Gershon Shafir is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, and founding Director of the Human Rights Minor at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books, including Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, co-authored with Yoav Peled, which won the Middle Eastern Studies Association's Albert Hourani Award for best book on the Middle East in 2002.

Everard Meade is Assistant Professor of History and founding member of the advisory board of the Human Rights Minor Program at UCSD. He has published recent articles in the Journal of Historical Biography, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and InterCulture.

William J. Aceves is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at California Western School of Law. He is the author of The Anatomy of Torture and the co-author of The Law of Consular Access and principal author of the influential Amnesty International USA Safe Haven report.