Edgar S. Cahn has co-founded a law school, created the Time Dollars project, founded and directs the Time Dollar Youth Court in Washington D.C., as well as having authored numerous scholarly works and, at the start of his career, worked for then U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

Together with his late wife Jean Camper Cahn, Professor Cahn founded the Antioch School of Law, the predecessor of the University of the District of Columbia’s – David A. Clarke School of Law, the first law school in the United States to educate law students primarily through clinical training in legal services to the poor. Together, the Cahns served as co-deans of the law school from 1971 to 1980.

In the 1980s, Professor Cahn began the Time Dollars project, a service credit program, that now has more than 70 communities with registered programs in the US and abroad.  In Washington, D.C., Professor Cahn founded and directs the Time Dollar Youth Court, in which teen juries judge cases of teens arrested for the first time for non-violent offenses. The Court hears approximately 800 cases per year. (more…)

Olivier De Schutter has been the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food since May 2008. He currently is teaching human rights and EU law at Columbia University, as well as at the Catholic University of Louvain, and at the College of Europe (Natolin). Between 2002 and 2006, he chaired the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights, a high-level group of experts which advised the European Union institutions on fundamental rights issues. Since 2004, and until his appointment as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, he was the General Secretary of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) on the issue of globalization and human rights. (more…)

William H. (Bill) Neukom is the managing general partner and CEO of San Francisco Baseball Associates L.P., which owns the San Francisco Giants baseball team who won the World Series in 2010. Mr. Neukom has been a member of the Giants ownership group since 1994 and a general partner since 2003. For the 25 years prior to that, Mr. Neukom served as the lead lawyer at Microsoft, the last 17 of which as the General Counsel and head of Microsoft’s legal, government affairs and philanthropic activities. Before and after his service at Microsoft, he was a partner in the international law firm of K&L Gates, working out of its Seattle office.

Mr. Neukom has been active for many years in bar association and community activities. He served as president of the American Bar Association in 2007-2008. In 2006, Mr. Neukom founded the World Justice Project, a multinational, multidisciplinary initiative to strengthen the rule of law worldwide. Through a multi-pronged approach, the Project seeks to create an international network of stakeholders who undertake programs to create communities of opportunity and equity around the world. (more…)