Anne Bayefsky is a Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada, currently on leave as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Law School. She was a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University in 2002 and 2003. A leading expert on international human rights law and the United Nations, she has published widely in academic journals and the popular press, and is a member of the governing board of the Geneva-based UN Watch. She represented the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists at the 2001 UN Racism Conference in Durban. Her recent books include How To Complain to the UN Human Rights Treaty System (2002), The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads (2001), Human Rights and Forced Displacement (2000), (ed.) Self-Determination in International Law: Quebec and Lessons Learned (2000).

Professor Bayefsky operates a widely-used database and online resource on the UN human rights legal system (www.bayefsky.com).