Professor, Contemporary JewryGraduate School of Jewish Studies

Anne Bayefsky is the Director of the Touro’s Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, and a professor at the Graduate School of Jewish Studies. She received her Master of Letters from Oxford University and recently served as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, an independent research organization which promotes the advancement of global security, prosperity and freedom. Professor Bayefsky has served as a delegate of the government of Canada and many non-governmental organizations, including the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and the American Society of International Law, at United Nations conferences worldwide. She is the author or editor of 11 books and has taught at York University, Columbia University and the University of Ottawa. You can find an archive of the UN human rights treaty system review at bayefsky.com.