legal Research Institute of the same university. Cárdenas has written books on constitutional issues, the transition to democracy in Mexico, the political parties, electoral bodies and contractual political philosophy. Cárdenas´ latest book is Lecciones de los casos Pemex y Amigos de Fox. He has occupied different public posts and until October 2003 he was an electoral consultant at the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).

You can contact Jaime Cárdenas at: jaicardenas@aol.com

Rachel HOLLRAH

Rachel Hollrah is in her second year at Brooklyn Law School in New York. She is member of the editorial board of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and is an International Business Law Fellow at Brooklyn Law School. Hollrah graduated from the State University of Iowa, where she studied political science and spent a semester at the Universitas Castellae in Valladolid, Spain. She has worked at the Joyce & Zerola, P.C law firm in Boston, and was an associate member at the corporate law offices of Lexcorp Abogados in the city of Querétaro, Mexico. At present, she works at Kavanagh, Maloney & Osnato LLP.

You can contact Rachel Hollrah at: rachel.hollrah

Robert MCKENZIE
Doctor Robert McKenzie is a graduate with a major in history from Millersville University, in Pennsylvania. The author studied for his master´s degree at the Communication Department of the Pennsylvania State University, where he specialized in international mass communication and he obtained his doctorate in oral communication from that same university. McKenzie has taken different specialized courses in the communications media and information at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, California State University and Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of a number of articles, book chapters and essays in North American academic publications. Mckenzie has been the chairman of the Recruitment Committee at the Communication Studies Department, member of the Consultative Committee on International Programs and chairman of the Promotion Committee of the Art Department at East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania.

You can contact Robert Mckenzie at: rachel.hollrah@brooklaw.edu

Fernando REY MARTÍNEZ
Fernando Rey Martínez has a BA and a doctorate in law from the University of Valladolid, Spain, with a specialization in bioethics. He is a full professor at the Department of Constitutional, Ecclesiastical and Procedural Law of the same university. Rey has conducted research at the universities of Lisbon, Florence and Kansas, as well as those of Catania, El Rosario, Porto Alegre, the Catholic University of Lima, Benjamin Cardozo Law School and Externado University of Colombia. He is the author of seven books, among the most important of which are La propiedad privada en la Constitución Española, Rey, monarquía y democracia, El derecho fundamental a no ser discriminado en razón del sexo and La ética protestante y el espíritu del constitucionalismo. Rey has also written numerous articles in different specialized European and North American journals. He has been a lecturer in international academic congresses since 1998 and member of the Spanish Association of Constitutional Law and the Spanish Association of Constitutionalists.

You can contact Fernando Rey at: rey17@usuarios.retecal.es