Institution: | * Reader in International Law and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law and Fellow of Hughes Hall. The author is also the Director of the Cambridge-Carnegie Project on the Settlement of Self-determination Conflicts, of the Centre for International Constitutional Studies and of the European Centre for Minority Issues. His latest publications include Settling Self-determination Conflicts (2007) with Barbara Metzger, and Universal Minority Rights (2007). The author has acted as an advisor or delegate in several of the settlement processes noted below. The views expressed are strictly his own and are not attributable to any government or organization. The author gratefully acknowledges the research assistance of Ms Janina Dill, Mr Vladislav Michalcik, Ms Melina Nardi, Mr William McKinney, Ms Katherine Nobbs and Mr Stephen Fox |