Jared Genser is an attorney in the global government relations group of DLA Piper US LLP in Washington, D.C. and President of Freedom Now (www.freedom-now.org), a non-profit organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide through legal, political, and public relations advocacy efforts. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in Winter 2008 will be an Adjunct Professor Law at the University of Michigan Law School teaching a seminar entitled "The UN Security Council in the 21st Century: Operations, Impact, and Reform." Genser was a 2006-2007 Visiting Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy. His human rights clients have included former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel. Previously, Genser was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, the global strategy consulting firm. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University, a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he was an Alumni Public Service Fellow, and a J.D., cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. He has published op-eds on human rights topics in such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal Asia, International Herald Tribune, The Nation (Bangkok), The Independent (UK), and The Star (Johannesburg), among others.

John M. Owen, IV, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War: American Politics and International Security (Cornell, 1997), as well as of articles in Foreign Affairs, International Security, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, The National Interest, and Perspectives on Politics, and of chapters in several edited volumes. He is a member of the editorial board of International Security. Owen is currently completing a book manuscript titled Clashes of Ideas in World Politics: Ideologies, Alignments, and Regime Change, 1500-2000. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University and an MPA from Princeton University, is a faculty fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and has held fellowships at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and Oxford universities.

European Political Systems Seminar

European Political Institutions Seminar

European Political Systems Seminar

European Political Systems Seminar

European Political Systems Seminar

European Political Systems Seminar

European Political Systems Seminar

European Political Systems Seminar