6 Report of the Eminent Jurists Panel on terrorism, counter-terrorism and human rights The conference recognised that a much more detailed study about the impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism on human rights and the rule of law was needed. To undertake this study, the ICJ established the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights (hereinafter: the Panel). The Eminent Jurists Panel The Panel is composed of eight distinguished judges, lawyers and academics from all regions of the world. • Justice Arthur Chaskalson (South Africa) former Chief Justice and first President of South Africa’s Constitutional Court (Panel Chair); • Georges Abi-Saab (Egypt), Emeritus Professor of International Law at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, former appeals judge at the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and member of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body; • Robert K. Goldman (USA), Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law, former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and former UN Independent Expert on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism; • Hina Jilani (Pakistan), lawyer before the Supreme Court of Pakistan and former UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on the situation of human rights defenders; • Vitit Muntarbhorn (Thailand), Professor of Law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; • Mary Robinson (Ireland), President of Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland; • Stefan Trechsel (Switzerland), judge ad litem at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, former President of the European Commission on Human Rights and Emeritus Professor of Law at University of Zurich; and • Justice Raúl Zaffaroni (Argentina), judge at the Supreme Court of Argentina, Emeritus Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, and former Director of the UN’s Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders.