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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Frederick Quinn has assisted many governments in the New Independent States on constitutional and judicial change and has led seminars on these issues throughout Central and Eastern Europe. A former International Programs Adviser to the Federal Judicial Center, Washington, D.C., Dr. Quinn is author of Democracy at Dawn: Notes from Poland and Points East, and (with Andrez Rzeplinski) Human Rights and the Judiciary, a Collection of International Documents, The Federalist Papers Reader and other books plus numerous articles for The Legal Times and other publications on international legal and political issues. He worked closely with the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger, during the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and is a former Rule of Law Advisor to OSCE/ODIHR.
Ambassadors Audrey F. Glover and Gerard Stoudmann, ODIHR Directors, made valuable contributions to defining this project.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw, Poland, and the Venice Commission for Democracy Through Law, Antonio La Pergola, President, provided some of the materials cited in this volume. Pierre Henri Imbert, Director, and the staff of the Council of Europe's Human Rights directorate provided other significant texts. Isobelle Jacques of the Council of Europe and Anatoly Kobzev then of OSCE/ODIHR provided access to important documents not otherwise easily obtainable.
The assistance of Anastasia Walker as translator is gratefully acknowledged.
The quotation from Franz Kafka's The Trial, used in this work, originally appeared in Hurst Hannum's Guide to International Human Rights Practice, second edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1992.
I am grateful to the Council of Europe, Directorate of Human Rights, for permission to quote from its Short Guide to the European Convention on Human Rights and Law and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter.
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