Anne Bayefsky

Anne Bayefsky is a Senior Fellow with the Hudson Institute. Over her career as an academic, Professor Bayefsky has taught international human rights law and constitutional law at Columbia University Law School, Touro College, York University, and the University of Ottawa.  She is the recipient of Canada's premier human rights fellowship, the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research and a 1995-1996 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant in Peace and International Cooperation. She created and edits two websites:  www.EYEontheUN.org which monitors and critiques UN operations, particular in the fields of peace and security, terrorism and human rights, and www.bayefsky.com, one of the world's leading international human rights law databases which has attracted 3.5 million visitors from 229 states and territories. 

She has served with the Canadian delegation and NGOs such as the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and the American Society of International Law, at UN conferences worldwide, including the General Assembly, the Commission and Council on Human Rights, the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, the Beijing World Conference on Women and the Durban Racism Conferences. She is a member of the International Law Association Committee on Human Rights Law and Practice, and Editor-in-Chief of the series "Refugees and Human Rights", published by Brill. 

Bayefsky is the author or editor of eleven books, and a frequent radio and television commentator appearing on such networks as FOX, CNN, BBC, CBC, Voice of America, and the Israel Broadcasting Authority.  She is a frequent contributor to the editorial pages of newspapers and periodicals including: The Wall Street Journal, FoxNews.com, Forbes.com, the New York Daily News, Commentary, The Jerusalem Post, National Review, National Post (Canada).

She holds a B.A., M.A. and LL.B. from the University of Toronto, an M.Litt. from Oxford University, and is a barrister and solicitor of the Ontario Bar.