Shelton, Dinah

Dinah L. Shelton is the Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law at the George Washington University Law School and a member of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States. Shelton is the author or editor of three prize-winning books: Protecting Human Rights in the Americas (co-authored with Thomas Buergenthal), Remedies in International Human Rights Law, and the three-volume Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. She was also awarded the Elisabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Law.